Network monitoring systems for medical devices
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Abstract
A ventilator monitoring system is described for monitoring a plurality of ventilators. In one embodiment, a server including a dedicated ventilator application program for each type of ventilator, monitors a plurality of heterogeneous ventilators over a wireless network.
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32 Claims
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17. A medical device monitoring system comprising:
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a plurality of medical devices, wherein at least two of said medical devices are heterogeneous types, said medical devices having data;
a first network access point in communication with one of said plurality of medical devices, said first network access point passing requests to and receiving data from said one of said plurality of medical devices;
a network in communication with said first network access point;
a second network access point in communication with said network;
a server in communication with said second network access point, said server comprising;
a dedicated medical device application program for each type of heterogeneous medical devices; and
a listener/pollster;
a database in communication with said server, said database comprising data from said plurality of medical devices; and
a browser in communication with said server;
wherein said listener/pollster transmits requests to and receives data from said plurality of medical devices through said second data access point and passes requests to and data from said dedicated medical device application program, wherein said dedicated medical device application program passes data to and receives data from said database, and wherein said browser receives data from said server and displays data to a user. - View Dependent Claims (18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28)
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29. A medical device monitoring system comprising:
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a plurality of medical device means, wherein at least two of said medical device means are heterogeneous types, said medical device means having data;
first network access means for communicating with one of said plurality of medical device means, said first network access means passing requests to and receiving data from said one of said plurality of medical device means;
network means for communicating with said first network access means;
second network access means for communicating with said network means;
server means for communicating with said second network access means, said server means comprising;
a dedicated medical device application means for each type of heterogeneous medical device means; and
a listener/pollster means for transmitting requests to and receiving data from said plurality of medical device means through said second data access means and for passing requests to and data from said dedicated medical device application means;
database means for passing data to and receiving data from said server means and for storing data from said plurality of medical device means; and
browser means for receiving data from said server means and for displaying data to a user.
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30. A method for monitoring a plurality of patients comprising:
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providing a plurality of medical devices, wherein at least two of said medical devices are heterogeneous types;
collecting data from said plurality of medical devices via a dedicated medical device application for each of said medical device types;
transmitting said data via a network to a server, said server comprising a dedicated medical device application program for each type of heterogeneous medical device, and a listener/pollster;
storing said data in a database; and
displaying said data on a web browser. - View Dependent Claims (31, 32)
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