Method for operating a medical device

• US 20060235549A1
• Filed: 02/21/2006
• Published: 10/19/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 02/24/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Siemens AG
• Original Assignee: Siemens AG
• Inventors: Hearn, Andrea, Wischlitzki, Manfred
• Application Number:
  US11/359,310
• Publication Number:
  US 20060235549A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 700/90
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/67 for remote operation

Abstract

A medical device is located in an examination and/or treatment room, while a central maintenance unit, connected to the medical device via a remote connection, is located outside the examination and/or treatment room. A startup phase of the medical device is initiated either from the central maintenance unit before the beginning of an on-site attendance period or from the examination and/or treatment room after the beginning of the on-site attendance period, including the establishment of data communication with the central maintenance

Claims

1. A method for operating a medical device, located in an examination and/or treatment room, the method comprising:

connecting a central maintenance unit located outside the examination and/or treatment room to the medical device via a remote data connection;

initiating a startup phase of the medical device;

(a) from the central maintenance unit before the beginning of an on-site attendance period;

and/or,

(b) from the examination and/or treatment room after the beginning of the on-site attendance period and communicating the results of the test to the central maintenance facility.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein during the startup phase a functional test of the medical device is automatically performed.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein data obtained during the startup phase and pertaining to the medical device are automatically transmitted to the central maintenance unit

4. The method of claim 1, wherein when deviations in data obtained during the startup phase exist with respect to predetermined parameter ranges, a report is automatically generated in the central maintenance unit and/or the examination and/or treatment room.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the specific course of the startup phase depends on settings and functions of the medical device that are detected during the startup phase.

6. The method of claim 1 wherein, during the startup phase of the medical device, a vicinity check is automatically performed of at least one further device in the examination and/or treatment room

7. The method of claim 6, wherein during the vicinity check, the temperature in the examination and/or treatment room a temperature of a component of at least one of a further device, or a medical device, in the examination and/or treatment room is measured.

8. The method of claim 6, wherein during the vicinity check, a data transmission module connected to or integrated with the medical device is automatically tested.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein

the medical device operates with X-radiation.

10. The method of claim 9, wherein during the startup phase, a semiconductor X-ray detector of the medical device is brought to operating temperature.

11. The method of claim 1 wherein initiating comprises initiating from the central maintenance unit before the beginning of the on-site attendance period;

12. The method of claim 1 wherein initiating comprises initiating from the examination and/or treatment room after the beginning of the on-site attendance period and communicating the results of the test to the central maintenance facility.

13. The method of claim 5 wherein, during the startup phase of the medical device, a vicinity check is automatically performed of at least one further device in the examination and/or treatment room.