CLINICIAN TO DEVICE ASSOCIATION

• US 20100287006A1
• Filed: 09/28/2009
• Published: 11/11/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 05/07/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Cerner Innovation, Inc. (Oracle Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Cerner Innovation, Inc. (Oracle Corporation)
• Inventors: Cannon, Paul, Nolte, Mark Allen, Herbst, Damon Matthew
• Granted Patent: US 9,792,660 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/3
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/06 Resources, workflows, human or project management; Enterprise or organisation planning; Enterprise or organisation modelling
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/20 for the management or administration of healthcare resources or facilities, e.g. managing hospital staff or surgery rooms
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/63 for local operation
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/67 for remote operation
• CPC Class Codes: G16Z 99/00 Subject matter not provided for in other main groups of this subclass

Abstract

Embodiments of the invention are directed to methods of providing data feeds from medical devices associated with patients to computing devices associated with clinicians. A computing device for each of a number of clinicians is registered as being associated with the clinician. An identification of a patient is received. A list of medical devices related to the patient is retrieved. An identification of a number of clinicians is received. The medical devices are associated with the computing devices of the clinicians. Data feeds are provided to the computing devices from the medical devices.

Claims

1. Computer-readable media having computer-executable instructions embodied thereon that, when executed, enable a computing device to perform a method of providing one or more clinicians a plurality of data feeds from a plurality of devices related to a patient, the method comprising:

registering a computing device for each of the one or more clinicians as an associated computing device;

receiving an identification of a patient;

retrieving a list of one or more medical devices related to the patient;

receiving an identification of one or more clinicians as identified clinicians;

associating the one or more medical devices with each associated computing device of the one or more identified clinicians; and

providing a data feed from each of the one or more medical devices to each associated computing device of the one or more identified clinicians.

2. The media of claim 1, wherein the computing device is a mobile phone.

3. The media of claim 1, wherein the identification of the patient is received from one or more clinicians.

4. The media of claim 1, wherein receiving an identification of a patient includes:

receiving an identification of a location;

receiving a list of one or more patients in said location; and

receiving an indication, indicating each of the one or more patients in the list.

5. The media of claim 4, further comprising:

receiving an indication that a first patient from the list of patients is leaving, identifying the first patient as a leaving patient; and

disassociating one or more medical devices from each associated computing device of the one or more identified clinicians, wherein the one or more medical devices being disassociated are also associated with the leaving patient.

6. The media of claim 1, further comprising:

receiving an indication to associate a new medical device with the patient;

associating the new medical device with the patient;

associating the new medical device with each associated computing device of the one or more identified clinicians; and

providing a data feed from the new medical device to each associated computing device of the one or more identified clinicians.

7. The media of claim 1, wherein the identification of the one or more clinicians are received from each of the one or more clinicians.

8. The media of claim 1, wherein the data feed is a continuous data feed of information from each of the one or more medical devices.

9. The media of claim 1, wherein the data feed includes a continuous feed of alerts from at least one of the one or more medical devices.

10. The media of claim 8, wherein the continuous data feed of information is divided into tiers.

11. The media of claim 10, wherein each tier is accessible to a subset of clinicians.

12. The media of claim 11, wherein clinicians include doctors and nurses.

14. The media of claim 10, wherein the identification of the patient is received from a clinician.

15. The media of claim 10, wherein receiving an identification of a patient includes:

receiving an identification of a location;

receiving a list of one or more patients in said location; and

receiving an indication, indicating each of the one or more patients in said location.

16. The media of claim 15, further comprising:

receiving an indication that a first patient from the list of patients is leaving, identifying the first patient as a leaving patient; and

disassociating one or more medical devices from the computing device, wherein the one or more medical devices being disassociated are also associated with the leaving patient.

17. The media of claim 10, further comprising:

receiving an indication to associate a new medical device with the patient;

associating the new medical device with the patient;

associating the new medical device with the computing device; and

providing a data feed from the new medical device to the computing device.

18. The media of claim 10, wherein the data feed is a continuous data feed of information from each of the one or more medical devices.

19. The media of claim 10, wherein the data feed includes a continuous feed of alerts from at least one of the one or more medical devices.

13. Computer-readable media having computer-executable instructions embodied thereon that, when executed, enable a computing device to perform a method of providing one or more clinicians a plurality of data feeds from a plurality of devices related to a patient, the method comprising:

receiving an identification of a patient;

retrieving a list of one or more medical devices related to the patient;

receiving an indication of a clinician and an associated computing device;

associating the one or more medical devices with the associated computing device; and

providing a data feed from each of the one or more medical devices to the associated computing device.

20. Computer-readable media having computer-executable instructions embodied thereon that, when executed, enable a computing device to perform a method of providing one or more clinicians a plurality of data feeds from a plurality of devices related to a patient, the method comprising:

registering a computing device for each of the one or more clinicians as an associated computing device;

receiving an identification of a patient from one or more clinicians;

retrieving a list of one or more medical devices related to the patient;

receiving an identification of one or more clinicians as identified clinicians;

associating the one or more medical devices with each associated computing device of the one or more identified clinicians; and

providing a continuous data feed from each of the one or more medical devices to each associated computing device of the one or more identified clinicians, wherein said continuous data feed includes a continuous feed of alerts from at least one of the one or more medical devices.