Portable Infusion Pump and Media Player

• US 20110082439A1
• Filed: 12/15/2010
• Published: 04/07/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 12/12/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Insulet Corporation
• Original Assignee: Asante Solutions, Inc
• Inventors: Wenger, Mitchell, Estes, Mark C., Chiang, Scott
• Granted Patent: US 8,282,626 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 604/500
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2005/14268 with a reusable and a disposable component
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2005/31518 designed to reduce the overall size of an injection device, e.g. using flexible or pivotally connected chain-like rod members
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2205/18 with alarm
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2205/3561 local, e.g. within room or hospital
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2205/3569 sublocal, e.g. between console and disposable
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2205/3584 using modem, internet or bluetooth
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2205/3592 using telemetric means, e.g. radio or optical transmission
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2205/502 User interfaces, e.g. screens or keyboards
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2205/581 by audible feedback
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2205/582 by tactile feedback
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2205/583 by visual feedback
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2205/80 voice-operated command
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2209/01 Remote controllers for specific apparatus
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2230/201 Glucose concentration
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 5/1413 Modular systems comprising interconnecting elements
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 5/14244 adapted to be carried by the patient, e.g. portable on the body
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 5/1452 pressurised by means of pistons
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 5/14566 with a replaceable reservoir for receiving a piston rod of the pump
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/163 Wearable computers, e.g. on a belt
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/60 of audio data

Abstract

Some embodiments of a portable infusion pump system can be configured to deliver medicine (e.g., insulin or the like) to a user and to deliver media content to a user. The media content can include, for example, MP3 music and other audio/video data stored in a memory device in the portable system. Thus, in particular embodiments, the portable infusion pump system can serve a dual purpose of providing medication and entertainment for the user from a compact and unobtrusive device.

Claims

1. A method of using a medical infusion pump system, comprising:

actuating one or more buttons of a user interface of a portable infusion pump system so as to adjust a pump parameter stored in a memory device housed in the portable infusion pump system, the portable infusion pump system comprising a pump drive system to dispense medicine to a user according to the parameter;

actuating one or more buttons of said user interface to select media content for playback through an external audio device to the user, the selected media content being stored with a plurality of digital media content files in said memory device housed in said portable infusion pump system; and

contemporaneously receiving the medicine dispensed from the portable infusion pump system and receiving the playback of the selected media content output by the portable infusion pump system.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the pump parameter comprises a medicine dispensation rate content stored in the memory device of the portable infusion pump system, and wherein the selected media content comprises music content stored in the memory device of the portable infusion pump system.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising receiving an audible alert through the external audio device, the audible alert being indicative of a detected alarm condition of the portable infusion pump system.

4. The method of claim 3, further comprising responding to the audible alert by input on the user interface so as to acknowledge or resolve the detected alarm condition, wherein the selected media content output through the external audio device is restarted in response to the input on the user interface indicating that the detected alarm condition is acknowledged or resolved.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the external audio device that communicates with at least a portion of a controller, the controller electrically communicating with the pump drive system to dispense medicine according to the pump parameter, wherein the controller accesses the selected media content stored with the plurality of digital media content files in said memory device housed in said portable infusion pump system so as to output the selected media content through the external audio device to the user.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein the controller interrupts the selected media content output through the external audio device to the user in response to a medicine dispensation alarm condition.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein the controller interrupts the selected media content to output an audible alert through the external audio device to the user.

8. The method of claim 7, wherein the audible alert output through the external audio device comprises a verbal message indicative of the medicine dispensation alarm condition.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein said user interface of said portable infusion pump system contemporaneously displays medicinal delivery information and media content playback information on a display screen.

10. The method of claim 1, further comprising actuating one or more buttons of said user interface to activate playback of instructional media content related to operation of the portable infusion pump system, wherein said memory device housed in said portable infusion pump system stores said instructional media content related to the operation of the portable infusion pump system.

11. The method of claim 1, wherein the external audio device comprises earbuds or headphones coupled by an audio cable to an audio output connector that interfaces with a controller of the portable infusion pump system.

12. The method of claim 1, wherein the external audio device comprises earbuds or headphones wirelessly linked to a wireless audio transmitter that interfaces with a controller of the portable infusion pump system.

13. A method of using a medical infusion pump system, comprising:

providing input to a user interface of a portable infusion pump system, wherein the user interface includes;

a display device that contemporaneously displays medicinal delivery information and media content playback information, and a set of buttons positioned on the portable infusion pump system to receive user input indicative of an adjustment to a pump parameter affecting medicine dispensation from the portable infusion pump system and to receive user input via the same set of buttons indicative of a selected digital audio content for playback through the external audio device,

actuating at least one button from said set of buttons of said user interface positioned on said portable infusion pump system so as to adjust said pump parameter stored in a memory device housed in said portable infusion pump system, wherein a drive system housed in the said portable infusion pump system urges dispensation of medicine from a medicine reservoir housed in said portable infusion pump system to a user according to said pump parameter;

actuating at least one button from said set of buttons of said user interface positioned on said portable infusion pump system so as to select audio content for playback through said external audio device to the user, the selected audio content being stored with a plurality of digital audio content files in said memory device housed in said portable infusion pump system; and

receiving the playback of the selected audio content output via the external audio device of the portable infusion pump system while the drive system of the portable infusion pump system urges dispensation of the medicine according to said pump parameter.

14. The method of claim 13, wherein the pump parameter comprises a medicine dispensation rate content stored in the memory device housed in said portable infusion pump system, and wherein the selected audio content comprises music content stored in the memory device housed in said portable infusion pump system.

15. The method of claim 13, further comprising receiving an audible alert through the external audio device, the audible alert interrupting the playback of audio content through the external audio device and being indicative of a detected alarm condition of the portable infusion pump system.

16. The method of claim 15, further comprising responding to the audible alert by input on said user interface positioned on said portable infusion pump system so as to acknowledge or resolve the detected alarm condition, wherein the selected media content output through the external audio device is restarted in response to the input on said user interface indicating that the detected alarm condition is acknowledged or resolved.

17. The method of claim 13, wherein the external audio device that communicates with at least a portion of a controller of the portable infusion pump system, the controller electrically communicating with the pump drive system to dispense medicine according to the pump parameter, wherein the controller accesses the selected audio content stored with the plurality of digital audio content files in said memory device housed in said portable infusion pump system so as to output the selected audio content through the external audio device.

18. The method of claim 17, wherein the controller interrupts the selected audio content output through the external audio device in response to a medicine dispensation alarm condition.

19. The method of claim 18, wherein the controller interrupts the selected audio content to output an audible alert through the external audio device to the user, and wherein the audible alert output through the external audio device comprises a verbal message indicative of the medicine dispensation alarm condition.

20. The method of claim 13, further comprising actuating at least one button from said set of buttons of said user interface positioned on said portable infusion pump system so as to activate playback of instructional media content related to operation of the portable infusion pump system, wherein said memory device housed in said portable infusion pump system stores said instructional media content related to the operation of the portable infusion pump system.