MEDICAL TELEMETRY SYSTEM AND MEDICAL TELEMETER

• US 20120068855A1
• Filed: 09/20/2011
• Published: 03/22/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 09/21/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Nihon Kohden Corporation
• Original Assignee: Nihon Kohden Corporation
• Inventors: TANIGUCHI, Hiroyuki, TEZUKA, Shinji, MATSUMURA, Fumiyuki, HATAKEYAMA, Hirokazu
• Granted Patent: US 8,797,177 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 340/870.02
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2562/08 Sensors provided with means for identification, e.g. barcodes or memory chips
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/0006 ECG or EEG signals
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/002 Monitoring the patient using a local or closed circuit, e.g. in a room or building A61B5/0017 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/14551 for measuring blood gases
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/67 for remote operation

Abstract

A medical telemetry system includes: a medical telemeter including: a measuring portion which measures a biological signal of a patient as biological signal data; a communicating portion which wirelessly transmits the biological signal data; and a connection information storing portion which stores connection information; and a receiver including: a non-contact communicating portion which executes first non-contact communication to read the connection information in a non-contact manner; a storage portion which stores the connection information read by the non-contact communicating portion; and a receiving portion which starts reception of the biological signal data transmitted by the communicating portion, when the connection information is stored in the storage portion.

Claims

1. A medical telemetry system comprising:

a medical telemeter including;

a measuring portion which measures a biological signal of a patient as biological signal data;

a communicating portion which wirelessly transmits the biological signal data; and

a connection information storing portion which stores connection information; and

a receiver including;

a non-contact communicating portion which executes first non-contact communication to read the connection information in a non-contact manner;

a storage portion which stores the connection information read by the non-contact communicating portion; and

a receiving portion which starts reception of the biological signal data transmitted by the communicating portion, when the connection information is stored in the storage portion.

2. The medical telemetry system according to claim 1, wherein

the receiver further includes a first patient information storing portion which stores patient information for identifying the patient,

the medical telemeter further includes a second patient information storing portion, and

the non-contact communicating portion of the receiver executes second non-contact communication to write the patient information that is stored in the first patient information storing portion in the second patient information storing portion in a non-contact manner, when the non-contact communicating portion executes the first non-contact communication.

3. The medical telemetry system according to claim 2, wherein the medical telemeter further includes a transmission-side displaying portion which displays the patient information stored in the second patient information storing portion.

4. The medical telemetry system according to claim 3, wherein the patient information includes at least one of character information and image information.

5. The medical telemetry system according to claim 2, wherein the receiver further includes a reception-side displaying portion which displays at least one of the biological signal data and the patient information and the connection information in a manner that the patient information and the connection information correspond to each other.

6. The medical telemetry system according to claim 2, wherein the receiver issues an alarm when a state where the patient information is not corresponded to the connection information in one-to-one relationship is detected.

7. The medical telemetry system according to claim 2, wherein

the communicating portion of the medical telemeter transmits patient information which is stored in the second patient information storing portion to the receiving portion of the receiver together with the biological signal data, and

the receiver compares the patient information that is received by the receiving portion with the patient information that is stored in the first patient information storing portion of the receiver, and

the receiver issues an alarm, when a state where the patient information that is received by the receiving portion and the patient information that is stored in the first patient information storing portion are different from each other is detected.

9. The medical telemetry system according to claim 2, wherein the second patient information storing portion includes an RFID chip.

10. The medical telemetry system according to claim 1, wherein the connection information includes one of a wireless communication channel, a device identification number, an IP address, and a MAC address.

13. The medical telemetry system according to claim 1, wherein, when the non-contact communicating portion of the receiver executes the first non-contact communication, times which are internally managed in the medical telemeter and the receiver respectively are synchronized with each other.

14. The medical telemetry system according to claim 2, wherein, when the non-contact communicating portion of the receiver executes one of the first non-contact communication and the second non-contact communication, times which are internally managed in the medical telemeter and the receiver respectively are synchronized with each other.

15. The medical telemetry system according to claim 1 further comprising a read/communication device which, from a patient information storing portion, which is to be attached to a patient and which stores patient information identifying the patient, reads the patient information, and which transmits the read patient information to the communicating portion of the medical telemeter.

16. The medical telemetry system according to claim 2 further comprising a read/communication device which, from a third patient information storing portion, which is to be attached to a patient and which stores patient information for identifying the patient, reads the patient information, the read/communication device which executes at least one of transmission of the patient information read from the third patient information storing portion to the communicating portion of the medical telemeter, and reception of the patient information stored in the second patient information storing portion of the medical telemeter from the communicating portion of the medical telemeter.

17. The medical telemetry system according to claim 15, wherein the communicating portion of the medical telemeter transmits the patient information received from the read/communication device, to the receiver.

18. The medical telemetry system according to claim 16, wherein

the read/communication device executes the reception of the patient information from the communicating portion of the medical telemeter, and

the read/communication device issues an alarm when the patient information read from the third patient information storing portion is not coincident with the patient information received from the communicating portion of the medical telemeter.

19. The medical telemetry system according to claim 16, wherein

the read/communication device executes the transmission of the patient information to the communicating portion of the medical telemeter, and

the medical telemeter issues an alarm when the patient information received from the read/communication device is not coincident with the patient information stored in the second patient information storing portion.

20. The medical telemetry system according to claim 17, wherein the receiver issues an alarm when the patient information received from the communicating portion of the medical telemeter is not coincident with the patient information stored in the second patient information storing portion.

21. A medical telemeter which is to be used in the medical telemetry system according to claim 1.

8. The medical telemetry system according to claim wherein the connection information storing portion includes one of an RFID chip, a bar code, and a two-dimensional code.

11. The medical telemetry system according to claim wherein

the medical telemeter includes a transmitter which is portable by the patient, and

the receiver includes at least one of a bedside monitor and a central monitor.

12. The medical telemetry system according to claim wherein

the medical telemeter includes at least one of a transmitter which is portable by the patient, a bedside monitor, and a central monitor, and

the receiver includes a portable information terminal.