PATIENT MONITORING WITH AUTOMATIC RESIZING OF DISPLAY SECTORS

• US 20120095778A1
• Filed: 05/17/2010
• Published: 04/19/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 06/29/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V. (Koninklijke Philips N.V.)
• Original Assignee: Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V. (Koninklijke Philips N.V.)
• Inventors: Gross, Brian D., Johnson, Soren S., Reid, W. Scott, Zengo, Elizabeth
• Granted Patent: US 9,104,789 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/2
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/63 for local operation
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/67 for remote operation

Abstract

A patient monitoring station includes a display that displays a plurality of sectors. A controller displays the patient data received from one or more remote medical devices in a corresponding sector of the display. The controller is programmed to collapse one or more sector in response to one of (1) not receiving patient data from the corresponding remote patient monitor or (2) receiving patient data not indicative of a pending patient event or alarm condition; and expand at least sectors that receive patient data indicative of a pending patient event or alarm condition.

Claims

1. A patient monitoring station comprising:

a display that displays a plurality of sectors;

a controller configured to display patient data received from one or more remote medical devices in a corresponding sector of the display, the controller programmed to or including means to;

expand at least sectors that receive patient data indicative of a pending patient event or alarm condition; and

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at least one of display the expanded sector or at least partially transparent or collapse one or more sectors in response to one of (1) not receiving patient data from the corresponding remote patient monitor or (2) receiving patient data not indicative of a pending patient event, caregiver workflow, change in health care state, or alarm condition.

2. The patient monitoring station according to claim 1, further comprising:

a user interface configured to program any sector of the display to automatically collapse, automatically expand, or collapse to the background of the display.

3. The patient monitoring station according to claim 1, wherein the controller is further programmed to or includes means to resize the collapsed sectors such that all the collapsed sectors are of a uniform size and resize the expanded sectors such that all the expanded sectors are of a uniform size, wherein the sectors are scaled to fit within a boundary of the display.

4. The patient monitoring station according to claim 1, wherein the controller is further programmed to or includes means to expand a size of the expanded sector based on a severity of the alarm condition or time elapsed since the alarm condition, wherein the alarm condition is based on a measured physiological parameter in the patient data exceeding a time, severity, or escalation parameter.

5. The patient monitoring station according to claim 1, wherein the controller is further programmed to:

or includes means to control the display to represent a collapsed sector by a small object including a limited representation of the patient data; and

control the display to represent a expanded sector by a full representation of the patient data.

6. The patient monitoring station according to claim 1, wherein each collapsed sector is represented by a small object comprising a bed label, patient ID, or other representations of patient grouping, and a patient'"'"'s highest priority monitored physiologic parameter or indication of wellness, and wherein each expanded sector is represented by a full size object including a full representation of the received patient data.

7. The patient monitoring station according to claim 1, wherein the controller is further programmed to or includes means to automatically create the plurality of sectors of the display, each sector corresponding to one of the plurality of remote medical devices.

8. The patient monitoring station according to claim 1, wherein the display is incorporated in one or more of a PDA, tablet PC, and patient bedside monitor.

9. A patient monitoring system, the system comprising:

one or more configured remote medical devices for measuring patient physiological parameters and generating patient data based thereon;

the patient monitoring station according to claim 1.

10. A method of displaying medical parameters, the method comprising:

displaying medical parameters received from one or more remote medical devices in a corresponding sector of a display;

expanding a sector of the display at least in response to the medical parameters received being indicative of a pending patient event, caregiver, workflow, change in healthcare state, or alarm condition; and

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one of displaying the expanded sector at least partially transparently or collapsing a sector of the display in response to one of (a) the corresponding remote medical device not sending patient data and (b) the received patient data are not indicating a pending patient event.

11. The method according to claim 10, further including:

resizing the collapsed sectors such that all the collapsed sectors are of a uniform size and resizing the expanded sectors such that all the expanded sectors are of a uniform size, wherein the sectors are scaled to fit within a boundary of the display.

12. The method according to claim 10, further including:

representing each collapsed sector by a small object including a limited representation of the patient data; and

representing a expanded sector by a full presentation of the patient data.

13. The patient monitoring station according to claim 10, further including:

representing each collapsed sector by a small object comprising a bed label, patient ID, and a patient'"'"'s highest priority monitored physiologic parameter or indication of wellness.

14. The method according to claim 10, further including:

resizing an expanded sector based on a severity of the alarm condition or a time elapsed since the alarm condition, wherein the alarm condition is based on a measured physiological parameter in the patient data exceeding a time, severity, or escalation parameter.

15. The method according to claim 10, further including:

automatically creating the plurality of sectors of the display, each sector corresponding to one patient.

16. The method according to claim 10, further including:

programming any sector of the display to automatically collapse, automatically expand, or collapse to the background of the display.

17. The method according to claim 10, wherein the display is incorporated in one or more of a PDA, tablet PC, and patient bedside monitor.

18. The method according to claim 10, further including:

determining whether each of the plurality of remote medical devices is sending patient data; and

determining whether the patient data indicates a pending patient event in response to a remote medical device sending patient data

19. A computer readable medium containing software which when loaded into a processor programs the processor to perform the method according to claim 10.

20. A patient monitoring system comprising:

a plurality of remote medical devices;

a patient monitoring system having a display and a controller programmed to perform the method according to claim 10.