Computer system and method for creating at least one machine-readable file for a medical treatment apparatus

• US 20120102010A1
• Filed: 04/22/2010
• Published: 04/26/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 04/24/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Fresenius Medical Care Deutschland GmbH (Fresenius Medical Care AG)
• Original Assignee: Fresenius Medical Care Deutschland GmbH (Fresenius Medical Care AG)
• Inventors: Gruendken, Martin, Brueggerhoff, Arnd, Ripken, Andreas
• Granted Patent: US 8,560,510 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 707/705
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/63 for local operation
• CPC Class Codes: G16Z 99/00 Subject matter not provided for in other main groups of this subclass

Abstract

The invention proposes a computer system for creating at least one machine-readable file for a medical treatment apparatus, with a database for providing at least one parameter set, an input device for inputting data regarding the flow behavior of the medical treatment apparatus as parameter set; an output device for creating and outputting a flow definition output file taking into account the input data; and a converting device for creating at least one machine-readable file or machine-readable data in a storage medium utilizing at least the parameter set. Further, a corresponding method, a data medium and a medical apparatus are specified.

Claims

1-19. -19. (canceled)

20. A computer system for creating at least one machine-readable file or machine-readable data which is present in a storage medium for a medical treatment apparatus with a database for providing at least one parameter set said computer system comprising:

an input device for inputting data regarding the flow behavior of the medical treatment apparatus as a parameter set;

an output device for creating and outputting a flow definition output file taking into account the input data; and

a converting device for creating at least one machine-readable file or machine-readable data in a storage medium utilizing the at least one parameter set, the input data, the flow definition output file, or any combination thereof.

21. The computer system according to claim 20, wherein the output device is configured to output the flow definition output file as at least one spreadsheet with several rows, columns, or both.

22. The computer system according to claim 21, wherein the spreadsheet of the flow definition output file is subdivided into units which comprise rows or columns for at least information chosen from the group consisting of:

detection statuses, a distribution list, a process block, a system status block and a reaction block.

23. The computer system according to claim 20, wherein the flow definition output file includes an alarm definition spreadsheet.

24. The computer system according to claim 20, wherein the at least one parameter set is a treatment-specific parameter set.

25. A machine-readable storage medium comprising at least one machine-readable file that was created by the computer system according to claim 20 or machine-readable data that was created by the computer system according to claim 20.

26. The machine-readable storage medium according to claim 25, wherein the at least one machine-readable file comprises a plurality of machine-readable files, or the machine readable data comprises sets of machine-readable data, wherein at least two files of the plurality of machine-readable files or two sets of the machine-readable data differ from each other.

27. A medical treatment apparatus comprising:

a machine-readable storage medium comprising at least one machine-readable file that was created by the computer system of claim 20.

28. The medical treatment apparatus according to claim 27, wherein the storage medium is a ROM, in which the machine-readable file is filed.

29. The medical treatment apparatus according to claim 27, further comprising a flow tracing device.

30. The medical treatment apparatus according to claim 28, further comprising an alarm status tracing device is filed in the ROM.

31. The medical treatment apparatus according to claim 27, which is a dialysis apparatus.

32. A method for creating at least one machine-readable file or machine-readable data present in a storage medium for a medical treatment apparatus by a computer system, wherein providing at least one parameter set in the computer system comprises the steps of:

inputting data regarding the flow behavior of the medical treatment apparatus as a parameter set by an input device;

outputting a flow definition output file taking into account the input data by an output device; and

creating at least one machine-readable file or machine-readable data present in a storage medium by using the at least one parameter set, the input data, the flow definition output file, or any combination thereof.

33. The method according to claim 32, wherein the flow definition output file comprises at least one spreadsheet with several rows, several columns, or both.

34. The method according to claim 33, further comprising:

creating the spreadsheet of the flow definition output file such that it comprises units which comprise at least rows or columns for information selected from the group consisting of;

detection statuses, a distribution list, a process block, a system status block and a reaction block.

35. The method according to claim 32 in which the flow definition output file is created as an alarm definition spreadsheet.

36. The method according to claim 35, wherein the alarm definition spreadsheet comprises a preprocessing spreadsheet, a detection spreadsheet and a relevance spreadsheet.

37. The method according to claim 32, wherein the at least one parameter set is a treatment-specific parameter set.

38. A computer-readable storage medium containing a set of instructions that causes a computer to perform a process for creating at least one machine-readable file for a medical treatment apparatus, said process comprising:

providing at least one parameter set in the computer by;

inputting data regarding the flow behavior of the medical treatment apparatus as a parameter set by an input device;

outputting a flow definition output file taking into account the input data by an output device; and

creating the at least one machine-readable file by using the at least one parameter set, the input data, the flow definition output file, or any combination thereof.

39. A medical treatment apparatus comprising:

a computer-readable storage medium containing a set of instructions that causes a computer to perform a process for creating at least one machine-readable file for a medical treatment apparatus, said process comprising;

providing at least one parameter set in the computer by;

inputting data regarding the flow behavior of the medical treatment apparatus as a parameter set by an input device;

outputting a flow definition output file taking into account the input data by an output device; and

creating the at least one machine-readable file by using the at least one parameter set, the input data, the flow definition output file, or any combination thereof.