System and method for controlling a data transmission to and/or from a plurality of medical devices

• US 20130030830A1
• Filed: 02/24/2011
• Published: 01/31/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 02/26/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: B Braun Melsungen AG (B. Braun Holding GmbH & Co. KG)
• Original Assignee: B Braun Melsungen AG (B. Braun Holding GmbH & Co. KG)
• Inventors: Schmoll, Horst, Paetzold, Matthias
• Granted Patent: US 10,026,504 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/2
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/22 Social work or social welfare, e.g. community support activities or counselling services
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 10/60 for patient-specific data, e.g. for electronic patient records
• 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 80/00 ICT specially adapted for facilitating communication between medical practitioners or patients, e.g. for collaborative diagnosis, therapy or health monitoring

Abstract

The invention relates to a system for controlling a data transmission to and/or from a plurality of medical devices, said plurality of medical devices being divided into individual groups, each of which comprises at least one medical device. Each group of medical devices on a first data transmission level is directly connected via a respective first network to a communication device for transmitting, storing, and controlling data, said communication device being on a second transmission level, and a plurality of said communication devices exchange data with a common central server device for storing, controlling, and data transmission, said server device being on a third data transmission level.

Claims

1. A system for controlling a data transmission to and/or from a plurality of medical appliances, comprising the plurality of medical appliances subdivided into individual groups with at least one medical appliance in each group, wherein each group of medical appliances on a first data transmission stage is directly connected by way of a first network in each case to a communication device arranged on a second data transmission stage for the transmission, storage and control of data, and means for a plurality of these communication devices to exchange data with a common central server device arranged on a third data transmission stage for the storage, control and transmission of data.

2. The system according to claim 1, wherein the means are a second network which directly connects the communication devices to the common central server device arranged on the third data transmission stage.

3. The system according to claim 1, wherein the means constitute an external storage medium, such as a USB stick or a memory card.

4. The system according to claims 1, wherein the central server device comprises an application server unit and a memory server unit, wherein the application server unit is connected to application operation units on a fourth data transmission stage by a third network.

5. The system according to claim 4, wherein each communication device has at least one first memory unit and one first control unit in order to store temporarily data arriving and received from the medical appliances of the group and to pass the data on in a bundled manner to the memory server unit.

6. The system according to claim 5, wherein the first memory unit and the first control unit of the communication device are suitable for storing temporarily data arriving and received from the memory server unit or the application server unit and to pass the data on to selected medical appliances upon demand or if required.

7. The system according to claim 4, wherein the third network connects the application operation units to the application server unit by means of a web interface and a web browser.

8. The system according to claim 1, wherein the medical appliances are insulin pumps.

14. The system according to claim 5, wherein the data comprise appliance-specific and patient-specific data on patients who are connected to the medical appliances.

15. The system according to claim 14, wherein the data comprise medicine-specific data.

9. A method for controlling the transmission of data to and/or from a plurality of medical appliances, comprising subdividing the plurality of medical appliances into individual groups with at least one medical appliance in each group, wherein each group of medical appliances on a first data transmission stage transmits data from or to a communication device arranged on a second data transmission stage by way of a first network in each case and controls them, and a plurality of these communication devices transmit—

by way of a second network—

data from or to a common central server device arranged on a third data transmission stage and control them.

10. The method according to claim 9, wherein the central server device is provided with an application server unit and a memory server unit, wherein the application server unit is connected to application operation units on a fourth data transmission stage by way of a third network and is operated, controlled and regulated with respect to writing and reading data by the application operation units.

11. The method according to claim 10, wherein data which are received in at least one first memory unit and by means of a first control unit and which are transmitted by the medical appliances of the group are stored temporarily in each communication device and are passed on in a bundled manner to the memory server unit.

12. The method according to claim 11, wherein the first memory unit and the first control unit of the communication device receive and temporarily store data, from the memory server unit or the application server unit in order to pass the data on to selected medical appliances upon demand or if required.

13. The method according to claim 9, wherein the first network is selected from the CAN type and the second and third networks are selected from the WLAN and/or LAN type.

16. The method according to claim 10, wherein the data comprise appliance-specific and patient-specific data of patients who are connected to the medical appliances.

17. The method according to claim 16, wherein the data comprise medicine-specific data.