INTELLIGENT MEDICAL NETWORK EDGE ROUTER
First Claim
1. A method of providing patient monitoring data over a network, the method comprising:
- by a medical edge router comprising one or more hardware processors;
receiving input packets with the medical edge router, the input packets comprising information related to patient monitoring data;
analyzing the input packets to identify any patient monitoring alarms in the input packets;
transmitting first ones of the input packets that do not correspond to a patient alarm over a first communications channel; and
in response to detecting a patient monitoring alarm in second ones of the input packets, transmitting the second packets over multiple second communications channels.
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Abstract
A medical network service can replace or supplement some or all of an expensive internally staffed clinical facility network with a cloud-based networking service. The medical network service in certain embodiments can provide networking services via software as a service technologies, platform as a service technologies, and/or infrastructure as a service technologies. The medical network service can provide these services to large existing clinical facilities such as metropolitan hospitals as well as to smaller clinical facilities such as specialized surgical centers. The medical network service can replace and/or supplement existing IT networks in hospitals and other clinical facilities and can therefore reduce costs and increase security and reliability of those networks. In addition, the medical network service can provide synergistic benefits that can improve patient outcomes and patient care. In addition, a medical edge router can provide redundant communications features for transmitting patient data to the medical network service.
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21 Claims
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1. A method of providing patient monitoring data over a network, the method comprising:
by a medical edge router comprising one or more hardware processors; receiving input packets with the medical edge router, the input packets comprising information related to patient monitoring data; analyzing the input packets to identify any patient monitoring alarms in the input packets; transmitting first ones of the input packets that do not correspond to a patient alarm over a first communications channel; and in response to detecting a patient monitoring alarm in second ones of the input packets, transmitting the second packets over multiple second communications channels. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8)
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9. A system for providing patient monitoring data over a network, the system comprising:
a medical edge router having one or more hardware processors, the medical edge router comprising; a traffic inspector configured to receive input packets comprising information related to patient monitoring data and to analyze the input packets to identify any patient monitoring alarms in the input packets; and a routing module configured to transmit first ones of the input packets that do not correspond to a patient alarm over a first communications channel and transmit second ones of the input packets over multiple second communications channels in response to detecting a patient monitoring alarm in the second input packets. - View Dependent Claims (10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16)
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17. A method of providing patient monitoring data over a network, the method comprising:
by a medical edge router comprising one or more hardware processors; receiving input data with the medical edge router, the input data comprising information related to patient monitoring data; attempting to transmit the input data over a first communications channel; in response to determining that the first communications channel is unavailable, attempting to transmit the input data over a second communications channel; and in response to determining that the second communications channel is unavailable, transmitting a reduced form of the input data over a third communications channel. - View Dependent Claims (18, 19, 20, 21)
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