SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SIMPLE PAIRING OF WIRED AND WIRELESS HEALTHCARE DEVICES TO A GATEWAY

• US 20140142974A1
• Filed: 01/24/2014
• Published: 05/22/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 09/26/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Koninklijke Philips N.V.
• Original Assignee: Koninklijke Philips N.V.
• Inventors: SIMONS, David Peter Louis, WARTENA, Frank, MULDER, Robbert J.
• Granted Patent: US 9,137,312 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/2
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/67 for remote operation
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/51 Discovery or management thereof, e.g. service location protocol [SLP] or web services

Abstract

A system and method for effecting communication between a plurality of healthcare measurement devices and a remote patient monitoring server is disclosed. In one embodiment, a method of effecting communication between the healthcare measurement devices and the remote patient monitoring server, includes communicating with an healthcare gateway device using a common gateway protocol to receive translated data via a plurality of translation units associated with a plurality of device communication modules residing in wired and wireless healthcare measurement devices, and communicating with the remote patient monitoring server using a plurality of remote protocols residing in a plurality of remote communication modules to transmit the received translated data. In some embodiments, the healthcare gateway device is communicatively coupled between the healthcare management devices and the remote patient monitoring server.

Claims

1. A method for effecting communication between a plurality of healthcare measurement devices and a remote patient monitoring server, wherein an healthcare gateway device is communicatively coupled between the plurality of healthcare measurement devices and the remote patient monitoring server, comprising:

receiving data from the plurality of healthcare measuring devices with a plurality of device protocols, each according to a protocol of the device, and each at a wired or wireless port of one of a plurality of translation units;

translating the received data of each measuring device to a common gateway protocol from the device protocol by the translation unit connected to a plug and play port of the healthcare gateway device; and

transmitting the received translated data from the healthcare gateway device to the remote patient monitoring server using at least one of a plurality of remote protocols residing in a plurality of remote communication modules.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

translating information transmitted from the healthcare gateway device in accordance with the common gateway protocol to the plurality of healthcare measurement devices in accordance with the plurality of device protocols.

3. The method of claim 2, further comprising:

receiving information from the remote patient monitoring server using the at least one of a plurality of remote protocols;

translating the information received from the remote patient monitoring server according to one of the remote protocols to the healthcare gateway device in accordance with the common gateway protocol.

4. The method of claim 1, further including:

detecting a type of the healthcare measurement device and connecting to the healthcare measurement device in accordance with the common gateway protocol.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein translating comprises:

selecting a translation routine from a set of predefined translation routines based upon the type of the healthcare measurement devices.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein selecting comprises:

selecting translation routines from a set of predefined translation routines based on wireless healthcare measurement devices and wired healthcare measurement devices.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein selecting comprises:

selecting wireless translation routines which include Bluetooth, Zigbee, and Wireless universal serial bus (USB).

8. An article, comprising:

a non-transitory storage medium having instructions, that when executed by a computing platform, result in execution of a method for effecting communication between a plurality of healthcare measurement devices and a remote patient monitoring server, wherein an healthcare gateway device is communicatively coupled between the plurality of healthcare measurement devices and the remote patient monitoring server, comprising;

communicating with the healthcare gateway device using a common gateway protocol to communicate data translated via a plurality of translation units with a plurality of device protocols associated with a plurality of device communication modules residing in wired and wireless healthcare measurement devices and each device communication module communicating according to the protocol of the device; and

communicating with a remote patient monitoring server using a plurality of remote protocols residing in a plurality of remote communication modules to transmit the communicated translated data.

9. The article of claim 8, further comprising:

translating data received from the plurality of healthcare measurement devices in accordance with a plurality of device protocols into translated data adapted for the healthcare gateway device in accordance with the common gateway protocol.

10. The article of claim 8, further comprising:

translating information received from the healthcare gateway device in accordance with the common gateway protocol into translated information adapted for the one of the plurality of healthcare measurement devices in accordance with the one of the device protocols.

11. The article of claim 10, wherein communicating with the plurality of health care measurement devices comprises:

detecting a type of the healthcare measurement device and connecting to the healthcare measurement device in accordance with the common gateway protocol.

12. The article of claim 11, wherein translating comprises:

selecting a translation routine from a set of predefined translation routines based upon the type of the healthcare measurement devices.

13. The article of claim 12, wherein selecting comprises:

selecting translation routines from a set of predefined translation routines based on wireless healthcare measurement devices and wired healthcare measurement devices.

14. The article of claim 8, wherein the plurality of remote protocols include FXO and Ethernet.

15. A healthcare gateway device for effecting transport-agnostic communication between a plurality of healthcare measurement devices and a remote patient monitoring server, comprising:

a plurality of gateway communication modules each including a plug and play port which uses a common gateway protocol;

a plurality of translation units, each connected to a plug and play port of one gateway communication module and each connected to one of the healthcare measurement devices, which transmit according to a protocol of the healthcare measurement device, and each translation unit translates between the protocol of the connected healthcare measurement device and the common gateway protocol;

a plurality of remote communication modules communicatively connected to the plurality of gateway communication modules and the remote patient monitoring server, each remote communication module communicating according to a remote protocol and translating between the common gateway protocol and the remote protocol.

16. The device according to claim 15, wherein one of the remote communication modules receives information communicated from the remote patient monitoring server according to one of the remote protocols and translates the information to the common gateway protocol and transmits the information to one of the gateway communication modules according to the common gateway protocol;

wherein the one of the gateway communication modules transmits the information to one of the translation units according to the common gateway protocol; and

wherein the one translation unit translates the information from the common gateway protocol to the device protocol and transmits the information to the healthcare measurement device.

17. The device according to claim 15, wherein one of the translation units receives data communicated from one of the healthcare measurement devices and translates the data to the common gateway protocol and transmits the translated data to one of the gateway communication modules connected by the plug and play port according to the common gateway protocol;

wherein the one of the gateway communication modules transmits the data to one of the remote communication modules according to common gateway protocol; and

wherein the one remote communication module translates the data to one of the remote protocols and transmits the data to the remote patient monitoring server according to the one remote protocol.

18. The device according to claim 15, wherein the plurality of remote communication modules receive information from the remote patient monitoring server for the healthcare measurement devices according to the remote protocols, translate the received information to the common gateway protocol and transmit the translated information to the gateway communication modules, and receive data from the common gateway modules according to the common gateway protocol, translate the received data from the common gateway protocol to the remote protocols, and transmit the received data to the remote patient monitoring server according to the remote protocols.

19. The device according to claim 15, wherein the plurality of translation units receive data from the healthcare measurement devices, translate the data from the corresponding healthcare measurement device protocol to the common gateway protocol, and transmit the data to the common gateway modules according to the common gateway protocol, and receive information from the common gateway modules according to the common gateway protocol, translate the information from the common gateway protocol to the corresponding healthcare device protocol, and transmit the information to the corresponding healthcare device according the healthcare device protocol.

20. The device according to claim 15, wherein the plurality of translation units select a translation routine from a set of predefined translation routines based upon the type of the healthcare measurement devices.

21. The device according to claim 15, wherein the plurality of communication modules include at least one of FXO and Ethernet.