MEDICAL DATA TRANSFER COMPONENT

• US 20140324462A1
• Filed: 02/04/2014
• Published: 10/30/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 04/26/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Roche Diabetes Care Inc. (Roche Holding AG)
• Original Assignee: Roche Diagnostics Operations Incorporated (Roche Holding AG)
• Inventors: Beck, Timothy L., Birtwhistle, Daniel, Fuller, Jonathon, Gejdos, Igor, Dajani, Samer M.
• Granted Patent: US 9,870,447 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/3
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 10/60 for patient-specific data, e.g. for electronic patient records
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 10/65 stored on portable record carriers, e.g. on smartcards, RFID tags or CD
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/40 for the management of medical equipment or devices, e.g. scheduling maintenance or upgrades
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/63 for local operation
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/67 for remote operation

Abstract

Diabetes care management system and method for transferring medical data from a handheld medical recording device to a host computer via a data transfer component. The steps of the data transfer component comprising detecting a data upload request and detecting a medical device ready to communicate, verifying a unique ID, receiving patient medical data, including an authentication token with patient medical data, and sending patient medical data along with the authentication token for association with a user account.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented method for transferring medical data from a handheld medical recording device to a host computer, comprising:

accessing an account using a web browser on a patient computer, where the account resides on the host computer and is associated with a patient;

downloading a device transfer component from the host computer via network to the patient computer;

establishing, by the device transfer component, an association between the patient account and the device transfer component at the host computer;

receiving, by the device transfer component, an authentication token from the host computer;

receiving, by the device transfer component, medical data from a handheld medical device being associated with the patient;

sending, by the device transfer component, the medical data, along with the authentication token, over the network to the host computer; and

associating, at the host computer, the medical data with the patient account, where the association is made using the authentication token received with the medical data.