COMPUTER-BASED OPERATING ROOM SUPPORT SYSTEM

• US 20150073816A1
• Filed: 09/12/2013
• Published: 03/12/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 09/12/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Johnson & Johnson Surgical Vision, Inc. (Johnson & Johnson)
• Original Assignee: Abbott Medical Optics Incorporated (Johnson & Johnson)
• Inventors: Kadziauskas, Kenneth E., Pedroza, Joseph E., Steen, Mark E., Wong, Wayne S., Yorita, Tamara J., Ha, Catherine P., Hunter, Timothy L.
• Granted Patent: US 11,715,560 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/2
• CPC Class Codes: A61F 2009/00887 Cataract
• CPC Class Codes: A61F 2009/00891 Glaucoma
• CPC Class Codes: A61F 9/00745 using mechanical vibrations, e.g. ultrasonic
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 20/40 relating to mechanical, radiation or invasive therapies, e.g. surgery, laser therapy, dialysis or acupuncture
• 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 40/63 for local operation
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 50/70 for mining of medical data, e.g. analysing previous cases of other patients

Abstract

A computer-based surgery support system and method for obtaining information of surgical procedures from networked equipment in an operating room, storing the retrieved information in a database, receiving a request for the stored information from a user terminal, and providing the stored information in accordance with the received request. The networked equipment may be configured for use in cataract surgical procedures, such as a phacoemulsification system.

Claims

1. A computer-based surgery support system, comprising:

a network attached computer with a processor and a data storage device storing instructions which, when executed on the processor, cause the computer to perform tasks including;

obtaining information of a surgical procedure from an operating room;

storing the obtained information on the storage device in a database;

receiving a request for the stored information from a user terminal; and

providing the stored information in accordance with the received request.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the surgical procedure is an eye surgery.

3. The system of claim 2, wherein the eye surgery is one of cataract surgery, refractive surgery, laser cataract surgery, vitreoretinal surgery, and glaucoma surgery.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein at least a portion of the information from the operating room is computer-readable information.

5. The system of claim 4, wherein at least a portion of the computer-readable information is obtained from network attached equipment in the operating room.

6. The system of claim 5, wherein the operating room network attached equipment includes a computer-based phacoemulsification system.

7. The system of claim 6, wherein the phacoemulsification system is configured to run at least one application utilizing selected settings during the procedure.

8. The system of claim 6, wherein the retrieved information includes the selected settings of the phacoemulsification system used during the procedure.

9. The system of claim 6, wherein the retrieved information includes diagnostic information of the phacoemulsification system.

10. The system of claim 6, wherein the retrieved information includes operational information of the phacoemulsification system recorded during the procedure.

11. The system of claim 10, wherein the recorded operational information of the phacoemulsification system includes information sampled at regular intervals during the procedure

12. The system of claim 10, wherein the recorded operational information of the phacoemulsification system includes information recorded continuously during the procedure

13. The system of claim 5, wherein the operating room network attached equipment includes a surgical media center (SMC) arranged to make at least one of an audio recording and a video recording of activity in the operating room during a procedure.

14. The system of claim 13, wherein the tasks further include overlaying surgeon-dictated audio onto the SMC data.

15. The system of claim 1, wherein the obtained information includes date and time of the beginning and end of the procedure.

16. The system of claim 1, wherein the procedure includes a plurality of stages, and the obtained information includes the date and time of the beginning and end of each of the stages.

17. The system of claim 1, wherein the obtained information includes identifiers of persons present during the procedure, including at least one of a patient on whom the procedure is performed, a surgeon performing the procedure, and operating room staff participating in the procedure and an indicator of their respective duties.

18. The system of claim 1, wherein the obtained information includes information of supplies consumed during the procedure, including the identity of the supplies and the respective amount used.

19. The system of claim 18 further comprising an interface to a supplier ordering system, wherein the tasks further include using the interface to order operating room supplies to replenish those consumed during the procedure.

20. The system of claim 19, wherein the replenishing supplies are automatically ordered.

21. The system of claim 1, wherein the tasks further include gathering patient feedback information.

22. The system of claim 1, wherein the tasks further include providing feedback to a manufacturer of at least one device in the operating room.

23. The system of claim 22, wherein the feedback is provided to at least one of the manufacturer'"'"'s customer service, marketing, sales, technical support, and research and development.

24. The system of claim 1, wherein the tasks further include:

formatting the obtained information; and

providing the formatted information to the user terminal responsive to the request.

25. The system of claim 24, wherein the formatting includes at least one of a table, a graph, and text.

26. The system of claim 1, wherein the tasks further include:

storing information of a plurality of procedures;

receiving a request for the stored information including an identified analysis of the information and an identified format of the analysis results;

analyzing the stored information and formatting the analysis results in accordance with the received request; and

providing the formatted analyzed information to a destination identified in the received request.

27. The system of claim 26, wherein the plurality of procedures occur in a plurality of operating rooms.

28. The system of claim 26, wherein the formatted information includes at least one of operating room efficiency, energy usage flow rate, vacuum rate, procedure time, time between procedures, procedures per selected time period, characteristics of a plurality of surgeons, characteristics of a plurality of operating room staff persons, and a comparison of supplies used in a plurality of procedures.

29. The system of claim 26, wherein the analysis results include a correlation of information pertaining to the plurality of surgical procedures, efficiency, product usage, and phacoemulsification system program settings.

30. The system of claim 1, wherein the tasks further include receiving a type identifier of the user terminal, and the formatting includes formatting for presentation on the identified user terminal type.

31. The system of claim 30, wherein the user terminal is one of a smart phone, a tablet computer, a portable computer, and a desktop computer.

32. A computer-based cataract surgery support method, comprising:

obtaining computer-readable information from a network attached computer-based phacoemulsification system running at least one application utilizing selected settings during a cataract operation procedure;

storing the obtained information;

receiving a request for the stored information from a user terminal; and

providing the stored information in accordance with the received request.

33. The method of claim 32, further comprising:

obtaining computer-readable information from a surgical media center (SMC) including at least one of an audio recording and a video recording of activity in the operating room during the cataract operation procedure.

34. The method of claim 33, further comprising overlaying surgeon-dictated audio onto the SMC data.

35. The method of claim 32, wherein the obtained information includes at least one of diagnostic information, selectable settings, and operational information recorded during the procedure, of the phacoemulsification system used during the procedure.

36. The method of claim 32, wherein the surgical procedure includes a plurality of stages, and the obtained information includes date and time of the beginning and end of each of the stages of the procedure and of the beginning and end of the entire procedure.

37. The method of claim 32, wherein the obtained information includes identifiers of persons present during the procedure, including a patient on whom the procedure is performed, a surgeon performing the procedure, and operating room staff participating in the procedure and an indicator of their respective duties.

38. The method of claim 32, wherein the obtained information includes information of supplies consumed during the procedure, including the identity of the supplies and the respective amount used.

39. The method of claim 38, further comprising automatically ordering operating room supplies to replenish those consumed during the procedure.

40. The method of claim 32, further comprising:

formatting the obtained information; and

providing the formatted information to the user terminal responsive to the request.

41. The method of claim 32, further comprising:

storing information of a plurality of cataract operation procedures;

receiving a request for the stored information including an identified analysis of the information and an identified format of the analysis results;

analyzing the stored information and formatting the analysis results in accordance with the received request; and

providing the formatted analyzed information to a destination identified in the received request.

42. The method of claim 41, wherein the formatted information includes at least one of operating room efficiency, energy usage over time, characteristics of a plurality of surgeons, characteristics of a plurality of operating room staff persons, and a comparison of supplies used in a plurality of procedures.

43. The method of claim 41, wherein the analysis results include a correlation of information pertaining to the plurality of surgical procedures, efficiency, product usage, and phacoemulsification system program settings.

44. The method of claim 32, wherein the request includes a type identifier of the user terminal, and the formatting includes formatting for presentation on the identified user terminal type.

45. The method of claim 44, wherein the remote terminal is one of a smart phone, a tablet computer, a portable computer, and a desktop computer.

46. A computer-based cataract surgery support method, comprising:

receiving information from a user terminal for use in software-controlled network attached equipment in a cataract operating room;

storing the received information;

transferring the stored information to the network attached equipment in the operating room; and

modifying operating software of the network attached equipment in accordance with the transferred information.

47. The method of claim 46, wherein the transferred information includes program settings of a computer-based phacoemulsification system.

48. The method of claim 46, wherein the program settings are modified at the user terminal prior to transferring them to the network attached equipment in the operating room.