PLATFORM FOR PATIENT MONITORING

• US 20150334474A1
• Filed: 09/17/2014
• Published: 11/19/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 10/19/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Welch Allyn Incorporated
• Original Assignee: Welch Allyn Incorporated
• Inventors: DelloStritto, James J., Roy Chowdhury, Atanu, Mugundhan, Harrish, Vallee, Adam P., Rabieirad, Laleh
• Granted Patent: US 9,872,087 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/0002 Remote monitoring of patients using telemetry, e.g. transmission of vital signals via a communication network A61B5/07 takes precedence; transmission systems for measured values G08C; transmission H04B; transmission of digital information H04L; wireless communication networks H04W
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/0015 characterised by features of the telemetry system
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/0022 Monitoring a patient using a global network, e.g. telephone networks, internet
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/0026 characterised by the transmission medium
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/22 Indexing; Data structures therefor; Storage structures
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/951 Indexing; Web crawling techniques
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/955 using information identifiers, e.g. uniform resource locators [URL]
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 10/60 for patient-specific data, e.g. for electronic patient records
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 15/00 ICT specially adapted for medical reports, e.g. generation or transmission thereof
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/63 for local operation
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/67 for remote operation
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/12 specially adapted for proprietary or special-purpose networking environments, e.g. medical networks, sensor networks, networks in vehicles or remote metering networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04Q 9/00 Arrangements in telecontrol or telemetry systems for selectively calling a substation from a main station, in which substation desired apparatus is selected for applying a control signal thereto or for obtaining measured values therefrom

Abstract

A system for storing data collected by a body-worn sensor includes a central processing unit (CPU) that is configured to control operation of a gateway device; and one or more computer readable data storage media storing software instructions that, when executed by the CPU, cause the gateway device to: receive a MAC address of a new sensor and a protocol version associated with the new sensor from a server; attempt to contact the new sensor using the protocol version and the MAC address; when a response is received, send the response to the server for validation; when the response is validated by the server, establish communications with the new sensor; and forward data from the new sensor to a second server.

Claims

1. A system for storing data collected by a body-worn sensor, the system comprising:

a central processing unit (CPU) that is configured to control operation of a gateway device; and

one or more computer readable data storage media storing software instructions that, when executed by the CPU, cause the gateway device to;

receive a MAC address of a new sensor and a protocol version associated with the new sensor from a server;

attempt to contact the new sensor using the protocol version and the MAC address;

when a response is received, send the response to the server for validation;

when the response is validated by the server, establish communications with the new sensor; and

forward data from the new sensor to a second server.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the second server includes a super application associated with a user of the new sensor, the super application identifying a database in which the data from the new sensor is stored.

3. The system of claim 2, wherein the super application identifies a plurality of databases in which data from a plurality of sensors associated with the user is stored.

4. The system of claim 1, further comprising a notification module programmed to generate a notification to a user when the data meets a certain criteria.

5. The system of claim 4, wherein the notification module is programmed to notify a plurality of individuals when the data meets a second criteria.

6. A method for storing data from one or more body-worn sensors, the method comprising:

receiving data from a gateway device, the gateway device being worn by a user associated with one or more body-worn sensors generating the data;

identifying the user associated with the data;

allowing a super application associated with the user to identify a database for storage of the data based on the user and a type of body-worn sensor that generated the data;

forwarding the data to the database for storage.

7. The method of claim 6, further comprising:

receiving a request for access to the data;

allowing the super application to authenticate the request;

forming a query to access the data;

sending the query to the database; and

returning the data.

8. The method of claim 6, further comprising:

analyzing the data; and

generating one or more notifications based on the analysis.

9. The method of claim 8, further comprising allowing the user to configure a type of the notifications and a number of individuals to receive the notifications.

10. The method of claim 6, further comprising allowing the user to select one or more applications to analyze the data and display information about the data.

11. The method of claim 10, further comprising allowing the applications to access the data through the super application.