MEDICAL DEVICE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM

• US 20160196388A1
• Filed: 03/10/2016
• Published: 07/07/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 09/12/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Willow Laboratories Incorporated
• Original Assignee: Cercacor Laboratories
• Inventors: Lamego, Marcelo M.
• Granted Patent: US 11,596,363 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 5/0004 characterised by the type of physiological signal transmitted
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/14532 for measuring glucose, e.g. by tissue impedance measurement
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/14546 for measuring analytes not otherwise provided for, e.g. ions, cytochromes
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/14551 for measuring blood gases
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/1459 invasive, e.g. introduced into the body by a catheter A61B5/1464 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/1495 Calibrating or testing of in-vivo probes
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/7282 Event detection, e.g. detecting unique waveforms indicative of a medical condition A61B5/4094, A61B5/4818, A61B5/349, A61B5/0823 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 10/60 for patient-specific data, e.g. for electronic patient records
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/63 for local operation

Abstract

The present disclosure provides systems and methods for calibrating medical devices and processing physiological measurements using a medical device management system. As an example, the medical device can be a handheld glucometer configured for invasive testing and non-invasive testing of physiological parameters of a patient.

Claims

1. A method for processing physiological measurements, the method comprising:

receiving, by a medical device management system, physiological measurement data from a portable medical device, wherein the physiological measurement data comprises identification information associated with a user of the portable medical device;

identifying a user account of the medical device management system based on the identification information;

processing the physiological measurement data to determine at least one physiological parameter associated with the physiological measurement data;

transmitting the determined at least one physiological parameter to the portable medical device for display; and

storing the physiological measurement data and the determined at least one physiological parameter in the identified user account.

2. The method of claim 1 further comprising providing the determined at least one physiological parameter to a user account different from the identified user account based on one or more privacy settings of the identified user account.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the medical device is a glucometer.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the at least one physiological parameter comprises glucose.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the physiological measurement data comprises non-invasive physiological measurement data.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the physiological measurement data comprises invasive physiological test data.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the physiological measurement data is contained in an XML file.

8. A method for calibrating a portable medical device, the method comprising:

receive a request for calibration from a portable medical device, wherein the request includes identification information associated with the medical device;

identify an account associated with the medical device based on the identification information;

determining that the device needs calibration based on the information stored in the account;

sending a signal to the medical device to initiate a calibration mode on the medical device;

receiving calibration data from the medical device;

processing the calibration data to determine a calibration of the device transmitting an updated calibration to medical device; and

storing the updated calibration in the account associated with the medical device.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein the calibration is based on historical information associated with the user account.

10. The method of claim 8, wherein the medical device is a glucometer.

11. The method of claim 8, wherein the calibration can be a single point calibration.

12. The method of claim 8, wherein calibration data comprises non-invasive physiological data.

13. The method of claim 8, wherein calibration data comprises invasive physiological data.

14. The method of claim 8, wherein calibration is patient specific.

15. A medical device management system comprising:

a data store configured to store user account information associated with a plurality of user accounts; and

a computing device in communication with the data store, the computing device configured to;

receive a measurement request from a portable medical device, wherein the measurement request comprises physiological measurement data;

identify a user account of the plurality of user accounts associated with the measurement request;

process the physiological measurement data to determine at least one physiological parameter associated with the physiological measurement data;

transmit the determined at least one physiological parameter to the portable medical device for display; and

storing the physiological measurement data and the determined at least one physiological parameter in the identified user account.

16. The system of claim 15, wherein the data store is further configured to store user specific calibration data associated with the device.

17. The system of claim 15, wherein the at least one physiological parameter is a least one of invasive glucose testing, non-invasive blood glucose testing, Oxygen Saturation (SpO2), Total Hemoglobin (SpHb), Alkaline Phosphatase (SpALP), Total Cholesterol (SpChol), High-Density Lipoprotein (SpHDL), or Total Cholesterol Divided by High Density Lipoprotein (SpChol/SpHDL).

18. The system of claim 15, wherein the user account stores a log of all measurements and calibrations associated with each user account.

19. The system of claim 15, wherein the data store is further configured to store device profile information associated with a plurality of device profiles and the computing device is further configured to identify a device profile of the plurality of device profiles based on identification information.

20. The system of claim 19, wherein multiple users are associated with the same device profile.