MEDICAL DEVICE CONNECTIVITY INTERFACE SYSTEM AND METHOD

• US 20170004106A1
• Filed: 06/29/2016
• Published: 01/05/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 07/01/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Covidien LP (Medtronic Plc)
• Original Assignee: Covidien LP (Medtronic Plc)
• Inventors: Joshua, Dev Devanayagom, Letcher, Daniel Robbin, Macan, Aaron Damian
• Granted Patent: US 10,095,649 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/2289 by configuration test
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/3051 Monitoring arrangements for monitoring the configuration of the computing system or of the computing system component, e.g. monitoring the presence of processing resources, peripherals, I/O links, software programs verification or detection of system hardware configuration G06F11/2247
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 13/4234 being a memory bus
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 10/60 for patient-specific data, e.g. for electronic patient records
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/67 for remote operation
• CPC Class Codes: G16Z 99/00 Subject matter not provided for in other main groups of this subclass
• 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: H04L 69/08 Protocols for interworking; Protocol conversion

Abstract

A system includes a medical monitor having a sensor input responsive to a sensor signal representative of a physiological parameter; a processor that may calculate the physiological parameter from the sensor signal; an output port in communication with the processor to output medical data comprising the calculated physiological parameter in a first communication protocol; a removable interface having an input port receptive of the medical data in the first communication protocol; a memory storing code that may translate the medical data into a second communication protocol; and a first output port that may transmit the medical data in the second communication protocol to an external system that recognizes the second communication protocol and not the first communication protocol.

Claims

1. A system, comprising

a medical monitor comprising:

a sensor input responsive to a sensor signal representative of a physiological parameter;

a processor configured to calculate the physiological parameter from the sensor signal;

an output port in communication with the processor to output medical data comprising the calculated physiological parameter in a first communication protocol;

a removable interface comprising;

an input port receptive of the medical data in the first communication protocol;

a memory storing code configured to translate the medical data into a second communication protocol; and

a first output port configured to transmit the medical data in the second communication protocol to an external system that recognizes the second communication protocol and not the first communication protocol.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the removable interface further comprises a translator configured to translate the data from the first communication protocol into a third communication protocol.

3. The system of claim 2, wherein the removable interface translates the data from the first communication protocol into the second communication protocol and the third communication protocol in parallel.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein the first output port is configured for wireless communication.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein the first output port is configured as a USB port.

6. The system of claim 1, wherein the removable interface comprises a second output port configured to use a different communication mechanism than the first output port.

7. The system of claim 1, wherein the removable interface comprises a second output port, wherein the second output port is configured to transmit the data in the first communication protocol and not the second communication protocol.

8. The system of claim 1, wherein the first communication protocol is ASCII.

9. The system of claim 1, wherein the second communication protocol is ASCII.

10. The system of claim 1, wherein the external system is an electronic medical records system.

11. The system of claim 1, wherein the removable interface comprises data correlation circuitry configured to correlate the data representative of the physiological parameter with data representative of a second physiological parameter to calculate a third physiological parameter, wherein the medical monitor is not capable of calculating the third physiological parameter.

12. The system of claim 11, wherein the removable interface comprises a second input port configured to receive the data representative of the second physiological parameter from a second medical monitor.

13. The system of claim 11, wherein the removable interface is configured to transmit the third physiological parameter to the external system via the first output port.

14. The system of claim 1, wherein the external system comprises a multi-parameter monitor, a third party medical device, an electronic data management system, a cell phone, laptop, tablet, server, cloud, data space, and combinations thereof.

15. The system of claim 1, wherein the removable interface comprises a display.

16. The system of claim 1, wherein the removable interface is a Federal Drug Administration (FDA) Class I device.

17. The system of claim 1, wherein the removable interface is not capable of calculating any physiological parameter.

19. The method of claim 1, comprising using a connectivity interface of the removable interface to convert from the first communication mechanism to the second communication mechanism associated with the output, wherein the first and second communication mechanisms are different.

20. The method of claim 19, wherein the first and second communication mechanisms comprise Serial, WiFi, Bluetooth, Ethernet, or a combination thereof

18. A method, comprising;

using a removable interface to;

receive a first input via a first communication mechanism, wherein the first input is representative of a first medical device measurement generated from a first medical device system programmed in a first communication protocol;

translate the first communication protocol to the second communication protocol to generate a translated medical device measurement;

generate an output representative of the translated medical device measurement; and

transmit the output via a second communication mechanism to an external system programmed in the second communication protocol.

21. The method of claim 18, comprising receiving a second input associated with a second medical device measurement from a second medical device.

22. The method of claim 21, comprising using the removable interface to synchronize the first and second inputs to generate a data set representative of patient'"'"'s condition.

23. A distributed medical monitor, comprising:

a first removable interface comprising;

a first input port configured to receive a signal from a medical monitor or a medical sensor;

a processor configured to calculate a physiological parameter based on the signal; and

a first output port configured to transmit data in a first communication protocol;

a second removable interface comprising;

a second input port configured to receive the data from the first removable interface in the first communication protocol;

a memory storing code configured to translate the data into a second communication protocol; and

a second output port configured to transmit the data in the second communication protocol to an external system separate from the medical monitor or medical sensor, wherein the external system is configured to recognize the second communication protocol and not the first communication protocol and wherein the second removable interface is not configured to calculate the physiological parameter.