MEDICAL MONITORING HUB

• US 20180285094A1
• Filed: 04/25/2018
• Published: 10/04/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 02/24/2017
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Masimo Corporation
• Original Assignee: Masimo Corporation
• Inventors: Housel, Peter Scott, Muhsin, Bilal
• Granted Patent: US 11,086,609 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/1417 Boot up procedures
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/1433 during software upgrading
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/63 Image based installation; Cloning; Build to order
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/65 Updates security arrangements therefor G06F21/57
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/4401 Bootstrapping security arrangements therefor G06F21/57
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 30/20 for handling medical images, e.g. DICOM, HL7 or PACS
• 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 40/40 for the management of medical equipment or devices, e.g. scheduling maintenance or upgrades
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/67 for remote operation

Abstract

A patient monitoring system includes a physiological sensor to sense light after it has passed through tissue of a patient and generate a signal indicative a physiological parameters in response to the sensed light, and a patient monitoring device in communication with the physiological sensor to receive the signal and determine measurements of the physiological parameters from the received signal. The patient monitoring device includes a processor and memory having multiple system images. The patient monitoring device downloads an image upgrade to one system image that the not latest used or tested system image. The patient monitoring device boots the processor from the system image that includes the image upgrade. If the upgraded system image fails, the patient monitoring device boots the processor from another system image of the multiple system images. The patient monitoring device repairs the failed system image.

Claims

1. In a caregiver environment, a patient monitoring device comprising:

at least one port configured to receive a signal from a physiological sensor that senses light after it has passed through the tissue of the patient, the signal indicative of at least one physiological parameter of the patient in response to the sensed light associated with the patient;

one or more hardware processors in communication with the at least one port, the one or more hardware processors configured to determine one or more measurements of the at least one physiological parameter of the patient from the received signal; and

memory comprising at least a data module, a first image module, and a second image module, the data module configured to store the one or more measurements of the at least one physiological parameter, each of the first and second image modules comprising a system image that includes executable instructions to at least determine the one or more measurements of the at least one physiological parameter of the patient from the received signal, one of the first and second image modules being a tested image module that includes a latest used or tested system image;

the one or more hardware processors in communication with the memory and further configured to;

download an image upgrade to the other of the first and second image modules that does not include the latest used or tested system image to provide an upgraded image module;

boot from the upgraded image module;

determine whether the one or more hardware processors are operating successfully after booting from the upgraded image module; and

boot from the tested image module when the one or more hardware processors are not operating successfully after booting from the upgraded image module;

wherein the signal is indicative of a monitoring event and wherein the one or more hardware processors boot from the upgraded image module, determine whether the one or more hardware processors are operating successfully, and boot from the tested image module during a time of non-monitoring.

2. The patient monitoring device of claim 1 wherein the one or more hardware processors are further configured to determine whether the image upgrade is available.

3. The patient monitoring device of claim 2 wherein the one or more hardware processors are further configured determine whether the image upgrade is available based at least in part on system image identifiers of the system images residing on the first and second image modules.

4. The patient monitoring device of claim 3 wherein the system identifiers comprise one of a time stamp and a version number.

5. The patient monitoring device of claim 1 wherein the one or more hardware processors are further configured to download the upgraded image from the Internet.

6. The patient monitoring device of claim 1 wherein the one or more hardware processors are further configured to perform a self-check to determine whether the one or more hardware processors are operating successfully.

7. The patient monitoring device of claim 1 further comprising a supervisor processor, the one or more hardware processors not including the supervisor processor.

8. The patient monitoring device of claim 7 wherein the supervisor processor is configured to determine whether the one or more hardware processors are operating successfully by monitoring functionality of the one or more hardware processors.

9. The patient monitoring device of claim 1 wherein the one or more hardware processors are further configured to repair the upgraded image module when the one or more hardware processors are not operating successfully.

10. The patient monitoring device of claim 1 wherein the one or more hardware processors are further configured to determine whether a next image upgrade is available when the one or more hardware processors are operating successfully.

11. A method to upgrade operation of a patient monitoring device that is used in a caregiver environment, the patient monitoring device configured to communicate with a physiological sensor that senses light after it has passed through the tissue of a patient and generates a signal indicative of at least one physiological parameter of the patient in response to the sensed light associated with the patient, the patient monitoring device further configured to receive the signal and determine one or more measurements of the at least one physiological parameter of the patient from the received signal, the method comprising:

storing in memory comprising a data module the one or more measurements of the at least one physiological parameter, the memory further comprising at least a first image module and a second image module, the first and second image modules including system images and configured with instructions executable by one or more hardware processors to at least determine the one or more measurements of the at least one physiological parameter of the patient from the received signal;

downloading an image upgrade to one of the first and second image modules that is not a latest used or tested image module to provide an upgraded image module;

booting from the upgraded image module;

determining whether the one or more hardware processors are operating successfully after booting from the upgraded image module; and

booting from the other of the first and second image modules when the one or more hardware processors are not operating successfully after booting from the upgraded image module.

12. The method of claim 11 further comprising determining whether the image upgrade is available.

13. The method of claim 12 wherein determining whether the image upgrade is available is based at least in part on system image identifiers of the system images residing on the first and second image modules.

14. The method of claim 13 wherein the system identifiers comprise one or more of a time stamp and a version number.

15. The method of claim 11 further comprising downloading the upgraded image from the Internet.

16. The method of claim 11 further comprising performing a self-check to determine whether the one or more hardware processors are operating successfully.

17. The method of claim 11 further comprising determining with a supervisor processor whether the one or more hardware processors are operating successfully by monitoring functionality of the one or more hardware processors.

18. The method of claim 17 wherein the one or more hardware processors do not include the supervisor processor.

19. The method of claim 11 further comprising repairing the upgraded image module when the one or more hardware processors are not operating successfully.

20. The method of claim 11 further comprising determining whether a next image upgrade is available when the one or more hardware processors are operating successfully.