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Medical information system

  • US 7,899,683 B2
  • Filed: 11/12/2004
  • Issued: 03/01/2011
  • Est. Priority Date: 12/30/1996
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A system for providing expert critical care simultaneously to a plurality of geographically dispersed intensive care units (ICU'"'"'s) from a remote location, the system comprising:

  • a network;

    a plurality of geographically dispersed ICU'"'"'s comprisingmeans for monitoring patient data elements from a patient and means for transmitting the monitored patient data elements to a remote command center by the network;

    the remote command center connected to the network and comprising;

    one or more display devices;

    a database, wherein the database comprises stored patient data elements relating to the patient;

    a computerized patient care management system connected to a workstation, wherein the computerized patient care management system is adapted for;

    receiving the monitored patient data elements from the plurality of geographically dispersed ICU'"'"'s;

    storing the monitored patient data elements in the database;

    applying a rules engine to at least two patient data elements stored in the database;

    displaying at least two patient data elements as a series of values over successive periods of time and displaying an indication from an output of the rules engine on the one or more display devices;

    monitoring the medical condition in the patients and utilizing the output from the rules engine to determine if intervention is warranted; and

    wherein the monitoring and intervention for individual patients in the plurality of geographically dispersed ICU'"'"'s occurs 24 hours per day 7 days per week.

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