Method and apparatus for mimicking the display layout when interfacing to multiple data monitors

• US 8,156,439 B2
• Filed: 04/24/2007
• Issued: 04/10/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 04/24/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: General Electric Company
• Original Assignee: General Electric Company
• Inventors: Booth, John
• Primary Examiner(s): Huynh, Ba
• Application Number:
  US11/739,211
• Publication Number:
  US 20080270912A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,813 Days
• Field of Search: 715/748, 715/744, 709/231, 709/232, 709/236
• US Class Current: 715/748
• 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 5/0008 Temperature signals
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/0205 Simultaneously evaluating both cardiovascular conditions and different types of body conditions, e.g. heart and respiratory condition
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/021 Measuring pressure in heart or blood vessels A61B5/0205 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/145 Measuring characteristics of blood in vivo, e.g. gas concentration, pH value; Measuring characteristics of body fluids or tissues, e.g. interstitial fluid, cerebral tissuemeasuring of blood pressure or blood flow A61B5/02; non-radiation detecting or locating of foreign bodies in blood A61B5/06
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/742 using visual displays A61B5/339 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/7445 Display arrangements, e.g. multiple display units
• 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

A computer for use in the transfer and monitoring of data and a method of verifying the transfer of patient physiological data is herein disclosed. The computer comprises a display for displaying data, a controller for controlling the display of the data, a graphical user interface being disposed to display data, a first input device connected to the controller for entering data that is recorded and displayed by a data recording device and a second input device connected to the controller for entering data into the controller that is indicative of the spatial arrangement of the display of the data by the data recording device, wherein the controller uses the data indicative of the spatial arrangement of the display of data by the data recording device to display the data in the graphical user interface according to the data by the data recording device.

Claims

1. An apparatus for use in the transfer and monitoring of data from a data recording device with a data recording device display that presents the data in a presentation format, the apparatus comprising:

a computer display that presents data in a graphical user interface presented by the computer display;

a controller connected to the computer display, wherein the controller operates to control the data presented by the computer display and the spatial arrangement of the data in the graphical user interface presented by the computer display;

a first input device connected to the controller, the first input device receives data from the data recording device;

a second input device connected to the controller, the second input device being operable to receive information identifying the data recording device;

wherein the controller controls the computer display to present the data received from the data recording device and further controls the spatial arrangement of the data in the graphical user interface of the computer display based upon the received information identifying the data recording device which is used by the controller to identify the presentation format of the recording device display, wherein the controller controls the computer display to present the data received from the data recording device in a spatial arrangement according to the received information to mimic the appearance of a the presentation format of the data by the data recording device display.

2. The computer of claim 1, wherein the graphical user interface comprises a plurality of data regions, each data region being disposed to display data.

3. The computer of claim 2, wherein each data region is predetermined to display a predetermined data type and the appearance of the display of data by the data recording device display is mimicked by changing the arrangement of the data regions in the graphical user interface.

4. The computer of claim 1, wherein the data recording device is a patient physiological data monitor, and the data that is recorded by the data recording device and received by the first input device is patient physiological data.

5. The computer of claim 4, wherein the data recording device is a vital signs monitor, and the patient physiological data includes patient temperature, patient SpO2 and patient blood pressure.

6. The computer of claim 4, wherein the first input device comprises an electronic data transfer connection.

7. The computer of claim 4 wherein the second input device is a barcode scanner.

8. The computer of claim 4 wherein the second input device is a sensor for an receiving a signal from an RFID tag associated with the patient physiological data monitor.

9. The computer of claim 4 where the second input device receives a transmission of coordinate data from the data recording device.

10. A method of verifying the transfer of patient physiological data recorded by a patient monitor to a computer, the method comprising:

acquiring patient physiological data with a patient monitor that includes a first graphical display;

presenting the acquired patient physiological data on a graphical user interface (GUI) of the first graphical display in a first spatial format;

receiving, with the computer, the acquired patient physiological data from the patient monitor;

receiving, with the computer, a signal from the patient monitor, the signal being used to identify the first spatial format of the physiological data presented on the GUI of the first graphical display; and

presenting the physiological data on a GUI of a second graphical display operated by the computer, wherein the physiological data is presented on the GUI of the second graphical display in the first spatial format.

11. The method of claim 10, further comprising:

querying a database, with the computer, for stored information regarding the first spatial format of the display of the physiological data on the patient monitor using the signal from the patient monitor.

12. The method of claim 11 further comprising comparing physiological data displayed by the patient monitor to the physiological data displayed on the graphical display by the computer, to verify the transfer of the physiological data from the patient monitor to the computer.

13. The method of claim 12, further comprising scanning a bar code on the patient monitor to receive the signal indicative of the spatial format of the display of physiological data on the patient monitor.

14. The method of claim 12, further comprising receiving a signal from an RFID tag to receive the signal indicative of the spatial format of the display of physiological data on the patient monitor.

15. The method of claim 10 wherein the physiological data is received by the computer through manual entry of the data.

16. The method of claim 10, wherein the physiological data is received by the computer via an electronic transmission.

17. A system for transferring and verifying physiological data, the system comprising:

a patient monitoring device comprising a first graphical display, the patient monitoring device obtains physiological data from a patient and presents the obtained physiological data in a graphical user interface (GUI) presented by the first graphical display, the obtained physiological data being presented in a first presentation format;

a portable computer comprising a second graphical display, the portable computer receives the physiological data from the patient monitoring device, the portable computer further receives a signal indicative of the patient monitoring device and uses the signal to identify the first presentation format, wherein the portable computer controls the second graphical display to present the physiological data in the first presentation format in a GUI of the second graphical display; and

a server communicatively connected to the portable computer, the server receives the physiological data from the portable computer and updates a stored electronic medical record (EMR) with the received physiological data.

18. The system of claim 17 wherein the portable computer transmits the physiological data to the server after the portable computer receives a verification that the physiological data presented by the first graphical display of the patient monitoring device matches the physiological data presented by the second graphical display of the portable computer.

19. The system of claim 18 wherein the portable computer receives the physiological data through manual entry.