Infusion pump systems and methods

• US 8,454,581 B2
• Filed: 03/16/2011
• Issued: 06/04/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 03/16/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Insulet Corporation
• Original Assignee: Asante Solutions, Inc
• Inventors: Estes, Mark C., Qi, Wenkang, Hopper, Phillip
• Primary Examiner(s): SCHMIDT, EMILY LOUISE
• Application Number:
  US13/049,588
• Publication Number:
  US 20120238999A1
• Time in Patent Office: 811 Days
• Field of Search: 604 65- 67, 604/189, 604/504, 604/890.1
• US Class Current: 604/890.1
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2205/35 Communication
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2205/3569 sublocal, e.g. between console and disposable
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2205/3592 using telemetric means, e.g. radio or optical transmission
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2230/201 Glucose concentration
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 5/1413 Modular systems comprising interconnecting elements
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 5/14244 adapted to be carried by the patient, e.g. portable on the body
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 5/168 Means for controlling media flow to the body or for metering media to the body, e.g. drip meters, counters ; Monitoring media flow to the body flow control in general G05D7/00
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 5/172 electrical or electronic A61M5/16804, A61M5/16831 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 5/1723 using feedback of body parameters, e.g. blood-sugar, pressure measurement of body parameters A61B5/00
• CPC Class Codes: F04B 17/03 driven by electric motors
• CPC Class Codes: F04B 19/22 of reciprocating-piston type
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 20/17 delivered via infusion or injection
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/63 for local operation

Abstract

Some embodiments of an infusion pump system can include a controller in which one or more features sets to be provided by the controller are enabled or disabled based upon the particular pump device that is connected to the controller. For example, in some embodiments, one or more advanced features of the controller are available to the user only when a first type of pump device (e.g., having predefined settings stored therein) is connected to the controller, and those advanced features of the controller are disabled when a second type of pump device is connected to the controller.

Claims

1. A portable infusion pump system, comprising:

a pump device including;

a pump housing that defines a space to receive a cartridge, and a drive system adapted to act upon the cartridge when the cartridge is received in the space of the pump housing; and

a controller device removably attachable to the pump device so as to electrically connect with the pump device and control the drive system of the pump device, wherein the controller device includes control circuitry that is configured to provide a training mode user interface, wherein the controller device activates the training mode user interface and automatically disables the drive system of pump device in response to the controller device identifying the pump device as a first type of pump device via the electrical connection with the pump device.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the controller device comprises a wireless communication device housed inside the controller device and a user interface display, wherein the controller device automatically disables the wireless communication device in response to the electrical connection with the pump device, and wherein the controller device outputs via the user interface display a text alert message indicating that wireless communication is disabled.

3. The system of claim 2, wherein the controller device outputs via the user interface display a text alert message indicating that the controller device is operating in a training mode.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein the pump device comprises a means for indicating the pump device is the first type of pump device, the indicating means being recognizable by the controller device in response to the electrical connection with the pump device.

5. The system of claim 4, wherein the indicating means comprises an internal circuit device housed in the pump housing that stores a permanent parameter setting indicative that the pump device is a first type of pump device, the controller device being configured to query the permanent parameter setting stored in the internal circuit device of the pump device.

6. The system of claim 2, wherein the controller device automatically enables the wireless communication device to communicate with a wireless monitoring device in response to the controller device being connected with a second type of pump device that is different than the first type of pump device.

7. The system of claim 6, wherein, in response to the controller device being connected with the second type of pump device that is different than the first type of pump device, the controller device is configured display a text alert message on a user interface indicating that the wireless communication device is enabled.

8. The system of claim 1, wherein the controller device includes control circuitry that is configured to provide a first feature set related to continuous glucose monitoring in response to the controller device being connected with a second type of pump device that is different than the first type of pump device.

9. The system of claim 8, wherein the control circuitry is configured to provide the first feature set including:

activation of a wireless communication device to communicate with body-worn glucose monitoring device, and activation of a user interface display of the controller device to display a glucose level in response to receiving data from the body-worn glucose monitoring device.

10. The system of claim 8, wherein the controller device includes control circuitry that is configured to provide a second feature set related to wireless communication with a blood glucose meter for analyzing blood test strips, wherein the controller device automatically activates the second feature set provided by the controller device in response to the controller device being connected with a third type of pump device that is different than the first and second types of pump device, wherein the controller device prompts a user to accept a synchronization operation between the controller device and the blood glucose meter in response to activation of the second feature set provided by the controller device.

11. The system of claim 10, wherein the controller device automatically disables the training mode user interface provided by the controller device in response to the controller device being connected with the second or third type of pump device that is different than the first type of pump device.

12. The system of claim 1, wherein the controller device includes control circuitry that is configured to provide a first feature set related to delivery of a first type of medicine and to provide a second feature set related to delivery of a second type of medicine.

13. The system of claim 12, wherein the controller device automatically disables the first feature set related to delivery of the first type of medicine in response to the controller device being connected with a second type of pump device that is different than the first type of pump device, and wherein the controller device automatically enables the second feature set related to delivery of a second type of medicine in response to the controller device being connected with a third type of pump device that is different than the first and second types of pump device.