Cooperative processing with mobile monitoring device and computer system

• US 8,483,807 B2
• Filed: 05/11/2010
• Issued: 07/09/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 05/25/2004
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Medicomp Incorporated (Medicomp, Inc. /Balda/)
• Original Assignee: Medicomp Incorporated (Medicomp, Inc. /Balda/)
• Inventors: Kurzweil, Raymond C., Albrecht, Paul, Gibson, Lucy
• Primary Examiner(s): Gedeon, Brian T
• Application Number:
  US12/777,310
• Publication Number:
  US 20100222689A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,155 Days
• Field of Search: 600/508, 600/509, 607/31, 607/32, 607/60, 455/1
• US Class Current: 600/509
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/0006 ECG or EEG signals
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/35 by template matching
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/67 for remote operation
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 50/20 for computer-aided diagnosis, e.g. based on medical expert systems
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 50/70 for mining of medical data, e.g. analysing previous cases of other patients

Abstract

An arrangement includes a mobile device executing a process to detect an episode in electrical signals representative of a beating heart. The mobile device determines that the detected episode is a notable finding and sends data corresponding to the notable finding to a second system. The second system analyzes the data corresponding to the notable finding using one or more additional computing resources.

Claims

1. A system comprises:

a computer system configured to;

receive from a mobile monitoring device data corresponding to electrical signals representative of a beating heart, the data indicating detection of an episode in electrical signals representative of a beating heart that is a notable finding;

the computer system further configured to;

analyze the data corresponding to the notable finding with the system further configured to;

access a storage medium having encoded thereon information representative of a database storing patterns produced from historical data on a user, the historical data including at least one of ECG strips, templates, and reference data; and

produce a pattern to reconfigure the mobile device to change analysis of data received by the mobile device, with the selected pattern retrieved from the database and produced from the historical data on the subject.

2. The system of claim 1 wherein the computer system includes more computational resources than the mobile device.

3. The system of claim 1 wherein the computer system is further configured to use criteria to verify whether the electrical signals of the beating heart correspond to a notable finding.

4. The system of claim 2 wherein patterns are produced from historical data on the user, the historical data including ECG strips, or templates or reference data.

5. The system of claim 2 wherein the computer system is further configured to send to the mobile device at least one pattern to cause the mobile device to process subsequent electrical signals of the beating heart using the pattern.

6. The system of claim 1 wherein criteria are used to determine if the detected episode corresponds to a notable finding.

7. The system of claim 1 wherein the computer system in response to processing the data sends to the mobile device a new pattern to be used by the mobile device to process subsequent incoming ECG data signals.

8. The system of claim 1 wherein the computer system receives the data when the mobile device operates in standalone mode when access to the computer system is not available, and during that time, saves notable findings in memory of the mobile device.

9. The system of claim 1 wherein the detected episode is determined by detecting that a pattern produced from the data corresponding to the notable finding that does not match any patterns stored in the mobile device.

10. The system of claim 1 wherein determining that the detected episode is a notable finding comprises:

detecting a high level of noise in the signal.

11. The system of claim 1 wherein determining that the detected episode is a notable finding comprises:

determining that a quality measure related to the notable finding indicates low quality.

12. A method comprises:

receiving by a computer system from a mobile device data representative of a beating heart where the mobile device detected an episode in the data when the mobile device determines that the detected episode is a notable finding;

analyzing by the computer system the data corresponding to the notable finding, by;

accessing from a storage device having encoded thereon information representative of stored patterns produced from historical data on a user, the historical data including at least one of ECG strips, templates, and reference data; and

providing a pattern to reconfigure the mobile device to change analysis of data received by the mobile device, with the pattern produced from the historical data on the subject.

13. The method of claim 12 further comprising:

analyzing the data according to patterns.

14. The method of claim 12 further comprising:

verifying by the computer system that the data of the beating heart corresponds to a notable finding; and

sending, in response to the step of verifying, the pattern to be used by the mobile device to process against incoming ECG data.

15. A mobile device comprises:

circuitry to receive ECG data;

circuitry to identify a notable finding in the ECG data;

circuitry to send the ECG data corresponding to the notable finding to a computer system;

circuitry to receive from the computer system, a pattern based on analysis of the ECG data sent from the computing system using additional computing resources of the computing system;

sensors to receive physiological signals from a subject,

circuitry that conditions the signals from the sensors and converts the signals to digital data;

a computing device to process the digital data to produce the notable finding;

a storage device that stores a computer program product to cause the portable device to;

analyze the digital signals representative of a beating heart;

conduct a detailed analysis to determine when the digital data corresponds to a notable finding;

determine when to send the digital data corresponding to the notable finding to a second system for re-analysis; and

a process to receive a selected new pattern to re-configure the mobile device to change analysis of data received by the mobile device; and

a wireless link that allows the mobile device to communicate with the second computer system.

16. The mobile device system of claim 15 wherein circuitry in the mobile device processes signals according to the pattern sent to the mobile device by the computer system.

17. The mobile device system of claim 15 wherein circuitry in the mobile device processes data collected by the mobile device according to the pattern sent to the mobile device by the computer system.

18. The mobile device system of claim 15 wherein the pattern comprises templates of signal morphologies, additional data, additional processing rules or additional executable computer programs.

19. The mobile device system of claim 15 wherein the mobile device operates in standalone mode when access to the computer system is not available, and during that time, saves notable findings and ECG data in non-volatile memory.