Systems, devices, and method for determining treatment compliance including tracking, registering, etc. of medical staff, patients, instrumentation, events, etc. according to a treatment staging plan

• US 9,008,385 B2
• Filed: 03/14/2012
• Issued: 04/14/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 03/14/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Elwha LLC (Intellectual Ventures LLC)
• Original Assignee: Elwha LLC (Intellectual Ventures LLC)
• Inventors: Baym, Michael H., Dacey, Ralph G. Jr., Diaz, Roy P., Hyde, Roderick A., Ishikawa, Muriel Y., Kare, Jordin T., Leuthardt, Eric C., Myhrvold, Nathan P., Rivet, Dennis J., Smith, Michael A., Tegreene, Clarence T., Wood, Lowell L. Jr., Wood, Victoria Y. H.
• Primary Examiner(s): CHANG, JON CARLTON
• Application Number:
  US13/419,819
• Publication Number:
  US 20130243275A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,126 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 382/128
• 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 40/63 for local operation

Abstract

Systems, devices, and methods are described for tracking, registering, etc. of medical staff, patients, instrumentation, events, or the like according to a treatment staging plan. For example a medical apparatus includes a right-patient verification device having an interrogation interface device that elicits at least one of identification data, authorization data, or treatment plan data from a medical procedure authorization device associated with a patient; and a right-site verification device that generates patient-specific treatment staging data consistent with the at least one of the identification data, the authorization data, or the treatment plan data.

Claims

1. A medical system, comprising:

a work-volume registration system configured to

track translation of a work-volume associated with a medical practitioner, and

determine a proximity of the work-volume to at least one treatment work-surface location associated with a treatment staging plan;

wherein the work-volume comprises a physical region bounded proximally by a proximal reach of the medical practitioner and by the distal boundary in any direction which the medical practitioner can attain by any combination of postures, rotations, flexion movements, or extension movements.

2. The medical system of claim 1, wherein the work-volume registration system is configured to generate registration data for aligning the work-volume to at least one treatment focal region consistent with the treatment staging plan.

3. The medical system of claim 1, wherein the work-volume registration system includes one or more computing devices configured to generate a virtual representation of the work-volume associated with a medical practitioner in a virtual space corresponding to the physical location of the work-volume respective to a treatment work-surface location.

4. The medical system of claim 1, further comprising:

a right-site verification device configured to

acquire treatment plan data and at least one of identification data or authorization data from a medical procedure authorization device associated with a patient, and

generate treatment staging data consistent with the treatment plan data.

5. A medical system, comprising:

a work-volume registration system configured to

track translation of a work-volume associated with a medical practitioner, and

determine a proximity of the work-volume to at least one treatment work-surface location associated with a treatment staging plan;

wherein the work-volume comprises a three-dimensional physical region bounded proximally by the body of the medical practitioner and distally by the arc swept by the fingertips of one or both hands with a range of elbow flexion or body rotations about its vertical axis.

6. A system, comprising:

a real-time registration device configured to register at least one work-volume associated with a medical practitioner with at least one treatment work-zone and to generate work-zone registration information, the real-time registration device further comprising;

one or more sensors configured to detect one or more odorant agents on a patient and to generate registration data for registering the work-volume with at least one treatment work-zone located using the one or more odorant agents; and

a right-site verification device including one or more computing devices that compare the generated work-zone registration information to patient-specific treatment staging data associated with a patient under treatment.

7. The system of claim 6, the real-time registration device further comprising:

one or more sensors configured to detect one or more surface markings on a patient, the real-time registration device configured to generate registration data for registering of at least one work-volume with at least one treatment work-zone relative to the detected one or more surface markings.

8. The system of claim 6, the real-time registration device further comprising:

one or more sensors configured to detect one or more surface markings on a patient and to generate registration data for registering the work-volume with at least one treatment work-zone located using at least one of an anatomical target, a biological structure, an artificial surface marking, a tattoo, or a plurality of nanoparticle fiducial markers.

9. The system of claim 6, the real-time registration device further comprising:

one or more sensors configured to detect a treatment area boundary on a patient and to generate registration data for registering the work-volume with at least one treatment work-zone located using the treatment area boundary.