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Secure patient data recorder for recording monitored vital sign data

  • US 9,165,111 B1
  • Filed: 10/30/2007
  • Issued: 10/20/2015
  • Est. Priority Date: 04/29/2002
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method of encouraging the recordation of patient vital sign data, comprising the steps of:

  • (a) providing a monitor and recorder system, the monitor and recorder system including a monitor unit, at least one sensing device connected thereto, and a memory module;

    (b) applying the at least one sensing device to collect vital sign data from a patient;

    (c) during operation of the monitor and recorder system, automatically determining, via an interlock system, whether the memory module is prepared to accept vital sign information received by the monitor unit via the at least one sensing device;

    (d) if, in the determining step, it is determined that the memory module is prepared to accept vital sign information received by the monitor unit via the at least one sensing device;

    (i) receiving vital sign information from the patient via the monitor unit,(ii) displaying, on a display unit, data representative of the vital sign information as it is gathered from the patient, and(iii) recording data representative of at least some of the vital sign information on the memory module; and

    (e) if, in the determining step, it is determined that the memory module is not prepared to accept vital sign information received by the monitor unit via the at least one sensing device;

    (i) controlling operation of the monitor and recorder system at least by providing a user-perceptible indication to warn an operator of the monitor and recorder system that the memory module is not prepared to accept vital sign information received by the monitor unit via the at least one sensing device, and(ii) concurrently therewith, controlling operation of the monitor and recorder system by automatically preventing the monitor unit from displaying, on the monitor unit, a graphical representation of the vital sign information as it is gathered from the patient.

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