Dynamic pairing of devices with a medical application

• US 9,218,455 B2
• Filed: 09/20/2013
• Issued: 12/22/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 10/19/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Cerner Innovation, Inc. (Oracle Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Cerner Innovation, Inc. (Oracle Corporation)
• Inventors: Neff, Robert A.
• Primary Examiner(s): TRAIL, ALLYSON NEEL
• Application Number:
  US14/032,435
• Publication Number:
  US 20140067426A1
• Time in Patent Office: 823 Days
• Field of Search: 235/375, 235/462.46, 235/472.02, 705/2, 455/456.3
• US Class Current: 1/1
• 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
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/80 Services using short range communication, e.g. near-field communication [NFC], radio-frequency identification [RFID] or low energy communication

Abstract

Mobile or embedded devices are dynamically paired with medical applications. By displaying identifying information associated with the medical application and capturing the display with a sensing device, the identifying information may be used by a server to route sensed data from the sensing device to the medical application for the patient. Barcodes or other identifying information may be used. The mobile device may be a smart phone, allowing smart phones to be dynamically paired with the medical application as desired by the user.

Claims

1. A method for dynamic pairing of a mobile device with a medical application, the method comprising:

operating the medical application on a computer, the medical application including patient information from a patient medical record of a patient;

displaying an association output image on a display of the computer, the association output image linked to the medical application on the computer;

capturing the association output image on the display with the mobile device;

acquiring a medical image associated with the patient with the mobile device; and

routing the medical image from the mobile device to the medical application on the computer using the captured association output image.

2. The method of claim 1 wherein operating comprises operating an electronic medical record application.

3. The method of claim 1 wherein displaying comprises displaying a bar code obtained from a server, the bar code linked to the patient medical record operating on the computer at the time of the displaying.

4. The method of claim 1 wherein displaying comprises displaying the patient medical record as the association output image;

further comprising;

identifying the patient medical record from the displayed patient medical record.

5. The method of claim 1 wherein displaying comprises displaying in response to user activation of an input option in the medical application.

6. The method of claim 1 wherein capturing comprises capturing with a camera of the mobile device.

7. The method of claim 1 wherein acquiring a medical image comprises taking a picture of the patient with the mobile device.

8. The method of claim 1 wherein the mobile device is a smart phone having an application for capturing images and wherein the application communicates the medical image with the association output image or with information derived from the association output image.

9. The method of claim 1 wherein routing comprises transmitting the medical image and the association output image or information derived from the association output image to a server, the server identifying an instance of the medical application operating on the computer from the association output image or information derived from the association output image and transmitting the medical image to the computer, to the instance of the medical application operating on the computer, to a database of the patient medical record of the patient, or combinations thereof.

10. The method of claim 1 further comprising:

serving a unique bar code to the computer from a server;

linking the unique bar code to an instance of the medical application running on the computer; and

identifying the medical application or computer from a message received from the mobile device containing the sensing information and association output image.

11. The method of claim 1 further comprising:

repeating the operating, displaying, capturing, acquiring, and routing with the mobile device and a different computer, different patient medical record, different part of the patient medical record, and different patient.

12. The method of claim 1 further comprising automatically deleting the medical image from the mobile device after transmitting the medical image from the mobile device.

13. The method of claim 1, wherein acquiring a medical image comprises scanning a barcode on a medical related object.

14. A non-transitory computer readable storage medium having stored therein data representing instructions executable by a programmed processor for dynamic pairing of a device with a medical application, the storage medium comprising instructions for:

linking an identifier to an instance of a medical application running on a remote computer;

receiving a medical image and the identifier from the device, the identifier displayed by the remote computer and captured by the device from the display;

associating, with the identifier, the medical image with the instance of the medical application running on the remote computer; and

outputting the medical image to the instance of the medical application running on the remote computer.

15. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 14, wherein linking comprises transmitting a barcode to the instance of the medical application in response to a request for the barcode from the instance of the medical application, wherein receiving comprises receiving a code of the barcode from the device after the device captures the barcode on the display, and wherein outputting comprises updating an electronic medical record of a patient with the medical image.

16. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 14, wherein receiving the medical image comprises receiving an image of a medical object captured by the device, the device comprising a smart phone.

17. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 14, further comprising:

automatically removing the association of the identifier with the instance of the medical application after the medical image has been received by the medical application.

18. A system for dynamic pairing of a device with a medical application, the system comprising:

a display on a computer, the display configured to present an image associated with an executable electronic medical record application of the computer; and

a processor of the computer, the processor configured to communicate identity information for the image with a remote server, to receive sensor data from the remote server, the sensor data and the image sensed by the device, and to insert the sensor data into a patient'"'"'s electronic medical record of the executable electronic medical record application.

19. The system of claim 18 wherein the display is configured to present the image as a bar code, wherein the bar code is generated as being unique within a time period or different than other bar codes creates for the network, wherein the processor is configured to receive the barcode as the identity information from the remote server, wherein the processor is configured to receive the sensor data as a picture captured by the device, the device comprising a smart phone, the smart phone capturing the barcode on the display, and wherein the processor is configured to display the patient'"'"'s electronic medical record with the sensor data.

20. The system of claim 18 wherein the image comprises an image of the patient'"'"'s electronic medical record, and wherein the processor is configured to transmit the image or information about the image to the remote server for comparison of a picture captured by the device with the image or the information.