Systems and methods for remote patient monitoring

• US 9,254,104 B2
• Filed: 06/10/2013
• Issued: 02/09/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 12/23/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Shenzhen Mindray Bio-Medical Electronics Co., Ltd. (Excelsior Union Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Shenzhen Mindray Bio-Medical Electronics Co., Ltd. (Excelsior Union Ltd.)
• Inventors: Judy, John, Petruzzelli, Joe, Rajagopalan, Cadathur, Eaton, Scott, Kaufman, Sondra, Hebert, Susan
• Primary Examiner(s): TRIEU, VAN THANH
• Application Number:
  US13/914,348
• Publication Number:
  US 20130271283A1
• Time in Patent Office: 974 Days
• Field of Search: 340/539.11, 340/539.12, 340/573.1, 600/300, 600/301, 600/483, 600/484, 600/485, 600/507, 702/19, 705/4, 710/3, 710/395.3, 710/913, 715/781, 715/791
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/742 using visual displays A61B5/339 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/7425 Displaying combinations of multiple images regardless of image source, e.g. displaying a reference anatomical image with a live image geometric transforms for image registration G06T3/14; enhancement using image fusion G06T5/50; algorithms for registration of images G06T7/30
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/67 for remote operation

Abstract

A system includes a local patient monitor and a plurality of remote patient monitors. The local patient monitor may display a plurality of physiological parameters for a local patient. The local patient monitor may further display a remote monitoring interface with the local patient'"'"'s physiological parameters. The remote monitoring interface may include a plurality of status icons respectively representing the plurality of remote patient monitors. In one embodiment, the local patient monitor receives alarm information from a first remote patient monitor indicating that one or more physiological parameters for a remote patient are outside of a determined range. The alarm information may include, for example, location information for the remote patient and an alarm condition indicated by the one or more physiological parameters. The local patient monitor may display the alarm information within the remote monitoring interface.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

receiving, at a local patient monitor, a plurality of physiological parameters for a local patient from one or more local sensors;

displaying, on the local patient monitor, a patient monitoring interface with an upright orientation, the patient monitoring interface comprising a plurality of vertically aligned rectangular regions, wherein each rectangular region includes a parameter waveform and a numerical parameter value associated with the parameter waveform for one of the plurality of physiological parameters, wherein only a single number is displayed along with the parameter waveform in at least a same one of the rectangular regions, and wherein the numerical parameter value is the single number; and

displaying, on the local patient monitor, a remote monitoring interface along with the patient monitoring interface, the remote monitoring interface for displaying alarm information for one or more of a plurality of remote patient monitors, wherein the remote monitoring interface is included in an additional rectangular region with a same width as each of the plurality of rectangular regions, and wherein the additional rectangular region is vertically aligned with the plurality of rectangular regions.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

Receiving, at the local patient monitor, alarm information from a first remote patient monitor indicating that one or more physiological parameters for the first remote patient are outside of a determined range, the alarm information including location information for the remote patient and an alarm condition indicated by one or more physiological parameters for the first remote patient, and alarm information from a second remote patient monitor; and

displaying the alarm information from the second remote patient monitor with the alarm information from the first patient monitor in the remote monitoring interface.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the alarm information from the first remote patient monitor fills substantially all of remote monitoring interface.

4. The method of claim 2 further comprising:

dividing the remote monitoring interface between displaying the alarm information from the first and second remote patient monitors.

5. The method of claim 2, further comprising:

receiving third alarm information from a third remote patient monitor; and

displaying the third alarm information with the first and second alarm information in the remote monitoring interface.

6. The method of claim 5, further comprising:

dividing the remote monitoring interface between displaying the alarm information from the first, second, and third remote patient monitors.

7. The method of claim 2, wherein the location information comprises an indication of a hospital bed.

8. The method of claim 1, further comprising displaying a status icon in the remote monitoring interface indicating a remote monitoring status for each remote patient monitor.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein at least one status icon indicates that an active connection exists between the local patient monitor and a corresponding remote patient monitor.

10. The method of claim 8, wherein at least one status icon indicates that alarm information is being blocked by a corresponding remote patient monitor.

11. The method of claim 8, wherein at least one status icon indicates that no signal is being received by a corresponding remote patient monitor.

12. The method of claim 8, wherein at least one status icon indicates that display of alarm information from a corresponding remote patient monitor cannot be blocked at the local patient monitor except by a person with particular access rights.

13. The method of claim 8, wherein at least one status icon indicates that an active connection exists between the local patient monitor and a corresponding remote patient monitor, but alarm information is being blocked by the corresponding remote patient monitor.

14. The method of claim 8, wherein at least one status icon indicates that an active connection exists between the local patient monitor and a corresponding remote patient monitor and that display of alarm information from the corresponding remote patient monitor cannot be blocked at the local patient monitor except by a person with particular access rights.

15. The method of claim 8, wherein at least one status icon indicates that an active connection exists between the local patient monitor and a corresponding remote patient monitor and that display of alarm information from the corresponding remote patient monitor cannot be blocked at the local patient monitor except by a person with particular access rights, but alarm information is being blocked by the corresponding remote patient monitor.

16. The method of claim 8, wherein least one remote monitoring status indicates no signal is being received by a corresponding remote patient monitor and that alarm information is being blocked by the corresponding remote patient monitor.

17. The method of claim 8, wherein least one remote monitoring status indicates no signal is being received by a corresponding remote patient monitor and that display of alarm information from the corresponding remote patient monitor cannot be blocked at the local patient monitor except by a person with particular access rights.

18. The method of claim 8, wherein least one remote monitoring status indicates no signal is being received by a corresponding remote patient monitor and that display of alarm information from the corresponding remote patient monitor cannot be blocked at the local patient monitor except by a person with particular access rights, but alarm information is being blocked by the corresponding remote patient monitor.

19. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

displaying within the remote monitoring interface an indication of whether alarm information from the local patient monitor is being sent to one or more remote patient monitors.

20. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

displaying a notification in the remote monitoring interface that alarm information from more than a determined number of remote patient monitors has been received.

21. The method of claim 20, wherein the notification comprise a button included in the remote monitoring interface.

22. The method of claim 21, wherein the button is displayed at the bottom of the remote monitoring interface.

23. The method of claim 21, wherein the button comprise a text of “

show all”

.

24. The method of claim 1, wherein the remote monitoring interface is located below the patient monitoring interface all the time.

25. A patient monitoring system comprising:

a local patient monitor and a plurality of remote patient monitors, wherein the local patient monitor comprises;

a parameter acquisition unit configured to acquire physiological parameters from one or more local sensors for a local patient; and

a user interface unit configured to display a patient monitoring interface with an upright orientation concurrently with a remote monitoring interface, the patient monitoring interface comprising a plurality of vertically-aligned rectangular regions, wherein each rectangular region includes a parameter waveform and a numerical parameter value associated with the parameter waveform for one of the physiological parameters, wherein only a single number is displayed along with the parameter waveform in at least a same one of the rectangular regions, wherein the numerical parameter value is the single number;

wherein the remote monitoring interface is included in an additional rectangular region with a same width as each of the plurality of rectangular regions, and wherein the additional rectangular region is vertically aligned with the plurality of rectangular regions.

26. The patient monitoring system of claim 25, further comprising an alarm unit configured to receive alarm information from a first remote patient monitor indicating that one or more physiological parameters for a remote patient are outside of a predetermined range, the alarm information including location information for the remote patient and an alarm condition indicated by the one or more physiological parameters, wherein the alarm unit is further configured to receive alarm information from a second remote patient monitor;

and wherein the user interface unit is further configured to displaying the alarm information from the second patient monitor with the alarm information from the first patient monitor in the remote monitoring interface.

27. The patient monitoring system of claim 26, wherein the alarm information from the first remote patient monitor fills substantially all of remote monitoring interface.

28. The patient monitoring system of claim 26 wherein the user interface unit is configured to divide the remote monitoring interface between displaying the alarm information from the first and second remote patient monitors.

29. The patient monitoring system of claim 26, wherein the alarm unit is further configured to receive alarm information from a third remote patient monitor;

and wherein the user interface unit is further configured to display the third alarm information with the first and second alarm information in the remote monitoring interface.

30. The patient monitoring system of claim 29, wherein the user interface unit is further configured to divide the remote monitoring interface between displaying the alarm information from the first, second, and third remote patient monitors.

31. The patient monitoring system of claim 26, wherein the location information comprises an indication of a hospital bed.

32. The patient monitoring system of claim 25, wherein the wherein the user interface unit is further configured to display one or more status icons in the remote monitoring interface, each status icon in the remote monitoring interface indicating a remote monitoring status for a corresponding remote patient monitor.

33. The patient monitoring system of claim 25, wherein the user interface unit is to display within the remote monitoring interface an indication of whether alarm information from the local patient monitor is being sent to one or more remote patient monitors.

34. The patient monitoring system of claim 25, wherein the user interface unit is to display a notification in the remote monitoring interface that alarm information from more than a determined number of remote patient monitors has been received.

35. A computer-readable medium comprising program code for causing a computer to perform a method for remotely monitoring patients, the method comprising:

receiving, at a local patient monitor, a plurality of physiological parameters for a local patient from one or more local sensors;

displaying, on the local patient monitor, a patient monitoring interface with an upright orientation, the patient monitoring interface comprising a plurality of vertically aligned rectangular regions, wherein each rectangular region includes a parameter waveform and a numerical parameter value associated with the parameter waveform for one of the plurality of physiological parameters, wherein only a single number is displayed along with the parameter waveform in at least a same one of the rectangular regions, and wherein the numerical parameter value is the single number; and

displaying, on the local patient monitor, a remote monitoring interface along with the patient monitoring interface, wherein the remote monitoring interface is included in an additional rectangular region with a same width as each of the plurality of rectangular regions, and wherein the additional rectangular region is vertically aligned with the plurality of rectangular regions.