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ICU telemedicine system for varied EMR systems

  • US 9,750,408 B1
  • Filed: 08/29/2012
  • Issued: 09/05/2017
  • Est. Priority Date: 08/29/2011
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A telemedicine system including a remote site and a plurality of intensive care units (ICUs), comprising:

  • an intensive care unit telemedicine system implemented at each of the plurality of intensive care units ICUs, each intensive care unit telemedicine system including;

    an ICU database system for receiving and storing clinical data related to at least one patient in accordance with a database type that defines data structures or terminology used by the database system;

    at least one ICU patient device collecting clinical data related to the at least one patient; and

    an ICU computer system in communication with the ICU database system and with the remote site, the ICU computer system programmed to execute a stored program held in non-transient media to;

    (a) receive a query formulator inquiry from the remote site;

    (b) transmit a query formulator response to the remote site indicating whether the ICU computer system includes an installed, system specific query formulator;

    (c) receive and instantiate a query formulator from the remote site based on a negative query formulator response, wherein the received and instantiated query formulator is system specific to the database type of the intensive care unit telemedicine system;

    (d) receive at least one rule from the remote site, the rule defining one or more decision outcomes to be generated when clinical data satisfies one or more clinical parameters for the decision outcome;

    (e) generate a plurality of data requests for each received rule using the system specific query formulator, each data request1) using data protocols using the data structures or terminology compatible with the database type of the intensive care unit telemedicine system; and

    2) correlated to a single clinical data entry from at least one of the ICU database system and the ICU patient device related to the at least one patient in the intensive care unit;

    (f) executing the received rule including execution of the plurality of data requests and application of the rule to data entries provided based on the execution of the data requests to generate a decision outcome; and

    (g) transmitting the generated decision outcome to the remote site, wherein the ICU database system of at least one of the plurality of ICUs has a database type that is a different database type from at least one of the remaining ICUs.

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