Clinician to device association

• US 9,792,660 B2
• Filed: 09/28/2009
• Issued: 10/17/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 05/07/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Cerner Innovation, Inc. (Oracle Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Cerner Innovation, Inc. (Oracle Corporation)
• Inventors: Cannon, Paul, Herbst, Damon Matthew, Nolte, Mark Allen
• Primary Examiner(s): KANAAN, MAROUN P
• Application Number:
  US12/567,956
• Publication Number:
  US 20100287006A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,941 Days
• Field of Search: 705 2, 705 3
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/06 Resources, workflows, human or project management; Enterprise or organisation planning; Enterprise or organisation modelling
• 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
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/67 for remote operation
• CPC Class Codes: G16Z 99/00 Subject matter not provided for in other main groups of this subclass

Abstract

Embodiments of the invention are directed to methods of providing data feeds from medical devices associated with patients to computing devices associated with clinicians. A computing device for each of a number of clinicians is registered as being associated with the clinician. An identification of a patient is received. A list of medical devices related to the patient is retrieved. An identification of a number of clinicians is received. The medical devices are associated with the computing devices of the clinicians. Data feeds are provided to the computing devices from the medical devices.

Claims

1. Non-transitory computer-readable media having computer-executable instructions embodied thereon that, when executed, enable a computing device to perform a method of providing one or more clinicians a plurality of data feeds from a plurality of devices related to a patient, the method comprising:

registering one or more computing devices and associating the one or more computing devices with a first clinician;

receiving an identification of a patient;

associating the patient with the first clinician;

determining, by a connectivity monitoring component, one or more medical devices connected to a main bus, and generating a list of one or more connected medical devices related to the patient;

receiving a selection of at least one connected medical device of the list of one or more connected medical devices;

based on the selection, registering the at least one selected medical device with the main bus, wherein registering the at least one selected medical device enables communication between the at least one selected medical device and the main bus;

associating the at least one selected medical device with the one or more computing devices associated with the first clinician;

providing, by a routing component, a data feed from each of the at least one selected medical device such that the data feed is selectively routed to the one or more computing devices associated with the first clinician; and

maintaining the data feed until a direct transfer of the at least one selected medical device from the first clinician to a transfer clinician is received.

2. The media of claim 1, wherein the one or more computing devices comprise a mobile phone.

3. The media of claim 1, wherein the identification of the patient is received from the first clinician.

4. The media of claim 1, wherein receiving an identification of the patient includes:

receiving an identification of a location;

receiving a list of one or more patients in said location; and

receiving an indication, indicating each of the one or more patients in the list.

5. The media of claim 4, further comprising:

receiving an indication that a first patient from the list of patients is leaving, identifying the first patient as a leaving patient; and

disassociating one or more connected medical devices from each computing device of the one or more computing devices of the first clinician, wherein the one or more connected medical devices being disassociated are also associated with the leaving patient.

6. The media of claim 1, further comprising:

receiving an indication to associate a new connected medical device with the patient;

associating the new connected medical device with the patient;

associating the new connected medical device with each computing device of the one or more computing device of the first clinician; and

providing a data feed from the new connected medical device to each computing device of the one or more computing devices of the first clinician.

7. The media of claim 1, further comprising receiving an identification of one or more additional clinicians and associating the one or more additional clinicians with the one or more connected medical devices.

8. The media of claim 1, wherein the data feed is a continuous data feed of information from the at least one selected medical device.

9. The media of claim 1, wherein the data feed includes a continuous feed of alerts from at least one selected medical device.

10. The media of claim 8, wherein the continuous data feed of information is divided into tiers.

11. The media of claim 10, wherein each tier is accessible to a subset of clinicians.

12. The media of claim 11, wherein clinicians include doctors and nurses.

13. Non-transitory computer-readable media having computer-executable instructions embodied thereon that, when executed, enable a computing device to perform a method of providing one or more clinicians a plurality of data feeds from a plurality of devices related to a patient, the method comprising:

receiving an identification of a patient;

determining, by a connectivity monitoring component, one or more medical devices connected to a main bus, and generating a list of one or more connected medical devices related to the patient;

receiving a selection of at least one connected medical device of the list of one or more connected medical devices;

based on the selection, registering the at least one selected medical device with the main bus, wherein registering the at least one selected medical device enables communication between the at least one selected medical device and the main bus;

receiving an indication of a clinician and an associated computing device;

associating the at least one selected medical device related to the patient with the clinician;

providing a data feed from the at least one selected medical device related to the patient such that the data feed is selectively routed to the associated computing device of the clinician;

maintaining the data feed until a direct transfer of the at least one selected medical device from the clinician to a transfer clinician is entered; and

providing, on the associated computing device of the clinician, an interface for;

deselecting the clinician associated with the at least one selected medical device related to the patient;

selecting the transfer clinician associated with an associated transfer clinician computing device; and

associating the transfer clinician with the at least one selected medical device related to the patient.

14. The media of claim 13, wherein the identification of the patient is received from the clinician.

15. The media of claim 13, wherein receiving the identification of the patient includes:

receiving an identification of a location;

receiving a list of one or more patients in said location; and

receiving an indication, indicating each of the one or more patients in said location.

16. The media of claim 15, further comprising:

receiving an indication that a first patient from the list of patients is leaving, identifying the first patient as a leaving patient; and

disassociating one or more connected medical devices from the computing device, wherein the one or more connected medical devices being disassociated are also associated with the leaving patient.

17. The media of claim 13, further comprising:

receiving an indication to associate a new connected medical device with the patient;

associating the new connected medical device with the patient;

associating the new connected medical device with the computing device; and

providing a data feed from the new connected medical device to the computing device.

18. The media of claim 13, wherein the data feed is a continuous data feed of information from the at least one selected medical device.

19. The media of claim 13, wherein the data feed includes a continuous feed of alerts from the at least one selected medical device.

20. Non-transitory computer-readable media having computer-executable instructions embodied thereon that, when executed, enable a computing device to perform a method of providing one or more clinicians a plurality of data feeds from a plurality of devices related to a patient, the method comprising:

registering a computing device for one or more clinicians as an associated computing device;

receiving an identification of a patient from one or more clinicians;

determining, by a connectivity monitoring component, one or more active medical devices connected to a main bus, and generating a list of one or more active connected medical devices related to the patient;

receiving a selection of one or more connected medical devices of the list of one or more active connected medical devices;

based on the selection, registering the one or more selected medical devices with the main bus, wherein registering the one or more selected medical devices enables communication between the one or more selected medical devices and the main bus;

receiving an identification of one or more clinicians as identified clinicians;

associating the one or more selected medical devices related to the patient with the associated computing device;

providing a data feed from each of the one or more selected medical devices related to the patient such that the data feed is selectively routed to the associated computing device of the one or more identified clinicians; and

maintaining the data feed until the one or more selected medical devices are disassociated; and

providing, on the associated computing device of the one or more identified clinicians, an interface for;

selecting the one or more identified clinicians associated with the computing device;

selecting the one or more patients having one or more selected medical devices; and

disassociating the one or more identified clinicians from the one or more patients.