System and method for transmitting, receiving and analysing partograph information

• US 9,795,298 B2
• Filed: 12/13/2012
• Issued: 10/24/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 12/13/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Einnovations Holdings Pte. Ltd. (PLDT, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Einnovations Holdings Pte. Ltd. (PLDT, Inc.)
• Inventors: Duremdes, Ramon G., De Jesus, Ian Christopher, Sumabat, Kristian R., Genson, Kathryn T.
• Primary Examiner(s): HINDENBURG, MAX F
• Application Number:
  US14/365,598
• Publication Number:
  US 20140323922A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,776 Days
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/0011 Foetal or obstetric data
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/0013 Medical image data A61B1/00011, A61B6/56, A61B8/56 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/0022 Monitoring a patient using a global network, e.g. telephone networks, internet
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/435 Assessing cervix alteration or dilation
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/4362 Assessing foetal parameters
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/7282 Event detection, e.g. detecting unique waveforms indicative of a medical condition A61B5/4094, A61B5/4818, A61B5/349, A61B5/0823 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/742 using visual displays A61B5/339 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/743 Displaying an image simultaneously with additional graphical information, e.g. symbols, charts, function plots
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/746 Alarms related to a physiological condition, e.g. details of setting alarm thresholds or avoiding false alarms alarms per se G08B
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/67 for remote operation
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 50/20 for computer-aided diagnosis, e.g. based on medical expert systems

Abstract

There is provided a system of transmitting partograph information and analyzing the same comprising a client device adapted to receive partograph information as inputs; the inputs transmittable to a partograph processing server via a wireless communication network; wherein the partograph processing server is configured to receive the partograph information; conform the partograph information to a standardized format and disseminate the partograph information to at least one computer device. Preferably, the partograph processing server further comprises an analyzer to analyze the partograph information for one or more abnormality condition and provides an alert to the at least one computer device and the client device. Alternatively, the analyzer is installed in the client device in the form of a software application.

Claims

1. A system for transmitting, receiving and analysing partograph information comprising:

a mobile device adapted to receive partograph information as inputs;

the partograph information transmittable to a partograph processing server via a communication network;

wherein the partograph processing server is arranged to;

access a database to receive profile information of a patient, conform the partograph information to a standardized partograph format, and disseminate the partograph information to at least one computer device, and

wherein the partograph processing server comprises an analyser configured to analyse and use, from the partograph information transmittable to the partograph processing server, cervical dilation per unit time information and/or fetal station per unit time information as input for detection of at least one abnormality condition.

2. A system according to claim 1, wherein the database comprises security settings to maintain privacy of the patient.

3. A system according to claim 1, wherein the analyser comprises a detection algorithm configured to use cervical dilatation per unit time or fetal station per unit time as inputs for detection of at least one of the following abnormality conditions:

Protracted active phase;

Secondary arrest of cervical dilatation;

prolonged deceleration phase;

Failure of descent;

protracted descent; and

Arrest of descent.

4. A system according to claim 1, wherein the communication network is a telecommunication network.

5. A system according to claim 4, wherein the partograph information may be transmitted as Short Messaging Service (SMS) message(s), Unstructured Supplementary Service Data (USSD) messages, and/or via cellular data network such as GPRS, and 3G.

6. A system according to claim 1, wherein an alert in the form of a notification message is generated when the at least one abnormality condition is determined.

7. A system according to claim 6, wherein the alert is a SMS or USSD message.

8. A system for transmitting, receiving and analysing partograph information comprising:

a mobile device adapted to receive partograph information as inputs;

the partograph information transmittable to a partograph processing server via a communication network;

wherein the partograph processing server is arranged to;

receive profile information of a patient, conform the partograph information to a standardized partograph format, and disseminate the partograph information to at least one computer device, and

wherein the partograph processing server comprises an analyser configured to analyse and use, from the partograph information transmittable to the partograph processing server, cervical dilation per unit time information and/or fetal station per unit time information as input for detection of at least one abnormality condition.