Systems and methods for configuring a wearable medical monitoring and/or treatment device

• US 9,878,171 B2
• Filed: 03/01/2013
• Issued: 01/30/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 03/02/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Zoll Medical Corporation (Asahi Kasei Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Zoll Medical Corporation (Asahi Kasei Corporation)
• Inventors: Kaib, Thomas E.
• Primary Examiner(s): Voorhees, Catherine
• Assistant Examiner(s): So, Elizabeth K
• Application Number:
  US13/782,232
• Publication Number:
  US 20130231711A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,796 Days
• Field of Search: None
• CPC Class Codes: A61N 1/3925 Monitoring; Protecting
• CPC Class Codes: A61N 1/3931 Protecting, e.g. back-up systems
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 20/30 relating to physical therapies or activities, e.g. physiotherapy, acupressure or exercising
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/40 for the management of medical equipment or devices, e.g. scheduling maintenance or upgrades
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/63 for local operation
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/67 for remote operation
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 80/00 ICT specially adapted for facilitating communication between medical practitioners or patients, e.g. for collaborative diagnosis, therapy or health monitoring

Abstract

A system including an ambulatory medical treatment device is provided. The ambulatory medical treatment device includes a memory, a treatment component configured to treat a patient, at least one processor coupled to the memory and the treatment component, a user interface component, and a system interface component. The user interface component is configured to receive an update session request and to generate the update session identifier responsive to receiving the request. The system interface component is configured to receive an encoded request including an identifier of an update session and device update information, to decode the encoded request to generate a decoded request including the device update information and the identifier of the update session, to validate the decoded request by determining that the update session identifier matches the identifier of the update session, and to apply the device update information to the ambulatory medical treatment device.

Claims

1. A system comprising an ambulatory medical treatment device including:

a memory storing configuration information specifying at least one patient setting of the ambulatory medical treatment device;

a treatment component configured to treat a patient;

at least one processor coupled to the memory and the treatment component and configured to operate the ambulatory medical treatment device as specified by the configuration information;

a user interface component executable by the at least one processor and configured to receive a request to initiate an update session and to generate an update session identifier responsive to receiving the request; and

a system interface component executable by the at least one processor and configured to

receive, from a remote computer system, an encoded configuration update request including an identifier of the update session and device update information;

decode the encoded configuration update request to generate a decoded configuration update request including the device update information and the identifier of the update session;

validate the decoded configuration update request by determining that the update session identifier matches the identifier of the update session included in the decoded configuration update request; and

apply, in response to validating the decoded configuration update request, the device update information to the configuration information, thereby altering the at least one patient setting of the ambulatory medical treatment device.

2. The system according to claim 1, wherein the device update information includes information descriptive of a treatment protocol to be executed by the ambulatory medical treatment device using the treatment component.

3. The system according to claim 1, wherein the system interface component is configured to decode the encoded configuration update request by decrypting the encoded configuration update request.

4. The system according to claim 1, wherein the system interface component is further configured to:

detect at least one of success and failure of the update session; and

rollback any device update information applied in response to failure of the update session.

5. The system according to claim 4, further comprising a display coupled to the at least one processor, wherein the user interface component is further configured to display the update session identifier on the display and display an indication of at least one of success and failure of the update session on the display.

6. The system according to claim 4, wherein the memory stores a device identifier that uniquely identifies the ambulatory medical treatment device, the encoded configuration update request further includes an identifier of the ambulatory medical treatment device, and the system interface component is configured to further validate the decoded configuration update request by determining that the device identifier matches the identifier of the ambulatory medical treatment device included in the decoded configuration update request.

7. The system according to claim 6, wherein the memory stores a patient identifier uniquely identifying the patient assigned to the ambulatory medical treatment device, the encoded configuration update request further includes an identifier of the patient, and the system interface component is configured to further validate the decoded configuration update request by determining that the patient identifier matches the identifier of the patient included in the decoded configuration update request.

8. The system according to claim 7, wherein the patient identifier and the identifier of the patient include biometric identifiers.

9. The system according to claim 7, further comprising the remote computer system, wherein the remote computer system is configured to:

receive an authorization request;

verifying the authorization request;

establish, in response to verifying the authorization request, a secure communication channel with the ambulatory medical treatment device; and

transmit the request to initiate the update session to the ambulatory medical treatment device via the secure communication channel, wherein the system interface component is further configured to receive the request to initiate the update session and provide the request to initiate the update session to the user interface component.

10. The system according to claim 9, wherein the remote computer system is further configured to:

receive an authentication request including the identifier of the update session;

generate the decoded configuration update request;

encode the decoded configuration update request to generate the encoded configuration update request; and

transmit the encoded configuration update request to the ambulatory medical treatment device via the secure communication channel.

11. A method executed using an ambulatory medical treatment device comprising a memory storing configuration information specifying at least one patient setting of the ambulatory medical treatment device, a treatment component configured to treat a patient, at least one processor coupled to the memory and the treatment component, a user interface component executed by the at least one processor, and a system interface component executed by the at least one processor, the method comprising:

receiving, via the user interface component, a request to initiate an update session;

generating, via the at least one processor responsive to receiving the request, an update session identifier;

receiving, via the system interface component from a remote computer system, an encoded configuration update request including an identifier of an update session and device update information;

decoding, via the system interface component, the encoded configuration update request to generate a decoded configuration update request including the identifier of the update session and the device update information;

validating, via the system interface component, the decoded configuration update request by determining that the update session identifier matches the identifier of the update session included in the decoded configuration update request;

applying, via the system interface component in response to validating the decoded configuration update request, the device update information to the configuration information, thereby altering the at least one patient setting of the ambulatory medical treatment device in response to validating that the update session identifier matches the identifier of the update session included in the decoded configuration update request; and

operating, by the at least one processor, the ambulatory medical treatment device as specified by the configuration information.

12. The method according to claim 11, wherein the ambulatory medical treatment device includes a display and the method further comprises displaying the update session identifier on the display.

13. The method according to claim 12, further comprising:

receiving, by the remote computer system, an authorization request;

verifying the authorization request;

establishing, in response to verifying the authorization request, a secure communication channel with the ambulatory medical treatment device;

transmitting the request to initiate the update session to the ambulatory medical treatment device via the secure communication channel;

receiving an authentication request including the identifier of the update session;

generating the decoded configuration update request;

encoding the decoded configuration update request to generate the encoded configuration update request; and

transmitting the encoded configuration update request to the ambulatory medical treatment device via the secure communication channel.

14. The method according to claim 13, wherein support personnel instruct a patient to enter the request to initiate the update session to generate an update session identifier and the support personnel enter the update session identifier into the remote computer system to initiate the update session.

15. The method according to claim 11, wherein the encoded configuration update request further includes at least one of an identifier uniquely identifying the ambulatory medical treatment device and an identifier uniquely identifying a patient assigned to the ambulatory medical treatment device and validating the decoded configuration update request includes at least one of:

determining that a device identifier stored on the ambulatory medical treatment device matches the identifier of the ambulatory medical treatment device included in the decoded configuration update request; and

determining that a patient identifier stored on the ambulatory medical treatment device matches the identifier of the patient included in the decoded configuration update request.

16. The method according to claim 15, wherein determining that the patient identifier stored on the ambulatory medical treatment device matches the identifier of the patient included in the decoded configuration update request includes comparing biometric identifiers.