Apparatus, method and computer readable medium for tracking data and events

• US 10,692,591 B2
• Filed: 02/03/2014
• Issued: 06/23/2020
• Est. Priority Date: 02/01/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: B-Line Medical, LLC
• Original Assignee: B-Line Medical, LLC
• Inventors: Huang, Lucas K, Kazoun, Chafic A, Kropp, Anton D, Neff, Samuel R, Ramsay, David A
• Primary Examiner(s): Giuliani, Giuseppi
• Application Number:
  US14/171,185
• Publication Number:
  US 20140222805A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,332 Days
• Field of Search: None
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/90335 Query processing
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 10/60 for patient-specific data, e.g. for electronic patient records

Abstract

A methods, an apparatus, a computer-readable medium, and a system for integrating data from a plurality of devices. The first data is received from a first device and the second data is received from a second device, which is a different type of device than the first device. Type of data is determined and additional data is generated based on the determined type of data received from these different devices. The additional data includes searchable metadata and/or one or more triggers based on a combination of the first and second received data. Accordingly, searchable metadata for recordings and metric values from various devices used in a session are generated. Additionally, annotations may be provided to emphasize the occurrence of triggering events.

Claims

1. A method of integrating data from a plurality of devices, the method comprising:

receiving, in real-time, first data from a first device, which records, as video data, values depicted on a monitoring display of a first medical equipment;

receiving, in real-time, second data from a second device, the second device being a second type of device different from a first type of the first device;

determining, by a computer, a first type of the first data and a second type of the second data;

generating additional data based on the first type of the first data and the second type of the second data, wherein the additional data comprises searchable metadata specific for each of the first type of the first data and the second type of the second data and a trigger based on a first value in the first data exceeding a first predetermined threshold and a second value in the second data exceeding a second predetermined threshold, occurring at substantially same time,

wherein the second device is a second medical equipment that gathers vital signs of a patient or a simulator of the patient in a metric format,

wherein the trigger is based on at least one value comprising the first value extracted from the video data and the second value indicating the vital signs of the patient,

wherein at least one of the first device and the second device is controlled to perform an action based on the trigger; and

converting the first data into a text format by;

recognizing at least one indicator by performing, in real-time, an optical character recognition on the at least one indicator displayed on the monitoring display of the first medical equipment, wherein the at least one indicator is displayed adjacent to data values and wherein each of the at least one indicator indicates a type of the data values,

determining the type of the data values based on the at least one indicator corresponding to the data values, and

recognizing the data values by performing the optical character recognition on the data values corresponding to the at least one indicator,

wherein the trigger is selected from among a plurality of triggers based on the type of the data values and wherein the data values are compared to the trigger to detect an event, and

wherein the event indicates a medical condition occurring in the patient or the simulator of the patient.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the first device and the second device are utilized in a medical procedure or a simulation session of the medical procedure,

wherein the first device and the second device monitor output from at least two of:

the patient, the simulator of the patient, a medical personnel, and a learner, and

wherein the first predetermined threshold and the second predetermined threshold are input, in advance, by a user via a user interface.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the generating the additional data comprises:

extracting information from the first data;

generating metadata fields for the searchable metadata based on a predefined criteria; and

storing in a memory the metadata fields along with a location of the first data,

wherein different metadata fields are generated based on the first type of the first device and the second type of the second device such that the different metadata fields are generated for the first device and the second device, and

wherein the predefined criteria comprises a structured rule set comprising metadata fields to be generated for each of the first type of the first device and the second type of the second device.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein the first data and the second data are displayed data, and

wherein the displayed data is converted based on the first type of the first device and the second type of the second device.

5. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

receiving a user-defined search query;

searching the first data and the second data based on the additional data and the user-defined search query;

extracting matching data among the first data and the second data based on whether the additional data matches the user-defined search query;

generating search results by combining the matching data; and

outputting the search results,

wherein the outputting the search results comprises displaying the first data among the matching data on a first portion of a screen and displaying the second data among the matching data on a second portion of the screen such that the matching data from among the first data and the second data are displayed temporally aligned to each other.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein the user-defined search query comprises at least one value for data from a plurality of devices and at least one specified duration of a recording.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein the at least one specified duration of the recording comprises at least one of:

a duration of the recording after an occurrence of the event and a duration of a past recording to be integrated with the recording, and

wherein the event occurs if the data matches the at least one value defined in the user-defined search query.

8. The method of claim 5, further comprising:

automatically generating annotations in the matching data based on the user-defined search query; and

outputting the search results with the annotations,

wherein the annotations indicate points in the matching data meeting user-specified criteria.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein the outputting the search results comprises displaying a user interface for reproducing a recording of a session or a clip of the session provided in the search results synchronously with metric values from at least two different types of sources, wherein the metric values are output in a form of a graph, and

wherein the annotations are provided for each of the recording and the metric values from the at least two different types of the sources.

10. An apparatus configured to integrate data generated by a plurality of different devices, the apparatus comprising:

a processor; and

a memory configured to store instructions, which when executed by the processor cause the processor to control the apparatus to perform;

receiving, in real-time, first data from a first device, which records, as video data, values depicted on a monitoring display of a first medical equipment;

receiving, in real-time, second data from a second device, the second device being a second type of device different from a first type of the first device;

determining a first type of the first data and a second type of the second data;

generating additional data based on the first type of the first data and the second type of the second data, wherein the additional data comprises searchable metadata specific for each of the first type of the first data and the second type of the second data and a trigger based on a first value in the first data exceeding a first predetermined threshold and a second value in the second data exceeding a second predetermined threshold, occurring at substantially same time; and

controlling at least one of the first device and the second device to perform an action based on the trigger,

wherein the first value is extracted from the video data and the second value indicates vital signs of a patient or a simulator of the patient, and

wherein the second device is a second medical equipment that gathers the vital signs of the patient or the simulator of the patient in a metric format, and

wherein the instructions further comprise;

recognizing at least one indicator by performing, in real-time, an optical character recognition on the at least one indicator displayed on the monitoring display of the first medical equipment, wherein the at least one indicator is displayed adjacent to data values displayed on a display and wherein each of the at least one indicator indicates a type of the data values;

determining the type of the data values based on the at least one indicator corresponding to the data values;

continuously converting, in real time, the data values adjacent to the at least one indicator;

selecting a sub-trigger from among a plurality of triggers based on the type of the data values; and

comparing the sub-trigger to each of the data values to determine an occurrence of an event.

11. The apparatus of claim 10, wherein the trigger is for the event indicating a medical condition and comprises a plurality of sub-triggers specific, each for a respective data type,

wherein the instructions when executed by the processor further cause the processor to control the apparatus to perform:

converting the first data to values, continuously, in real-time, and

comparing the values to a respective sub-trigger from among the plurality of sub-triggers.

12. The apparatus of claim 10, wherein the first device and the second device are utilized in a medical procedure or a simulation session of the medical procedure, and

wherein the first device and the second device monitor output from at least two of:

the patient, the simulator of the patient, a medical personnel, and a learner.

13. The apparatus of claim 10, wherein the generating the additional data comprises:

extracting information from the first data;

generating metadata fields for the searchable metadata based on a predefined criteria; and

storing the metadata fields along with a location of the first data,

wherein different metadata fields are generated based on the first type of the first device and the second type of the second device such that the different metadata fields are generated for the first device and the second device, and

wherein the predefined criteria comprises a structured rule set comprising metadata fields to be generated for each of the first type of the first device and the second type of the second device.

14. The apparatus of claim 13, wherein the first data and the second data are displayed data, and

wherein the displayed data is converted based on the first type of the first device and the second type of the second device.

15. The apparatus of claim 10, wherein the instructions when executed by the processor further cause the processor to control the apparatus to perform:

receiving a user-defined search query;

searching the first data and the second data based on the additional data and the user-defined search query;

extracting matching data among the first data and the second data based on whether the additional data matches the user-defined search query;

generating search results by combining the matching data; and

outputting the search results.

16. The apparatus of claim 15, wherein the user-defined search query comprises at least one value for data from a plurality of devices and at least one specified duration of a recording.

17. The apparatus of claim 16, wherein the at least one specified duration of the recording comprises at least one of:

a duration of the recording after an occurrence of the event and a duration of a past recording to be integrated with the recording, and

wherein the event occurs if the data matches the at least one value defined in the user-defined search query.

18. The apparatus of claim 15, wherein the instructions when executed by the processor further cause the processor to control the apparatus to perform:

automatically generating annotations in the matching data based on the user-defined search query; and

outputting the search results with the annotations,

wherein the annotations indicate points in the matching data meeting user-specified criteria.

19. The apparatus of claim 15, wherein the plurality of sub-triggers comprise a first sub-trigger for at the first type of the first data and a second sub-trigger for the second type of the second data,

wherein, in response to the first value of the first data exceeding the first predetermined threshold, recording values of the first data for a first predetermined duration,

wherein, in response to the second value of the second data exceeding the second predetermined threshold, recording values of the second data for a second predetermined duration,

wherein the processor executing the instructions is further configured to control the apparatus to integrate the values of the first data and the values of the second data into a single timeline,

wherein the first predetermined duration is different from the second predetermined duration,

wherein the outputting the search results comprises a user interface illustrating the single timeline,

wherein the first predetermined duration comprises a first recording duration, which is a duration before the first value of the first data exceeds the first predetermined threshold, and the second predetermined duration comprises a second recording duration, which is a duration before the second value of the second data exceeds the second predetermined threshold, and

wherein the first recording duration is different from the second recording duration.

20. A non-transitory computer readable medium storing instructions when executed by a computer cause the computer to perform:

receiving, in real-time, first data from a first device, which records, as video data, values depicted on a monitoring display of a first medical equipment;

receiving, in real-time, second data from a second device, the second device being a second type of device different from a first type of the first device;

determining, by the computer, a first type of the first data and a second type of the second data;

generating additional data based on the first type of the first data and the second type of the second data, wherein the additional data comprises searchable metadata specific for each of the first type of the first data and the second type of the second data and a trigger based on a first value in the first data exceeding a first predetermined threshold and a second value in the second data exceeding a second predetermined threshold, at substantially same time; and

controlling at least one of the first device and the second device to perform an action based on the trigger,

wherein the second device is a second medical equipment that gathers vital signs of a patient or a simulator of the patient in a metric format,

wherein the trigger is based on at least one value comprising the first value extracted from the video data and the second value indicating the vital signs of the patient; and

converting the first data into a text format by;

recognizing at least one indicator by performing, in real-time, an optical character recognition on the at least one indicator displayed on the monitoring display of the first medical equipment, wherein the at least one indicator is displayed adjacent to data values and wherein each of the at least one indicator indicates a type of the data values,

determining the type of the data values based on the at least one indicator corresponding to the data values, and

recognizing the data values by performing the optical character recognition on the data values corresponding to the at least one indicator,

wherein the trigger is selected from among a plurality of triggers based on the type of the data values and wherein the data values are compared to the trigger to detect an event, and

wherein the event indicates a medical condition occurring in the patient or the simulator of the patient.

21. A system for processing data from a plurality of devices, the system comprising:

at least one medical monitoring equipment configured to monitor metric output from at least one of;

an object and a human, during a session;

at least one audio or video recorder configured to record the at least one of the object and the human, during the session; and

a server comprising at least one processor and a memory, the server configured to;

receive first data from the at least one medical monitoring equipment and second data from the at least one audio or video recorder,

determine a type of an apparatus based on the first data and the second data,

generate additional data based on the type of the apparatus, wherein the additional data comprises metadata specific to the type of the apparatus and a trigger comprising a first sub-trigger which is based on a first value of the first data received from the at least one medical monitoring equipment exceeding a first threshold value and a second sub-trigger based on a second value of the second data from the at least one audio and video recorder exceeding a second predetermined threshold, and

setting, by the server, a plurality of different actions for the trigger,

wherein the first sub-trigger triggers a first recording of first values of the first data received from the at least one medical monitoring equipment for a first duration and the second sub-trigger triggers a second recording of second values of the second data received from the at least one audio and video recorder for a second duration,

wherein the first duration is different from the second duration,

wherein the first recording and the second recording are combined to generate a single recording or a single event,

wherein the plurality of different actions comprise different durations of recording the first data of the at least one medical monitoring equipment from the second data of the at least one audio or video recorder,

wherein the plurality of different actions comprises obtaining a past recording, which is prior to occurrence of the trigger, for at least one of the at least one medical monitoring equipment and the at least one audio or video recorder and combining with a current recording of the first data and the second data, and

wherein the trigger is generated, on the fly, based on continuously receiving the first data and the second data, in real-time.

22. The system of claim 21, wherein a duration of a recording for the generating of the single event depends on a device type, and

wherein the server is further configured to generate a single timeline indicating the first recording and the second recording.