Systems and methods for intelligent patient interface device

• US 10,811,131 B2
• Filed: 02/20/2018
• Issued: 10/20/2020
• Est. Priority Date: 07/01/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Baxter Healthcare SA (Baxter International Inc.), Baxter International Inc.
• Original Assignee: Baxter International Inc.
• Inventors: Schneider, Dennis I., Tribble, Dennis A., Valentine, Matthew A.
• Primary Examiner(s): Cobanoglu, Dilek B
• Application Number:
  US15/900,322
• Publication Number:
  US 20180174676A1
• Time in Patent Office: 973 Days
• Field of Search: 705 3
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 10/40 for data related to laboratory analysis, e.g. patient specimen analysis
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 10/60 for patient-specific data, e.g. for electronic patient records
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 20/17 delivered via infusion or injection
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 50/20 for computer-aided diagnosis, e.g. based on medical expert systems
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 70/00 ICT specially adapted for the handling or processing of medical references

Abstract

A system for use with one or more sources of patient-affiliated data corresponding with a group of patients. The system may contain a plurality of patient interface devices for interfacing with the group of patients. Each patient interface device may store a database that includes information related to each patient of the group of patients. Each patient interface device may be operable to generate a patient-specific guidance data set that may be used by the patient interface device to interface with a patient of the group of patients. The plurality of patient interface devices may be communicatively coupled to patient-affiliated data and a therapy database via a patient interface device gateway. The patient-specific guidance data sets may be automatically updated.

Claims

1. A system for use with one or more sources of patient-affiliated data, corresponding with a group of patients who have each been prescribed a medication for infusion pump administration, the system including:

a patient monitor configured to monitor at least one physiological parameter of a select patient from the group of patients;

an infusion pump operable to administer liquid medication to the select patient, wherein the infusion pump includes an input to receive patient identification information and a computer readable memory that stores a database that comprises a plurality of patient records where each patient record of the plurality of patient records corresponds with a different patient of the group of patients and includes at least corresponding patient identification data and patient treatment data comprising prescribed medication data for the corresponding patient, and wherein the computer readable memory of the infusion pump stores logic to utilize a set of rules to;

select automatically the patient record of the plurality of patient records that is included in the database stored in the computer readable memory of the infusion pump corresponding with patient identification information received at the input of the infusion pump for the select patient;

create a patient-specific guidance data set for the select patient utilizing the selected patient record of the plurality of patient records corresponding with the select patient, wherein the patient-specific guidance data set is stored in the computer readable memory of the infusion pump and includes infusion parameters related to the prescribed medication data of the selected patient record corresponding with the select patient;

automatically program the infusion pump to perform administration of medication to the select patient in accordance with the infusion parameters included in the patient-specific guidance data set; and

update administration of medication to the select patient in response to feedback received from the patient monitor; and

an infusion pump gateway comprising a software program and a server interconnected to the one or more sources of patient-affiliated data and to the infusion pump to;

update automatically the database stored at the infusion pump utilizing patient-affiliated data corresponding with the group of patients and maintained by the one or more sources of patient-affiliated data.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the group of patients are patients admitted to a medical care facility.

3. The system of claim 2, wherein the group of patients comprises patients admitted to a particular department of the medical care facility.

4. The system of claim 1, further comprising a pump surveillance database, wherein the infusion pump is adapted to transfer a pump-specific data set to the pump surveillance database, wherein the pump-specific data set includes data related to infusion pump performance.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein the patient-affiliated data comprises at least one database selected from a group consisting of an Electronic Medical Records (EMR) database, a pharmacy database, a hospital medical record database, a medication administration record database, and an admission, discharge and transfer database.

6. The system of claim 1, further comprising:

a therapy database, wherein said server of said infusion pump gateway is interconnected to the therapy database to obtain medication data stored in the therapy database, wherein the computer readable memory of the infusion pump stores said medication data, and wherein said logic of the infusion pump is provided to utilize said medication data in the creation of said patient-specific guidance data set for any given patient of the group of patients.

7. The system of claim 6, wherein the automatic updating of the databases is performed automatically by the infusion pump gateway in response to a change in the patient-affiliated data corresponding with the group of patients, and wherein the logic of the infusion pump is provided to utilize the changed patient-affiliated data in the creation of the patient-specific guidance data set for any given patient of the group of patients.

8. The system of claim 7, wherein the change in the patient-affiliated data originates from the input of the infusion pump.

9. The system of claim 8, wherein the input comprises an input selected from a group consisting of a barcode reader, a card reader, an RFID reader, a keyboard, a touch screen, a data port, and a wireless adapter.

10. The system of claim 7, wherein the change in the patient-affiliated data originates from a source other than the infusion pump.

11. The system of claim 6, wherein the infusion pump is adapted to send data related to performed actions to the one or more sources of patient-affiliated data via the infusion pump gateway.

12. The system of claim 6, wherein the infusion pump gateway comprises:

a communication link to the one or more sources of patient-affiliated data;

a communication link to the therapy database;

a communication link to the infusion pump; and

a communication link to an external global therapy database.

13. The system of claim 6, wherein the infusion pump gateway comprises a communication link to an external global therapy database.

14. The system of claim 13, wherein the system is adapted to update the therapy database based on changes to the external global therapy database.

15. The system of claim 6, wherein the automatic updating of the databases is performed automatically by the infusion pump gateway in response to a change in the medication data stored in the therapy database, and wherein the logic of the infusion pump is provided to utilize the changed medication data in the creation of the patient-specific guidance data set for any given patient of the group of patients.

16. The system of claim 1, wherein said infusion pump gateway is operative to automatically update said databases on a periodic basis.

17. The system of claim 1, wherein said input of the infusion pump is operable to receive information in the form of a bar code, an RFID tag, a name, a serial number, an identification number, a signal from an embedded identification device, or an identification card.

18. The system of claim 1, wherein the logic of the infusion pump is provided to:

create a plurality of patient-specific guidance data sets utilizing said plurality of patient records included in the database stored in the computer readable memory of the infusion pump, wherein the plurality of patient-specific guidance data sets are stored in the computer readable memory of the infusion pump, and wherein each of the plurality of patient-specific guidance data sets corresponds to a different patient of said group of patients.

19. The system of claim 1, wherein the patient monitor is a heart rate monitor.

20. The system of claim 1, wherein updating administration of medication to the select patient in response to feedback received from the patient monitor includes one of reducing an infusion rate and stopping an infusion.