Enhanced interface for a medical device and a terminal
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1. A system for communicating medical information, comprising:
- a medical device installed with a version of software; and
a software agent communicatively coupled to the medical device for interacting with the medical device, wherein the software agent interacts with the medical device irrespective of the version of software installed on the medical device.
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Abstract
A system is described that comprises a medical device on which is installed a version of software and a software agent communicatively coupled to the medical device without regard to the version of software installed on the medical device. An example of the medical device includes a defibrillator. The software agent may reside in a personal digital assistant and can be operated to communicate with the defibrillator to access the data stored in the defibrillator irrespective of the version of software of the defibrillator.
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58 Claims
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1. A system for communicating medical information, comprising:
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a medical device installed with a version of software; and
a software agent communicatively coupled to the medical device for interacting with the medical device, wherein the software agent interacts with the medical device irrespective of the version of software installed on the medical device. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13)
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14. A system for communicating medical information, comprising:
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a therapeutic device for storing data and being installed with a version of software;
a software agent to present a user interface to communicate with the therapeutic device; and
an interface for communicatively coupling the therapeutic device to the software agent irrespective of the version of software of the therapeutic device, the interface having a therapeutic portion that exposes data from the therapeutic device and a software agent portion that obtains the data so that the user interface is invoked upon receiving the data. - View Dependent Claims (15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25)
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26. A system for remotely communicating with a medical device, comprising:
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a defibrillator for storing data and being installed with a version of software; and
a personal digital assistant being operative to communicate with the defibrillator to access the data irrespective of the software version of the defibrillator. - View Dependent Claims (27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35)
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36. A medical device, comprising:
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hardware to apply a therapy to a patient according to a set of therapeutic rules;
one or more data storage devices for storing configuration data and patient data; and
a common interface for exporting either the configuration data or the patient data, both the configuration data and the patient data being organized in one or more subdirectories of a directory. - View Dependent Claims (37, 38, 39, 40, 41)
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42. A terminal for communicating with a medical device that stores data, the medical device being installed with a version of software, the terminal comprising:
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a data storage device for storing a set of presentation tools;
a user interface being invokable by a presentation tool; and
an interface for importing data stored in the medical device and for allowing the user interface to configure the medical device irrespective of the version of software of the medical device. - View Dependent Claims (43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48)
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49. A method for communicating between a medical device and a terminal, comprising:
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establishing a communication session between the medical device and the terminal by selecting a wired communication protocol or a wireless communication protocol;
exposing a directory of objects on the medical device so that each object can be accessed by the terminal, each object referencing data relating to the medical device; and
presenting a user interface component to configure the medical device when data is imported into the terminal, the data being structured in a language that contains the data and that describes the data. - View Dependent Claims (50, 51, 52, 53)
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54. A medical device, comprising:
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hardware to apply a therapy to a patient according to a set of therapeutic rules;
one or more data storage devices for storing configuration data and patient data; and
a processor for exposing a directory of objects having well-known names that may be used to invoke the objects external to the medical device, a set of objects being invokable to retrieve configuration data or the patient data, and another set of objects being invokable to change the configuration data so that the therapy to be applied to the patient is changed. - View Dependent Claims (55, 56, 57, 58)
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