Clinic dashboard monitor

• US 20060064020A1
• Filed: 09/20/2004
• Published: 03/23/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 09/20/2004
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Medtronic Incorporated (Medtronic Plc)
• Original Assignee: Medtronic Incorporated (Medtronic Plc)
• Inventors: Burnes, John E., Mongeon, Luc R.
• Application Number:
  US10/944,982
• Publication Number:
  US 20060064020A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 600/481
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/002 Monitoring the patient using a local or closed circuit, e.g. in a room or building A61B5/0017 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 10/60 for patient-specific data, e.g. for electronic patient records
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 15/00 ICT specially adapted for medical reports, e.g. generation or transmission thereof
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/63 for local operation
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/67 for remote operation
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 50/30 for calculating health indices; for individual health risk assessment

Abstract

The present invention provides a remote patient monitoring system including a graphical user interface (GUI) that displays a summary table of categorized parameter values for multiple patients simultaneously. The remote patient monitoring system further includes a central database for receiving data from remote medical devices via a communications network and a processor for parameterizing and categorizing summary data to be displayed by the GUI. The displayed summary parameter values are formatted according to category to allow a parameter value category to be visually recognized. In one embodiment, parameter values are categorized according to a need for clinical attention such that a clinician may view a summary table of categorized parameter values and recognize which patients may require clinical attention as indicated by the formatted parameter values.

Claims

1. A system for remote patient monitoring, comprising:

a central database;

a communication network for transferring data to the central database from a plurality of remote medical devices deployable for monitoring or treating a plurality of patients;

a processor for analyzing the data received by the central database for each of the plurality of patients in order to parameterize and categorize the data according to a plurality of categories; and

a graphical user interface including a summary table of patient records for displaying categorized data parameters for a number of the plurality of patients simultaneously.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the graphical user interface displays categorized data parameters according to a formatting scheme designed to visually distinguish between parameter categories.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the plurality of categories includes an alarm category to which a parameter value is assigned when the patient is highly likely to need clinical attention.

4. The system of claim 3 further including a warning category to which a parameter value is assigned when the value is approaching the alarm category.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein the graphical user interface further allows a user to select a cell within a displayed summary table to cause the graphical user interface to display a view of detailed data stored by the central database relating to the selected cell.

6. The system of claim 5, wherein the graphical user interface further allows a user to select a field in the display of detailed data to cause the graphical user interface to display a view of relatively more detailed data.

7. The system of claim 1, wherein the graphical user interface further includes a plurality of patient grouping buttons corresponding to predefined patient groups and wherein a patient grouping button is selectable by a user to cause the graphical user interface to display a summary table of patient records for patients falling into the selected patient group.

8. A method for remote patient monitoring, comprising:

transferring data from a plurality of medical devices to a central database;

processing transferred data to generate a set of summary parameter values;

categorizing the summary parameter values according to a plurality of predefined categories;

formatting categorized summary parameter values to allow the category of a parameter value to be visually distinguishable; and

displaying formatted, categorized summary parameter values for a plurality of patients simultaneously in a summary table.

9. The method according to claim 8 wherein one of the plurality of predefined categories is a category indicating a need for clinical attention and parameter values categorized as indicating a need for clinical attention are formatted in a conspicuous manner.

10. The method according to claim 9 wherein parameter values categorized as indicating a need for clinical attention are formatted in red.

11. The method according to claim 8 wherein formatting of categorized parameter values includes displaying the parameter value as a symbol corresponding to the assigned category.

12. The method according to claim 8 wherein processing transferred data further includes determining an overall patient status indicator.

13. The method according to claim 12 wherein the overall patient status indicator corresponds to the category of one or more summary parameter values.

14. The method according to claim 12 wherein the overall patient status indicator is formatted for display according to the category of one or more summary parameter values.

15. The method according to claim 8 wherein processing transferred data further includes determining a device status indicator.

16. The method according to claim 8 wherein processing transferred data further includes determining a physiologic status indicator.

17. The method according to claim 8 further including displaying patients according to predefined patient groups.

18. The method according to claim 8 further including sorting patient records for ordering the display of the patient records in a summary table according to categorized summary parameter values.

19. The method according to claim 8 further including displaying a warning or alert message based on summary parameter values.

20. The method according to claim 8 further including transferring a warning or alert message according to summary parameter values to a communication network destination.

21. A system for remote patient monitoring, comprising:

means for storing medical data;

means for transferring medical data from a plurality of medical devices to medical data storing means;

means for determining summary parameter values for each of a plurality of patients from data stored in medical data storing means;

means for categorizing the summary parameter values according to a plurality of predefined categories;

means for formatting the summary parameter values according to category; and

means for displaying formatted, categorized summary parameter values for a plurality of patients simultaneously.

22. A computer-readable medium for storing a set of instructions which when implemented causes a remote patient monitoring system to:

categorize parameter values determined from medical data received by a central database from a remote medical device;

format the parameter values according to category; and

display a summary table of formatted, categorized parameter values for a plurality of patients simultaneously wherein the formatting of the categories of displayed parameter values are visually distinguishable.