Portable medical monitoring and diagnostic system
First Claim
1. A method for the collection, analysis and distribution of patient data from a patient stationary or moving within various operational remits of a medical facility to provide patient condition data to patient care staff in accordance with monitoring rules where at least one medical telemetry monitor diagnostic device (MTMDD) is attached to the patient with an associated body area network (BAN) hub agent for the collection and processing of patient diagnostic data and on a patient being assigned to one of the operational remits of the medical facility the method comprising:
- defining the diagnostic data to be collected on a separate BAN management agent for the operational remit;
defining initial training monitoring rules to be applied to the diagnostic data to provide patient condition data;
sending from the BAN management agent to the BAN hub agent the initial training monitoring rules and the diagnostic data to be collected to provide the required patient condition data;
collecting diagnostic data at the BAN hub agent and providing patient condition data to the BAN management agent;
collecting for the same diagnostic data patient condition data from patient care staff;
comparing the two sets of patient condition data;
amending, as necessary, the initial training monitoring rules to provide operational monitoring rules;
inputting the operational monitoring rules from the BAN management agent onto the BAN hub agent;
continuing in a real-time operational phase to collect new diagnostic data from the MTMDD;
applying the operational monitoring rules to the patient diagnostic data in the BAN hub agent to provide patient care data; and
the BAN hub agent carrying out the necessary communication with the patient care staff having a responsibility assigned to them for the particular patient, having regard to the patient care data produced and the monitoring rules.
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Abstract
A patient care distribution and management system is provided. The system allows for the seamless roaming of a patient within a particular medical facility or between medical facilities. The system includes body area network (BAN) management agents which process data within specified parts of a defined operational remit of a medical facility, a BAN hub agent associated with each patient that communicates with a BAN management agent and stores patient data delivered thereto by medical telemetry monitor diagnostic devices (MTMDDs) connected to each patient. The essential feature of the system is that the BAN hub agent has relatively little processing power compared to the BAN management agent which feeds it with patient monitoring rules to monitor the patient condition and to enable the BAN hub agent to set off alarms etc. as required.
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22 Claims
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1. A method for the collection, analysis and distribution of patient data from a patient stationary or moving within various operational remits of a medical facility to provide patient condition data to patient care staff in accordance with monitoring rules where at least one medical telemetry monitor diagnostic device (MTMDD) is attached to the patient with an associated body area network (BAN) hub agent for the collection and processing of patient diagnostic data and on a patient being assigned to one of the operational remits of the medical facility the method comprising:
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defining the diagnostic data to be collected on a separate BAN management agent for the operational remit; defining initial training monitoring rules to be applied to the diagnostic data to provide patient condition data; sending from the BAN management agent to the BAN hub agent the initial training monitoring rules and the diagnostic data to be collected to provide the required patient condition data; collecting diagnostic data at the BAN hub agent and providing patient condition data to the BAN management agent; collecting for the same diagnostic data patient condition data from patient care staff; comparing the two sets of patient condition data; amending, as necessary, the initial training monitoring rules to provide operational monitoring rules; inputting the operational monitoring rules from the BAN management agent onto the BAN hub agent; continuing in a real-time operational phase to collect new diagnostic data from the MTMDD; applying the operational monitoring rules to the patient diagnostic data in the BAN hub agent to provide patient care data; and the BAN hub agent carrying out the necessary communication with the patient care staff having a responsibility assigned to them for the particular patient, having regard to the patient care data produced and the monitoring rules. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16)
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17. A patient care distribution and management system comprising:
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a plurality of medical facility agents each having means to provide information relating to patients within a defined operational remit of a medical facility; a medical facility registry having means to allow individual medical facility agents to identify, locate and interact with other medical facility agents; body area network (BAN) management agents for the collection and management of data within specified parts of the defined operational remit; a BAN hub agent associated with one patient for communication with a BAN management agent and for the storage and processing of patient data; medical telemetry monitor diagnostic devices (MTMDDs) for connection to each patient for the collection and delivery of patient data to each BAN hub agent; monitor agents for communication with each BAN management agent for use by patient care staff to receive and transmit information relevant to the BAN hub agent of a specific patient; communication means for connecting the medical facility registry with the medical facility agents, the medical facility agents with the BAN management agents, and the BAN management agents with the BAN hub agents and the monitor agents; and communications transfer means for connecting a BAN hub agent to a second BAN management agent on moving from the operational remit of a first BAN management agent to the operational remit of the second BAN management agent. - View Dependent Claims (18, 19, 20, 21, 22)
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