PATIENT MONITORING SYSTEM AND METHOD

• US 20090306482A1
• Filed: 06/10/2008
• Published: 12/10/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 06/10/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: General Electric Company
• Original Assignee: General Electric Company
• Inventors: Davis, Carl Claude, Alberte, Robert Joseph JR., Treacy, Stephen Thomas
• Application Number:
  US12/136,555
• Publication Number:
  US 20090306482A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 600/300
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/0008 Temperature signals
• 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: A61B 5/021 Measuring pressure in heart or blood vessels A61B5/0205 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/318 Heart-related electrical modalities, e.g. electrocardiography [ECG]
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/06 Resources, workflows, human or project management; Enterprise or organisation planning; Enterprise or organisation modelling
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 10/60 for patient-specific data, e.g. for electronic patient records

Abstract

A patient monitoring system is disclosed herein. The patient monitoring system includes a processor configured to receive patient data from a monitored patient, to provide a plurality of computer-generated task based on the patient data, and to provide a computer-generated task priority for each of the computer-generated tasks. The patient monitoring system also includes a display connected to the processor. The display is configured to generally simultaneously visually convey the patient data, the computer-generated task, and the computer-generated task priority.

Claims

1. A patient monitoring system comprising:

a processor configured to receive patient data from a monitored patient, provide a plurality of computer-generated tasks based on the patient data, and to provide a computer-generated task priority for each of the computer-generated tasks; and

a display connected to the processor, said display configured to generally simultaneously visually convey the patient data, the computer-generated task, and the computer-generated task priority.

2. The patient monitoring system of claim 1, wherein the processor is configured to compile the computer-generated tasks in the form of a task queue.

3. The patient monitoring system of claim 2, wherein the processor is configured to sequence the computer-generated tasks based on the computer-generated task priorities.

4. The patient monitoring system of claim 2, wherein said task queue comprises a plurality of queues, and wherein one of said plurality of queues comprises a high priority queue adapted to exclusively retain any high priority tasks.

5. The patient monitoring system of claim 1, wherein processor is configured to provide a second computer-generated task comprising a routine activity performed at regular intervals, and to provide a second computer-generated task priority associated with the second computer-generated task.

6. The patient monitoring system of claim 2, further comprising an input device configured to transmit a plurality of manually-input tasks and a plurality of manually-input task priorities to the processor.

7. The patient monitoring system of claim 6, wherein said processor is configured to incorporate the manually-input tasks into the task queue, and to sequence the manually-input tasks within the task queue based on the manually-input task priorities.

8. The patient monitoring system of claim 1, wherein said display comprises a first portion configured to exclusively convey the patient data and a second portion configured to exclusively convey the computer-generated task.

9. The patient monitoring system of claim 1, wherein said display comprises a plurality of displays including a first display configured to exclusively convey the patient data and a second display configured to exclusively convey the computer-generated task.

10. A patient monitoring system comprising:

a processor configured to receive patient data from a monitored patient, provide a plurality of computer-generated tasks based on the patient data, and to provide a computer-generated task priority for each of the computer-generated tasks;

an input device connected to the processor, said input device being configured to transmit manually-input tasks and manually-input task priorities, and

a display connected to the processor;

wherein the processor is configured to compile the computer-generated tasks and manually-input tasks in the form of a task queue, and wherein the display is configured to generally simultaneously visually convey the patient data and the task queue.

11. The patient monitoring system of claim 10, wherein the processor is configured to sequence the computer-generated tasks and the manually-input tasks within the task queue based respectively on the computer-generated task priorities and the manually-input task priorities.

12. The patient monitoring system of claim 10, wherein said task queue comprises a plurality of queues, and wherein one of said plurality of queues comprises a high priority queue adapted to exclusively retain any high priority tasks.

13. The patient monitoring system of claim 10, wherein processor is configured to provide a second plurality of computer-generated tasks comprising a routine activity performed at regular intervals.

14. The patient monitoring system of claim 10, wherein said display comprises a first portion configured to exclusively convey the patient data and a second portion configured to exclusively convey the computer-generated task.

15. The patient monitoring system of claim 10, wherein said display comprises a plurality of displays including a first display configured to exclusively convey the patient data and a second display configured to exclusively convey the computer-generated task.

16. A method comprising:

collecting patient data from a plurality of monitored patients;

implementing a processor to obtain a plurality of computer-generated tasks based on the patient data;

obtaining a computer-generated task priority for each of the computer-generated tasks;

implementing the processor to generate a task queue comprising the computer-generated tasks;

implementing the processor to sequence the computer-generated tasks within the queue based on the computer-generated task priorities; and

visually conveying the patient data and the task queue.

17. The method of claim 16, further comprising implementing a processor to obtain a second plurality of computer-generated tasks comprising a routine activity performed at regular intervals.

18. The method of claim 16, further comprising obtaining a plurality of manually-input tasks and a corresponding plurality of manually input task priorities.

19. The method of claim 18, further comprising implementing the processor to incorporate the manually-input tasks into the task queue, and to sequence the manually-input tasks within the task queue based on the manually-input task priorities.

20. The method of claim 16, wherein said visually conveying the patient data and the task queue comprises visually conveying the patient data and the task queue using a single device.