CLINICAL MONITORING NETWORK

• US 20100019910A1
• Filed: 03/06/2006
• Published: 01/28/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 03/08/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Koninklijke Philips N.V.
• Original Assignee: Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V. (Koninklijke Philips N.V.)
• Inventors: Greiner, Harald, Hassing, Kai
• Granted Patent: US 9,514,277 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 340/573.100
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/20 for the management or administration of healthcare resources or facilities, e.g. managing hospital staff or surgery rooms
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/40 for the management of medical equipment or devices, e.g. scheduling maintenance or upgrades
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/63 for local operation
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/67 for remote operation
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 80/00 ICT specially adapted for facilitating communication between medical practitioners or patients, e.g. for collaborative diagnosis, therapy or health monitoring

Abstract

The invention relates to a clinical monitoring network (1). Furthermore, the invention relates to a paging system, a computer program and an according method. In order to provide an inexpensive solution to notify medical staff about a critical event at a point of care, it is suggested to use a medical device (5, 6), e.g. a patient monitor, attachable to a clinical monitoring network (1) as a paging client (8) of a paging system.

Claims

1. A clinical monitoring network comprising two or more medical devices wherein at least one medical device includes a paging client embedded as art of the at least one medical device, wherein said paging client provides a page pertaining to a medical condition.

2. The clinical monitoring network as claimed in claim 1, further comprising a paging server adapted to transmit a paging message to the at least one medical device in case of a critical event at a point of care.

3. The clinical monitoring network as claimed in claim 1, wherein the at least one medical device is a patient monitor.

10. The clinical monitoring network as claimed in claim 1, wherein said page includes patient identification information.

11. The clinical monitoring network as claimed in claim 1, wherein said page includes a color-coded alarm condition.

12. The clinical monitoring network as claimed in claim 1, wherein said page is presented as a scrolling ticker band.

13. The clinical monitoring network as claimed in claim 1, wherein an interactive display is presented as a device receiving the page.

14. The clinical monitoring network as claimed in claim 1, wherein the page is sent to a predetermined number of other devices connected to the network.

15. The clinical monitoring network as claimed in claim 14, wherein the predetermined number of devices to which the page is sent is determined by proximity of one or more clinical users.

4. (canceled)

5. (canceled)

6. A computer program comprising computer instructions to adapt a medical device attachable to a clinical monitoring network to provide a page to another device attached to the clinical monitoring network, when the computer program is executed in a computer.

7. (canceled)

8. (canceled)

9. (canceled)

16. A patient monitor for monitoring one or more medical conditions of a patient, said monitor including:

a network connection connecting the patient monitor to a network; and

a page client;

wherein said page client provides a page indicative of the one or more medical conditions to one or more medical devices connected to the network.

17. A method of providing patient care comprising:

monitoring one or more medical conditions with a patient monitor;

determining if a critical event has occurred;

transmitting a page from the patient monitor across a network when a critical event has occurred; and

receiving the page at one or more medical devices that are connected to the network.

18. The method of claim 17, further comprising determining a predetermined number of medical devices to receive the page based on location of one of the medical devices and one or more clinical users.