Method and Apparatus for Displaying Data from Medical Devices

• US 20110087756A1
• Filed: 10/12/2010
• Published: 04/14/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 10/13/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Philips Capsule Corporation (Koninklijke Philips N.V.)
• Original Assignee: Cardiopulmonary Corporation (Koninklijke Philips N.V.)
• Inventors: McGuire, Joseph P., Comunale, Carter Thomas, Biondi, James W.
• Granted Patent: US 8,886,792 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/217
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/67 for remote operation
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/06 Management of faults, events, alarms or notifications

Abstract

The invention, in one aspect, relates to a system for providing for the display of data from a plurality of non-homogeneous medical devices. In one embodiment the system includes a local authority to receive data using a first protocol from the medical devices and convert the data to a second protocol, a central authority in communication with the local authority, and a user interface, in communication with the central authority. The central authority routes data that has been converted to a second protocol for display by the user interface.

Claims

1. A processor-based system for providing for the display of data from a plurality of heterogeneous medical devices, the system comprising:

a central authority subsystem in communication with the plurality of heterogeneous medical devices; and

a user interface in communication with the central authority subsystem; and

a database subsystem in communication with the central authority subsystem;

wherein the central authority subsystem transmits the data from the plurality of heterogeneous medical devices for display by the user interface and for storage by the database subsystem, substantially simultaneously.

2. The processor-based system for providing for the display of data from a plurality of heterogeneous medical devices of claim 1 further comprising a local authority subsystem in communication between the plurality of medical devices and the central authority.

3. The processor-based system for providing for the display of data from a plurality of heterogeneous medical devices of claim 2 wherein the local authority transforms the data from the plurality of heterogeneous medical devices from a first protocol to a second protocol.

4. The processor-based system for providing for the display of data from a plurality of heterogeneous medical devices of claim 3 wherein the first protocol is a native device protocol and the second protocol is a homogeneous system protocol.

5. The processor-based system for providing for the display of data from a plurality of heterogeneous medical devices of claim 3 homogeneous system protocol is XML.

6. The processor-based system for providing for the display of data from a plurality of heterogeneous medical devices of claim 1 wherein the central authority is resident on a computer and designed to transmit the data to the database and the user interface in parallel.

7. The processor-based system for providing for the display of data from a plurality of heterogeneous medical devices of claim 1 further comprising a smart alarm module in electrical communication with the central authority, the smart alarm module determining whether the data from a medical device of the plurality of heterogeneous medical devices meets a predetermined criterion for triggering an alarm.

8. The processor-based system for providing for the display of data from a plurality of heterogeneous medical devices of claim 7 wherein the smart alarm module is also in electrical communication with the database and a configuration service module.

9. The processor-based system for providing for the display of data from a plurality of heterogeneous medical devices of claim 1 further comprising a database interface in electrical communication with the central authority subsystem and the database.

10. The processor-based system for providing for the display of data from a plurality of heterogeneous medical devices of claim 1 further comprising a network server in electrical communication with both the database and a web interface.

11. The processor-based system for providing for the display of data from a plurality of heterogeneous medical devices of claim 7 wherein the configuration service module is in electrical communication with the user interface.

12. The processor-based system for providing for the display of data from a plurality of heterogeneous medical devices of claim 2 further comprising a demultiplexer in electrical communication with both the local authority subsystem and the plurality of heterogeneous medical devices.

13. The processor-based system for providing for the display of data from a plurality of heterogeneous medical devices of claim 2 wherein the local authority subsystem is physically located near the central authority subsystem.

14. The processor-based system for providing for the display of data from a plurality of heterogeneous medical devices of claim 1 further comprising a smart alarm module in electrical communication between the central authority subsystem and the plurality of heterogeneous medical devices.

15. A method for providing for the display of data from a plurality of heterogeneous medical devices, the method comprising the steps of:

receiving data from the medical devices by a central authority subsystem;

substantially simultaneously transmitting the data by the central authority subsystem to both a user interface and a database; and

displaying the data by the user interface.

16. The method for providing for the display of data from a plurality of heterogeneous medical devices of claim 15, the method further comprising the step of:

determining by a smart alarm module whether the data from a medical device of said plurality of medical devices meets a predetermined criterion for triggering an alarm.

17. The method for providing for the display of data from a plurality of heterogeneous medical devices of claim 15, the method further comprising the steps of:

demultiplexing data from the plurality of medical devices; and

transforming the data from a first protocol to a second protocol by a local authority subsystem prior to receiving the data by the central authority subsystem.

18. The method for providing for the display of data from a plurality of heterogeneous medical devices of claim 15, wherein the central authority is resident on a computer and designed to transmit the data to the database and the user interface in parallel such that database access is delayed or avoided to improve the speed of data delivery to a user.