DEVICE, SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING CONTEXTUALIZED MEDICAL DATA

• US 20110202371A1
• Filed: 09/08/2009
• Published: 08/18/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 09/12/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Capsule Technologie (Koninklijke Philips N.V.)
• Original Assignee: Capsule Technologie (Koninklijke Philips N.V.)
• Inventors: McAlpine, Brian, Darguesse, Fédéric, Morwood, Mark
• Granted Patent: US 10,497,076 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/3
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 10/60 for patient-specific data, e.g. for electronic patient records
• 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 40/60 for the operation of medical equipment or devices

Abstract

The invention concerns a point of care device comprising: a medical device connectivity module comprising connection means for collecting and storing medical data originating from at least one medical apparatus and data translation means for translating the received medical data into a common format; a proximity detection module comprising a reader and processing means for associating the point of care device with items within a range of the reader and generating association data relative to the association of the point of care device with the items; an interface module comprising processing means for merging the medical data in the common format with the generated association data so as to provide contextualized medical data, and sending means for sending said contextualized medical data to a contextual information server.

Claims

1. Point of care device comprising:

a medical device connectivity module comprising connection means for collecting and storing medical data originating from at least one medical apparatus and data translation means for translating the received medical data into a common format;

a proximity detection module comprising a reader and processing means for associating the point of care device with items within a range of the reader and generating association data relative to the association of the point of care device with the items;

an interface module comprising processing means for merging the medical data in the common format with the generated association data so as to provide contextualized medical data, and sending means for sending said contextualized medical data to a contextual information server.

2. Point of care device according to claim 1, wherein an identification transmitter is attached to an item and wherein the reader is adapted to receive identification information from an identification transmitter within the range, said identification information uniquely identifying the item.

3. Point of care device according to claim 2, wherein the identification transmitter is an RFID tag and the reader is an RFID reader.

4. Point of care device according to claim 1, wherein the contextual information server has a database storing item information and wherein the processing means of the proximity detection module are further programmed to interrogate the server once an item is detected within the range of the reader to obtain the item information stored in the database.

5. Point of care device according to claim 4, further comprising a display and wherein the processing means of the proximity detection module are further programmed to display a prompt asking if the association should be confirmed.

6. Point of care device according to claim 4, further comprising a display and wherein the processing means of the proximity detection module are further programmed to display an alarm when the association is prohibited by the item information.

7. Point of care device according to claim 4, wherein the processing means of the proximity detection module are further programmed to check if the association can be confirmed by comparing the item information with the medical data collected by the medical device connectivity module.

8. Point of care device according to claim 1, wherein the connection means of the medical device connectivity module includes a plurality of drivers which each provides an access to a medical device outputting medical data in either a standard or a proprietary format, and the data translation means of the medical device connectivity module are configured to translate the medical data in either a standard or a proprietary format into the common format.

9. Point of care device according to claim 8, wherein the data translation means of the medical device connectivity module are further configured to merge into a single stream the medical data in the common format originating from a plurality of medical devices.

11. A system for providing patient care at a point of care, comprising a point of care device according to any one of claims 1 to 9, and a server to which the contextualized medical data are distributed, the server being in communication with a database which stores item information about items that are attached to identification transmitters.

10. A process for providing patient care comprising the steps of:

collecting medical data originating from the at least one medical apparatus and translating the received medical data into a common format.

automatically associating a reader with an item that corresponds to an identification transmitter within a range of the reader, and generating association data;

merging the medical data in the common format with the generated association data so as to provide contextualized medical data, and distributing the contextualized medical data to a server.