Infusion management

• US 8,291,337 B2
• Filed: 11/19/2009
• Issued: 10/16/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 09/22/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Cerner Innovation, Inc. (Oracle Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Cerner Innovation, Inc. (Oracle Corporation)
• Inventors: Kelly, Lisa, Rogers, Stephanie, Gannin, Mary, Buckley, Amanda
• Primary Examiner(s): Nunez, Jordany
• Application Number:
  US12/622,213
• Publication Number:
  US 20110072379A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,062 Days
• Field of Search: 715/771, 705/3, 604/131
• US Class Current: 715/771
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2205/502 User interfaces, e.g. screens or keyboards
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2230/00 Measuring parameters of the user
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2230/30 Blood pressure A61M2230/04 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 5/172 electrical or electronic A61M5/16804, A61M5/16831 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04812 Interaction techniques based on cursor appearance or behaviour, e.g. being affected by the presence of displayed objects
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04817 using icons graphical or visual programming using iconic symbols G06F8/34
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 20/17 delivered via infusion or injection
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/63 for local operation
• CPC Class Codes: G16Z 99/00 Subject matter not provided for in other main groups of this subclass

Abstract

Methods, computer systems and computer readable media for receiving data from infusion pumps in a healthcare setting and displaying the data on a user device are provided. Centralized clinician views are provided to manage individual and multiple patient infusions. Embodiments provide near real-time graphical displays of infusion data to clinicians on separate user devices. In addition, near real-time graphical displays of patient physiologic data is displayed simultaneously to a clinician along with the infusion data.

Claims

1. A method for providing an alert indicating that an operation of an infusion pump is not consistent with an order, which specifies an infusion to be administered to a patient, the method comprising:

receiving an identification of the order and an identification of the infusion pump, wherein the order specifies an order infusion rate at which a fluid is to be administered to the patient;

storing an association of the order and the infusion pump to one another, wherein the association is maintained by a processing unit separate from the infusion pump;

receiving by the processing unit a continuous data feed from the infusion pump, the continuous data feed including a volume of the fluid that has been administered by the infusion pump over a time duration;

based on the volume of the fluid and the time duration, calculating an infusion rate indicating a rate at which the infusion pump has been administering the fluid;

comparing the infusion rate that was calculated to the order infusion rate to determine that the infusion rate and the order infusion rate are not consistent;

retrieving an updated infusion order that is associated with the patient and that is not associated with the infusion pump;

transmitting an alert to a mobile computing device notifying a recipient that the infusion rate and the order infusion rate are not consistent, wherein the alert includes a selectable indication of the updated infusion order;

receiving from the mobile computing device a selection of the selectable indication; and

updating the association to include the updated infusion order.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

storing the association of the updated infusion order and the infusion pump in an electronic medical record for the patient.