System with a portable patient device and external operating part

• US 8,758,240 B2
• Filed: 12/11/2006
• Issued: 06/24/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 12/12/2005
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Roche Diabetes Care Inc. (Roche Holding AG)
• Original Assignee: Roche Diagnostics International AG (Roche Holding AG)
• Inventors: Frikart, Marcel, Jungen, Markus, Ehrsam, Matthias, Friedli, Kurt
• Primary Examiner(s): Thomson, Bill
• Assistant Examiner(s): SORIANO, BOBBY GILES
• Application Number:
  US11/608,936
• Publication Number:
  US 20070142767A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,752 Days
• Field of Search: 600300-301, 128903-905, 128/920, 705 2- 4, 340/573.1, 607/62, 604 65- 67
• US Class Current: 600/301
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2560/04 Constructional details of apparatus
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/0002 Remote monitoring of patients using telemetry, e.g. transmission of vital signals via a communication network A61B5/07 takes precedence; transmission systems for measured values G08C; transmission H04B; transmission of digital information H04L; wireless communication networks H04W
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/021 Measuring pressure in heart or blood vessels A61B5/0205 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/14532 for measuring glucose, e.g. by tissue impedance measurement
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/318 Heart-related electrical modalities, e.g. electrocardiography [ECG]
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/4839 combined with drug delivery
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/742 using visual displays A61B5/339 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/7475 User input or interface means, e.g. keyboard, pointing device, joystick
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/63 for local operation

Abstract

A patient system including a first patient device for being carried by a patient and a second patient device arranged remotely from the first patient device, wherein a user interface of the first patient device is provided separately from the first patient device on the second patient device.

Claims

1. A patient system comprising a first patient device having a unitary first housing which is portable on the body of a patient and a second patient device having a second housing device arranged remotely from the first patient device, each patient device having a communication device for data transmission via a transmission link, the first patient device having a first user interface for the first patient device and a data-processor for communication with the first user interface for the first patient device, and the second patient device being configured such that a second user interface for the second patient device represents the first user interface, wherein the data-processor generates pixel address data that represents information on a display unit of the first user interface, and wherein the communication device of the first patient device transmits these data to the communication device of the second patient device to represent the information on a display unit of the second user interface;

wherein the first patient device is a medicinal substance pump with the first user interface disposed in the unitary first housing and the data-processor disposed fully into the unitary first housing; and

the second user interface is disposed in the second housing;

wherein the patient system can be operated in a push mode, a request mode, and by the patient via operating buttons of the first patient device, wherein the push mode comprises correspondence of the data from the first patient device to the second patient device automatically, the request mode comprises periodic requests from the second device to the first device, and wherein the operating buttons are configured so the patient can confirm information by pressing the operating buttons.

2. The patient system according to claim 1, wherein the second patient device represents further information, including at least one of alarms or alarm and error messages.

3. The patient system according to claim 1, wherein the data-processor generates data to cause a device in the second patient device to generate at least one of an acoustic alarm or a vibration alarm.

4. The patient system according to claim 1, wherein the second user interface comprises at least one input apparatus, and wherein the communication device of the second patient device transmits data corresponding to an input to the first patient device.

5. The patient system according to claim 1, wherein the communication devices are configured such that they can transmit and receive radio signals.

6. The patient system according to claim 1, wherein the second patient device comprises a mobile telephone or a computer.

15. The patient system of claim 1 wherein the second user interface comprises at least one input apparatus which represents at least one input apparatus of the first user interface.

18. The patient system of claim 1 wherein the first patient device is a server and the second patient device is a client.

21. The patient system according to claim 1 wherein the second patient device is configured to send a command to the first patient device to set the mode to the push mode or the request mode, and configured to start and end a remote control mode.

7. A method for operating a patient system comprising:

providing a first patient device having a unitary first housing portable on the body of a patient, wherein the first patient device is a medicinal substance pump;

providing a second patient device having a second housing arranged remotely from the first patient device, wherein the first patient device and second patient device are configured to communicate with one another via a transmission link;

operating a data-processor in the first patient device for communication with a first user interface for the first patient device; and

communicating pixel address data relating to the first user interface between the first and second patient devices;

wherein the pixel address data is transmitted byte-wise by the first patient device;

wherein each byte corresponds to an area on a display unit of the first user interface so as to provide a display representation of the first patient device on a display unit of the second user interface;

wherein the first user interface is disposed in the unitary first housing and the data-processor is disposed fully into the unitary first housing; and

wherein the second user interface is disposed in the second housing; and

wherein the patient system can be operated in a push mode, a request mode, and by the patient via operating buttons of the first patient device, wherein the push mode comprises correspondence of the data from the first patient device to the second patient device automatically, the request mode comprises periodic requests from the second device to the first device, and wherein the operating buttons are configured so the patient can confirm information by pressing the operating buttons.

8. The method according to claim 7, wherein the pixel address data is generated by the data-processor to represent information on a display unit of the first user interface, and wherein the pixel address data is transmitted to the second patient device to represent the information on the display unit of the second user interface.

9. The method according to claim 8, wherein the second user interface comprises at least one input, and wherein data corresponding to this input is transmitted to the first patient device.

10. The method according to claim 7, wherein data is generated in the first patient device to cause an instrument in the second patient device to generate at least one of an acoustic alarm or a vibration alarm.

11. The method according to claims 7, wherein the pixel address data is transmitted from the first patient device to the second patient device upon a change of information relating to the first patient device.

12. The method according to claim 7, wherein at least one command is transmitted from the second patient device to request data relating to the first user interface.

16. The method of claim 7 wherein the second patient device further comprises a second user interface comprising at least one input apparatus which represents at least one input apparatus of the first user interface.

19. The method of claim 7 wherein the first patient device is a server and the second patient device is a client.

13. A patient system comprising:

a first patient device having a unitary first housing which is portable on the body of a patient, the first patient device comprising a first processor, a first user interface, and a first communication device for data transmission via a transmission link, wherein the first processor is operatively coupled to the first user interface and the first communication device, wherein the first user interface is disposed in the unitary first housing and the first processor is fully disposed into the unitary first housing; and

a second patient device having a second housing arranged remotely from the first patient device, the second patient device comprising a second processor, a second user interface, and a second communication device for data transmission via the transmission link, wherein the second processor is operatively coupled to the second user interface and the second communication device, wherein the second user interface is disposed in the second housing;

wherein the first processor is adapted to execute computer implemented instructions to;

generate pixel address data that represents an image on a display unit of the first user interface, and

transmit the pixel address data pixel-by-pixel, via the first communication device, to the second communication device,

wherein the second processor is adapted to execute computer implemented instructions to;

receive the pixel address data, and

display the image on the second user interface, and

wherein the first patient device is a medicinal substance pump; and

wherein the patient system can be operated in a push mode, a request mode, and by the patient via operating buttons of the first patient device, wherein the push mode comprises correspondence of the data from the first patient device to the second patient device automatically, the request mode comprises periodic requests from the second device to the first device, and wherein the operating buttons are configured so the patient can confirm information by pressing the operating buttons.

14. The patient system of claim 13, wherein the image comprises a current display readout of the first patient device.

17. The patient system of claim 13 wherein the second user interface comprises at least one input apparatus which represents at least one input apparatus of the first user interface.

20. The patient system of claim 13 wherein the first patient device is a server and the second patient device is a client.