Method and system for associating patient records with pulse generators
First Claim
1. A method of associating patient information with medical devices, the method comprising:
- broadcasting a discovery message over a wireless network, the discovery message requesting a plurality of nearby medical devices to each return a query response;
receiving the plurality of query responses from the plurality of nearby medical devices, wherein each query response includes a patient record stored in the respective medical device, and wherein the patient record include an electronic identifier for the respective medical device and visual identification information of a respective patient associated with the medical device;
concurrently displaying portions of the plurality of patient records on a display screen, wherein each portion of the displayed patient record includes the electronic identifier of the respective medical device and the visual identification information of the respective patient associated with the medical device; and
detecting, in response to a user interaction with the electronic identifiers of the medical devices or the visual identification information of the patients, a selected medical device for programming.
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Abstract
The present disclosure involves a medical system. The medical system includes a medical device configured to deliver a medical therapy to a patient and store an electronic patient record that includes visual identification information of the patient. The medical system includes a clinician programmer configured to program the medical device. The clinician programmer includes a display screen. The clinician programmer includes a transceiver configured to conduct electronic communication with external devices. The clinician programmer includes a memory storage configured to store machine-readable code. The clinician programmer includes a computer processor configured to execute the machine-readable code to: establish an electronic communication with the medical device via the transceiver; and display the electronic patient record, including the visual identification information of the patient, on the display screen after the electronic communication has been established.
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42 Claims
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1. A method of associating patient information with medical devices, the method comprising:
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broadcasting a discovery message over a wireless network, the discovery message requesting a plurality of nearby medical devices to each return a query response; receiving the plurality of query responses from the plurality of nearby medical devices, wherein each query response includes a patient record stored in the respective medical device, and wherein the patient record include an electronic identifier for the respective medical device and visual identification information of a respective patient associated with the medical device; concurrently displaying portions of the plurality of patient records on a display screen, wherein each portion of the displayed patient record includes the electronic identifier of the respective medical device and the visual identification information of the respective patient associated with the medical device; and detecting, in response to a user interaction with the electronic identifiers of the medical devices or the visual identification information of the patients, a selected medical device for programming. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14)
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15. A portable electronic programmer for programming one or more medical devices to deliver a medical therapy to a patient, the portable electronic programmer comprising:
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a communications module configured to conduct electronic communication with external devices; a touch screen module configured to receive an input from a user and display an output to the user; a memory storage module configured to store machine-readable instructions; and a computer processor module configured to execute machine-readable instructions to perform the following tasks; discovering, at least in part via the communications module, a plurality of nearby medical devices; extracting a plurality of patient records from at least a subset of the nearby medical devices, wherein each patient record is stored electronically in a respective one of the nearby medical devices in the subset, and wherein each patient record contains visual identification information for a respective patient and a unique identifier for the medical device on which the patient record is stored; and displaying an arrangement of the plurality of patient records on the touch screen module, including concurrently displaying excerpts of the plurality of patient records, wherein each displayed excerpt of the patient record contains the visual identification information for the respective patient and the unique identifier for the respective medical device associated with the respective patient. - View Dependent Claims (16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23)
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24. A medical system, comprising:
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a medical device configured to deliver a medical therapy to a patient and store an electronic patient record, the electronic patient record containing a unique identifier of the medical device, personal information of the patient that includes visual identification information of the patient, and one or more treatment programs for programming the medical device to deliver the medical therapy to the patient; and a clinician programmer configured to program the medical device, wherein the clinician programmer includes; a display screen; a transceiver configured to establish electronic communications with a plurality of nearby medical devices that each store a respective electronic patient record, the medical device being one of the plurality of nearby medical devices; a memory storage configured to store machine-readable code; and a computer processor configured to execute the machine-readable code to; display an arrangement of the plurality of electronic patient records on the display screen, including concurrently displaying excerpts of the plurality of electronic patient records, wherein each displayed excerpt of the electronic patient record contains the visual identification information of the patient associated with the electronic patient record and the unique identifier of the respective medical device associated with said patient. - View Dependent Claims (25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35)
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36. A medical system, comprising:
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one or more programmable pulse generators each configured to deliver a respective stimulation therapy to a respective patient, wherein the one or more programmable pulse generators each include; a transceiver component configured to conduct telecommunications with an external electronic programmer to receive one or more stimulation programs; a first memory storage divided partitioned into a plurality of partitions, wherein a first one of the partitions is configured to store the stimulation programs, and wherein a second one of the partitions is configured to store an electronic patient record containing personal information of the patient including visual identification information of the patient, wherein the first one of the memory partitions is configured to block data associated with the personal information of the patient from being written therein, and the second one of the memory partitions is configured to allow the personal information of the patient to be updated through password-protected access but prevent the personal information of the patient from being replaced by personal information of a different patient; and microcontroller and stimulation circuitry configured to generate electrical pulses of the stimulation therapy based on the stimulation programs; and the electronic programmer configured to program the one or more programmable pulse generators, wherein the electronic programmer includes; a touch-sensitive graphical user interface configured to receive an input from a user and display an output to the user; a communications component configured to conduct electronic communications with the one or more programmable pulse generators; a second memory storage configured to store machine-readable code; and a computer processor configured to execute the machine-readable code to display, via the touch-sensitive graphical user interface, an arrangement of the electronic patient records stored on the one or more programmable pulse generators, including concurrently displaying excerpts of the electronic patient records, wherein each displayed excerpt of the electronic patient record contains the visual identification information of the patient associated with the electronic patient record and a unique identifier of the respective programmable pulse generator associated with said patient. - View Dependent Claims (37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42)
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