System for displaying and controlling medical monitoring data
AssigneeMasimo Corporation
InventorsBilal Muhsin, Nicholas Evan Barker
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Abstract
A first medical device can acquire a physiological parameter value from a patient and communicate the physiological parameter value to a medical network interface. The medical network interface can link a patient ID associated with the physiological parameter and a device ID associated with the first medical device with the medical network interface's device ID. The medical network interface can pass the physiological parameter value to a second medical device for further processing or routing to another medical device.
Claims20
A pulse oximetry system operable to measure a blood parameter of a patient and transmit the blood parameter together with third party medical device parameters to a remote device, the system comprising:
- a patient monitor configured to measure the blood parameter of the patient by obtaining a signal from an optical sensor coupled to the patient, wherein the signal corresponds to light attenuated by body tissue of the patient;
- a wireless dongle;
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- a medical network interface, the patient monitor configured to communicate with the medical network interface which transmits the measured blood parameter and the third party medical device parameters from a third party medical device across a hospital network, the medical network interface comprising:
- a plurality of ports, at least one of which is configured to receive the wireless dongle;
- a network interface controller configured to implement a wireless communications stack;
- a memory configured to store processor-executable instructions;
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- a processor programmed to execute the instructions to:
- supply the wireless dongle with information sufficient to enable the wireless dongle to provide wireless connectivity to the third party medical device;
- wirelessly pair with the wireless dongle in response to receiving a signal from the third party medical device, which occurs in response to the wireless dongle being inserted into the third party medical device;
- subsequent to the pairing, wirelessly receive a data stream from the wireless dongle, the data stream comprising an identifier of the third party medical device and the third party medical device parameters associated with the patient;
- associate with the data stream, an identifier of the patient, an identifier of the medical network interface, and an identifier of the patient monitor to produce a modified data stream;
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- transmit the modified data stream, the measured blood parameter, and the third party medical device parameters across a hospital network to enable the modified data stream and the measured blood parameter to be accessed by a clinician.
A method of transmitting standalone medical device parameters to a remote device, the method comprising:
- detecting an insertion of a wireless dongle into a port of a medical network interface;
- in response to said insertion,
- supplying the wireless dongle with an identifier to enable the wireless dongle to communicate an identifier of a standalone medical device upon insertion of the wireless dongle into the standalone medical device;
- subsequent to removal of the wireless dongle from the port of the medical network interface,
- receiving, with a hardware processor, a signal from the standalone medical device to wirelessly pair the medical network interface with the dongle, the signal comprising the identifier previously supplied to the wireless dongle;
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- subsequent to the pairing,
- supplying one or both of a visual or audible indication that the pairing has been successful,
- wirelessly receiving a data stream from the standalone medical device, the data stream comprising patient data associated with a patient, and
- associating with the data stream, an identifier of the patient and an identifier of the medical network interface, to produce a modified data stream;
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- transmitting the modified data stream across a hospital network to a server so as to enable distribution of the modified data stream to a plurality of devices from the server.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.