User assistance system for reusable medical devices
AssigneeOlympus Winter & Ibe GmbH
InventorsThorsten Juergens, Kristin Rosenkranz
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Abstract
A user assistance system for reusable medical devices and a method for monitoring processing. The user assistance system includes data glasses and a data memory in which a plurality of type datasets are saved that each include information relating to an identifying feature of a specific medical device type, and information relating to instructions for reprocessing these medical device types. The user assistance system records a user identifying feature and activates an associated user profile, to record a location identifying feature and to activate an associated location profile, and to display, as visual information, instructions assigned to the active user profile and the active location profile for reprocessing the medical device.
Claims20
A user assistance system for reprocessing reusable medical devices, the user assistance system comprising:
- data glasses comprising:
- a camera,
- an imaging optical module with a projection surface,
- a data memory in which a plurality of type datasets are saved that each comprise information relating to an identifying feature of a specific medical device type, and information relating to instructions for reprocessing the specific medical device type, and
- one or more processors configured to:
- project visual information onto the projection surface arranged within the field of vision of a user of the data glasses,
- record an image of a reusable medical device with the camera,
- compare the image data of the image with the information relating to the identifying features in the type datasets,
- identify a type of the reusable medical device using the identifying feature available within the image,
- activate a type profile assigned to an associated type dataset,
- record a user identifying feature and compare the user identifying feature with user datasets saved on the data memory which each comprise information relating to at least one user identifying feature and, in the event of correspondence, to activate a user profile assigned to the user dataset,
- record a location identifying feature and compare the location identifying feature with location datasets saved on the data memory which each comprise information relating to at least one location identifying feature and, in the event of correspondence, to activate a location profile assigned to the location dataset,
- retrieve information from the data memory relating to instructions for reprocessing medical devices that are assigned to at least one type profile, at least one user profile and at least one location profile, and
- display the instructions for reprocessing the medical device assigned to the active type profile, the active user profile and the active location profile as visual information on the projection surface.
A method for monitoring the processing of reusable medical devices, wherein a plurality of type datasets for different types of reusable medical devices and information relating to instructions on the reprocessing of the medical device types are saved in a data memory, and information is present in each type dataset relating to an identifying feature of a specific medical device type, the method comprising:
- projecting visual information onto a projection surface arranged in a field of vision of a user of data glasses,
- recording at least one image of the reusable medical device with a camera, comparing image data of the image with the information relating to the identifying feature in the type datasets, identifying a type of the reusable medical device using an identifying feature available within the image, and activating a type profile assigned to an associated type dataset,
- recording a user identifying feature and comparing the user identifying feature with user datasets saved on the data memory which each comprise information relating to at least one user identifying feature and, in the event of correspondence, activating a user profile assigned to the user dataset,
- recording a location identifying feature and comparing the location identifying feature with location datasets saved on the data memory which each comprise information relating to at least one location identifying feature and, in the event of correspondence, activating a location profile assigned to the location dataset, and
- wherein the data memory comprises information relating to instructions for reprocessing the medical device that is assigned to at least one type profile, at least one user profile and at least one location profile, and the method further comprising displaying the instructions for reprocessing the medical device assigned to the active type profile, the active user profile and the active location profile as visual information on the projection surface.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.