US 2010/0169120 A1 · PATIENT TO DEVICE ASSOCIATION

Abstract

Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for maintaining an association between a patient and one or more medical devices are provided. Initially, an identification of a patient and at least one medical device may be received. The identification may be received by scanning a barcode, entering an identification into a computing device, or searching a database containing a plurality of patient and medical device identifications. Upon receiving the identifications, the patient and at least one of the medical devices may be associated. This association may be maintained until the patient and the medical devices are disassociated, which may be caused by a variety of occurrences, such as a disassociation by a clinician, a received indication that one of the medical devices is offline, or by a clinician overriding the association in favor of associating that medical device to another patient.

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One or more computer-readable storage media having computer-executable instructions embodied thereon, that, when executed perform a method for associating a patient to one or more medical devices, the method comprising:

receiving an identification of the patient;
receiving an identification of a first medical device;
in response to receiving the identifications of the patient and the first medical device, associating the patient and the first medical device to one another;
and
maintaining the association of the identified patient and the first medical device until an occurrence of a disassociation event, wherein the disassociation event includes one or more of a disassociation by a clinician, or an override caused by the association of another patient to the first medical device.

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A system having a processor and one or more computer-readable storage media for continually receiving data from a plurality of medical devices such that a patient, a medical device, and an order can be associated to one another, the system comprising:

a receiving component for continually receiving data from at least one medical device during a period of time when the at least one medical device is online, wherein the data is received from one or more of a direct feed from the at least one medical device, a device gateway, or a connectivity engine;
a data storing component for storing the continually received data from the at least one medical device so that the data can be accessed for querying and archiving;
a connectivity monitoring component for monitoring a connection of the at least one medical device;
a registration monitoring component for monitoring registration and deregistration events of the at least one medical device, and for maintaining a registry of the registration and deregistration events;
a determining component for determining a patient who is associated to the at least one medical device;
a routing component for routing the data from the at least one medical device to an electronic medical record corresponding to the patient;
and
a first publishing component for publishing patient test results corresponding to the at least one medical device to the electronic medical record corresponding to the patient.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

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