Wireless Patient Monitoring System and Method

A patient monitoring system comprising:

• at least two wireless sensing devices, each wireless sensing device configured to measure a different physiological parameter from a patient and wirelessly transmit a parameter dataset;
• a receiver that receives each parameter dataset from each of the at least two wireless sensing devices;
• a processor;
• a monitoring regulation module executable on the processor to:
• assign one of the at least two wireless sensing devices as a dominant wireless sensing device and at least one of the remaining wireless sensing devices as a subordinate wireless sensing device, wherein the physiological parameter measured by the dominant wireless sensing device is a key parameter and the parameter dataset transmitted by the dominant wireless sensing device is a key parameter dataset;
• determine a stability indicator for the key parameter based on the key parameter dataset from the dominant wireless sensing device;
• and
• control a measurement operation of the subordinate wireless sensing device based on the stability indicator for the key parameter.

A method of monitoring a patient, the method comprising:

• providing two or more wireless sensing devices, each wireless sensing device configured to measure a different physiological parameter from a patient and communicatively connected to a computing system having a processor;
• assigning at the processor one of the at least two wireless sensing devices as a dominant wireless sensing device and at least one of the remaining wireless sensing devices as a subordinate wireless sensing device;
• operating the dominant wireless sensing device to measure a key parameter from a patient and wirelessly transmit a key parameter dataset;
• determining a stability indicator for the key parameter based on the key parameter dataset;
• and
• selectively operating the at least one subordinate wireless sensing device based on the stability indicator for the key parameter.

A method of monitoring a patient, the method comprising:

• providing two or more wireless sensing devices, each wireless sensing device configured to measure a different physiological parameter from a patient and communicatively connected to a computing system having a processor;
• assigning at the processor one of the at least two wireless sensing devices as a dominant wireless sensing device and at least one of the remaining wireless sensing devices as a subordinate wireless sensing device;
• operating the dominant wireless sensing device to measure a key parameter from a patient and wirelessly transmit a key parameter dataset;
• determining a stability indicator for the key parameter based on the key parameter dataset;
• and
• selectively operating the at least one subordinate wireless sensing device based on the stability indicator for the key parameter, wherein selectively operating the subordinate wireless sensing devices includes operating at least one of the subordinate wireless sensing devices when the stability indicator for the key parameter is outside of a predetermined range.