Tagging pump messages with identifiers that facilitate restructuring
AssigneeICU Medical, Inc.
InventorsBen Xavier, Dennis Krabbe, Larry Enger
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Abstract
Various techniques for facilitating communication with and across a clinical environment and a cloud environment are described. For example, a method for tagging messages with facility identifiers in a manner that does not require changing the identifiers when logically re-arranging the facilities. A connectivity adapter in the clinical environment can receive a message from an infusion pump and tag the message with only permanent IDs such that when the facility in which the connectivity resides is categorized under a different system or region, the identifiers in the message need not be updated.
Claims20
A method for tagging messages from infusion pumps residing in a clinical environment, the method comprising:
- processing a pump message including information about an infusion pump residing in the clinical environment;
- tagging the pump message with a facility identifier indicative of a facility associated with the infusion pump and an account identifier indicative of an account associated with the infusion pump, wherein the facility is below the account in a hierarchical structure, and wherein the hierarchical structure includes one or more intermediate levels that are between the facility and the account in the hierarchical structure;
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- transmitting the tagged pump message to a remote server such that the facility identifier of the tagged pump message and the account identifier of the tagged message need not be changed by the remote server in response the facility being moved within the hierarchical structure.
An apparatus configured to tag messages from infusion pumps residing in a clinical environment, the apparatus comprising:
- one or more processors;
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- one or more memories in communication with the one or more processors and storing computer-executable instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, configure the one or more processors to:
- process a pump message including information about an infusion pump residing in the clinical environment;
- cause the pump message to be tagged with a facility identifier indicative of a facility associated with the infusion pump and an account identifier indicative of an account associated with the infusion pump, wherein the facility is below the account in a hierarchical structure, and wherein the message is not tagged with at least one other identifier indicative of an intermediate level that is between the facility and the account in the hierarchical structure;
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- cause the tagged pump message to be transmitted to a remote server such that the facility identifier of the tagged pump message and the account identifier of the tagged message need not be changed by the remote server in response the facility being moved within the hierarchical structure.
Non-transitory physical computer storage storing computer-executable instructions that, when executed by one or more computing devices, configure the one or more computing devices to:
- process a pump message including information about an infusion pump residing in the clinical environment;
- cause the pump message to be tagged with a facility identifier indicative of a facility associated with the infusion pump and an account identifier indicative of an account associated with the infusion pump, wherein the facility is below the account in a hierarchical structure, and wherein the message is not tagged with at least one other identifier indicative of an intermediate level that is between the facility and the account in the hierarchical structure;
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- cause the tagged pump message to be transmitted to a remote server such that the facility identifier of the tagged pump message and the account identifier of the tagged message need not be changed by the remote server in response the facility being moved within the hierarchical structure.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.