Communication hub and storage device for storing parameters and status of a surgical device to be shared with cloud based analytics systems
AssigneeCilag GmbH International
InventorsFrederick E. Shelton, IV, Jason L. Harris, David C. Yates
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Abstract
Various surgical hubs are disclosed. A surgical hub comprises a storage device; a processor coupled to the storage device; and a memory coupled to the processor. The memory stores instructions executable by the processor to: receive data from a surgical instrument coupled to the surgical hub; and determine a rate at which to transfer the data from the surgical hub to a remote cloud-based medical analytics network based on available storage capacity of the storage device.
Claims21
1-20. (canceled)
A modular surgical system comprising:
- a hospital data barrier;
- an Electronic Medical Records (EMR) database within the hospital data barrier to store patient data using a key that uniquely identifies a patient EMR;
- a first hub within the hospital data barrier, wherein the first hub is to:
- store redacted data with a unique anonymous procedure number;
- interrogate the EMR database to retrieve the patient data and the key;
- and
- combine, by the key and the unique anonymous procedure number, the redacted data with the patient data to form an un-redacted data set;
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- a second hub within the hospital data barrier in communication with the first hub, wherein the first hub is to transmit the un-redacted data set to the second hub;
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- wherein the first and second hub are to communicate with a cloud-based analytics network located outside the hospital data barrier and the first hub is to transmit a redacted dataset to the cloud-based analytics network.
A method of operating a modular surgical system, the method comprising:
- sending, by a first surgical hub, un-redacted data to a second surgical hub within a hospital data barrier;
- redacting, by the first surgical hub, the un-redacted data to form redacted data, wherein redacting comprises removing patient data that identifies a patient;
- and
- sending, by the first surgical hub, redacted data to a cloud-based analytics network.
A method of operating a surgical hub comprising:
- interrogating, by a first surgical hub, a modular device coupled to the first surgical hub;
- receive, by the first surgical hub, from the modular device, an un-redacted data set comprising patient identity data and patient data;
- redacting, by the first surgical hub, the patient identity data from the data set to form a redacted data set;
- sending, by the first surgical hub, the un-redacted data set to a second surgical hub;
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- sending, by the first surgical hub, the redacted data set to a data analytics cloud network.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.