US 9,218,454 B2 · Medical monitoring system

Abstract

Medical patient monitoring devices that have the capability of detecting the physical proximity of a clinician are disclosed. The medical patient monitoring devices may be configured to perform a selected action when the presence of a clinician is detected. Systems and methods for facilitating communication between medical devices that use different medical communication protocol formats are also disclosed. For example, a medical communication protocol translator can be configured to receive an input message formatted according to a first protocol format from a first medical device and to output an output message formatted according to a second protocol format supported by a second medical device using a set of translation rules. Medical monitoring reporting systems are also disclosed. The medical monitoring reporting systems may be used to analyze a stored collection of physiological parameter data to simulate the effect of changing various medical monitoring options.

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A medical patient monitoring device for displaying information associated with one or more medical patients, the medical patient monitoring device comprising:

a housing comprising
an interface configured to receive information associated with at least one patient;
a display configured to display the information;
a processor configured to control the information appearing on the display;
and
a detector for detecting the physical presence of a clinician token within a detection area originating from the detector inside the medical patient monitoring device housing, the clinician token being indicative of the identity of a clinician, and the detector being configured to recognize detection of the clinician token only after receiving a wireless signal from the clinician token whose strength exceeds a user-configurable signal strength threshold for a period of time that is greater than a user-configurable proximity time threshold,
wherein the processor is further configured to take a first predetermined action comprising transmitting physiological information to a remote device in response to detection of the clinician token, the first predetermined action being associated with the identity of the clinician.

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