Extensibility for manipulation of medical data

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10404776-B2
Application number	US-201715497506-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Apr 26, 2017
Priority date	Mar 31, 2010
Publication date	Sep 3, 2019
Grant date	Sep 3, 2019

Abstract

A method for extending a functionality of a computing device programmed to obtain physiological measurements from a patient includes: registering, at the computing device, a plug-in module, the plug-in module providing additional functionality for the computing device; using the plug-in module to communicate with a medical device; commanding the medical device to obtain physiological information from a patient; receiving data associated with the physiological information from the medical device; and transferring the data to a central repository.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method for extending a functionality of a vitals monitoring workstation programmed to obtain physiological data from a patient, the method comprising:
providing, at the vitals monitoring workstation, a plug-in module, wherein the vitals monitoring workstation is not configured to communicate with a medical device;
extending the functionality of the vitals monitoring workstation to communicate with the medical device through the plug-in module, wherein extending the functionality includes the plug-in module registering an information schema for a measurement supported by the plug-in module;
receiving, at the vitals monitoring workstation, the physiological data associated with the patient from the medical device, the physiological data being collected from the medical device by the plug-in module, and the plug-in module providing the physiological data to the vitals sign monitoring workstation; and
performing an operation on the physiological data using the information schema.

2. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
manipulating the physiological data at the vitals monitoring workstation; and
transferring the data to a central repository.

3. The method of claim 2 , further comprising providing a trend of the physiological data.

4. The method of claim 1 , further comprising displaying the physiological data.

5. The method of claim 1 , further comprising incorporating the physiological data in a report.

6. The method of claim 5 , further comprising incorporating the physiological data in a report template defined by the plug-in module.

7. The method of claim 1 , wherein the plug-in module is a vitals plug-in, the vitals plug-in facilitating vitals measurement acquisition.

8. The method of claim 1 , further comprising operating within a workflow.

9. The method of claim 8 , further comprises operating within a monitoring workflow, wherein the monitoring workflow includes obtaining a series of measurements of one or more physiological parameters of the patient.

10. The method of claim 8 , further comprising operating within a non-monitoring workflow.

11. The method of claim 10 , further comprising operating within a spot check workflow or a triage workflow.

Assignees

• Welch Allyn Inc

Inventors

• Irwin John H
• Magee Marshall W
• Pingel Mark E
• Arnold Gary L
• Gamble David D
• Rynkiewicz David E
• Hoch Michael D
• Robinson James M
• Bobowski Matthew J

Classifications

• G06F9/44526

  Plug-ins; Add-ons · CPC title

• G16H40/40

  for the management of medical equipment or devices, e.g. scheduling maintenance or upgrades · CPC title

• H04L67/02 Primary

  based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP] · CPC title

• G16H10/60 Primary

  for patient-specific data, e.g. for electronic patient records · CPC title