Relocation module and methods for surgical equipment

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11219570-B2
Application number	US-202117376469-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jul 15, 2021
Priority date	Mar 26, 2018
Publication date	Jan 11, 2022
Grant date	Jan 11, 2022

Abstract

Modules for housing electronic and electromechanical medical equipment including a system to measure and record administration of one or more IV medications or fluids for IV administration.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. An automated data consolidation module including a module for housing waste-heat producing electronic and electromechanical medical equipment and a system to receive and record data produced by the electronic and electromechanical medical equipment, the automated data consolidation module comprising:
a housing configured to house the electronic and electromechanical medical equipment;
a cowling that substantially confines waste heat generated by the electronic and electromechanical medical equipment; and
processing circuitry in electrical communication with the electronic and electromechanical medical equipment to receive digital data produced by the electronic and electromechanical medical equipment;
wherein the digital data is automatically delivered to the processing circuitry, and the processing circuitry is configured to automatically save the digital data to an electronic record or database.

2. The automated data consolidation module of claim 1 , wherein data produced by the electronic and electromechanical medical equipment mounted in or on the module can be automatically consolidated by the processing circuitry in electrical communication with the electronic and electromechanical medical equipment.

3. The automated data consolidation module of claim 1 , wherein data produced by the electronic and electromechanical medical equipment mounted near the module can be automatically consolidated by the processing circuitry in wired or wireless electrical communication with the electronic and electromechanical medical equipment.

4. The automated data consolidation module of claim 1 , wherein the electronic and electromechanical medical equipment mounted in or on the module can be required to produce digital data that one or more of conforms to a specific data standard, is in specific data formats, fills in specific data fields for each type of electronic and electromechanical medical equipment and is delivered instantly to the processing circuitry.

5. The automated data consolidation module of claim 1 , wherein the processing circuitry is configured to structure and organize the consolidated data from the electronic and electromechanical medical equipment so that it can most effectively populate a “big data” database for subsequent “big data” analytics.

6. The automated data consolidation module of claim 5 , wherein the processing circuitry is configured to translate data that does not conform to a specific data standard or specific data formats.

7. The automated data consolidation module of claim 5 , wherein the processing circuitry is configured to add time stamps or other indicators of time so that unrelated data can be temporally correlated during subsequent “big data” analysis.

8. The automated data consolidation module of claim 5 , wherein the processing circuitry is configured to determine if a continuous recording of a data stream is desirable and then continuously record or if intermittent recording of data is adequate in the case of slow-changing or non-changing data, to record intermittently.

9. The automated data consolidation module of claim 5 , wherein the processing circuitry is configured to do data preparation including filtering and cleaning so that the data submitted to a “big data” database is accurate and complete.

10. The automated data consolidation module of claim 9 , wherein the filtering and cleaning includes comparing data from several sensors using Sensor Fusion in order to detect clearly erroneous data from a faulty sensor or faulty connection.

11. The automated data consolidation module of claim 5 , wherein the processing circuitry is configured to perform one or more of batch processing and stream processing to the data.

12. The automated data consolidation module of claim 5 , wherein the processing circuitry is configured perform as a processing node in a “big data” parallel processing system.

13. An automated data consolidation module comprising:
a housing configured to house waste heat-producing electronic and electromechanical medical equipment;
a cowling that substantially confines waste heat generated by the waste heat-producing electronic and electromechanical medical equipment;
a system to receive and record data produced by the electronic and electromechanical medical equipment; and
processing circuitry in electrical communication with the electronic and electromechanical medical equipment to receive digital data produced by the electronic and electromechanical medical equipment;
wherein the digital data is automatically delivered to the processing circuitry, and the processing circuitry is configured to temporally correlate the digital data and automatically save the temporally-correlated digital data to an electronic record or database.

14. The automated data consolidation module of claim 13 , wherein data produced by the electronic and electromechanical medical equipment mounted in or on the module can be automatically consolidated by the processing circuitry in electrical communication with the electronic and electromechanical medical equipment.

15. The automated data consolidation module of claim 13 , wherein data produced by the electronic and electromechanical medical equipment mounted near the module can be automatically consolidated by the processing circuitry in wired or wireless electrical communication with the electronic and electromechanical medical equipment.

16. The automated data consolidation module of claim 13 , wherein the processing circuitry is configured to structure and organize the consolidated data from the electronic and electromechanical medical equipment so that it can most effectively populate a “big data” database for subsequent “big data” analytics.

17. The automated data consolidation module of claim 16 , wherein the processing circuitry is configured to translate data that does not conform to a specific data standard or specific data formats.

18. The automated data consolidation module of claim 16 , wherein the processing circuitry is configured to add time stamps or other indicators of time so that unrelated data can be temporally correlated during subsequent “big data” analysis.

19. The automated data consolidation module of claim 16 , wherein the processing circuitry is configured to determine if a continuous recording of a data stream is desirable and then either (a) continuously record or (b) record intermittently in the case of slow-changing or non-changing data if intermittent recording of data is adequate.

20. The automated data consolidation module of claim 16 , wherein the processing circuitry is configured to do data preparation including filtering and cleaning so that the data submitted to a “big data” database is accurate and complete.

21. The automated data consolidation module of claim 20 , wherein the filtering and cleaning includes comparing data from several sensors in a technique called Sensor Fusion in order to detect clearly erroneous data from a faulty sensor or faulty connection.

22. The automated data consolidation module of claim 16 , wherein the processing circuitry is configured to perform one or more of batch processing and stream processing to the data.

23. The automated data consolidation module of claim 16 , wherein the processing circuitry is configured perform as a processing node in a “big data” parallel processing system.

24. An automated data consolidation module including a module for housing unrelated electroni

Assignees

• Augustine Biomedical Design Llc

Inventors

• Augustine Scott D
• Augustine Susan D
• Augustine Garrett J
• Augustine Brent M
• Augustine Ryan S
• Arnold Randall C

Classifications

• A61B46/10

  specially adapted for instruments{, e.g. microscopes} · CPC title

• G16H10/60

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

• A61M2205/6072

  Bar codes · CPC title

• A61M2205/505

  Touch-screens; Virtual keyboard or keypads; Virtual buttons; Soft keys; Mouse touches · CPC title

• A61M2005/3126

  Specific display means related to dosing · CPC title