Welch Allyn, Inc.

Cory Russell Gondek

Song Yong Chung

Soundharya Nagasubramanian

Steven D Baker

Eric G Petersen

James J DelloStritto

Frank LoMascolo

Chad Everett Craw

Ronald James Blaszak

Dan E Goldman

Kenneth G West

Paul S Kovitz

Mahesh Narayan

Charles Alfred

Albert Goldfain

Omer Kotzer

Braxton L Lathrop

Richard A Sunderland

Grant S Gibson

Christopher Lorenzo Dunn

Robert T Lewis

Kenzi L Mudge

A medical device including a non-transitory storage device storing a plurality of modular software components programmed to provide medical device functionality is disclosed. The software components can be configured to run independently as a daemon, to be modified without recompiling unchanged software components and to communicate to each other through a software component. A system including a central unit configured to communicate with a medical device is also disclosed. A medical device software architecture stored on a non-transitory, computer readable storage medium including a plurality of modular software components programmed to provide medical device functionality is also disclosed.

Medical device, system, and software architecture for monitoring low acuity vitals

A patient care environment includes a monitoring device and a vital sign device, where the vital sign device communicates patient vital sign data to the monitoring device. A site key, entity keys, and key combining algorithms are used to secure communications in the patient care environment. Neither the site key nor the entity keys are communicated between the monitoring device and the vital sign device. The monitoring device may use the site key and entity keys to decrypt encrypted messages that have been previously stored in the vital sign device and transmitted back to any monitoring device containing the correct set of site and entity keys. The site key and entity key may also be used during the discovery and/or connection operations between the monitoring device and the vital sign device to associate a wirelessly connected vital sign device with a patient record.

Secure patient data in medical environments

An example medical device includes a physiological measurement device and a computing device. The computing device includes a device management engine and a data connectivity engine. The device management engine is configured to receive data captured by the physiological measurement device. The data captured by the physiological measurement device is formatted in a first data format. The device connectivity engine is further configured to transform the data captured by the physiological measurement device into an array of key-value pairs. The device connectivity engine is further configured to populate a template with at least some of the values from the key-value pairs to generate a populated template. The populated template includes at least a portion of the data captured by the physiological measurement device in a second data format. The device connectivity engine is further configured to transmit the populated template.

Device connectivity engine

Medical device low acuity vitals system architecture

A multi-parametric vital signs monitoring device configured for use as an ambulatory and a bedside monitor wherein the device can be patient-wearable and is battery powered. The monitoring device can be used with a charging cradle to provide power to the device in lieu of the battery as a power source for bedside applications, in which the cradle further serves as an intermediary device to enable a data link with a PC or other peripheral device. The monitoring device can include a wireless radio to enable bi-directional transfer of patient-related data to a separate remote station.

Vital signs monitor

A medical software package stored on a non-transitory, computer-readable storage medium is disclosed. The medical software package can include a plurality of software components programmed to provide one or more functionalities to one or more medical monitoring devices, where each software component is programmed to run independently as a daemon, where each software component is programmed to be modified without recompiling unchanged software components, where the software components are programmed to communicate to each other through at least one of the software components, and where the software package is hardware agnostic and operating system agnostic. A medical device including a tangible, non-transitory storage device storing a medical software package comprising a plurality of modular software components programmed to provide medical device functionality is also disclosed.

Medical device nucleus architecture

A communications protocol interface may be configured as being divisible into a core portion and an extensible portion. The extensible portion of the communications protocol interface may be further configured so that each network element can communicate a unique and optimally small subset of actual interoperable data that corresponds to at least a portion of a larger defined data set. A software generator program may be configured to generate a set of extensible source code that operates upon the subset of actual data and that directs the execution of the extensible portion of the communications protocol interface for a particular network element.

Communication of information between a plurality of network elements

A communications protocol interface is configured as being divisible into a core portion and an extensible portion. The extensible portion of the communications protocol interface is further configured to be customized in scope so that each network element can communicate a unique and optionally small, subset of actual interoperable data that corresponds to at least a portion of a larger defined data set. A software generator program is configured to generate a set of extensible source code that operates upon the subset of actual data and that directs the execution of the extensible portion of the communications protocol interface for a particular network element.

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Tigard, OR, United States of America

Cory Russell Gondek