General Electric Company

Ge Medical Systems Information Technologies Gmbh

Matthew George Grubis

Bruce Arnold Friedman

Neal John Seidl

Ralph Thomas Hoctor

Matthew Richard Pekarske

David Michael Davenport

Stephen Thomas Treacy

Carl Claude Davis

Magnus Kall

Russell A Rymut

Scott Allan Fuller

Eliana Stein

Karina P Carvalho

Peter Arndt

James Hurley

Brian W Nantz

Michael James Hartman

Richard Louis Zinser

Sahika Genc

Budhaditya Deb

Louis Martin Frigo

Michael John Palmer

Syedsaad Ali

Alan John Owan

Kedar Valmik Kekan

Lee Zielinski

Peter Jager

Madeline Jay Arpin

Karina Carvalho-Bond

Jr Robert Joseph Alberte

A system for telemetrically monitoring a patient includes a remote monitoring device associated with the patient. A location services system tracks a location of the remote monitoring device. A patient tracking computer calculates a distance and a duration of patient ambulation from the tracked location. A method of monitoring an ambulatory patient monitors the location of a remote monitoring device and derives ambulatory event data from the monitored location.

System and method of using location technology to aid patient recovery

A patient monitoring system includes an identification transmitter that transmits an identification signal associated with a patient and a location tracking system having a plurality of identification receivers arranged in a care facility that receive the identification signal from the identification transmitter, wherein the location tracking system determines a patient location within a care facility based on a location of receipt of the identification signal. The patient monitoring system further includes an activity tracking module executable to receive at least one activity threshold for the patient and the patient location, and to determine a patient activity indicator based on the patient location. The activity tracking module is further executable to generate an activity alert based on a comparison between the patient activity indicator and the activity threshold.

Patient monitoring system and method for activity tracking

Systems and methods of evaluating an association between a wireless sensor and a monitored patient include a plurality of peripheral electronic devices each having a wireless communication system and a sensor. A processor receives measured physiological parameter data from the peripheral electronic devices and establishes an association status between each of the peripheral electronic devices and the monitored patient based upon identified characteristics in the physiological parameter data.

System and method of evaluating an association between a wireless sensor and a monitored patient

Wireless systems and methods include a plurality of peripheral electronic devices each having a wireless communication system. A processor is configured to establish an association confidence level indicative of a likelihood that a peripheral electronic device is associated to a monitored subject for each peripheral electronic device based on association criteria. Indicators are configured to communicate the association the association confidence level.

System and method of workflow management

Peripheral alarm device for a patient monitoring system. In an embodiment, the peripheral alarm device includes an audio speaker and an audio detector. The peripheral alarm device also includes a control system that includes circuitry configured to communicate with the audio detector and a medical software program executed by a host computing system. The audio speaker is configured to generate an audible alarm in response to alarm instructions from the host computing system. The audio detector is configured to communicate a detection signal to the control system. The control system is configured to analyze the detection signal to verify whether the audible alarm was properly generated and communicate a control signal to the host computing system. The peripheral alarm device may include a light indicator and a light detector instead of the audio speaker and the audio detector or in addition to the audio speaker and the audio detector.

Peripheral alarm devices for generating alarms and monitoring systems including alarm devices

A method for wirelessly monitoring physiological data of a patient includes emitting a timing signal from a wireless emitter, receiving a timing signal at a receiver in a wireless patient monitor, recording physiological data from the patient over time at the wireless patient monitor, wherein the time is defined according to the timing signal, and transmitting the physiological data over a wireless network of a healthcare facility. Thereafter, physiological data recorded from two or more wireless patient monitors may be aligned in time according to the timing signal to create an aligned physiological representation for the patient.

Acquisition sample clock synchronization leveraging a global clocking mechanism in a distributed physiological sensing system

A patient monitoring system includes a sensing device configured to measure physiological parameter data from a patient, an identification transmitter that transmits an identification signal, wherein the identification signal is associated with the patient, and a location tracking system having a plurality of identification receivers arranged in a care facility that receive the identification signal from the identification transmitter and determine a patient location within the care facility based on a location of receipt of the identification signal. The patient monitoring system further includes a contextual alarming module that receives the patient location and selects at least one location-specific alarm rule based on the patient location in the care facility. Physiological parameter data is then assessed by the patient monitoring system based on the location-specific alarm rule.

Patient monitoring system and method having location-specific contextual alarming

Techniques for wireless component monitoring are described herein. The techniques may include entering a low power mode to associate a radio frequency identification (RFID) component with a patient monitoring device within a first range. The techniques also include entering a high power mode wherein the patient monitoring device is to detect the RFID component within a second range of the patient monitoring device, wherein the second range is larger than the first range.

Radio frequency identification modes in patient monitoring

Patient monitoring system includes a master unit. The master unit is configured to receive signal data of the patient from a plurality of acquisition devices. The master unit is also configured to receive a warning signal from a triggered acquisition device of the plurality of acquisition devices. The warning signal is communicated by the triggered acquisition device upon determining that corresponding physiological signals of the triggered acquisition device satisfy a designated condition. In response to receiving the warning signal from the triggered acquisition device, the master unit is configured to analyze the signal data from another acquisition device of the plurality of acquisition devices to determine whether the warning signal is clinically relevant or clinically irrelevant or unreliable. The master unit may permit a patient alarm or suppress the patient alarm based on the signal data from another acquisition device.

Patient monitoring system and method configured to suppress an alarm

A processor and a system for automated provisioning of one or more wireless devices are provided. The processor includes one or more processing subsystems communicably coupled to a guest network. The one or more processing subsystems receive one or more input data signals corresponding to a service request from the wireless devices to connect to a secured backend network. The input data signals include a plurality of service connection parameters associated with the wireless devices. The service connection parameters are then authenticated with pre-stored data. Thereafter the input data signals are processed upon authentication to establish a secured communication link with the wireless devices. Subsequently a plurality of output signals corresponding to the service request to the wireless devices for automated provisioning to establish a connection with the secured backend network.

System and method for automated provisioning of a wireless device

The system and method of the present application includes a wireless transmitter adapted to receive physiological signals from a patient and to wirelessly transmit the physiological signals to a receiver, where a display device prepares the physiological signal for display on a display monitor. In one embodiment, both the wireless transmitter and receiver further include an estimation algorithm module. The estimation algorithm module in each of the wireless transmitter and the receiver calculate a physiological signal based on a collected signal. The system displays the calculated, estimated signal unless the error of the estimated signal reaches a predetermined threshold. When the estimated signal is being displayed, no transmission from the wireless transmitter is necessary.

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Milwaukee, WI, United States of America

Matthew George Grubis