Jan J Wittenber

US Patent:

20130118497, May 16, 2013

Filed:

Jul 26, 2011

Appl. No.:

13/811922

Inventors:

Jan Wittenber - Andover MA, US
Brian David Gross - North Andover MA, US

Assignee:

KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS ELECTRONICS N.V. - EINDHOVEN

International Classification:

A61M 16/00

US Classification:

12820423, 12820421

Abstract:

A treatment delivery system includes one or more medical therapy delivery devices () which deliver medical treatment or therapy to a patient, and one or more medical devices () which monitor results of the delivered medical therapy or treatment, clinical information, laboratory information, and health record information. The medical treatment delivery device has a proprietary communications protocol. A medical therapy delivery controller () semantically communicates among the medical device(s) and one or more medical treatment delivery devices. The controller has a user input () by which a user inputs therapy objectives in other than the proprietary communications protocol and a control processor () which generates treatment delivery device control commands, receives treatment or therapy results from a medical device (), and adaptively adjusts the control commands based on the received treatment results. The control processor accesses a clinical decision support system (), determines a physiological state of the patient from the received treatment results, and adjusts one of the therapy objectives and the control commands in accordance with input from the clinical decision support system.

US Patent:

20080154503, Jun 26, 2008

Filed:

Feb 1, 2005

Appl. No.:

10/598063

Inventors:

Jan Wittenber - Andover MA, US
John L. Barga - Bedford MA, US
Brian S. Rosnov - Melrose MA, US
Andrew G. Koschek - Ashland MA, US

Assignee:

KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS ELECTRONICS N.V. - Eindhoven

International Classification:

H04L 12/28

US Classification:

701300

Abstract:

A method for paging/finding a wireless patient-monitoring device in a WLAN network includes the steps of determining the status of a radio module (RM) () of one or more wireless monitoring devices comprising one of a Patient-Wearable Device (PWD) () and a Patient-Monitoring Device (PMD) () that are adapted for dual-communication with one of or more Access Points () and a central-monitoring station in a WLAN. The overall status of the PWD/PMD can be a plurality of meta-states including standby, inactive, active, sleep. After the status is determined, there is a selection of a particular PWD/PMD for receipt of wireless transmission of a signal that is adapted for changing a meta-state of the device to a desired state if the current state of the particular wireless monitoring device is not the desired state. An audial-code function of the particular wireless monitoring device is activated by transmitting an instructional signal to the particular wireless patient-monitoring device to emit a predetermined first audial-code that can be heard at least by a patient being monitored by the particular PWD/PMD, so that the patient is instructed to contact the nurse's station. Alternatively, or in addition thereto, a second audial tone may be broadcast that is emitted at a volume loud enough to permit a clinic or facility personnel to walk around and locate the device by the sound.