Patent ID: 11881297
Assignee: ICU MEDICAL, INC.
Field: Medical technology (Instruments)
Classification: CPC G  A | IPC A  G

Claim 11:
12. A method to provide update data to a plurality of infusion pumps that are located within one or more clinical environments and configured to deliver medication according to one or more drug libraries to one or more patients, the method comprising:
receiving messages that include clinical information from a plurality of infusion pumps over a first channel of a first network, the apparatus configured to communicate with the plurality of infusion pumps over the first network that is within a clinical environment and communicate with a server over a second network that is outside of the clinical environment, the apparatus comprising computer hardware and memory having an outbound message queue;
receiving messages that include clinical information;
receiving the update data over the second network;
storing the update data as blocks of update data;
receiving a request for the update data over a first channel of the first network from one or more infusion pumps of the plurality of infusion pumps;
determining a status based at least in part on a size of the outbound message queue; and
streaming over a second channel of the first network, based at least in part on the status, the stored blocks of update data to a group of requesting infusion pumps, wherein the group of requesting infusion pumps comprises a predetermined number of infusion pumps that is less than all of the plurality of infusion pumps, wherein streaming further comprises streaming the stored blocks of update data to the group of requesting infusion pumps and approximately concurrently streaming a second block of update data different from the first block of update data to a second subset of the group of requesting infusion pumps.