Patent ID: 9717845
Date: 2017-08-01
CPC Classifications: A61M,G16H

Claim:
1. A medical therapy system for both approved and trial therapies, the medical therapy system comprising: an infusion pump having a case, the case containing a processor, memory, a drive mechanism, a reservoir, communication hardware and a sensor suite; and the sensor suite including a global positioning system (GPS) receiver to determine GPS coordinates of the infusion pump, the GPS receiver being coupled to the processor that executes first instructions stored in the memory, the first instructions corresponding to an approved therapy, the processor executing second instructions stored in the memory when the location of the infusion pump is within a safe zone defined around specified GPS coordinates, wherein the safe zone is a measured distance around the specified GPS coordinates, the second instructions corresponding to a trial therapy, wherein in response to detecting the location of the infusion pump as being removed from the safe zone, operation of the infusion pump reverts to executing the first instructions.