Patent ID: 8486019
Filing Date: 2013-07-16
Classification: A61M,G16H

Abstract:
1. A wireless communication system from an IV medication infusion pump to a hospital information management system (HIMS) comprising: (a) pump operation circuitry in said IV medication infusion pump for operating said IV medication infusion pump and for continuously monitoring pre-selected characteristics of current infusion pumping operation, wherein said characteristics of current infusion pumping operation are selected from among rate of pumping, pumping pressure, start time, time of pumping, volume of pumping, dosage, size of tubing, speed of pumping motor, door open, manual programming mode, automatic programming mode, start-up testing, dosage of infusion and bolus of infusion, nurse identification, unique patient identification, a drug name, total volume of infusion, current date, current time, maximum dose limit, minimum dose limit, minimum volume to be infused, maximum volume to be infused, patient weight, and patient height; (b) a medication order transmitter capable of receiving input of a doctor's order for patient medication to be administered with an IV pump and capable of wireless transmission of an order signal representing said doctor's order for said patient medication for IV administration comprising at least one pumping operation parameter corresponding to said doctor's input order; (c) a wireless signal pump transmitter connected to said pump operation circuitry in said IV medication infusion pump for transmitting at least one wireless signal representing said pre-selected monitored current pumping operation characteristics; (d) an HIMS receiver capable of receiving said at least one wireless signal representing said pumping operation characteristics said receiver connected to said hospital management system (HIMS) for receiving said current pumping operation characteristics represented by said at least one wireless signal from said IV pump, said HIMS receiver further capable of receiving said signal representing said doctor's order; (e) a pharmacy receiver for receiving said doctor's order signal representing said doctor's order, said pharmacy receiver operatively connected to a program and a display to provide human readable information sufficient for a pharmacist to prepare the ordered medication; (f) a pharmacy transmitter for sending a delivery signal indicating that an IV medication has been delivered to a nurses station and representing that the IV medication is to be administered to a patient according to said doctor's order; (g) wherein said HIMS further comprises programming for receiving, storing and comparing said pump signal with said signal representing said doctor's order to determine whether said medication is delivered to said patient by operation of said pump according to said doctor's order; (h) wherein said HIMS further comprises programming for storing said delivery signal and for comparing said delivery signal to said order signal and/or to said pump operation characteristics signal to facilitate monitoring of the timely delivery of the IV medication to the patient according to the doctor's order and to provide a wireless signal received and displayed at the pump representing the order signal; (i) wherein said operation circuitry comprises user authorization code input circuitry at the IV pump wherein a user authorization code is required to be input at said IV pump prior to uploading said doctor's order provided by said signal representing said doctor's order received from said HIMS; and (j) said operation circuitry comprises validation circuitry requiring manual validation of said doctor's order and said pump operation characteristics, by manual activation of said pump operation at the IV pump following said display of said wirelessly transmitted doctor's order signal from said HIMS.