Patent ID: 8551070
Filing Date: 2013-10-08
Classification: A61M,G16H

Abstract:
1. A method of programming a infusion pump system, the method comprising: removably attaching a first reusable controller device to a disposable pump device, the first controller device housing a first memory device comprising user profile information, the pump device housing medicine and a drive system to dispense the medicine from the pump device in response to electrical control signals output from the first reusable controller device directly to the pump device, the pump device housing a pump memory device, wherein the first reusable controller device transmits the user profile information from the first memory device housed inside the controller device to the pump memory device housed inside the pump device; detaching the pump device from the first reusable controller device; and after said detaching the pump device from the first reusable controller device, removably attaching the pump device to a second reusable controller device, wherein a second memory device housed within the second controller device receives and stores the user profile information from the pump memory device housed within the pump device.