Patent ID: 8652093

Claim:
A method of programming remote medical pumps using a medical pump including a housing, a pump mechanism supported by the housing and providing a pump adapted to work with an IV line together with at least one sensor sensing a parameter of material flowing through the IV line, a wireless network circuit, an electronic controller supported by the housing and communicating with the wireless network circuit, the pump and at least one sensor, the electronic controller executing a program stored in non-transitory computer readable storage medium to: (a) connect to a wireless network; (b) communicate over the wireless network to submit a search query to a database on the wireless network providing a patient identification; (c) display a search query result of at least one patient to a user to receive input from the user to select a given patient from the search query result; (d) receive pump programming data from the database related to the given patient; (e) convert the pump programming data into data for controlling the medical pump; and (f) operate the medical pump according to the converted data, the method comprising the steps of: (a) connecting a wireless device to a network communicating with a database providing information identifying patients to pump programming data related to treatment of the patient; (b) communicating a search query from the wireless device over the network to the database to identify at least one given patient; (c) receiving search results from the database at the wireless device, the search results including pump programming data linked to patients; (d) selecting pump programming data related to the given patient; (e) converting the pump programming data into data for controlling a medical pump; and (f) operating the medical pump according to the converting data.