36 results about "Wireless healthcare" patented technology

A fluid infusion system as described herein includes a number of local “body network” devices, such as an infusion pump, a handheld monitor or controller, a physiological sensor, and a bedside or hospital monitor. The body network devices can be configured to support communication of status data, physiological information, alerts, control signals, and other information between one another. In addition, the body network devices can be configured to support networked communication of status data, physiological information, alerts, control signals, and other information between the body network devices and “external” devices, systems, or communication networks. The networked medical devices are configured to support a variety of wireless data communication protocols for efficient communication of data within the medical device network. In addition, the wireless medical devices may be configured to support a number of dynamically adjustable wireless data communication modes to react to current operating conditions, application-specific data content, or other criteria.

A wireless medical signal processing system for health monitoring is disclosed which achieves high wireless link reliability / security, low power dissipation, compactness, low cost and supports a variety of sensors for various physiological parameters. The system includes a medical signal processor which communicates with a wireless distributed sensor system as its peripheral for detecting physiological parameters of the person and for providing signals indicative thereof. The medical signal processor wirelessly receives the signals from the distributed wireless sensor system in a multiplexed fashion and processes the signals to provide an indication of the health of the person. The indication of health could relate to a disease state, general health or fitness level of a person. The system also includes a mobile device for receiving the indication of the health of the person to allow for a diagnosis or treatment of the person.

A fluid infusion system as described herein includes a number of local “body network” devices, such as an infusion pump, a handheld monitor or controller, a physiological sensor, and a bedside or hospital monitor. The body network devices can be configured to support communication of status data, physiological information, alerts, control signals, and other information between one another. In addition, the body network devices can be configured to support networked communication of status data, physiological information, alerts, control signals, and other information between the body network devices and “external” devices, systems, or communication networks. The networked medical devices are configured to support a variety of wireless data communication protocols for efficient communication of data within the medical device network. In addition, the wireless medical devices may be configured to support a number of dynamically adjustable wireless data communication modes to react to current operating conditions, application-specific data content, or other criteria.

The present invention relates to a system and corresponding method for a secure end-to-end patient healthcare system which includes wireless medical sensors adapted to be attached to a patient's body and in communication with each other forming a body sensor network within a wireless medical sensor network including one or more body sensor networks; λ-secure keying means incorporated into each wireless medical sensor for enabling secure communications between the wireless medical sensors, and a personal security manager within the body sensor network and in communication with the wireless medical sensors within the body sensor network, the personal security manager providing secure communications with backend services and providing security relationships within the body sensor network by means of the λ-secure keying means, wherein the λ-secure keying means are such that a coalition of no more than λ compromised wireless medical sensors conceals a pairwise key between any two non-compromised wireless medical sensors and provides protection against node compromise until λ+1 wireless medical sensors have been compromised.

Described herein are methods, devices and systems for simple organization, visualization and use of genome data (e.g. human genome data) on electronic devices (e.g. portable devices). In some embodiments, the data are organized and / or visualized according to phenotype traits, genes, and / or markers in a similar manner to the organization and / or visualization of digital music contents. This concept allows a new procedure for genomic data organization and facilitates the development of genomic data visualization tools. The methods described herein can be implemented with consumer-oriented software on electronic devices, computers, and portable devices, for the use of genomic related data in the field of personalized medicine for predictive, preventive and participative wireless healthcare.

A system and method for effecting communication between a plurality of healthcare measurement devices and a remote patient monitoring server is disclosed. In one embodiment, a method of effecting communication between the healthcare measurement devices and the remote patient monitoring server, includes communicating with an healthcare gateway device using a common gateway protocol to receive translated data via a plurality of translation units associated with a plurality of device communication modules residing in wired and wireless healthcare measurement devices, and communicating with the remote patient monitoring server using a plurality of remote protocols residing in a plurality of remote communication modules to transmit the received translated data. In some embodiments, the healthcare gateway device is communicatively coupled between the healthcare management devices and the remote patient monitoring server.

Provided herein are medical sensors and related methods for measuring a real-time personal metric. The medical device may comprise an electronic device having a sensor comprising an accelerometer and a bidirectional wireless communication system electronically connected to the electronic device for sending an output signal from the sensor to an external device and receiving commands from an external controller to the electronic device.

A family health surveillance method based on an Android mobile phone system comprises a mobile phone device, a wireless medical sensor device, a pre-alarming and alarming device and a distress calling device. Data are interacted and commands are given between the mobile phone device and the wireless medical sensor device through a data transmission module and a wireless network. Meanwhile, the data transmission module is utilized by the wireless medical sensor device for transmitting data to the mobile phone device. The distress calling device sends out a distress signal through a wireless communication module, transmits the distress signal to a data server to be processed and meanwhile sends the distress signal to the mobile phone device. All medical sensors are independent from one another. Each medial sensor has an information collection module, one data transmission module and a microprocessor. According to the family health surveillance method based on the Android mobile phone system, a physiological sign collecting device is designed in a small-size mode, a mobile phone is used as a data processing terminal and a display module of the physiological sign collecting device, the mobile communication network technology and the wireless sensor network technology are fully utilized, the overall cost is effectively reduced, and the product performance is improved.

The invention provides a wireless medical data transmission method through which doctors and nurses can communicate with each other timely and effectively to save time for patients to see a doctor and accept treatment. The wireless medical data transmission method includes that the doctors upload prescriptions and advice information to a wireless AP (Access Point) through wireless terminals, the nurses upload nursing information to the wireless AP through wireless terminals, and the above information is uploaded to a POE (Power over Ethernet) switch and then uploaded to a core switch; and when the POE switch is remotely distant from the core switch, a convergence switch is connected in, and the POE switch is connected to the core switch through the convergence switch.

A method and apparatus for connectivity management of a wireless device is provided, such as a wireless medical device. The method comprises providing a wireless connection between at least two medical devices, the at least two medical devices comprising a primary medical device and a secondary medical device, causing the primary medical device to transmit and the secondary medical device to receive state signals wirelessly across a plurality of communication data channels, and reporting a non-active state for one of the plurality of data channels from the primary medical device to the secondary medical device using the plurality of communication data channels.

Provided herein are medical sensors and related methods for measuring a real-time personal metric. The medical device may comprise an electronic device having a sensor comprising an accelerometer anda bidirectional wireless communication system electronically connected to the electronic device for sending an output signal from the sensor to an external device and receiving commands from an external controller to the electronic device.

The invention discloses a medical health care system based on a wireless sensor network and a realization method thereof. The medical health care system comprises a wireless medical care sensor node, gateway equipment, a PDA (personal digital assistant) machine or terminal user equipment in sequential and mutual connection, wherein the wireless medical care sensor node is in charge of regularly collecting medical care data and sending the data to the gateway equipment, the gateway equipment is in charge of sending the received medical care data to the PDA machine or the terminal user equipment through a wireless local network, the wireless sensor node adopts a multi-type high-precision pathological information collecting module, a high-integration physiotherapy control and processing module and a multi-cooperated-mode wireless medical care sensor node energy supply module, the accuracy of the collected multi-type data can be ensured, a wireless communication module facing a ZigBee technology is adopted, the data transmission speed is accelerated, and the stability of a physiotherapy care system is ensured.

Data transmission structure in two stages is adopted in the invention. First stage is transmission between terminal for collecting basic life parameters and access point of collecting terminal. First stage is implemented through short-range wireless transmission technique. Second stage is transmission between access point of collecting terminal and service devices as well as monitoring terminals. Second stage is implemented through wireless local area network or wired network. The system is suitable hospital, other health organization and community medical service. In monitoring region, It is point to point connection between terminal carried by monitored person and access point fixed in room, household and other possible location through short range wireless communication mode. Wireless local network is built in connect access points or each access point is connected to wired network. The said basic life parameters of monitored person are gathered, processed and displayed at service devices and monitors.

A system (10) automatically configures and sets up an ad hoc wireless medical network (40) is disclosed. Wireless peer devices (221, 222, , 22n) each includes a peer BCC interface module (241, 242, , 24n) for authenticating a patient and transmitting device identification of a selected peer device (221, 222, , 22n), and a short-range network interface module (301, 302, , 30n) for setting up communication connection between the peer devices (221, 222, , 22n). An active identification device (28), which is linked to the patient (14), authenticates each selected peer device (221, 222, , 22n) and automatically associates each selected peer device (221, 222, , 22n) with the patient (14). A patient BCC interface module (36), coupled with the patient (14), transmits network parameters from the active identification device (28) to the peer devices (221, 222, , 22n).

The invention discloses a wireless medical sensor network user identity authentication protocol based on biological characteristic information. The identity authentication protocol mainly comprises four stages: a user registration stage, a user login stage, an authentication and key negotiation stage and a password changing stage. The standard for measuring the advantages and disadvantages of theuser identity authentication protocol is based on whether various security attacks can be resisted or not, the calculation complexity and the communication overhead. Finally, by utilizing the advantages that the human body biological characteristic information is unique, easy to carry, difficult to copy and the like, the human body biological characteristic information is combined with the identity authentication system of the wireless medical sensor network, so that the identity authentication system can be accepted only under the condition that the two pieces of biological characteristic information are matched. According to the identity authentication method, the human body biological characteristic information, the intelligent card and the password are used as three factors of identityauthentication, security is high, reliability is high, and the identity authentication method is suitable for being applied to a wireless medical sensor network.

The invention discloses a remote lightweight ultrasonic robot diagnosis and treatment system based on cloud computing. The remote lightweight ultrasonic robot diagnosis and treatment system comprisesa processor configured on a cloud server, display control equipment and a lightweight ultrasonic robot, wherein ultrasonic imaging computation is completed on a cloud end; the display control equipment can communicate with the cloud processor; the lightweight ultrasonic robot can communicate with the cloud processor; the display control equipment is located at a doctor end; and the lightweight ultrasonic robot is located at a patient end. The system can be applied to pre-hospital treatment, sharing of wireless medical data in hospitals and multidisciplinary remote consultation. An ultrasonographer can directly obtain data of medical history of a patient, laboratory examination and other imaging examination from the cloud end; and meanwhile, a connection with a far-end expert is established, and expert consultation and quality control information is acquired in real time. Configurations of the processor, a memory and the like, including ultrasonic imaging computation, are placed in thecloud end, so that the volume of the ultrasonic robot can be greatly reduced, light weight of the ultrasonic robot is realized, the price of the ultrasonic robot is reduced, and application is popularized.

The present invention provides, in at least one embodiment, a device, system, and method for remote healthcare. A personal health server device is connected to one or more wired or wireless medical devices. The medical devices monitor medical data such as heart rate, body weight, oxygen saturation, medical adherence, blood coagulation, blood pressure, glucose, temperature, or activity level. The personal health server device stores the medical data from the medical devices and wirelessly transmits the medical data to web enabled browsers through a cellular carrier using a cellular carrier signal such as 3G, 4G, or LTE, with no need for an internet connection.

The invention discloses an implanted type circularly polarized antenna applied to wireless medical telemetering. The implanted type circularly polarized antenna comprises an antenna radiating unit, ametal floor, upper and lower layer dielectric substrates and a feeding unit, wherein the antenna radiating unit is printed between the upper and lower layer dielectric substrates, the metal floor is arranged on the lower surface of the lower layer dielectric substrate, and the antenna radiating unit comprises a triangular structure, an arrow structure and a slit structure. The implanted type circularly polarized antenna disclosed by the invention has the advantages of small size, high gain, interference resistance, biocompatibility and the like.

The invention relates to a wireless healthcare system, which comprises sickbed calling subunits in a hospital with patients, outside-hospital mobile calling units for the patients outside the hospital, a nurse workstation query unit and a hospital host, wherein the nurse workstation query unit is connected with each calling subunit in the hospital and corresponding toilet calling units respectively; portable receivers are arranged about the nurse workstation query unit; the outside-hospital mobile calling units are configured with a mobile caller respectively; and the nurse workstation query unit is provided with display screens in hospital corridors. The wireless healthcare system has the advantages that: the wireless healthcare system combines a low-radiation, low-power, high-wireless receiving sensitivity and zero-electromagnetic interference frequency modulation (FM) wireless coding technology and a mobile communication technology to achieve convenience of communication between the patients and medical personnel and environmental friendliness and avoid radiation, avoids wiring and construction cost, is convenient to overhaul, high in cost performance and favorable for realizing classification calling and data transfer, and can effectively respond to emergencies, reduce medical disputes and remotely monitor information about the patients.

A system and method for effecting communication between a plurality of healthcare measurement devices and a remote patient monitoring server is disclosed. In one embodiment, a method of effecting communication between the healthcare measurement devices and the remote patient monitoring server, includes communicating with an healthcare gateway device using a common gateway protocol to receive translated data via a plurality of translation units associated with a plurality of device communication modules residing in wired and wireless healthcare measurement devices, and communicating with the remote patient monitoring server using a plurality of remote protocols residing in a plurality of remote communication modules to transmit the received translated data. In some embodiments, the healthcare gateway device is communicatively coupled between the healthcare management devices and the remote patient monitoring server.

The invention discloses a privacy protection and secure communication method suitable for a wireless medical sensor network, which mainly comprises the following steps: system initialization generation, KGC generation of a system master key and a master public key, and construction of a secure hash function; secret value generation: the medical sensor node generates a pseudonym by using the randomly selected secret value; a partial private key is generated, and the KGC generates a temporary partial private key through the selected random value, the master key and the public key; a complete secret value is generated, and after the medical sensor node calculates a complete partial private key, a specific public and private key pair is set; generating a signature; verifying the signature; generating an aggregation signature; and aggregated signature verification. According to the method, a signature is linearly constructed through a secret value, a part of private keys and a plurality of hash functions, so that malicious attacks of malicious KGC and malicious medical sensor nodes on a sensor network are ensured to the greatest extent; the authentication of two communication parties, the integrity of data and the like are effectively ensured, so that the legality of identities and the validity of information can be ensured.

A system and method for effecting communication between a plurality of healthcare measurement devices and a remote patient monitoring server is disclosed. In one embodiment, a method of effecting communication between the healthcare measurement devices and the remote patient monitoring server, includes communicating with an healthcare gateway device using a common gateway protocol to receive translated data via a plurality of translation units associated with a plurality of device communication modules residing in wired and wireless healthcare measurement devices, and communicating with the remote patient monitoring server using a plurality of remote protocols residing in a plurality of remote communication modules to transmit the received translated data. In some embodiments, the healthcare gateway device is communicatively coupled between the healthcare management devices and the remote patient monitoring server.

The present disclosure relates to a navigation system for placing a medical device into a patient. The system may include an external unit configured to be disposed on a chest of the patient, the external unit having: a radiating element configured to produce a first radio frequency (“RF”) signal; and a plurality of three-axis sensors configured to receive a second RF signal. The system may also include a medical device such as a catheter. The catheter may have: a first antenna configured to receive the first RF signal and produce an alternating current; a rectifier configured to convert the alternating current into a direct current; a frequency generator configured to produce a second RF signal that is received by the plurality of three-axis sensors. The RF signals received by the plurality of three-axis sensors may be used to determine a position of the catheter relative to the external unit.

Described herein are methods, devices and systems for simple organization, visualization and use of genome data (e.g. human genome data) on electronic devices (e.g. portable devices). In some embodiments, the data are organized and / or visualized according to phenotype traits, genes, and / or markers in a similar manner to the organization and / or visualization of digital music contents. This concept allows a new procedure for genomic data organization and facilitates the development of genomic data visualization tools. The methods described herein can be implemented with consumer-oriented software on electronic devices, computers, and portable devices, for the use of genomic related data in the field of personalized medicine for predictive, preventive and participative wireless healthcare.

The invention discloses a wireless medical monitoring system, which is used for solving the problems that in the prior art, lines are too many and inconvenient to manage due to the fact that differentdevices of a monitoring system need to be connected through wires, and monitors need to be replaced when postoperative patients are transferred due to the fact that the lengths of the wires are not adjustable. The wireless medical monitoring system comprises an acquisition device which is installed on a predetermined part of a patient or an appointed position near the patient and is used for acquiring physical sign information of the appointed part of the patient; a wireless transmitting device which is electrically connected with the acquisition device and used for transmitting the physicalsign information to a wireless receiver through a wireless network; the wireless receiver used for receiving the physical sign information and providing the physical sign information for the monitor;and the monitor used for carrying out data analysis and processing on the sign information and displaying a monitoring result obtained after data analysis and processing according to a preset mode soas to realize real-time monitoring on the patient. The system provided by the invention is portable and can realize wireless real-time uninterrupted monitoring.

A system and method for effecting communication between a plurality of healthcare measurement devices and a remote patient monitoring server is disclosed. In one embodiment, a method of effecting communication between the healthcare measurement devices and the remote patient monitoring server, includes communicating with an healthcare gateway device using a common gateway protocol to receive translated data via a plurality of translation units associated with a plurality of device communication modules residing in wired and wireless healthcare measurement devices, and communicating with the remote patient monitoring server using a plurality of remote protocols residing in a plurality of remote communication modules to transmit the received translated data. In some embodiments, the healthcare gateway device is communicatively coupled between the healthcare management devices and the remote patient monitoring server.

The present invention provides a method for managing wireless devices in a wireless medical body area network MBAN, comprising: based on all wireless devices of said MBAN, by sharing identification data, battery status and communication between wireless devices of said wireless MBAN performance to configure the MBAN, wherein the MBAN includes at least one sensor and at least one hub; provides at least short-range communication and long-range communication to a plurality of wireless devices; and configures a first wireless device of the wireless MBAN based on battery status and communication performance become the master device. Thereafter, the method includes: if the battery status and communication performance of the main device drops below a second wireless device of the wireless MBAN, configuring the second wireless device as a new main device; and The battery status and communication capabilities of the wireless devices of the wireless MBAN, routing data transmissions within the wireless MBAN.

The invention provides a wireless medical camera device, which comprises a wireless handheld terminal and an image processing terminal; the wireless handheld terminal communicates with the image processing terminal through a first 5G wireless communication network. According to the camera device disclosed by the invention, the power consumption of the wireless handheld terminal can be effectivelyreduced, the size of the wireless handheld terminal is reduced, the wireless transmission capability is improved, and the like. The invention further provides a wireless medical endoscope image pickupsystem and an image pickup method of the wireless medical image pickup device.

Methods, systems, devices and apparatuses for secure low power communication. The secure lower power communication system includes a medical device and one or more mobile devices. The medical device includes a memory, a network access device and one or more processors. The network access device has multiple hardware device addresses. The multiple hardware devices addresses include a first addressand a second address. The network access device is configured to wirelessly communicate with a mobile device. The medical device includes one or more processors coupled to the memory and the network access device. The one or more processors are configured to execute instructions stored in the memory and perform operations. The operations include establishing a first secure communication channel between the medical device and an application using the first address. The operations include transmitting advertising packets to remain discoverable by the application using the second address.