Prescription compatibility checking for a medical device

Inventors

Chamney, Paul • Cohen, Harvey

Assignees

Fresenius Medical Care Deutschland GmbH • Fresenius Medical Care Holdings Inc

Abstract

A medical treatment machine, such as a home dialysis machine, can receive prescription parameters that define parameters of a medical treatment to be administered to a patient. A medical prescription is entered by a clinician into a clinical information system (CIS) that calls a system to evaluate the compatibility of the entered prescription by transmitting the prescription parameters to a server that has access to a database of medical devices and their operational parameters. The server compares the treatment parameters of the medical prescription to the operational parameters of the medical device and generates a prescription compatibility response indicting if the treatment parameters of the medical prescription can be executed by the medical device. The server returns to the CIS the prescription compatibility response to allow the prescription, e.g. in a digital or program form, to be securely transmitted or delivered via a connected health system to the medical device.

Core Innovation

The invention relates to determining compatibility between a medical prescription and a medical device. Patient data comprising prescription parameters is received, where the prescription parameters comprise treatment parameters for use in conducting a medical procedure according to the medical prescription on a patient using the medical device.

Operational parameters of the medical device are determined by accessing a database containing sets of operational parameters respectively associated with medical devices. A compatibility check is performed by comparing values of the prescription parameters to ranges determined by the operational parameters of the medical device, and a prescription compatibility response is generated based on the compatibility check.

The prescription compatibility response indicates whether the prescription parameters of the medical prescription are able to be executed by the medical device to conduct the medical procedure. In certain embodiments, operational parameters include capacity limits, and a simulated outcome of the medical procedure is calculated based on the medical prescription and the medical device’s operational parameters.

Claims Coverage

The provided set includes one independent claim. The independent claim covers end-to-end compatibility determination by comparing received prescription parameters to device operational-parameter ranges from a database, generating a compatibility response, and authorizing either execution on the device or denial of transmission.

Overall, the independent claim requires receiving prescription-related patient data, looking up device operational parameters from a database, performing compatibility checking by comparing prescription-parameter values to device-determined ranges, and generating a compatibility response that drives either authorized device treatment or denial of authorization to transmit the prescription parameters.

Stated Advantages

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