SE1300790A1 - Medical protective lockout system for procedures and appliances - Google Patents

Abstract

A medical lockout security system for routines and devices that can be integrated internally or externally afterwards in all electronic medical equipment that provides treatment or diagnostic medical care to patients. The methods include both the patient's approval process, verification of the patient's confirmation and consent to the medical procedure, and the nurse's approval process, confirmation of the patient's identity and appropriate clinical countersignations. The device and the methods provide a very reliable and dependable patient protection when using electronic medical equipment.

Description

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION This invention relates to the field of electronic medical devices and improves patient safety. A background discussion follows that focuses on general industry practice bile electronic medical devices for daily practical use and general risks and mistakes of the medical device industry. Definition of general terms: PATIENT SAFETY - Patient safety is a professional discipline that emphasizes reporting, analysis and prevention of ward injuries.

IDENTIFICATION METHODS Identification methods are unique methods that can be used to make a positive identification of a specific patient. Examples of general medical identification methods are photo ID, full name, medical record number, date of birth and barcode bracelet. Less common identification methods for the medical industry are biometric methods such as fingerprints, handprints, retinal scans, etc.

POSITIVE PATIENT IDENTIFICATION - mandatory standards for confirmation of the patient's identity before medical yard or treatment is started. The British National Health Service (NHS) documentation describes the general process of the medical industry as follows: "Patients are better off than others who themselves are the ones who must confirm their identity when this is possible. This is not always the case (eg in the case of cognitive problems) and consideration must always be given to this.

PATIENT SARRYING RULES - refers to principles and procedures used by healthcare professionals to reduce and prevent ward injuries. There are universal standards for industry organizations, regulators and international groups such as the World Health Organization and the United Nations.

ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD (EMR) (ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD); ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORD (MH) (the ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORD) - the general trend in the medical industry is that paper documents and processes are in decline in the form of electronic systems. These describe the patient's medical information, in electronic form instead of paper. This means significant changes in terms of workflow, people and systems when using electronic medical records or electronic medical records in comparison with historical paper documentation.

PROCEDURES FOR USING MEDICAL EQUIPMENT - refers to principles and procedures specific to electronic medical equipment and the medical departments and technicians who use the equipment.

MEDICAL EQUIPMENT OR ELECTRONIC MEDICAL EQUIPMENT - generally refers to medical devices, apparatus, machines or devices that provide medical or diagnostic medical treatment to patients. (3 MEDICAL EQUIPMENT RESPONSIBLE OR MEDICAL EQUIPMENT OPERATOR - generally refers to p1 trained personnel who are designated to safely and effectively control or handle medical equipment for the purpose of treating or diagnosing patients. Sometimes referred to as medical technicians.

NURSE - refers to p1 professionals and trained people including doctors, nurses and medical technicians with more limited responsibilities. Everyone provides service to the patient.

BACKGROUND DISCUSSION: Initiatives for patient safety and quality improvements have been and continue to be important in industry coverage both in the US and internationally. Medical centers and professionals in the United States are widely known for being pioneers in the industry and innovators of medical devices, medical care, and medical safety standards and supervision. Offering high-quality patient care with guaranteed patient safety is the primary and most important task for healthcare professionals and medical administrators.

Continued innovations in products and devices that protect patient safety and deliver high-quality medical care meant public benefit and provide a significant and meaningful effect.

Consider the extent and consequences of property damage, which are quickly summarized from a small selection of published articles, and it can be seen that there is a continuing need for innovations in this area: Medical mistakes can exacerbate a medical crisis, sometimes with tragic results. On average, 2.4 US hospital patients are exposed to at least one medical error per day, and medical errors contribute to the deaths of more than 7,000 hospital patients each year in the United States. [1] RD 2001-2012 Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. 8/28/2012] One third of X-rays and radiological incidents consist of examinations performed on the wrong patient. According to the Health and Medical Services Commission, ionizing straining can be harmful and increase the risk of cancer in extreme cases. Although the majority lggadoses, computed tomography pose a risk. of the incidents reported involved a total of 80 incidents of where the radiation doses are high and could [2] RD 1998-2012 NetDoctor.co.uk - 3/14/2008] Current practice in healthcare meant in principle that double identification methods are used , which means that the patient's identity is checked with tvA or several unique identification methods. Current methods for identifying the patient prior to a medical procedure in the United States typically include, for example, two identification methods based on patient enrollment, including photo ID (ie, national ID) and date of birth, which are then matched with the patient's unique hospital hospital serial number. (MRN). When initiating a medical procedure, the medical staff usually confirms two or more methods of identification orally as a check that it is "the right patient." In recent arenas, hospitals and clinics have switched to electronic methods for positive patient identification, primarily "barcode technology" such as barcode bracelets or labels for both patients and their medications. These labels are checked by the healthcare professional before the medicine is given or the medical procedure is started. This is a reasonable procedure given that patients have been subjected to many examinations, drugs and transfers to a medical facility with a high pace and high load.

When it comes to the general use of radiology and radiation therapy, patients are usually identified by the medical technician when they enter the treatment room. This identification often takes place with e.g. a photo ID and an oral confirmation of the patient's date of birth. A new development in the industry Or that an open-ended closed-value bracelet with facilities. has the industry to a large extent under barcode For becomes standard on the patient am manga Or required bracelet with barcode.

A shortcoming with the bar code technique is that the bar code is only a single identification method which can lead to confusion even if the bar code labels are used. The potential risk remains with the medical technician (ie an individual) to identify and confirm that it orthog patient and procedure: This is a manual process as dual identification methods are not electronically proven with current industry practice. To emphasize current and future trends, the medical industry is highly standardized on universal barcode scanning and patient correlation among various electronic medical records and electronic scheduling systems, including security and financial billing systems. The barcode is the identification method, which is a barcoded MRN number that matches each unique patient.

Despite the positive trends, it can be a challenge to prevent mistakes and incorrect identification of facilities where different languages are spoken, where patients' names are similar, where the load is high and where high tempo and high stress levels lead to staff working with patients they neither meets routinely or Unner in person.

Gallant trend towards barcodes and biometric identification methods in the medical industry: Common mu for patient identification systems should include • High level of patient safety standards; Reduced responsibility for hospitals; Verification of the identity of unconscious patients.

Older language barriers; And prevent medical identity theft. [3] ["Biometrics offers many benefits by preventing duplicate medical records," Michael Trader. Defining patient verification and identification in terms of health and medical care] Current medical standards do not bar code the medical technician treating 3 2.1 with the help of medical equipment: Staff are today identified by usernames and passwords of most electronic medical devices (ie today are standard computer consoles with Microsoft Windows and other built-in operating systems that control the medical equipment).

In summary, the standard for the medical industry, more specifically for the United States, is electronic medical records (EMR) that use barcode methods to obtain a positive identification of patients and medications. Barcode methods also record medications and procedures stored under EMR auditing and invoicing. The industry has largely distributed EMR systems and these are aiming to become the norm for practice in the United States. In practice, this meant that a bar-coded MRN serial number existed for each patient as a unique identification method.

What concerns patient safety remains the risk of incorrect patient identification and the risk of medical equipment being used by unauthorized or unqualified staff. This challenge affects bide providers mom the medical industry, and most importantly alit, patients at risk of ward injuries. In short, these risks can lead to serious injuries as a result of relatively simple mistakes.

Sources: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Material published on the Internet, August 28, 2012.

NetDoctor.co.uk. Material published on the Internet, March 14, 2008. [3] Healthcare trade magazine: "Biometrics offers many benefits to prevent duplicate medical records. Michael Trader. August 17, 2012.

Part 2 BRIEF SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION A medical lockout security system for routines and devices that can be integrated internally or externally in retrospect in any electronic medical device that provides treatment or diagnostic medical yard to patients. Both the patient and the operator of the medical device are positively identified and agree to authorized medical treatment or diagnosis, including both radiological and other medical devices. This system consists of a unique combination of three central modules and delivers a very reliable and reliable patient protection when modern medical equipment is used.

FIG. 1 shows the logic behind the business process for the important component modules with connections to external equipment, according to the principles of the invention.

FIG. 2 shows examples of connections to sellers of medical equipment and examples of connections to commercial manufacturers of biometric lasers and identification units, according to the principles of the invention.

FIG. 3 shows a logical connection to sellers of medical equipment and the two-way information flow.

Referring to FIG. 1, the patient approval process (block 1) and the healthcare provider approval process (block 2) work in conjunction with the interconnected module process (block 3) to ensure dual security of medical equipment (block 5) via interface connections (blocks 7 and B ) shown in dashed lines. The biometric lasers (block 6) can be any public or proprietary technical laser. The overall resulting dual security check requires that all three electronic processes match and be described as the basic security module (circled in Figure 4).

Referring to FIG. 2, the basic security module (4) connects to electronic medical equipment with connections and data flow time specified by the supplier of the electronic medical equipment. Examples of connections can be medical equipment (5), laser scanner lasers (11), fingerprint lasers (12), smart card readers (13) or other biometric lasers (14).

Referring to FIG. 3, interface connections (8) lead data flan the medical equipment (9) and return data and load signals to the medical equipment (10). These are the logical data flows between the basic security module (4) and the medical equipment (5)

Claims (7)

CLAIMS The patent claims are: Claim I (original): The invention consists of a medical device and method which applies a timeout and a medical safety load based on the function of, in combination and in plurality with, a positive identification of the patient and a positive identification of the paramedic ( na), by means of a technical aid internally or externally in general electronic equipment; when in operation, the medical device requires a plurality, i.e., two, positive, biometric identification methods provided by the range of commercially available thumbprint lasers (which trademark or supplier heist), in one embodiment, or alternatively by a commercially available biometric reader (which trademark or which supplier heist), in different procedures. Claim 2 (original): A method, including named device in claim 1, wherein said medical device internally handles these biometric identification methods, with plurality, in a patent-protected and confidential manner which we call a "patent-protected security token". Such a security token guarantees specific, one-to-one, positive identification of the patient and the caregiver (s), in plurality. Claim 3 (original): A method, including the name device in claim 1, wherein the name medical device requires positive patient identification available from all commercially available biometric lasers (which trademark or supplier is heist), in particular this positive patient identification includes and certifies the patient's consent and approval by means of the medical device. Claim 4 (original): A method, including the device mentioned in claim 1, wherein said medical device requires positive patient identification available from all commercially available biometric lasers (which trademark or supplier is heist), and this positive identification of paramedics includes and certifies the paramedic's verification of the procedure matches the patient using the medical device. Claim 5 (original): A device and method including the named device of claim 1, wherein the medical safety device is internally incorporated into any commercially available medical medical device as heist, in various embodiments, including integration with radiological equipment of various types and technologies, including equipment such as provides radiation therapy, electron, proton or radio frequency therapy (RF), and also those performing exposure with radiological imaging equipment such as diagnostic imaging, MRI, PET-CT, X-ray, sonic, radiofrequency (RF) or infrared equipment, and also medication equipment asomfusion pumps, smart pumps, anesthesia equipment and related equipment, having regard to the fact that commercially available medical treatment equipment is not covered by this invention. Claim 6 (original): A device and method including the named device of claim 1, wherein the device and method are physically formed in a single circuit board (i.e., circuit board or sample board [sometimes "printed circuit board")) or a single chip (i.e., with industry terminology application specific integrated circuit, ASIC) Claim 7 (original): A device and method including named device in claim 1, wherein the medical security device is internal to any medical software and controls or communicates with electronic medical equipment (ie the invention claims). software for implementation only). Claim 8 (original): A device and method including the name device of claim 1, wherein the medical security device includes additional software (audit logging software) that communicates with external electronic medical equipment and systems, and this module reports the patient and paramedic identification that is done there. the medical equipment is used via standardized data communication such as HL7 or XML interface to any external information system heist, and this audit reporting can be used for medical invoicing and to prevent medical fraud. (‘) MEDICAL PROTECTION LOCKOUT SYSTEM FOR PROCEDURES AND DEVICES 13 / 731,214SCHNEIDER, DAVID ET.AL. Biometric 4 * .FIG. I <Reader I. • Biometric •• „.... / 6 S. 4. .. Reader:. •% Device .." 1. ,,, .. • :::: ../ 7 •• Clinician Accept Module '-3; Device .000 OOOOO •••• * • __' 111 •• c * 1 Patient Accept Module ore •••• „•• • • • • • • Er •• _ • 2. 118 04 70.. *** ••• °. 1. 8 • Interlock Module • Medical 4. Equipment ** 4 MEDICAL PROTECTION LOCKOUT SYSTEM FOR PROCEDURES AND DEVICES 13 / 731,214SCHNEIDER, DAVID ET.AL. FIG .. 2 1. / F • ingerprint N Reader • 2. •• • • ** •• 4: • 3. ...... 4. • .. a. 5.. a i ..... ...: Medical ••. i Face Scarf% 2 1 Equipment \ \. Reader.: - • • • 6.: Smartcard ••: Other $: 7.. Reader **, Biometric • •. •• Readers 111-12 13 \ -14,. (6) MEDICAL PROTECTION LOCKOUT SYSTEM FOR PROCEDURES AND DEVICES 13 / 731,214SCHNEIDER, DAVID ET.AL. +