# US20130204145A1: System And Method For Managing Devices And Data In A Medical Environment

- Kind: Published application
- Family: System For Controlling Medical Devices (https://www.intellectualfrontiers.com/patents/system-for-controlling-medical-devices)
- USPTO status: Abandoned  --  Failure to Respond to an Office Action (as of 2017-05-30; record read 2026-09-27)
- Application: 13756445
- Filed: 2013-01-31
- Published: 2013-08-08
- Inventor: Shahid N. Shah
- Rights holder: Intellectual Frontiers LLC
- Classifications (CPC): H04L 67/02, G16H 40/67, G16H 10/60, A61B 5/0205, A61B 6/54, H04L 67/12
- Continued in part by US10638999B2

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## Abstract

A system and method for facilitating coordinated functioning of medical devices over a network. The system includes a communication circuit to receive an input indicative of an action to be performed by a first medical device from a processing unit coupled to a social health record data bank. The communication circuit is configured to send an instruction to the first medical device to initiate the action by the first medical device in association with information of a patient associated with the first medical device stored in and retrieved from the social health record data bank. The system further includes a control circuit configured to monitor the action performed by the first medical device and instruct the first medical device to pause performing the action for a defined period of time based on an instruction from the processing unit indicative of an action to be performed by a second medical device.

## Independent claims

1. A system for facilitating coordinated functioning of medical devices over a network, said system comprising: a communication circuit configured to: receive an input indicative of an action to be performed by a first medical device from among a plurality of networked medical devices, said input being received from a processing unit coupled to a social health record data bank (SHRDB); and send an instruction to said first medical device to initiate said action by said first medical device in association with information of a patient associated with said first medical device stored in and retrieved from said social health record data bank; and a control circuit configured to monitor said action performed by said first medical device and instruct said first medical device to pause performing said action for a defined period of time based on an instruction from said processing unit indicative of an action to be performed by a second medical device.

14. A method for facilitating coordinated functioning of a plurality of medical devices over a network, said method comprising: receiving an input indicative of a first action to be performed by a first medical device from among a plurality of networked medical devices, said input being received from a processing unit coupled to a social health record data bank (SHRDB); sending an instruction to said first medical device to initiate said first action by said first medical device in association with information of a patient associated with said first medical device stored in and retrieved from said social health record data bank; monitoring said first action performed by said first medical device in accordance with said instruction; and instructing said first medical device to pause performing said action for a defined period of time based on an instruction from said processing unit indicative of a second action to be performed by a second medical device.

19. A program storage device readable by computer, and comprising a program of instructions executable by said computer to perform a method for facilitating coordinated functioning of a plurality of medical devices over a network, said method comprising: receiving an input indicative of a first action to be performed by a first medical device from among a plurality of networked medical devices, said input being received from a processing unit coupled to a social health record data bank (SHRDB); sending an instruction to said first medical device to initiate said first action by said first medical device in association with information of a patient associated with said first medical device stored in and retrieved from said social health record data bank; monitoring said first action performed by said first medical device in accordance with said instruction; and instructing said first medical device to pause performing said action for a defined period of time based on an instruction from said processing unit indicative of a second action to be performed by a second medical device.

Source: https://www.intellectualfrontiers.com/patents/system-for-controlling-medical-devices/us20130204145a1