Patient Context Workflow

This blog post is intended as a high level review of the issues surrounding the creation and management of patient context for data acquired from medical devices. This post is not a definitive explanation of all factors associated with patient context, nor does it provide “the answer” to any particular patient context need. The intent of this post is to describe different requirements, technologies and workflows that impact the requirements and design of optimal patient context management. The goal here is to flesh out a framework to think about and discuss patient context and how it can impact patient safety and user acceptance. Connectivity enabled medical devices send patient data right out of the medical device to a network, be it a body area network, cellular broadband network, home or enterprise network. The network then conveys this medical device data to databases and applications that store, display and manipulate the data. When a medical device is directly attached to a patient, there is no question as to which patient the device data belongs. As soon as the data leaves the actual medical device via the serial port or a network connection, the association of that data with a particular patient is no longer obvious. Much of the data used in establishing and maintaining patient association or patient context comes from, or is stored in, the patient management database. Patient management workflow is an important enabling component in the overall connectivi...
Source: Medical Connectivity Consulting - Category: Technology Consultants Authors: Tags: connectivity Patient Safety Source Type: blogs