Distributed medical sensing system and method

摘要

A distributed medical sensing system including a first body sensing device configured to sense medical characteristics, the first body sensing device being located in a first sterile field and a second body sensing device configured to sense medical characteristics, the second body sensing device being located in a second sterile field, the second sterile field being spaced from the first sterile field. The system also includes a computing device outside of the first and second sterile fields and communicatively coupled to the first and second body sensing devices, the computing device configured to respectively receive first and second medical characteristic data from the first and second body sensing devices, process the first and second medical characteristic data, and transmit the processed first and second medical characteristic data to respective first and second user interface devices.

主权项

1. A distributed medical sensing system, comprising:
a first medical sensing device configured to collect and timestamp first medical sensing data; a second medical sensing device configured to collect and timestamp second medical sensing data, the first and second medical sensing devices being located in a first sterile field and being associated with different medical sensing modalities; a hub communicatively coupled to the first and second medical sensing devices and including a real-time clock, the hub being configured to transmit synchronization signals to the first and second medical sensing devices based on the real-time clock, wherein the first and second medical sensing devices are configured to respectively timestamp the first and second medical sensing data based on the synchronization signals received from the hub; a bedside controller communicatively coupled to the hub and configured to provide user control of the first and second medical sensing devices, wherein the bedside controller includes a touch screen display configured to provide a first graphical user interface (GUI) corresponding to at least one of the first and second medical sensing devices such that a first aspect of a medical workflow associated with the sterile field is controllable with a user input via the first GUI, wherein the first GUI is automatically provided in response to at least one of the first and second medical sensing devices being communicatively coupled to the hub, and wherein the at least one of the first and second medical sensing devices collects medical sensing data in response to a corresponding user input received at the bedside controller via the first GUI; a control room controller communicatively coupled to the hub and disposed outside of the sterile field, wherein the control room controller is configured to provide a second GUI such that a second aspect of the medical workflow associated with the sterile field is controllable with a user input via the second GUI, wherein the bedside controller and the control room controller are configured to simultaneously control the first and second aspects of the medical workflow in response to respective first and second user inputs associated with the first and second aspects of the medical workflow in the first sterile field, wherein the first and second aspects of the medical workflow are different; and a centralized computer communicatively coupled to the hub, wherein the centralized computer is configured to receive the first and second medical sensing data from the hub and temporally co-register the first and second medical sensing data based on the timestamps attached thereto.