Remote Control Authentication for Life-Critical Medical Devices
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Solution Overview
Problem
Perioperative care requires near-continuous monitoring of multiple patients and coordination among care providers, which can be cumbersome and time-consuming, especially when supervising clinicians need to manage multiple patients from different locations.
Innovation Solution
A supervisory application that enables remote control of life-critical medical devices, such as anesthesia machines, through a remote device authenticated by proximity, allowing real-time data collection and analysis, and secure, single-user control to facilitate simultaneous monitoring and management of multiple patients.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If multiple patient monitoring devices monitor multiple patients with near-continuous monitoring, then patient safety and response capability improve, but device complexity and coordination burden increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines multiple patient monitoring devices into a unified networked system where devices communicate through a common network infrastructure. This merging allows centralized coordination and reduces the burden on individual devices while maintaining comprehensive monitoring capabilities across multiple patients.
Solution Approach 2:
The monitoring system is designed with universal communication protocols and interfaces that allow different types of monitoring devices to work together through a common platform. This multi-functionality enables the system to handle various monitoring tasks through standardized mechanisms, reducing complexity.
2Adaptability or versatility
If care providers coordinate patient care manually, then flexibility and adaptability are maintained, but time consumption and resource stretching increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces an intermediary communication layer that automatically facilitates coordination between care providers and monitoring devices. This intermediary handles data exchange and coordination tasks automatically, reducing manual intervention time while preserving the ability to adapt to different care scenarios.
3Ease of operation
If remote control of life-critical medical devices is enabled, then accessibility and response capability improve, but security risks and control reliability challenges increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary authentication and authorization checks before allowing remote control access to life-critical devices. By establishing security credentials and permissions in advance, the system enables remote accessibility while maintaining control security and reliability.
4Reliability
If authentication protocols are implemented for remote device access, then security is improved, but access time and operational complexity increase
Solution Approach 1:
Authentication credentials and permissions are established in advance through preliminary authentication protocols. This allows the system to verify remote device access rights quickly without time-consuming authentication during critical operations, balancing security with operational efficiency.
Data Source
AI summary
Systems and methods are provided herein for remotely controlling a life-critical medical device. In one example, a system includes a life-critical medical device communicatively coupled to a remote device and configured to supply a medical therapy to a patient, the life-critical medical device including a display and memory storing instructions executable to output, to the display, a graphical user interface (GUI) that displays a plurality of real-time machine settings of the life-critical medical device, responsive to a first user input, display, via the GUI, a remote control panel including a session code usable to authenticate the remote device, and responsive to receiving an indication from an access server that the remote device has been authenticated, display, on the GUI, a notification indicating that the life-critical medical device is currently controlled by the remote device.