System and method for providing remote expert communications and video capabilities for use during a medical procedure

Patent 6699187 Issued on March 2, 2004. Estimated Expiration Date:

March 26, 2021. Estimated Expiration Date is calculated based on simple USPTO term provisions. It does not account for terminal disclaimers, term adjustments, failure to pay maintenance fees, or other factors which might affect the term of a patent.

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Inventors

Assignee

Medtronic, Inc.

Application

No. 09/815728 filed on 03/26/2001

US Classes:

600/300, DIAGNOSTIC TESTING128/904, TELEPHONE TELEMETRY607/30, Remotely changing, (e.g., programming, pacer) parameters or operation715/754Multicursor (e.g., multiple on-screen pointers)

Examiners

Primary: Winakur, Eric F.
Assistant: McCrosky, David J.

International Classes

G06F 3/14 (20060101)
A61N 1/372 (20060101)
G06F 19/00 (20060101)
H04L 29/06 (20060101)
G09G 5/08 (20060101)
H04L 29/08 (20060101)

Abstract

A system is described for allowing medical data obtained at a local site to be transferred to a data processing system located at a remote site. This medical data may include video data and/or data obtained from one or more medical devices such as a fluoroscopy device or an electrocardiograph (ECG) signal monitoring device. The data may be viewed on one or more display windows of the remote data processing system to allow a remotely-located expert to participate in an examination or medical procedure being conducted at the local site. In one embodiment, the remote data processing system also receives screen data from an implantable medical device programmer that is located at the local site. This screen data may include data associated with the configuration of the programmer, the configuration of an implantable medical device, and other information obtained from a patient such as physiological waveforms. Routing of all data may be performed by a communication hub operating as a stand alone device. Alternatively, the data routing function may be implemented on the programmer.