Regulatory compliant transmission of medical data employing a patient implantable medical device and a generic network access device

US8103346B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Cardiac Pacemakers, Inc. · US

Inventors

• William R. Mass · Minneapolis, US
• Greg Paul Carpenter · Centerville, US
• Daniel Kollmann · Andover, US
• Arthur Lai · Minnetonka, US
• Philip G. Dion · Blaine, US
• Thomas R. Phillips · Cicero, US
• Aaron Matthew Eash · San Francisco, US

Key dates

• Filing date: May 5, 2009
• Grant date: Jan 24, 2012
• Expiry date: Mar 11, 2030

Classification

• Technology area (CPC A): Human Necessities
• CPC primary: A61N1/37282
• WIPO field: Medical technology
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

Various embodiments concern a method which may include communicating medical information between a PIMD and an interface module via a first channel in compliance with a predetermined medical information regulatory standard, preventing access to the PIMD via the interface module other than through the first channel, detecting a communication protocol used by an available generic network access device, selecting a communication protocol rule set from a plurality of communication protocol rule sets to effect communication between the interface device and an available generic network access device of a plurality of generic network access devices, and transferring at least some of the medical information to the remote network via a second channel established between the interface module and the available generic network access device using the selected communication protocol rule set.