System and method for medical device identifier

• Main Authors: Semen, Timothy, Murray, Elliott
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 29.11.2019
• Subjects: CALCULATING; COMPUTING; COUNTING; ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING; HEALTHCARE INFORMATICS, i.e. INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONTECHNOLOGY [ICT] SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR THE HANDLING ORPROCESSING OF MEDICAL OR HEALTHCARE DATA; INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY [ICT] SPECIALLY ADAPTEDFOR SPECIFIC APPLICATION FIELDS; PHYSICS

Disclosed is a method for managing data associated with la home medical equipment (HME) device provided to a patient. The method comprises receiving an HME device identifier associated with the HME device. The HME device identifier is a unique identifier to distinguish the HME device provided to the patient from other HME devices registered at a computer-based records management system. A processor searches the records management system for a patient record that is associated with the HME device identifier. The search is performed by using a search key based on the HME device identifier. The processor instructs accessing a patient record if the search failing to retrieve a patient record associated with the HME device identifier and the processor stores the HME device identifier into the accessed patient record.