Infusion management
Methods, computer systems and computer readable media for receiving data from infusion pumps in a healthcare setting and displaying the data on a user device are provided. Centralized clinician views are provided to manage individual and multiple patient infusions. Embodiments provide near real-time graphical displays of infusion data to clinicians on separate user devices. In addition, near real-time graphical displays of patient physiologic data is displayed simultaneously to a clinician along with the infusion data.
1. A method for providing an alert indicating that an operation of an infusion pump is not consistent with an order, which specifies an infusion to be administered to a patient, the method comprising:
receiving an identification of the order and an identification of the infusion pump, wherein the order specifies an order infusion rate at which a fluid is to be administered to the patient;
storing an association of the order and the infusion pump to one another, wherein the association is maintained by a processing unit separate from the infusion pump;
receiving by the processing unit a continuous data feed from the infusion pump, the continuous data feed including a volume of the fluid that has been administered by the infusion pump over a time duration;
based on the volume of the fluid and the time duration, calculating an infusion rate indicating a rate at which the infusion pump has been administering the fluid;
comparing the infusion rate that was calculated to the order infusion rate to determine that the infusion rate and the order infusion rate are not consistent;
retrieving an updated infusion order that is associated with the patient and that is not associated with the infusion pump;
transmitting an alert to a mobile computing device notifying a recipient that the infusion rate and the order infusion rate are not consistent, wherein the alert includes a selectable indication of the updated infusion order;
receiving from the mobile computing device a selection of the selectable indication; and
updating the association to include the updated infusion order.
2. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
storing the association of the updated infusion order and the infusion pump in an electronic medical record for the patient.