Patents by Inventor Michael G. Sica

Michael G. Sica has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 9734301
    Abstract: Systems and methods can support presenting patient alarms to clinical care users. An alarm management system can maintain a mapping of patients to users as well as user context information. The alarm management system can receive alarm indications from medical devices associated with the patients along with alarm context information associated with the alarm indication. The alarm management system can determine a target user among the users according to evaluating the mapping of patients to users, the user context information, and the alarm context information. The alarm management system can determine a notification modality according to evaluating the alarm indication, the target user, a portion of the user context information associated with the target user, and the alarm context information. The alarm management system can transmit the alarm indication, the alarm context information, and the notification modality to a mobile device for presentation to the target user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2017
    Assignee: Voalte, Inc.
    Inventors: Benjamin King, Sethumadavan Sanjay-Gopal, Michael G. Sica, Philip N. Fibiger, Donnie C. Fletcher
  • Patent number: 9649073
    Abstract: Systems and methods can support usage modeling and the intelligent management of patient alarms. An alarm management system can maintain models of patient alarm operations. Modeling parameters related to clinical user behavior and modeling parameters related to alarm context can be incorporated into the models of patient alarm operations. The models of patient alarm operations can inform rules associated with intelligent alarm management. The rules may be applied to the presentation of alarms to the clinical users via mobile computing devices. The rules may also be applied to the interpretation of alarm responses from the clinical users. The rules may be adapted by the alarm management system to improve metrics of alarm efficacy and/or metrics of patient health outcomes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2017
    Assignee: Voalte, Inc.
    Inventors: Benjamin King, Sethumadavan Sanjay-Gopal, Michael G. Sica, Philip N. Fibiger, Donnie C. Fletcher
  • Publication number: 20160078747
    Abstract: Systems and methods can support presenting patient alarms to clinical care users. An alarm management system can maintain a mapping of patients to users as well as user context information. The alarm management system can receive alarm indications from medical devices associated with the patients along with alarm context information associated with the alarm indication. The alarm management system can determine a target user among the users according to evaluating the mapping of patients to users, the user context information, and the alarm context information. The alarm management system can determine a notification modality according to evaluating the alarm indication, the target user, a portion of the user context information associated with the target user, and the alarm context information. The alarm management system can transmit the alarm indication, the alarm context information, and the notification modality to a mobile device for presentation to the target user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2014
    Publication date: March 17, 2016
    Inventors: Benjamin King, Sethumadavan Sanjay-Gopal, Michael G. Sica, Philip N. Fibiger, Donnie C. Fletcher
  • Publication number: 20160078750
    Abstract: Systems and methods can support usage modeling and the intelligent management of patient alarms. An alarm management system can maintain models of patient alarm operations. Modeling parameters related to clinical user behavior and modeling parameters related to alarm context can be incorporated into the models of patient alarm operations. The models of patient alarm operations can inform rules associated with intelligent alarm management. The rules may be applied to the presentation of alarms to the clinical users via mobile computing devices. The rules may also be applied to the interpretation of alarm responses from the clinical users. The rules may be adapted by the alarm management system to improve metrics of alarm efficacy and/or metrics of patient health outcomes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2014
    Publication date: March 17, 2016
    Inventors: Benjamin King, Sethumadavan Sanjay-Gopal, Michael G. Sica, Philip N. Fibiger, Donnie C. Fletcher
  • Patent number: 9129501
    Abstract: Systems and methods can support managing clinical care user responses to patient alarms. An alarm management system can maintain models of alarm response behavior for the clinical care users. The system can receive an alarm indication and an alarm context from a patient. A target user associated with the patient can be determined. The system can determine alarm response options to be offered to the target user. The system can transmit the alarm indication and the determined alarm response options from the alarm management system to a mobile device associated with the target user. The system can receive a response to the transmitted alarm from the target user. The system can interpret the received response to the transmitted alarm. The model of response behavior associated with the target user can be adapted in light of the received response to the transmitted alarm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2015
    Assignee: Voalte, Inc.
    Inventors: Benjamin King, Sethumadavan Sanjay-Gopal, Michael G. Sica, Philip N. Fibiger, Donnie C. Fletcher