US 11,990,230 B2
Management of medical equipment and responders
John P. Pierson, Tewksbury, MA (US); and Kristopher M. Edgell, Shreveport, LA (US)
Assigned to ZOLL MEDICAL CORPORATION, Chelmsford, MA (US)
Appl. No. 17/621,411
Filed by ZOLL Medical Corporation, Chelmsford, MA (US)
PCT Filed Jul. 6, 2020, PCT No. PCT/US2020/070235
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Dec. 21, 2021,
PCT Pub. No. WO2021/007588, PCT Pub. Date Jan. 14, 2021.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/871,316, filed on Jul. 8, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2022/0359064 A1, Nov. 10, 2022
Int. Cl. G16H 40/20 (2018.01); G16H 40/40 (2018.01)
CPC G16H 40/20 (2018.01) [G16H 40/40 (2018.01)] 24 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A system for remote communications with mobile communication devices for managing responders to acquire medical equipment and to respond to an emergency medical event, the system comprising:
a first mobile computing device associated with a first registered responder;
a second mobile computing device associated with a second registered responder;
a computer aided dispatch (CAD) system; and
a medical equipment and responder management system communicatively coupled to the first and second mobile computing devices and to the CAD, the management system configured to:
receive emergency medical event information from the CAD, the emergency medical event information comprising an emergency medical event location,
retrieve medical equipment information stored in a medical equipment database, the medical equipment information comprising medical equipment locations,
receive a current first responder location from the first mobile computing device,
send the emergency medical event location and the medical equipment locations to the first mobile computing device,
generate an activity log for the emergency medical event, the activity log comprising first responder status information based at least in part on the current first responder location, the emergency medical event location, and the medical equipment locations,
send the activity log to the first mobile computing device,
send the emergency medical event location and the medical equipment locations to the second mobile computing device,
receive a current second responder location from the second mobile computing device,
update the activity log with second responder status information based at least in part on the current second responder location, the emergency medical event location, and the medical equipment locations, and
send the updated activity log to the first and the second mobile computing devices.