Medical monitoring device and system

• US 10,342,483 B2
• Filed: 05/31/2011
• Issued: 07/09/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 10/11/2001
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Ideal Life, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Ideal Life, Inc.
• Inventors: Goldberg, Jason
• Primary Examiner(s): Patel, Niketa I
• Assistant Examiner(s): Jian, Shirley X
• Application Number:
  US13/149,202
• Publication Number:
  US 20110295085A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,961 Days
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/0022 Monitoring a patient using a global network, e.g. telephone networks, internet
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/02055 Simultaneously evaluating both cardiovascular condition and temperature
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/021 Measuring pressure in heart or blood vessels A61B5/0205 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/024 Detecting, measuring or recording pulse rate or heart rate A61B5/0205, A61B5/021 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/14532 for measuring glucose, e.g. by tissue impedance measurement
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/14546 for measuring analytes not otherwise provided for, e.g. ions, cytochromes
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/1455 using optical sensors, e.g. spectral photometrical oximeters
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/681 Wristwatch-type devices
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/6826 Finger
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/6838 Clamps or clips
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/743 Displaying an image simultaneously with additional graphical information, e.g. symbols, charts, function plots
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/67 for remote operation
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 128/903 Radio telemetry
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 128/92 Computer assisted medical diagnostics

Abstract

A portable device that receives data provided by one or more sensors and displays statistical data related to the sensor data or otherwise related to the person. Statistical data may include high, low, average, mean value, median value, standard deviation, least square, variance, distribution, compilation, etc. for or at any given time or period of time for the person being monitored, as well as for such values for segments or groups of the population, or limit values, or target values, etc. The values may represent measurements and other data related to physiological signs and parameters such as blood pressure, heart rate, body temperature, electrocardiogram, glucose level, substances and/or chemical presence or level, analyze measurements, etc. The portable device may also display such measurements. The portable device may compute the statistical data, with or without the aid of a remote computer, and/or store statistical data, and/or a remote computer may compute and/or store statistical data. The portable device may communicate with a remote computer through a wireless link from the portable device, which may compute and/or store statistical data and measurements.

Claims

1. A medical monitoring system comprising a portable monitoring device and a remote computer:

wherein the monitoring device and the remote computer communicate over a communications network, the monitoring device receives sensor data from at least one sensor related to at least one physiological characteristic of a person being monitored and provides data over the communications network to the remote computer, and the remote computer generates statistical data related to data received from the monitoring device over the communications network and provides at least the statistical data to the monitoring device over the communications network;

the monitoring device comprising;

at least one memory;

an electronic controller which causes sensor data to be stored at least temporarily in the at least one memory, generates measurement data related to the sensor data and causes the measurement data to be at least temporarily stored in the at least one memory;

a communications unit;

wherein the electronic controller causes the communications unit to provide data stored in the at least one memory for transmission over the communications network for receipt by the remote computer and causes at least statistical data provided by the remote computer over the communications network received by the monitoring device to be at least temporarily stored in the at least one memory;

a display device;

wherein the electronic controller causes the display device to display at least measurement data from the measurement data that was previously generated and stored in the at least one memory device by the electronic controller, and statistical data from the statistical data that was received from the remote computer.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the statistical data provided by the remote computer comprises at least one of an average, a variance, a standard deviation, a least square, a distribution, and a compilation of data related to the transmitted data.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the monitoring device comprises an input device coupled to provide user input to the controller, and wherein the electronic controller is responsive to user input to the monitoring device via the input device to provide a request, for transmission over the communications network for receipt by the remote computer, for the remote computer to provide statistical data over the communications network for receipt by the monitoring device.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein the electronic controller causes the communications unit at programmed time intervals to provide a request, for transmission over the communications network for receipt by the remote computer, for the remote computer to provide statistical data over the communications network for receipt by the monitoring device.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein the monitoring device comprises an input device coupled to provide user input to the controller, and wherein the electronic controller is at least responsive to input from the input device at least to cause the communications unit to provide data stored in the at least one memory for transmission over the communications network for receipt by the remote computer.

6. The system of claim 1, wherein the display device displays statistical data as at least one of text and graphics.