Apparatus for healthcare

• US 20010004732A1
• Filed: 02/12/2001
• Published: 06/21/2001
• Est. Priority Date: 05/14/1999
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Australiam Surgical Design & Manufacturing Pty Limited, Nagase & Company Limited
• Original Assignee: Nagase & Company Limited
• Inventors: Satoh, Hirohisa
• Application Number:
  US09/781,860
• Publication Number:
  US 20010004732A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/2
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/0002 Remote monitoring of patients using telemetry, e.g. transmission of vital signals via a communication network A61B5/07 takes precedence; transmission systems for measured values G08C; transmission H04B; transmission of digital information H04L; wireless communication networks H04W
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/022 by applying pressure to close blood vessels, e.g. against the skin; Ophthalmodynamometers
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/4872 Body fat
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/63 for local operation
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/67 for remote operation
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 50/20 for computer-aided diagnosis, e.g. based on medical expert systems

Abstract

An apparatus for healthcare which comprises a communication terminal, a plurality of instruments for measuring vital parameters which each have a function of a clock, a memory and a mechanism for sending data obtained by the measurement to a host computer together with a time of the measurement via the communication terminal and a host computer which accumulates received data, diagnoses a health condition based on the accumulated data and sends the data and information on the health condition in response to a request from the communication terminal.

Data of vital parameters are sent to the host computer from the communication terminal without additional working. The sent data are treated by a software for healthcare information in the host computer and a direction for healthcare is prepared. The accumulated data and the prepared direction can be received at the communication terminal in response to the request.

Claims

1. An apparatus for healthcare which comprises a communication terminal, a plurality of instruments for measuring vital parameters which each have a function of a clock, a memory and a mechanism for sending data obtained by measurement to a host computer together with a time of the measurement via the communication terminal and a host computer which accumulates received data, diagnoses a health condition based on the accumulated data and sends the data and information on the health condition in response to a request from the communication terminal.

2. An apparatus according to

claim 1

, wherein the memory is an IC memory and the instrument for measuring vital parameters comprises a portion for inputting the data into the IC memory and a device for reading the IC memory.

3. An apparatus according to

claim 1

, wherein the vital parameters are a weight, a fat content of a body, a temperature, a pulse rate, a blood pressure, a blood sugar value, an amount of movement and an electrocardiographic complex.

4. An apparatus according to

claim 1

, wherein the information on the health condition is a direction for healthcare.