Secure digital medical intellectual property (IP) distribution, market applications, and mobile devices
First Claim
Patent Images
1. A hand-held mobile field device configured to provide wireless communication with a plurality of patient medical monitoring devices.
3 Assignments
0 Petitions
Accused Products
Abstract
One embodiment of the present invention is a hand-held mobile field device configured to provide wireless communication with a plurality of patient medical monitoring devices. Another embodiment of the present invention is a network including at least one hand-held mobile field device of the type described above, the network also being electronically connected to databases maintained by a hospital.
147 Citations
37 Claims
- 1. A hand-held mobile field device configured to provide wireless communication with a plurality of patient medical monitoring devices.
-
5. A network including at least one mobile field device configured to provide communication with a plurality of patient medical monitoring devices, the network being configured to aggregate and to make available to the mobile field unit, a combination of manual, automated, fixed continuous and mobile patient monitoring and assessments.
- 6. A network including at least one mobile field device configured to provide communication with a plurality of patient medical monitoring devices, and the network electronically connected to databases maintained by a hospital.
-
12. A network including at least one mobile field device configured to provide communication with a plurality of patient medical monitoring devices, the network further comprising a central repository containing medical information and a plurality of subsystem databases linked to the central repository via at least one member of the group consisting of encryption software and secure hardware that tags transmissions and retrievals.
-
18. A network including at least one mobile field device configured to provide communication with a plurality of patient medical monitoring devices, the network configured to link a prescription drug order processing system with prescription data and secure patient documentation and health assessment.
-
20. A network comprising:
-
a medical database;
a secure medical database monitoring system communicatively coupled to the medical database; and
a first data monitoring manager communicatively coupled to the secure medical database monitoring system;
wherein at least one of the secure medical database monitoring system and the data monitoring manager is configured to provide controlled electronic access to the medical database by a plurality of entities in accordance with a specification provided by an authorized user. - View Dependent Claims (21, 22, 23, 24, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 36, 37)
-
-
25. A method for communicating medical data comprising communicating medical data wirelessly to a hand-held mobile field unit from a plurality of patient medical monitoring devices, and communicating the medical data received from the hand-held mobile field unit to a medical database via a secure network.
-
35. A method for controlling access to a medical database comprising:
-
defining an access protocol for entities accessing patient data, including at least a first entity having initial access to the patient data;
permitting access to the patient data by the at least first entity;
conditioning each further access to the patient data by additional entities upon prior access by at least one predetermined prior entity.
-
Specification