System and method for a personal computer medical device based away from a hospital

• US 20030050539A1
• Filed: 05/29/2002
• Published: 03/13/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 05/29/2001
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: David J. Robinson, Mohammad Madjid, Morteza Naghavi, Parsa Mirhaji, Reza Mohammadi
• Original Assignee: David J. Robinson, Mohammad Madjid, Morteza Naghavi, Parsa Mirhaji, Reza Mohammadi
• Inventors: Mohammadi, Reza, Robinson, David J., Madjid, Mohammad, Mirhaji, Parsa, Naghavi, Morteza
• Application Number:
  US10/157,314
• Publication Number:
  US 20030050539A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 600/300
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/0006 ECG or EEG signals
• 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 5/087 Measuring breath flow
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/14532 for measuring glucose, e.g. by tissue impedance measurement
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/318 Heart-related electrical modalities, e.g. electrocardiography [ECG]
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/67 for remote operation

Abstract

A personal healthcare management system is disclosed comprising a personal computer; a medical device operatively in communication with the computer; an expansion-hosting device either internal or external to the computer through which the medical device interfaces to the computer; and a specialized healthcare specific operating system operating in the computer. It is emphasized that this abstract is provided to comply with the rules requiring an abstract which will allow a searcher or other reader to quickly ascertain the subject matter of the technical disclosure. It is submitted with the understanding that it will not be used to interpret or limit the scope of meaning of the claims.

Claims

1. A personal healthcare management system, comprising:

a. a computer having a CPU, memory, an input device, an output device, and a persistent data store;

b. a medical device operatively in communication with the computer;

c. an expansion-hosting device; and

d. a specialized healthcare specific operating system operating in the computer.

2. A method of providing personal healthcare management system, comprising:

a. initiating a specialized healthcare specific operating system operating in a computer;

b. initiating communications between a medical device operatively in communication with the computer and the computer; and

c. monitoring a predetermined condition of a patient using the medical device.