System and method for transmission of medical and like data from a patient to a dedicated internet website
First Claim
1. A system for transmitting medical type data obtained from a person to a dedicated web site for analysis, comprising:
- a computer system accessible to said person, said computer system having at least one simple port for receiving data in a prescribed form;
signal means for obtaining data from said person;
transform means for transforming said data into said prescribed form;
a circuit connection for connecting said transformed data to said simple port; and
said computer system having web site means for connecting through the internet to a dedicated web site.
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Abstract
The invention provides a system and method for easy and reliable connection of patient-originated medical data through a simple port of a computer to a dedicated web site. A device originating medical data, such as an implanted pacemaker, downloads data into a transmit/receive device, and the data is then transformed in an interface unit to be accepted by a simple port of a computer, e.g. a keyboard port or a mouse port. The patient logs on to a dedicated web site, and transfers the data along with typed input to the web site for analysis. Following analysis, a reply message is sent back to the patient, which may include a control instruction for modifying or reprogramming the operation of the device that is used to originate the medical data. For a pacemaker application, the data transformation is done at a simple interface unit that is portable and easily manipulated by the patient. For other applications such as monitoring data from a diabetic, the data is transformed by the interface unit, and may be stored daily in the PC and transmitted to the web site after collection of a predetermined number of days of data.
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48 Claims
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1. A system for transmitting medical type data obtained from a person to a dedicated web site for analysis, comprising:
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a computer system accessible to said person, said computer system having at least one simple port for receiving data in a prescribed form;
signal means for obtaining data from said person;
transform means for transforming said data into said prescribed form;
a circuit connection for connecting said transformed data to said simple port; and
said computer system having web site means for connecting through the internet to a dedicated web site. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10)
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11. A system for obtaining and transferring medical data from a patient into a local computer having a simple port for receiving data of a predetermined form, comprising:
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means for obtaining medical data from a patient;
interface means for transforming said data into said predetermined form; and
a connection circuit for connecting said transformed data into said simple port. - View Dependent Claims (12, 13, 14)
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15. A method of transmitting data between a source of patient data and a web site available on the internet, comprising:
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providing the patient with a patient computer that has at least one simple bi-directional port, and logging on from said patient computer to a dedicated web site;
transforming said patient data to the prescribed form for said simple port; and
connecting said transformed data to the computer through said simple port; and
transmitting said data from said patient computer to said website over the internet. - View Dependent Claims (16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30)
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31. A method of providing for transmission of medical data from a patient to an internet web site, said method being easily carried out wherever and whenever the patient has access to a computer having at least one simple port, comprising:
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using a signal source device for obtaining medical data from the patient;
providing a portable data transforming device for transforming the obtained medical data into a prescribed form for entry into said simple port;
providing a dedicated web site available over the internet;
using said computer to log onto said web site;
transferring medical data from said signal source to said portable data transforming device, and transforming said data in said portable device;
connecting said transformed data through said simple port; and
sending said data over the internet to the dedicated web site. - View Dependent Claims (32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39)
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40. A portable battery powered device for transferring data between a patient'"'"'s implanted pacemaker and a computer, the computer having at least one simple port, the pacemaker having a telemetry system for sending signals containing encoded data to an external receiver, said portable device comprising:
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a receiver for receiving data signals from said pacemaker;
decoding means for decoding data from said signals;
transform means for transforming said data into a form adapted for entry through said simple port; and
download means operable by a patient for transferring said transformed data to said port, said download means having an input/output port, whereby said data can be downloaded into a computer by said patient when said input/output port is connected to said computer simple port. - View Dependent Claims (41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48)
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