Remote medical monitoring system
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1. A method for remotely monitoring a patient, comprising:
- Accessing an application service provision system;
Defining a care group within said application service provision system, wherein said care group comprises at least one health care practitioner;
Creating a patient profile for said patient within said application service provision system;
Assigning said patient to said care group;
Evaluating said patient at a healthcare facility;
Specifying orders to a patient-worn device, wherein said orders are at least partly based on the patient evaluation;
Communicating said orders to said patient-worn device;
Hooking up said patient to said patient-worn device;
Monitoring said patient in accordance with said orders, wherein patient data is generated and stored locally;
Transmitting patient data to said application service provision system;
Validating said patient data;
Accessing said patient data;
Analyzing said patient data;
Performing health care actions, wherein said health care actions are based at least in part on the analysis of said patient data.
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Abstract
A medical monitoring system that brings the hospital-campus telemetry experience to the patient home. This system is designed to enable effective step-down patient care in the home setting while providing the patient with the freedom to go anywhere and remain “logically” tethered to the system. The system achieves this by being distributed in nature, globally accessible, highly scalable, with near real-time concurrent reporting and analysis of multiple physiological parameters, and making this information real-time accessible to healthcare practitioners.
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1. A method for remotely monitoring a patient, comprising:
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Accessing an application service provision system;
Defining a care group within said application service provision system, wherein said care group comprises at least one health care practitioner;
Creating a patient profile for said patient within said application service provision system;
Assigning said patient to said care group;
Evaluating said patient at a healthcare facility;
Specifying orders to a patient-worn device, wherein said orders are at least partly based on the patient evaluation;
Communicating said orders to said patient-worn device;
Hooking up said patient to said patient-worn device;
Monitoring said patient in accordance with said orders, wherein patient data is generated and stored locally;
Transmitting patient data to said application service provision system;
Validating said patient data;
Accessing said patient data;
Analyzing said patient data;
Performing health care actions, wherein said health care actions are based at least in part on the analysis of said patient data. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16)
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17. A remote patient monitoring system comprising:
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an application service provision system;
at least one care group defined within said application service provision system;
orders for said care group;
at least one patient assigned to said care group;
at least one health care practitioner assigned to said care group;
a patient-worn device, wherein said patient-worn device is capable of receiving patient data, and wherein said patient-worn device is capable of a remote communication with said application service provision system;
a patient evaluation based on said patient data;
health care actions based at least in part upon said patient evaluation. - View Dependent Claims (18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41)
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