Information collecting apparatus for collecting physiological parameters and method thereof

• US 20080167534A1
• Filed: 01/04/2007
• Published: 07/10/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 01/04/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: National Yang-Ming University
• Original Assignee: National Yang-Ming University
• Inventors: Hsu, Chih-Wei, Zhang, Xin-Hua, Lee, Chung-Wang, Liu, Chang-Yu, Young, Shuenn-Tsong, Kao, Tsair
• Application Number:
  US11/649,304
• Publication Number:
  US 20080167534A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 600/301
• 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: G16H 40/67 for remote operation

Abstract

The present invention discloses an information collecting apparatus for collecting physiological parameters and the method is applied in the information collecting apparatus. When the information collecting apparatus receives a user'"'"'s physiological parameter and determines that the physiological parameter does fall within the range of a monitoring limit value registered in the information collecting apparatus, then the information collecting apparatus will send a notice to a management server, so that the personnel, organization or department at the management server is able to monitor the user'"'"'s health condition and select the most appropriate time to take actions and provide appropriate medical treatments for the user.

Claims

1. A method for collecting physiological parameters, applied to an information collecting apparatus, such that said information collecting apparatus processes a procedure comprising the steps of:

receiving a wireless signal;

analyzing said wireless signal to determine whether or not said wireless signal carries a user'"'"'s physiological parameter, a source instrument number and a source identification code;

finding a predetermined monitoring limit value based on said source instrument number and said source identification code, when said wireless signal is determined to carry a physiological parameter, a source instrument number and a source identification code;

determining whether or not said physiological parameter falls within a range of said monitoring limit value;

producing a warning signal, and finding a location data corresponding to said source identification code, when said physiological parameter is determined to be not falling within the range of said monitoring limit value; and

producing a notice based on said warning signal, said source identification code and said device identification code, and sending said notice to a remote management server corresponding to said location data.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein said physiological parameter will be written into said physiological information table and said source identification code will be found, when said information collecting apparatus determines that said physiological parameter falls within the range of said monitoring limit value, a physiological information table corresponding to said source instrument number.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein a physiological information table corresponding to said source instrument number and said source identification code is found, and said physiological parameter is written into said physiological information table, after said information collecting apparatus sends said notice to a remote management server.

2. The method of clam 1, wherein before said information collecting apparatus determines that said wireless signal does not carries a user'"'"'s physiological parameter, a source instrument number and a source identification code, said information collecting apparatus processes a procedure comprising the steps of:

analyzing said wireless signal to determine whether or not said wireless signal carries an emergency code and a source identification code;

finding a location data corresponding to said source identification code, when said wireless signal carries an emergency code and a source identification code; and

producing another notice based on said emergency code, said device identification code and said source identification code, and sending said other notice to a management server corresponding to said location data.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein said wireless signal will be discarded, when said information collecting apparatus determines that said wireless signal does not carry an emergency code and a source identification code.

6. An information collecting apparatus for collecting physiological parameters, wherein said information collecting apparatus stores a device identification code, comprising:

a first signal transceiver unit, for receiving a wireless signal, and analyzing said wireless signal to obtain a source identification code, a source instrument number and a physiological parameter carried by said wireless signal;

a monitoring unit, having a plurality of monitoring limit values corresponding to different identification codes and instrument numbers respectively;

a notice unit, including at least one location data of a management server, and said location data corresponding to a source identification code;

a processing unit, coupled to said first signal transceiver unit and said monitoring unit, for receiving said source identification code and said source instrument number, and finding a monitoring limit value corresponding to an instrument number and an identification code which are identical to said source instrument number and source identification code respectively, such that when said processing unit determines said received physiological parameter not falling within the range of said found monitoring limit value, said processing unit will generate a warning signal and find a location data corresponding to said source identification code from said notice unit based on said source identification code to produce a notice based on said warning signal, said source identification code and said device identification code; and

a second signal transceiver unit, for receiving said notice, and sending said notice to a management server corresponding to said location data.

7. The apparatus of claim 6, wherein said first signal transceiver unit decodes said wireless signal and obtains an emergency code and a source identification code, and said first signal transceiver unit sends said emergency code to said processing unit;

said processing unit finds a location data corresponding to said source identification code and produces another notice based on said emergency code, said source identification code and said device identification code; and

said second signal transceiver unit receives another notice and sends said other notice to a management server corresponding to said location data.

8. The apparatus of claim 7, wherein said information collecting apparatus further comprises a storage unit for storing at least one physiological information table, and each physiological information table corresponds to an instrument number and an identification code and writes in a physiological parameter;

and

when said processing unit obtains said physiological parameter, said processing unit finds a physiological information table in said storage unit and writes said physiological parameter into said found physiological information table, and an instrument number and an identification code corresponding to said found physiological information table are the same as said source instrument number and said source identification code.

9. The apparatus of claim 8, wherein said information collecting apparatus further comprises a connecting portion for installing an external storage device.