Telemedicine Device and System

• US 20090112070A1
• Filed: 10/31/2008
• Published: 04/30/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 10/31/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Center Newton
• Original Assignee: Center Newton
• Inventors: LIN, Yen-Shan, Zhang, Han-Wei
• Application Number:
  US12/262,416
• Publication Number:
  US 20090112070A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 600/300
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/0022 Monitoring a patient using a global network, e.g. telephone networks, internet
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/67 for remote operation

Abstract

The present invention is provided a telemedicine device and system, and the telemedicine device and system comprise at least a computer system and a channel-selecting device, wherein the computer system can connect with the internet and have at least one expanded module to connect with a plurality of periphery devices. The telemedicine system is combined with healthcare system, information system, equipment system and homecare system to put the government policies “aging in place” and “aging at home” into practice, and also provide the elders healthier, safer, more respectful, more comfortable and more convenient life qualities, and maintain the elders'"'"' health.

Claims

1. telemedicine device, comprises:

a computer system, which is connected to the Internet and is provided with a first expanded module and a second expanded module, wherein the first expanded module and the second expanded module are connected to a display device;

a first periphery device, which is connected to said computer system by the first expanded module to measure a first data of human body, wherein the first data are transmitted to said computer system;

a second periphery device, which is connected to said computer system by the second expanded module to measure a second data of human body, wherein the second data are transmitted to the computer system; and

a touch screen device, which is applied to show said first date and said second date and to transmit a selected signal to said computer system in order to switch on and off between the first data and the second data.

2. The device of claim 1, wherein said computer system further comprises wireless radio-frequency transmission modules, communication modules, wireless network modules, storage devices, and public switched telephone network (PSTN) modules.

3. The device of claim 2, wherein the wireless radio-frequency transmission modules are selected from the group consisting of radio-frequency transmission modules, wireless sensor network (WSN) transmission modules, ZigBee transmission modules, bluetooth transmission modules, and ultra wide band (UWB) transmission modules.

4. The device of claim 2, wherein the communication modules are selected from the group consisting of global system for mobile communications (GSM, 2G), universal mobile telecommunications system (UMTS, 3G), and high speed downlink packet access (HSDPA, 3.5G).

5. The device of claim 2, wherein the wireless network modules are selected from the group consisting of Wi-Fi modules and WiMax modules.

6. The device of claim 1, wherein the expanded modules are selected from the group consisting of universal serial bus (USB), bluetooth transmission, infrared transmission, peripheral component interconnect (PCI) bus, small computer system interface (SCSI) bus, personal computer memory card international association (PCMICA) slot, and memory card slot.

7. The device of claim 1, wherein the periphery devices are selected from the group consisting of a sphygmomanometer, a blood-glucose meter, an oximeter, an electrocardiograph, a bathroom scales, a thermometer, a peak expiratory flow meter, a rehabilitation device, a camera device, a record device, a mobile telephone and an internet telephone.

8. The device of claim 7, wherein the camera device has the identifiable function of face-scanning to tell apart a plurality of the personal data of users.

9. The device of claim 7, wherein the camera device has the identifiable function of posture-scanning to operate a sphygmomanometer and measure the blood pressure.

10. A telemedicine device, comprises:

a computer system, which is connected to the Internet and is provided with a first expanded module and a second expanded module, wherein the first expanded module and the second expanded module are connected to a display device;

a first periphery device, which is connected to said computer system by the first expanded module to measure a first data of human body, wherein the first data are transmitted to said computer system;

a second periphery device, which is connected to said computer system by the second expanded module to measure a second data of human body, wherein the second data are transmitted to the computer system; and

a channel-selecting device, which is applied to transmit a selected signal to said computer system in order to switch on and off between the first data and the second data.

11. The device of claim 10, wherein said computer system further comprises wireless radio-frequency transmission modules, communication modules, wireless network modules, storage devices, and public switched telephone network (PSTN) modules.

12. The device of claim 11, wherein the wireless radio-frequency transmission modules are selected from the group consisting of radio-frequency transmission modules, wireless sensor network (WSN) transmission modules, ZigBee transmission modules, bluetooth transmission modules, and ultra wide band (UWB) transmission modules.

13. The device of claim 11, wherein the communication modules are selected from the group consisting of global system for mobile communications (GSM, 2G), universal mobile telecommunications system (UMTS, 3G), and high speed downlink packet access (HSDPA, 3.5G).

14. The device of claim 11, wherein the wireless network modules are selected from the group consisting of Wi-Fi modules and WiMax modules.

15. The device of claim 10, wherein the expanded modules are selected from the group consisting of universal serial bus (USB), bluetooth transmission, infrared transmission, peripheral component interconnect (PCI) bus, small computer system interface (SCSI) bus, personal computer memory card international association (PCMICA) slot, and memory card slot.

16. The device of claim 10, wherein the periphery devices are selected from the group consisting of a sphygmomanometer, a blood-glucose meter, an oximeter, an electrocardiograph, a bathroom scales, a thermometer, a peak expiratory flow meter, a rehabilitation device, a camera device, a record device, a mobile telephone and an internet telephone.

17. The device of claim 16, wherein the camera device has the identifiable function of face-scanning to tell apart a plurality of the personal data of users.

18. The device of claim 16, wherein the camera device has the identifiable function of posture-scanning to operate a sphygmomanometer and measure the blood pressure.

20. The system of claim 18, wherein said telemedicine device is selected from the group consisting of identity-input mode, card-identify mode and auto-update services to tell apart a plurality of users and to set up the personal data of users.

21. The system of claim 18, wherein the medicalcare services are selected from the group of management of physiological information, disposition of event happened, medicalcare matching and coordination, management of customer services, telemedicine services and evaluation of health-function.

19. A telemedicine system comprises:

a telemedicine device, which is comprised of at least a computer system which is connected to the Internet and is provided with a first expanded module and a second expanded module, wherein the first expanded module and the second expanded module are connected to a display device;

a first periphery device which is connected to said computer system by the first expanded module to measure a first data of human body, wherein the first data are transmitted to said computer system;

a second periphery device which is connected to said computer system by the second expanded module to measure a second data of human body, wherein the second data are transmitted to the computer system; and

a channel-selecting device which is applied to transmit a selected signal to said computer system in order to switch on and off between the first data and the second data;

an information integrated platform, which is connected to said telemedicine device to receive the first data and the second data from said telemedicine device to get the integrated information;

a services matching system, which is connected to said information integrated platform to receive the integrated information to provide daily living services; and

a medicalcare system, which is connected to said information integrated platform to receive the integrated information to provide medicalcare services.