MOBILE DEVICE AND SYSTEM FOR MONITORING & RECORDING BODY VITAL SIGNS
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1. An apparatus comprising:
- a mobile device having an embedded health monitor to take measurements of vital signs of an individual, to determine vital sign parameters from the measurements, and to transfer the vital sign parameters, wherein the embedded health monitor is operable to perform radial pulse tonometry using a cavity air compression sensor transforming pressure proportional to the pressure in the radial artery; and
a computing system communicably coupled to the mobile device to store the vital sign parameters and to perform trend analysis on stored vital sign parameters.
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Abstract
A method and apparatus is disclosed herein for monitoring vital signs using a health monitor embedded into a mobile device. In one embodiment, the apparatus comprises a mobile device having an embedded health monitor to take measurements of vital signs of an individual, to determine vital sign parameters from the measurements, and to transfer the vital sign parameters; and a computing system communicably coupled to the mobile device to store the vital sign parameters and to perform trend analysis on stored vital sign parameters and to provide feedback to the user or user specified persons and generate alarms.
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1. An apparatus comprising:
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a mobile device having an embedded health monitor to take measurements of vital signs of an individual, to determine vital sign parameters from the measurements, and to transfer the vital sign parameters, wherein the embedded health monitor is operable to perform radial pulse tonometry using a cavity air compression sensor transforming pressure proportional to the pressure in the radial artery; and a computing system communicably coupled to the mobile device to store the vital sign parameters and to perform trend analysis on stored vital sign parameters. - View Dependent Claims (4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9)
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10. A system comprising:
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a mobile device having an embedded health monitor device having a blood pressure sensor and a temperature sensor to take blood pressure and temperature measurements, respectively, of a body of an individual, the blood pressure sensor having a cavity air compression sensor transforming a pressure proportional to pressure in a radial artery of an individual to a waveform, a pair of amplifiers coupled to the sensors to amplify the sensed signal measurements, a controller coupled to the pair of amplifiers to receive amplified signal measurement values and to determine vital sign parameters from the amplified measurement values, and a communication mechanism coupled to the controller to transfer the vital sign parameters; and a computing system communicably coupled to the mobile device to receive the vital sign parameters from the communication mechanism and to perform trend analysis on one or more stored vital sign parameters generated from measurements to determine systolic and diastolic blood pressure and heart rate of the body. - View Dependent Claims (11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20)
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21. A mobile device comprising:
an embedded health monitor device having a blood pressure sensor and a temperature sensor to take blood pressure and temperature measurements, respectively, of a body of an individual, the blood pressure sensor having a cavity air compression sensor transforming a pressure proportional to pressure in a radial artery of an individual to a waveform, a pair of amplifiers coupled to the sensors to amplify the measurements, a controller coupled to the pair of amplifiers to receive amplified measurement values and to determine vital sign parameters from the amplified measurement values, and a communication mechanism coupled to the controller to transfer the vital sign parameters. - View Dependent Claims (22, 23)
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