Health monitoring device and methods thereof

• US 20110282168A1
• Filed: 05/13/2011
• Published: 11/17/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 05/14/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Waldo Networks Incorporated
• Original Assignee: Waldo Networks Incorporated
• Inventors: Frowijn, Oscar Paul, Fuller, Samuel Burrill, Weiss, Alan Robert, Gholami, Afsheen David, Krumholz, Gad Levy
• Application Number:
  US13/107,254
• Publication Number:
  US 20110282168A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 600/323
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2505/07 Home care
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2560/0242 adapted to measure environmental factors, e.g. temperature, pollution
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2560/0266 for monitoring or limiting apparatus function
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/742 using visual displays A61B5/339 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/746 Alarms related to a physiological condition, e.g. details of setting alarm thresholds or avoiding false alarms alarms per se G08B
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/7465 Arrangements for interactive communication between patient and care services, e.g. by using a telephone network telemetry of measured physiological signal A61B5/0002
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 10/60 for patient-specific data, e.g. for electronic patient records
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/67 for remote operation

Abstract

A health monitoring system includes a client device having one or more sensors to take medical or environmental measurements. The client device can interact with a server device to guide the user through the use of a sensor. The state of the sensors is controlled at the server to provide for flexibility of the health monitoring system.

Claims

1. A method, comprising:

communicating via a network, from a server device to a first program at a remote device, first information to be displayed by the first program;

receiving at the server device via the network second information associated with a request to take a medical measurement at the remote device;

determining at the server device, first state information based on the second information; and

communicating the first state information to a second program at the remote device to set the state of a sensor at the remote device, the second program separate from the first program.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the first state information is customized for a first user.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the first state information is customized for the first device.

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

receiving authentication information from the remote device; and

determining the first state information based on the authentication information.

5. The method of claim 3, wherein determining the first state information comprises determining a sensor type associated with a first user based on the authentication information and determining the state information based on the sensor type.

6. The method of claim 4, wherein determining the sensor type comprises determining a type of medical measurement device.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the sensor comprises a stethoscope.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the sensor comprises a blood pressure measurement device.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein the sensor comprises a blood oxygen measurement device.

10. The method of claim 1, further comprising providing a stream of video information from the server device to the remote device.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein providing the stream of video information comprises providing a video chat session to the remote device.

12. A device, comprising:

a communication interface to communicate with a remote server via a network;

a sensor interface to communicate with a sensor device;

a processor coupled to the communication interface and the sensor interface; and

a computer readable medium coupled to the processor to store a first program and a second program, the first program comprising a plurality of instructions to manipulate the processor to display first information received via the communication interface, and a second program comprising a plurality of instructions to manipulate the processor to;

receive from the server device, first state information in response to a request to take a medical measurement; and

control a state of the sensor device based on the first state information.

13. The device of claim 12, wherein the first state information is customized for a first user.

14. The device of claim 12, wherein the first state information is customized for the first device.

15. The device of claim 12, further comprising:

wherein the second program comprises instructions to;

provide authentication information in response to a request received from the server; and

receive the first state information in response to the authentication information.

16. The device of claim 12, wherein the sensor comprises a stethoscope.

17. The device of claim 12, wherein the sensor comprises a blood pressure measurement device.

18. The device of claim 12, wherein the sensor comprises a blood oxygen measurement device.

19. The device of claim 12, wherein the sensor comprises a weight scale.

20. The device of claim 12, wherein the sensor is selected from the group consisting of:

a balance sensor, an electrocardiograph sensor, a spirometer/peak flow sensor, a thermometer or other temperature sensor, an examination camera, an electroencephalography, an emergency response button, and an ambient activity sensor.