HEALTH INFORMATION TELECOMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM AND METHOD
First Claim
1. A health information communications system, comprising:
- one or more medical sensors that provide one or more data types of health information;
a patient communications device communicatively coupled to a communications network and to at least one of the medical sensors, said patient communications device having a patient quality of service (QoS) manager, wherein the patient QoS manager dynamically specifies a set of data quality management parameters for transporting at least some of the health information and modifies said some of the health information into value factored health information; and
a specialist communications device communicatively coupled to the patient communication device over the communications network, said specialist communications device having a specialist quality of service (QoS) manager, wherein the specialist QoS manager is configured to provide measured channel characteristics to the patient communications device;
wherein the data quality management parameters of the patient communications device are based at least in part on the measured channel characteristics of the specialist communications device.
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Abstract
Health information communications systems and methods are disclosed. In one embodiment, the system includes one or more medical sensors providing one or more health information data types. The system further includes a patient communications device coupled to at least one medical sensor over a communications network. Particularly, the patient communications device includes a patient quality of service (QoS) manager that dynamically specifies a set of data quality management parameters for transporting at least some of the health information and modifies at least some of the health information into value factored health information. Additionally, the system includes a specialist communications device communicatively coupled to the patient communication device over the communications network. The specialist communications device includes a specialist QoS manager that provides measured channel characteristics to the patient communications device. The patient QoS manager dynamically specifies the set of data quality management parameters based at least in part on the measured channel characteristics of the specialist communications device.
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26 Claims
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1. A health information communications system, comprising:
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one or more medical sensors that provide one or more data types of health information; a patient communications device communicatively coupled to a communications network and to at least one of the medical sensors, said patient communications device having a patient quality of service (QoS) manager, wherein the patient QoS manager dynamically specifies a set of data quality management parameters for transporting at least some of the health information and modifies said some of the health information into value factored health information; and a specialist communications device communicatively coupled to the patient communication device over the communications network, said specialist communications device having a specialist quality of service (QoS) manager, wherein the specialist QoS manager is configured to provide measured channel characteristics to the patient communications device; wherein the data quality management parameters of the patient communications device are based at least in part on the measured channel characteristics of the specialist communications device. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 10, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17)
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- 8. The system of claim 8, wherein at least one of the patient link monitor and the specialist link monitor are configured to independently provide the measured channel characteristics.
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11. The system of claim 11, wherein the location-determining device determines a geographical location of the one or more medical sensors.
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18. A method for communicating health information, comprising:
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measuring one or more channel characteristics between a patient communications device and a specialist communications device, said channel characteristics corresponding to one or more communication channels in the communications network; receiving medical information from one or more sensors communicatively coupled to the patient communications device; dynamically specifying a set of quality of service (QoS) parameters for at least some of the medical information based in part on the channel characteristics; processing at least some of the medical information based on the set of quality of service (QoS) parameters into value factored medical information; transporting at least some of the value factored medical information from the patient communications device over the communication channels; and receiving at least some of the value factored medical information at the specialist unit over the communications channel.
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- 19. The method of claim 19, further comprising determining a geographical location of the one or more health monitoring devices using a location-determining device.
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25. A health information communications unit, comprising:
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a processing unit; a memory section coupled to the processing unit; one or more medical sensors communicatively coupled to the processing unit, said medical sensors providing health information of one or more data types; a patient quality of service (QoS) manager operating on the processing unit and configured to process at least some of the health information as value factored health information and transport at least some of said value factored health information over a communications network, wherein at least some of the value factored health information is configured for said transport based on measured channel characteristics of the communications network; and a specialist QoS manager interfacing with the patient QoS manager over the communications network, said specialist unit configured to receive and process at least some of the value factored health information.
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26. The health information communications unit according to claim 26, wherein wherein at least some of the value factored health information is configured for said transport based on specialist requests and medical examination protocol.
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