Mobile Device Supported Medical Information Services

• US 20120293322A1
• Filed: 05/18/2011
• Published: 11/22/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 05/18/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: AT&T Mobility II LLC (AT&T, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: AT&T Mobility II LLC (AT&T, Inc.)
• Inventors: Ray, Sankar, Bari, Farooq
• Granted Patent: US 8,630,660 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 340/539.12
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 10/65 stored on portable record carriers, e.g. on smartcards, RFID tags or CD
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/63 for local operation
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/67 for remote operation
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 80/00 ICT specially adapted for facilitating communication between medical practitioners or patients, e.g. for collaborative diagnosis, therapy or health monitoring
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/1021 based on client or server locations
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/12 specially adapted for proprietary or special-purpose networking environments, e.g. medical networks, sensor networks, networks in vehicles or remote metering networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/56 Provisioning of proxy services store-and-forward switching systems in data switching networks H04L12/54
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/63 Routing a service request depending on the request content or context
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72418 for supporting emergency services
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/02 Services making use of location information

Abstract

A wireless telecommunications system can receive position information associated with a wireless mobile device of a user and a medical access point name from the wireless mobile device, can determine a gateway based on the position information and the access point name, can receive medical information associated with the user from the wireless mobile device via the gateway, and can provide, based on the medical information and the position information, the medical information to a computer system of a medical facility. The medical information can include drug allergies, food allergies, health issues, physician contact information, emergency contact information, and/or a preferred medical facility, among others. The medical information can be useful in providing medical aid to the user of the wireless mobile device if the user is not able to communicate via verbal means, via written means, and/or via sign means.

Claims

1. A system, comprising:

a processing system that receives position information associated with a wireless mobile device that is configured to be carried by a user, receives an access point name, and determines a gateway from a plurality of gateways for data communications with the wireless mobile device, wherein the data communications with the wireless mobile device includes medical information associated with the user of the wireless mobile device; and

the gateway that provides the data communications with the wireless mobile device to a coordination gateway that determines a computer system of a medical facility based on the medical information associated with the user and that provides the medical information associated with the user to the computer system of the medical facility.

2. The system of claim 1, further comprising:

the coordination gateway;

wherein the coordination gateway further receives the medical information associated with the user and receives the position information associated with the wireless mobile device; and

wherein the coordination gateway determines the computer system of the medical facility further based on the position information associated with the wireless mobile device.

3. The system of claim 2, wherein the coordination gateway further receives information from a plurality of computer systems of a respective plurality of medical facilities and determines the computer system of the medical facility further based on the information from the plurality of computer systems of the respective plurality of medical facilities.

4. The system of claim 3, wherein the information from the plurality of computer systems of the respective plurality of medical facilities includes at least one of a status of at least one of the plurality of medical facilities and a specialty of at least one of the plurality of medical facilities.

5. The system of claim 2, wherein the coordination gateway determines the computer system of the medical facility further based on a medical facility preference included in the medical information associated with the user.

6. The system of claim 2, wherein the coordination gateway receives the position information associated with the wireless mobile device as determined by the wireless mobile device that includes a global positioning system (GPS) device that determine the position information associated with the wireless mobile device.

7. The system of claim 1, further comprising:

a base transceiver station that wirelessly communicates with the wireless mobile device and that is coupled to the processing system;

wherein the position information of the wireless mobile device is based on position information of an antenna of the base transceiver station utilized in wirelessly communicating with the wireless mobile device.

8. The system of claim 1, wherein the medical information associated with the user includes at least one of a drug allergy, a food allergy, a health issue, physician contact information, emergency contact information, medication information, sex, age, height, weight, health insurance information, a preferred medical provider facility, a medical provider in an insurance network, and an image of the user of the wireless mobile device that can be used to identify the user.

9. A method of operating a mobile telecommunications system, comprising:

determining first position information of a first wireless mobile device configured to be carried by a first user;

receiving an access point name from the first wireless mobile device;

determining a first gateway based on the first position information of the first wireless mobile device and the access point name;

determining second position information, different from the first position information, of a second wireless mobile device configured to be carried by a second user, different from the first user;

receiving the access point name from the second wireless mobile device;

determining a second gateway, different from the first gateway, based on the second position information of the second wireless mobile device and the access point name.

10. The method of claim 9, further comprising:

receiving first medical information from the first wireless mobile device;

determining a first medical facility based on the first position information and the first medical information.

11. The method of claim 10, further comprising:

receiving first medical facility information from a first plurality of computer systems of a respective first plurality of medical facilities that includes the first medical facility; and

permitting the first medical information to be provided to a computer system of the first medical facility;

wherein determining the first medical facility based on the first position information and the first medical information includes determining the first medical facility based on the first medical facility information.

12. The method of claim 11, further comprising:

receiving second medical information from the second wireless mobile device;

determining a second medical facility, different from the first medical facility, based on the second position information and the second medical information;

receiving second medical facility information from a second plurality of computer systems of a respective second plurality of medical facilities, different from the first plurality of medical facilities, that includes the second medical facility; and

permitting the second medical information to be provided to a computer system of the second medical facility;

wherein determining the second medical facility based on the second position information and the second medical information includes determining the second medical facility based on the second medical facility information.

13. The method of claim 10,

wherein the first medical information includes a first medical facility preference;

and

wherein determining the first medical facility based on the first position information and the first medical information includes determining the first medical facility based on the first medical facility preference.

14. The method of claim 9, wherein determining the first position information includes receiving the first position information from the first wireless mobile device that determines the first position information from a global positioning system (GPS) device of the first wireless mobile device.

15. The method of claim 9, wherein the first position information indicates a first city and the second position information indicates a second city, different from the first city.

16. A mobile device, configured to be carried by a user, comprising:

a secure element, coupled to a processor, that stores medical information associated with the user of the mobile device and provides the medical information to the processor;

a first wireless interface, coupled to the processor, that communicates with a wireless mobile telecommunications system; and

the processor that accesses the secure element, retrieves a medical access point name from the secure element, and wirelessly provides the medical access point name to a first processing system of wireless mobile telecommunications system via the first wireless interface.

17. The mobile device of claim 16, wherein the processor further accesses the secure element to retrieve medical information associated with the user, retrieves the medical information from the secure element, and provides the medical information to a second processing system of the wireless mobile telecommunications system via the first wireless interface.

18. The mobile device of claim 16, further comprising:

a subscriber identification module, coupled to the processor, that stores the secure element and at least one of an international mobile subscriber identity, a mobile subscriber integrated services digital network number, a mobile international integrated services digital network number, and a subscriber telephone number.

19. The mobile device of claim 16, further comprising:

a global positioning system device, coupled to the processor, that determines position information associated with the mobile device and provides the position information to the processor;

wherein the processor further provides the position information to the first processing system via the first wireless interface.

20. The mobile device of claim 16, further comprising:

a second wireless interface, coupled to the processor, communicates with a near field communication terminal, wherein the second wireless interface and the near field communication terminal communicate via near field communications;

wherein the processor further authenticates the near field communication terminal via the second wireless interface and further provides the medical information to the near field communication terminal via the second wireless interface; and

wherein the medical information includes at least one of a drug allergy, a food allergy, a health issue, physician contact information, emergency contact information, medication information, sex, age, height, weight, health insurance information, a preferred medical provider facility, a medical provider in an insurance network, and an image of the user of the mobile device that can be used to identify the user.