OUTPATIENT MONITORING SYSTEMS AND METHODS

• US 20130093602A1
• Filed: 12/05/2012
• Published: 04/18/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 11/17/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Medicalgorithmics S.A.
• Original Assignee: Medicalgorithmics Ltd. (Medicalgorithmics S.A.)
• Inventors: Dziubinski, Marek
• Granted Patent: US 9,775,516 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 340/870.02
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/0002 Remote monitoring of patients using telemetry, e.g. transmission of vital signals via a communication network A61B5/07 takes precedence; transmission systems for measured values G08C; transmission H04B; transmission of digital information H04L; wireless communication networks H04W
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/0022 Monitoring a patient using a global network, e.g. telephone networks, internet
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/72 Signal processing specially adapted for physiological signals or for diagnostic purposes character recognition, recognising digital ink, document-oriented image-based pattern recognition G06V30/00; recognition or understanding of postal images G06V30/424
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/7475 User input or interface means, e.g. keyboard, pointing device, joystick
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 10/60 for patient-specific data, e.g. for electronic patient records
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/63 for local operation
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/67 for remote operation
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/10 in which an application is distributed across nodes in the network software deployment G06F8/60; multiprogramming arrangements G06F9/46

Abstract

Described are computer-based methods and apparatuses, including computer program products, for outpatient monitoring. In some examples, the outpatient monitoring technology includes a system for remote monitoring and consultations of patients'"'"' state associated with automated interpretation of vital signs signals. In other examples, the outpatient monitoring technology includes a system for remote monitoring of patients'"'"' state associated with analysis of full-disclosure vital signs digital signals with reduced bit data or channel data. In some examples, the outpatient monitoring technology includes a system for remote monitoring of patients'"'"' state associated with ongoing automated analysis and transmission of full-disclosure vital signs digital signals and automatically generated signals'"'"' interpretation results and manually marked patient symptoms.

Claims

1-13. -13. (canceled)

14. A method for remote monitoring of patients'"'"' state associated with interpretation results data representative of the patients'"'"' vital signs, comprising the steps of:

remotely initializing at least one monitoring session having an associated unique identification number;

obtaining the sessions'"'"' identification number;

associating a patients'"'"' personal data and a consultants'"'"' personal data with the obtained sessions'"'"' identification number;

transmitting vital signs signals with interpretation results;

verifying the interpretation results data and/or post-processing the received signals data and/or inserting comments to the interpretation results data; and

synchronizing the verified or commented on interpretation results data with a data interpretation center and repository.

15. The method of claim 14, wherein the sessions'"'"' identification number is a combination of the session initialization time, date, and a portable monitor'"'"'s identification number.

16. The method of claim 14, further comprising creating an event list based on interpretation results data, each event having an unconfirmed status indicator.

17. The method of claim 16, further comprising changing the unconfirmed status indicator to a confirmed status indicator when the event has been detected properly, deleted, determined to be a false event, determined to be unclear, or when the consultant is not sure whether it is a true event or an incorrectly detected event.

18. A computer program product, tangibly embodied in an information carrier, the computer program product including instructions being operable to cause a data processing apparatus to:

remotely initialize at least one monitoring session having an associated unique identification number;

obtaining the sessions'"'"' identification number;

associate a patients'"'"' personal data and a consultants'"'"' personal data with the obtained sessions'"'"' identification number;

transmit vital signs signals with interpretation results;

verify the interpretation results data and/or post-processing the received signals data and/or inserting comments to the interpretation results data; and

synchronize the verified or commented on interpretation results data with a data interpretation center and repository.