CONTINUOUS HEALTHCARE MONITORING CONCIERGE

• US 20130231582A1
• Filed: 08/15/2012
• Published: 09/05/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 03/02/2012
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Xpertease Consultants, LLC
• Original Assignee: Xpertease Consultants, LLC
• Inventors: Prasad, Manoj K.
• Application Number:
  US13/586,467
• Publication Number:
  US 20130231582A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 600/551
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2010/0019 based on measurement of temperature
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/0022 Monitoring a patient using a global network, e.g. telephone networks, internet
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/0024 for multiple sensor units attached to the patient, e.g. using a body or personal area network
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/0205 Simultaneously evaluating both cardiovascular conditions and different types of body conditions, e.g. heart and respiratory condition
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/145 Measuring characteristics of blood in vivo, e.g. gas concentration, pH value; Measuring characteristics of body fluids or tissues, e.g. interstitial fluid, cerebral tissuemeasuring of blood pressure or blood flow A61B5/02; non-radiation detecting or locating of foreign bodies in blood A61B5/06
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/18 for vehicle drivers or machine operators
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/24 Detecting, measuring or recording bioelectric or biomagnetic signals of the body or parts thereof
• 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 5/747 in case of emergency, i.e. alerting emergency services
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 2540/221 Physiology, e.g. weight, heartbeat, health or special needs
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 2556/45 External transmission of data to or from the vehicle
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/67 for remote operation

Abstract

A system and method for monitoring a health parameter of a vehicle occupant where an occupant profile is created that identifies a biological parameter to measure, a measure health parameter to report on and corresponding thresholds that trigger an alert. A vehicle has an integrated sensor that measures the biological parameter according to the profile and provides a signal of the measured biological parameter. A computing device records the measured biological parameter and derives the measured health parameter from the measured biological parameters. If the measured health parameter passes a threshold, then an alert is triggered, and the occupant or interested party is notified.

Claims

1. A system for personal health monitoring comprising:

a profile creator that includes a list of medical concerns where each medical concern is associated to a set of health parameters to monitor;

an occupant profile that contains a medical concern from the list of medical concerns and includes a threshold corresponding to at least one of the health parameters associated to the set of medical concerns;

a data-collection unit that receives biological signals from a vehicle occupant from sensors mounted in the vehicle;

a memory device for storing the received biological signals;

a data monitor that provides measured health parameters using the biological signals and sets an alert when the measured health parameter passes the corresponding threshold; and

a notification mechanism that notifies an interested party when the alert occurs.

2. The system of claim 1 wherein the memory device is part of the data-collection unit.

3. The system of claim 1 wherein the memory device is part of a central repository.

4. The system of claim 3 wherein the data is available on a web page and is shared with other websites.

5. The system of claim 1 wherein the medical concern is becoming pregnant and the alert is predicting ovulation.

6. The system of claim 1 wherein the data monitor aggregates data from a group of occupants.

7. The system of claim 6 wherein the group of occupants all have the same medical concern and the analysis is used to improve the monitoring of the medical concern.

8. The system of claim 1 wherein the interested party is the employer of the occupant and the employer has a fleet of vehicles.

9. The system of claim 1 further comprising an appointment scheduler that helps the occupant establish an appointment related to a monitored concern.

10. The system of claim 1 wherein the interest party is a doctor and the notification informs the doctor of the effectiveness of a treatment.

16. The method of claim 10 further including aggregating data from a group of occupants.

17. The method of claim 16 wherein the group of occupants all have the same medical concern and the analysis is used to improve the monitoring of the medical concern.

11. A method for personal health monitoring comprising:

running a profile creator that includes a list of medical concerns where each medical concern is associated to a set of health parameters to monitor, where the running of the profile creator creates an occupant profile that contains a medical concern from the list of medical concerns and includes a threshold corresponding to at least one of the health parameters associated to the set of medical concerns;

receiving biological signals from a vehicle occupant from sensors mounted in the vehicle;

storing the received biological signals;

providing measured health parameters using the biological signals;

setting an alert when the measured health parameter passes the corresponding threshold; and

notifying an interested party when the alert occurs.

12. The method of claim 11 wherein storing the received biological signals is done at a data-collection unit.

13. The method of claim 11 wherein storing the received biological signals is done at a central repository.

14. The method of claim 13 further including providing the biological signals on a web page and sharing the biological signals with other websites.

15. The method of claim 11 wherein the medical concern is becoming pregnant and the alert is predicting ovulation.

18. A system for personal health monitoring comprising:

means for running a profile creator that includes a list of medical concerns where each medical concern is associated to a set of health parameters to monitor, where the means for running a profile creator creates an occupant profile that contains a medical concern from the list of medical concerns and includes a threshold corresponding to at least one of the health parameters associated to the set of medical concerns;

means for receiving biological signals from a vehicle occupant from sensors mounted in the vehicle;

means for storing the received biological signals;

means for deriving measured health parameters using the biological signals and setting an alert when the measured health parameter passes the corresponding threshold; and

means for notifying an interested parties when the alert occurs.

19. The system of claim 18 further comprising a means for providing the biological signals on a webpage and sharing the biological signals with other websites.

20. The system of claim 18 further comprising a means for aggregating and analyzing data from a group of occupants, where the group of occupants all have the same medical concern and the analysis is used to improve the monitoring of the medical concern.