REMOTE HEALTH MONITORING SYSTEM
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Abstract
A data collection system collects and stores physiological data from an ambulatory patient at a high resolution and/or a high data rate (“more detailed data”) and sends a low-resolution and/or downsampled version of the data (“less detailed data”) to a remote server via a wireless network. The server automatically analyzes the less detailed data to detect an anomaly, such as an arrhythmia. A two-tiered analysis scheme is used, where the first tier is more sensitive and less specific than the second tier. If the more sensitive analysis detects or suspects the anomaly, the server signals the data collector to send more detailed data that corresponds to a time period associated with the anomaly. The more specific second tier analyses the more detailed data to verify the anomaly. The server may also store the received data and make it available to a user, such as via a graphical or tabular display.
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55 Claims
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28. A system for monitoring a patient, the system comprising:
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a controller configured to communicate with at least one sensor coupled to a patient, the controller configured to receive physiologic data about the patient from the at least one sensor; a memory configured to store the received physiologic data; and a wireless transceiver coupled to the controller to (a) transmit at a preset duty cycle, to a remote server, a subset of the received physiologic data regardless of whether the subset is indicative of a health-related anomaly and (b) transmit a portion of the received physiologic data to the remote server, in response to a signal from the remote server. - View Dependent Claims (29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38)
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39. A method for monitoring a patient, the method comprising:
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receiving physiologic data about the patient from at least one sensor coupled to the patient; storing the received physiologic data in a memory; transmitting at a preset duty cycle, to a remote server, a subset of the received physiologic data regardless of whether the subset is indicative of a health-related anomaly; and transmitting a portion of the received physiologic data to the remote server, in response to a signal from the remote server. - View Dependent Claims (40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49)
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50. A system for monitoring a patient, the system comprising:
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at least one sensor configured to be coupled to the patient to generate physiologic data about the patient; a controller configured to communicate with the at least one sensor, the controller configured to receive physiologic data about the patient from the at least one sensor, wherein the controller does not perform an analysis to determine if the physiologic data is indicative of a health-related anomaly; a memory configured to store the received physiologic data; a wireless transceiver coupled to the controller to (a) transmit at a preset duty cycle, to a remote server, a subset of the received physiologic data regardless of whether the subset is indicative of a health-related anomaly and (b) transmit a portion of the received physiologic data to the remote server, in response to a signal from the remote server based on the remote server determining that the subset of the received physiologic data indicates a health-related anomaly, wherein the signal from the remote server identifies a time period surrounding a time period corresponding to the health-related anomaly; and a remote server configured to; analyze the subset of the received physiologic data according to a first technique; and analyze the portion of the received physiologic data according to a second technique, wherein the second technique has a higher specificity for the health-related anomaly than the first technique. - View Dependent Claims (51, 52, 53, 54, 55)
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