PATIENT MONITORING SYSTEMS AND METHODS
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Abstract
An adherent patient device is configured to adhere to the skin of the patient and measure electrocardiogram data, impedance data, accelerometer data, blood oxygen data and temperature data. The adherent device can communicate wirelessly with gateways and a local processor system, such that the patient can wander about the hospital and update the monitoring station with the patient data when the patient is ambulatory. The local processor system can be configured to customize alerts for the patient, for example to notify automatically a specialist in response to a special condition of the patient. The adherent device may comprise a unique adherent device identifier such that the customized alert can be sent based on the unique device identifier. Each of the gateways can be carried and may comprise a unique gateway identifier, such that the unique device identifier and the unique gateway identifier can be used to locate the ambulatory patient.
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85 Claims
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1-65. -65. (canceled)
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66. A system to monitor a plurality of patients, the system comprising:
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a plurality of patient devices, each patient device comprising identifying information and wireless communication circuitry, said each device configured to measure patient data and to transmit the patient data via the wireless communication circuitry; a local processor system comprising a tangible medium and at least one display disposed at a monitoring station, the local processor system configured to receive the patient data and display the patient data to a user at the monitoring station; and a plurality of gateways configured to receive the patient data from the wireless communication circuitry and transmit the patient data to the local processor system, wherein each of the plurality of gateways includes an approved device list that identifies those patient devices allowed to communicate with each of the plurality of gateways, wherein patient devices are paired with one or more gateways by communicating identifying information that is compared with the approved device list by gateways within range of the patient device. - View Dependent Claims (67, 69, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, 75, 76, 77)
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68. The system of claim 68, wherein the identifying information includes a device identification number, and wherein the approved patient device list includes a range of device identification numbers.
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78. A method of monitoring plurality of patients, the method comprising:
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adhering one or more patient devices comprising wireless communication circuitry to a patient to measure patient data, wherein each patient device includes unique identifying information; modifying an approved device list that identifies those patient devices allowed to communicate patient information to a local processor system; communicating the modified approved device list to one or more gateway devices; and receiving at the gateway a pairing request from the one or more patient device, wherein the gateway compares identifying information received from the patient device to the modified approved device list to determine whether communications from the patient device should be accepted and communicated to the local processor system. - View Dependent Claims (79, 80, 81, 82, 83, 84, 85)
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