MEDICAL BRACELET STANDARD

• US 20180000346A1
• Filed: 12/14/2015
• Published: 01/04/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 12/19/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Koninklijke Philips N.V.
• Original Assignee: Koninklijke Philips N.V.
• Inventors: Cronin, John
• Granted Patent: US 10,736,510 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/00 Measuring for diagnostic purposes radiation diagnosis A61B6/00; diagnosis by ultrasonic, sonic or infrasonic waves A61B8/00; Identification of persons
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/0022 Monitoring a patient using a global network, e.g. telephone networks, internet
• 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 5/6801 specially adapted to be attached to or worn on the body surface
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/6898 Portable consumer electronic devices, e.g. music players, telephones, tablet computers
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 21/0453 worn on the body to detect health condition by physiological monitoring, e.g. electrocardiogram, temperature, breathing detecting, measuring or recording for diagnostic purposes A61B5/00
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 25/14 Central alarm receiver or annunciator arrangements
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 10/60 for patient-specific data, e.g. for electronic patient records
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 15/00 ICT specially adapted for medical reports, e.g. generation or transmission thereof
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/63 for local operation
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/67 for remote operation

Abstract

Various embodiments described herein relate to a wearable device for monitoring health parameters of a patient. According to various embodiments, a wearable device, associated mobile device, or other user device may receive health parameters of the user obtained by at least one sensor configured to sense one or more health parameters from the user; receive an identification of a medical alert to be provided to third parties with respect to the user, persist the identification of the medical alert in a memory of the user device, and repeatedly transmit at least one of the identification of the medical alert and an indication of the availability of the medical alert via a communications interface of the user device configured to communicate wirelessly with nearby reader devices.

Claims

1. A user device comprising:

a wireless communications interface configured to communicate wirelessly with nearby reader devices;

a memory; and

a processor in communication with the communications interface and the memory, wherein the processor is configured to;

receive health parameters of the user obtained by at least one sensor configured to sense one or more health parameters from the user,

receive an identification of a medical alert to be provided to third parties with respect to the user,

persist the identification of the medical alert in the memory, and

repeatedly broadcast, via the communications interface, a low energy beacon to establish a new low energy wireless communication link with one or more nearby reader devices, and

transmit, over the low energy wireless communication link, at least one of the identification of the medical alert and an indication of the availability of the medical alert.

2. The user device of claim 1, wherein the beacon includes the identification of the medical alert or the indication of the availability of the medical alert.

3. The user device of claim 1, wherein, in transmitting the identification of the at least one medical alert, the processor is further configured to additionally transmit at least one of the health parameters with the medical alert.

4. The user device of claim 3, wherein the processor is further configured to select the at least one of the health parameters for transmission based on the identification of the medical alert.

5. The user device of claim 1, wherein, in receiving the identification of a medical alert, the processor is configured to receive a user selection of the medical alert from a list of predefined possible medical alerts.

6. The user device of claim 1, wherein the processor is further configured to:

identify the occurrence of a medical event based on the received health parameters, and

begin the repeated broadcast in response to the identification of the occurrence of the medical event.

7. The user device of claim 6, wherein, in identifying the occurrence of a medical event, the processor is configured to:

identify a trigger associated with the medical event based on the received identification of the medical alert,

determine that the trigger is applicable based on comparing the trigger to the received health parameters, and

identify the occurrence of the medical event based on determining that the trigger is applicable,

whereby the processor monitors for occurrence of the medical event in response to receiving the identification of the medical alert.

8. A method performed by a user device for providing medical alert information, the method comprising:

receiving, by a processor of the user device, health parameters of a user obtained by at least one sensor configured to sense one or more health parameters from the user;

receiving an identification of a medical alert to be provided to third parties with respect to the user;

persisting the identification of the medical alert in a memory of the user device; and

repeatedly broadcasting, via a wireless communications interface, a low energy beacon to establish a new low energy wireless communication link with one or more nearby reader devices; and

transmitting at least one of the identification of the medical alert and an indication of the availability of the medical alert over the wireless communication link.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein the beacon includes the identification of the medical alert or the indication of the availability of the medical alert.

10. The method of claim 8, wherein transmitting the identification of the at least one medical alert comprises additionally transmitting at least one of the health parameters with the medical alert.

11. The method of claim 10, further comprising selecting the at least one of the health parameters for transmission based on the identification of the medical alert.

12. The method of claim 8, wherein, receiving the identification of a medical alert comprises receiving a user selection of the medical alert from a list of predefined possible medical alerts.

13. The method of claim 8, further comprising:

identifying the occurrence of a medical event based on the received health parameters, and

beginning the repeated broadcast in response to the identification of the occurrence of the medical event.

14. The method of claim 13, wherein, identifying the occurrence of a medical event comprises:

identifying a trigger associated with the medical event based on the received identification of the medical alert;

determining that the trigger is applicable based on comparing the trigger to the received health parameters; and

identifying the occurrence of the medical event based on determining that the trigger is applicable,

whereby the user device monitors for occurrence of the medical event in response to receiving the identification of the medical alert.

15. A non-transitory machine-readable storage medium encoded with instructions for execution by a user device for providing medical alert information, the non-transitory machine-readable storage medium comprising:

instructions for receiving, by a processor of the user device, health parameters of the user obtained by at least one sensor configured to sense one or more health parameters from the user;

instructions for receiving an identification of a medical alert to be provided to third parties with respect to the user;

instructions for persisting the identification of the medical alert in a memory of the user device; and

instructions for repeatedly broadcasting, via a wireless communications interface, a low energy beacon to establish a new low energy wireless communication link with one or more nearby reader devices; and

instructions for transmitting, over the wireless communication link, at least one of the identification of the medical alert and an indication of the availability of the medical alert.