Personal ambulatory wireless health monitor
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1. An ambulatory patient monitoring apparatus comprising:
- a portable housing comprising;
at least one physiological data input device operative to gather physiological data of a patient;
location determination circuitry;
communications circuitry capable of communicating through a data network end capable of communicating wirelessly to a central health monitoring station;
signal processing circuitry for processing signals associated with any of said physiological data input device, said location determination circuitry and said communications circuitry; and
control circuitry operative to simultaneously store a first portion of said physiological data in a memory in FIFO fashion and a second portion of said physiological data in said memory that is write-protected with respect to said first portion.
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Abstract
Ambulatory patient monitoring apparatus including a portable housing including at least one physiological data input device operative to gather physiological data of the patient, location determination circuitry, and communications circuitry for communicating the physiological data and the geographic location information to a central health monitoring station wirelessly and over a data network, and control circuitry operative to simultaneously store a first portion of such physiological data in a memory in FIFO fashion and a second portion of such physiological data in such memory that is write-protected with respect to said first portion.
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1. An ambulatory patient monitoring apparatus comprising:
a portable housing comprising;
at least one physiological data input device operative to gather physiological data of a patient;
location determination circuitry;
communications circuitry capable of communicating through a data network end capable of communicating wirelessly to a central health monitoring station;
signal processing circuitry for processing signals associated with any of said physiological data input device, said location determination circuitry and said communications circuitry; and
control circuitry operative to simultaneously store a first portion of said physiological data in a memory in FIFO fashion and a second portion of said physiological data in said memory that is write-protected with respect to said first portion. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 39, 40, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55)
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19. An apparatus for monitoring a patient, the apparatus comprising:
a portable housing for use by said patient, the portable housing comprising;
at least one physiological data input device operative to gather physiological data of said patient;
location determination circuitry;
communications circuitry for communicating through a data network and for communicating wirelessly to a central health monitoring station;
digital signal processing circuitry for processing signals associated with any of said physiological data input device, said location determination circuitry and said communications circuitry; and
control circuitry operative to simultaneously store a first portion of said physiological data in a memory in FIFO fashion and a second portion of said physiological data in said memory that is write-protected with respect to said first portion. - View Dependent Claims (41, 42)
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20. A method for monitoring a patient, the method comprising:
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providing a portable housing for use by said patient, the portable housing comprising;
at least one physiological data input device operative to gather physiological data of said patient;
location determination circuitry;
communications circuitry for communicating information through a data network and for communicating wirelessly to a central health monitoring station; and
control circuitry operative to simultaneously store a first portion of said physiological data in a memory in FIFO fashion and a second portion of said physiological data in said memory that is write-protected with respect to said first portion;
gathering physiological data of said patient;
determining the geographic location of said patient; and
communicating said physiological data and said geographic location through a data network to said central health monitoring station. - View Dependent Claims (21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 56, 57, 58, 59)
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34. An ambulatory patient monitoring apparatus comprising:
a housing comprising;
physiological data input means gathering for physiological data of a patient;
location determination means for determining a patient location;
communications means for communicating through a data network and for communicating wirelessly to a central health monitoring station; and
control means for controlling the monitoring apparatus operative to simultaneously store a first portion of said physiological data in a memory in FIFO fashion and a second portion of said physiological data in said memory that is write-protected with respect said to first portion. - View Dependent Claims (60)
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35. An ambulatory patient monitoring apparatus comprising:
a housing comprising;
at least one physiological data input device operative to gather physiological data of a patient;
location determination circuitry;
communications circuitry capable of communicating through a data network and for communicating wirelessly to a central health monitoring station;
signal processing circuitry for processing signals associated with any of said physiological data input device, said location determination circuitry and said communications circuitry; and
control circuitry operative to initiate physiological data gathering upon receiving a signal through said data network and operative to simultaneously store a first portion of said physiological data in a memory in FIFO fashion and a second portion of said physiological data in said memory that is writer-protected with respect to said first portion. - View Dependent Claims (61)
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36. A patient monitoring apparatus comprising:
portable housing comprising;
a physiological data input device capable of gathering physiological data of a patient;
location determination circuitry;
communications circuitry capable of communicating through a data network and of communicating wirelessly to a central station;
control circuitry operative to simultaneously store a first portion of said physiological data in a memory in FIFO fashion and a second portion of said physiological data in said memory that is write-protected with respect to said first portion; and
audio communication circuitry. - View Dependent Claims (62)
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37. A method for monitoring a patient, the method comprising:
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providing a housing for use by said patient, the housing comprising;
a physiological data input device operative to gather physiological data of said patient;
location determination circuitry;
communications circuitry for communicating information through a data network and for communicating wirelessly to a central health monitoring station and for communicating voice data; and
control circuitry operative to simultaneously store a first portion of said physiological data in a memory in FIFO fashion and a second portion of said physiological data in said memory that is write-protected with respect to said first portion;
gathering physiological data of said patient;
determining the geographic location of said patient; and
communicating said physiological data through a data network to said central health monitoring station. - View Dependent Claims (63)
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38. A method for monitoring a patient, the method comprising:
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providing a portable housing for use by said patient, the portable housing comprising;
at least one physiological data input device operative to gather physiological data of said patient;
location determination circuitry;
communications circuitry for communicating information through a data network and for communicating wirelessly to a central health monitoring station; and
control circuitry operative to simultaneously store a first portion of said physiological data in a memory in FIFO fashion and a second portion of said physiological data in said in memory that is write-protected with respect to said first portion; and
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in response to a signal received from the data network, gathering physiological data of said patient, communicating said physiological data through the data network to said central health monitoring station. - View Dependent Claims (64)
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