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Automatic identification for spot measurements

  • US 7,853,457 B2
  • Filed: 05/01/2006
  • Issued: 12/14/2010
  • Est. Priority Date: 05/24/2005
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A patient monitoring system for monitoring physiological functions of each of a plurality of patients, the system comprising:

  • a plurality of identification devices, each associated with one of a corresponding one of a plurality of patients including;

    an electronic identification code memory which stores a patient identification code which identifies the corresponding to one of the patients, anda patient body-coupled communication device capacitively coupled with the corresponding patient which communicates the identification code via near field communications; and

    a medical device including;

    a sensor which spot measures a physiological function of each of a plurality of patients;

    a medical device body-coupled communication device which capacitively couples with each patient during spot measuring and automatically reads the respective patient identification codes via near field communications and automatically associates physiological function measurements with the patient identification code of the corresponding patient;

    anda memory which stores the associated physiological functional measurements and patient identification codes.

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