Remote healthcare method for measuring physiological parameter and reporting self-perceived health status

• US 8,180,652 B2
• Filed: 07/07/2010
• Issued: 05/15/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 08/19/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Alpha Networks Incorporated
• Original Assignee: Aescu Technology Inc.
• Inventors: Young, Shuenn-Tsong, Lee, Chung-Wang, Liu, Chang-Yu
• Primary Examiner(s): Cobanoglu, Dilek B
• Application Number:
  US12/801,988
• Publication Number:
  US 20110046971A1
• Time in Patent Office: 678 Days
• Field of Search: 705/2, 705/3, 340/9.1, 600/300, 600/508, 600/509, 604/67, 607/2, 607/60, 709/219
• US Class Current: 705/2
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 10/60 for patient-specific data, e.g. for electronic patient records
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/67 for remote operation

Abstract

A remote healthcare method is applied to a healthcare server and includes the steps of receiving detected information from a physiological parameter detecting instrument, reading a patient identification code and a physiological parameter from the detected information, reading an identification datum and a medical history datum matched with the patient identification code from a history database according to the identification code, reading a disease matched with the disease classification code and a corresponding pathological symptom from the disease database according to at least one disease classification code in the medical history data, screening a corresponding matched pathological symptom from the pathological symptoms according to the read physiological parameter to create a self-perceived list, transmitting the self-perceived list to the physiological parameter detecting instrument, and waiting for a receipt of the selected option of the pathological symptom for determining an appropriate medical dosage or medical tool.

Claims

1. A remote healthcare method for measuring a physiological parameter and reporting a self-perceived health status, which is applied to a healthcare server, comprising the steps of:

reading a patient identification code and a physiological parameter contained in the detected information, after receiving detected information transmitted from a physiological parameter detecting instrument;

reading identification data and medical history data matched with the patient identification code from a history database according to the patient identification code;

reading a disease and a corresponding pathological symptom matched with the disease classification code from the disease database according to at least one disease classification code contained in the medical history data;

selecting an option matched with the pathological symptom from the corresponding pathological symptoms to create a self-perceived list according to the physiological parameter read from the detected information, and transmitting the self-perceived list to the physiological parameter detecting instrument; and

receiving the option selected by a patient and transmitted from the physiological parameter detecting instrument.

2. The remote healthcare method of claim 1, wherein the healthcare server includes the history database, and the history database stores at least one patient'"'"'s medical history data, and each medical history datum includes a corresponding patient identification code and an identification datum corresponding to the identification code, and includes at least one disease classification code.

3. The remote healthcare method of claim 2, wherein the physiological parameter detecting instrument having a corresponding patient identification code is connected to the healthcare server through the Internet for transmitting data and information with the healthcare server and the remote healthcare method further includes a procedure carried out by the physiological parameter detecting instrument and comprising the steps of:

detecting a patient'"'"'s current physiological parameter;

converting a corresponding patient identification code in the physiological parameter detecting instrument and the detected physiological parameter into detected information; and

transmitting the detected information to the healthcare server.

4. The remote healthcare method of claim 3, wherein the healthcare server will not create the self-perceived list when the healthcare server screens no matched pathological symptom.

5. The remote healthcare method of claim 4, wherein the quantity of disease classification codes in the medical history data is set according to the diseases that a patient with the corresponding patient identification data ever has.

6. The remote healthcare method of claim 5, wherein the option selected by a patient is returned and stored into the healthcare server.

7. The remote healthcare method of claim 5, wherein the option selected by a patient is returned and stored into the history database.

8. The remote healthcare method of claim 5, wherein the physiological parameter detecting instrument transmits detected information to a healthcare server via a wireless transmission method.

9. The remote healthcare method of claim 1, wherein the healthcare server includes the disease database, and the disease database stores a plurality of diseases, each having a unique disease classification code, and includes a plurality of pathological symptoms, each corresponding to at least one physiological parameter.

10. The remote healthcare method of claim 9, wherein the physiological parameter detecting instrument having a corresponding patient identification code is connected to the healthcare server through the Internet for transmitting data and information with the healthcare server, and the remote healthcare method further includes a procedure carried out by the physiological parameter detecting instrument and comprising the steps of:

detecting a patient'"'"'s current physiological parameter;

converting a corresponding patient identification code in the physiological parameter detecting instrument and the detected physiological parameter into detected information; and

transmitting the detected information to the healthcare server.

11. The remote healthcare method of claim 10, the healthcare server will create a self-perceived list when the healthcare server screens no matched pathological symptom.

12. The remote healthcare method of claim 11, wherein the quantity of disease classification codes in the medical history data is set according to the diseases that a patient with the corresponding patient identification data ever has.

13. The remote healthcare method of claim 12, wherein the option selected by a patient is returned and stored into the healthcare server.

14. The remote healthcare method of claim 12, wherein the option selected by a patient is returned and stored into the history database.

15. The remote healthcare method of claim 1, wherein the physiological parameter detecting instrument having a corresponding patient identification code is connected to the healthcare server through the Internet for transmitting or receiving data and information with the healthcare server, and the remote healthcare method further includes a procedure carried out by the physiological parameter detecting instrument and comprising the steps of:

detecting a patient'"'"'s current physiological parameter;

converting a corresponding identification code in the physiological parameter detecting instrument and the detected physiological parameter into detected information; and

transmitting the detected information to the healthcare server.

16. The remote healthcare method of claim 15, wherein the healthcare server will not create the self-perceived list when the healthcare server screens no matched pathological symptom.

17. The remote healthcare method of claim 16, wherein the quantity of disease classification codes in the medical history data is set according to the diseases that a patient with the corresponding patient identification data ever has.

18. The remote healthcare method of claim 17, wherein the option selected by a patient is returned and stored in the healthcare server.

19. The remote healthcare method of claim 17, wherein the option selected by a patient is returned and stored into the history database.

20. The remote healthcare method of claim 17, wherein the physiological parameter detecting instrument transmits detected information to a healthcare server via a wireless transmission method.