Mobile device and system for monitoring and recording body vital signs
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1. An apparatus comprising:
- a mobile device having an embedded health monitor adapted to take measurements of vital signs of an individual, determine blood pressure and heart rate parameters from the measurements, and transfer the parameters, wherein the embedded health monitor is adapted to perform radial pulse tonometry with a sensor enclosed in a sensor housing with an open cavity adapted to separate the sensor from skin over an artery when placed on a user, the open cavity adapted to become a closed cavity when placed on a user and utilize cavity resonance that transfers changing arterial pressure from the skin to the sensor through air moving in and out of a hole in a wall of the closed cavity, and pressure changes from the changing arterial pressure are transformed by the sensor to a pressure signal proportional to the pressure in the radial artery, and wherein the embedded health monitor is adapted to store the parameters in a memory of the mobile device and displays the stored parameters in a display of the mobile device; and
a remote computing system communicably coupled to the mobile device that is adapted to receive and store the parameters, transferred from the mobile device, and perform trend analysis on stored vital sign parameters.
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Abstract
A method and apparatus is disclosed herein for monitoring vital signs using a health monitor embedded into a mobile device. In one embodiment, the apparatus comprises a mobile device having an embedded health monitor to take measurements of vital signs of an individual, to determine vital sign parameters from the measurements, and to transfer the vital sign parameters; and a computing system communicably coupled to the mobile device to store the vital sign parameters and to perform trend analysis on stored vital sign parameters and to provide feedback to the user or user specified persons and generate alarms.
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1. An apparatus comprising:
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a mobile device having an embedded health monitor adapted to take measurements of vital signs of an individual, determine blood pressure and heart rate parameters from the measurements, and transfer the parameters, wherein the embedded health monitor is adapted to perform radial pulse tonometry with a sensor enclosed in a sensor housing with an open cavity adapted to separate the sensor from skin over an artery when placed on a user, the open cavity adapted to become a closed cavity when placed on a user and utilize cavity resonance that transfers changing arterial pressure from the skin to the sensor through air moving in and out of a hole in a wall of the closed cavity, and pressure changes from the changing arterial pressure are transformed by the sensor to a pressure signal proportional to the pressure in the radial artery, and wherein the embedded health monitor is adapted to store the parameters in a memory of the mobile device and displays the stored parameters in a display of the mobile device; and a remote computing system communicably coupled to the mobile device that is adapted to receive and store the parameters, transferred from the mobile device, and perform trend analysis on stored vital sign parameters. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7)
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8. A system comprising:
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a mobile device having an embedded health monitor device having a blood pressure sensor and a temperature sensor that take blood pressure and temperature measurements, respectively, of a body of an individual, the blood pressure sensor having a sensor enclosed in a sensor housing with an open cavity adapted to separate the sensor from skin over an artery when placed on an individual, the open cavity adapted to become a closed cavity when placed on the individual and utilize cavity resonance that transfers changing arterial pressure from the skin to the sensor through air moving in and out of a hole in a wall of the closed cavity, and pressure changes from the changing arterial pressure are transformed by the sensor to a pressure signal proportional to the pressure in the radial artery of the individual to a waveform, a pair of amplifiers coupled to the sensors that amplifies the sensed signal measurements, a controller coupled to the pair of amplifiers that receives amplified signal measurement values and determines vital sign parameters from the amplified measurement values, and a communication mechanism coupled to the controller that transfers the vital sign parameters; and a remote computing system communicably coupled to the mobile device that receives and stores the vital sign parameters from the communication mechanism and performs trend analysis on one or more stored vital sign parameters generated from measurements to determine systolic and diastolic blood pressure and heart rate of the body. - View Dependent Claims (9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18)
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19. A mobile device comprising:
an embedded health monitor device having a blood pressure sensor and a temperature sensor that takes blood pressure and temperature measurements, respectively, of a body of an individual, the blood pressure sensor having a sensor enclosed in a sensor housing with an open cavity adapted to separate the sensor from skin over an artery when placed on an individual, the open cavity adapted to become a closed cavity when placed on the individual and utilize cavity resonance that transfers changing arterial pressure from the skin to the sensor through air moving in and out of a hole a wall of the closed cavity, and pressure changes from the changing arterial pressure are transformed by the sensor to a pressure proportional to pressure in a radial artery of the individual to a waveform, a pair of amplifiers coupled to the sensors that amplify the measurements, a controller coupled to the pair of amplifiers that receive amplified measurement values and determine vital sign parameters from the amplified measurement values, and a communication mechanism coupled to the controller that transfers the vital sign parameters. - View Dependent Claims (20, 21)
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