Mobile device supported medical information services

• US 8,630,660 B2
• Filed: 05/18/2011
• Issued: 01/14/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 05/18/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: AT&T Mobility II LLC (AT&T, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: AT&T Mobility II LLC (AT&T, Inc.)
• Inventors: Ray, Sankar, Bari, Farooq
• Primary Examiner(s): Beamer, Temica M
• Assistant Examiner(s): Ajayi, Joel
• Application Number:
  US13/110,067
• Publication Number:
  US 20120293322A1
• Time in Patent Office: 972 Days
• Field of Search: 455/456.3
• US Class Current: 455/456.3
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 10/65 stored on portable record carriers, e.g. on smartcards, RFID tags or CD
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/63 for local operation
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/67 for remote operation
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 80/00 ICT specially adapted for facilitating communication between medical practitioners or patients, e.g. for collaborative diagnosis, therapy or health monitoring
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/1021 based on client or server locations
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/12 specially adapted for proprietary or special-purpose networking environments, e.g. medical networks, sensor networks, networks in vehicles or remote metering networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/56 Provisioning of proxy services store-and-forward switching systems in data switching networks H04L12/54
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/63 Routing a service request depending on the request content or context
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72418 for supporting emergency services
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/02 Services making use of location information

Abstract

A wireless telecommunications system can receive position information associated with a wireless mobile device of a user and a medical access point name from the wireless mobile device, can determine a gateway based on the position information and the access point name, can receive medical information associated with the user from the wireless mobile device via the gateway, and can provide, based on the medical information and the position information, the medical information to a computer system of a medical facility. The medical information can include drug allergies, food allergies, health issues, physician contact information, emergency contact information, and/or a preferred medical facility, among others. The medical information can be useful in providing medical aid to the user of the wireless mobile device if the user is not able to communicate via verbal means, via written means, and/or via sign means.

Claims

1. A system comprising:

a processor; and

a memory storing instructions that are executable by the processor to perform operations including;

receiving position information associated with a wireless mobile device,

receiving an access point name from the wireless mobile device;

identifying a particular gateway of a plurality of gateways for data communication with the wireless mobile device based on the position information and the access point name;

receiving medical information associated with a user of the wireless mobile device from the wireless mobile device; and

transmitting, via the particular gateway and a coordination gateway, the medical information to a particular computer system of a medical facility, wherein the particular computer system is identified based on the position information and the medical information.

2. The system of claim 1, further comprising:

the coordination gateway;

wherein the operations further include transmitting the medical information and the position information to the particular gateway, wherein the particular gateway provides the medical information to the particular computer system via the coordination gateway.

3. The system of claim 2, wherein the coordination gateway receives information from the particular computer system, and wherein the particular computer system is identified based on the information.

4. The system of claim 3, wherein the information includes a status of the medical facility, a specialty of the medical facility, or a combination thereof.

5. The system of claim 2, wherein the particular computer system is identified based on a medical facility preference included in the medical information.

6. The system of claim 2, wherein the coordination gateway receives the position information from the wireless mobile device, and wherein the wireless mobile device includes a global positioning system that determines the position information.

7. The system of claim 1, further comprising:

a base transceiver station that communicates with the wireless mobile device, wherein the base transceiver station is communicatively coupled to the processor;

wherein the position information is based on antenna position information of an antenna of the base transceiver station.

8. The system of claim 1, wherein the medical information includes a drug allergy, a food allergy, a health issue, physician contact information, emergency contact information, medication information, sex, age, height, weight, health insurance information, a preferred medical provider facility, a medical provider in an insurance network, an image of the user, or a combination thereof.

9. A method comprising:

determining, at a processor, first position information of a first wireless mobile device associated with a first user, wherein the first wireless mobile device stores first medical information associated with the first user;

receiving, at the processor, an access point name from the first wireless mobile device;

identifying, at the processor, a first gateway based on the first position information and the access point name;

receiving, at the processor, the first medical information from the first wireless mobile device; and

transmitting, via the first gateway and a first coordination gateway, the first medical information from the processor to a first computer system of a first medical facility, wherein the first computer system is identified based on the first position information and the first medical information.

10. The method of claim 9, further comprising:

determining, at the processor, second position information of a second wireless mobile device associated with a second user, wherein the second wireless mobile device stores second medical information associated with the second user; and

identifying, at the processor a second gateway based on the second position information and the access point name.

11. The method of claim 10, further comprising:

receiving, at the coordination gateway, first medical facility information from the first computer system of the first medical facility; and

enabling, at the processor, the first medical information to be provided to the first computer system via the coordination gateway;

wherein the first medical facility is identified based on the first medical facility information.

12. The method of claim 11, further comprising:

receiving, at the coordination gateway, the second medical information from the second wireless mobile device;

identifying, at the coordination gateway, a second medical facility based on the second position information and the second medical information, wherein the second medical facility is different from the first medical facility;

receiving, at the coordination gateway, second medical facility information from a second computer system of the second medical facility; and

enabling, at the processor, the second medical information to be provided to the second computer system via the coordination gateway;

wherein the second medical facility is identified based on the second medical facility information.

13. The method of claim 10, wherein the first medical information includes a first medical facility preference, and wherein the first medical facility is identified based on the first medical facility preference.

14. The method of claim 9, wherein determining the first position information includes receiving the first position information from the first wireless mobile device, and wherein the first wireless mobile device includes a global positioning system that determines the first position information.

15. The method of claim 10, wherein the first position information indicates a first city and the second position information indicates a second city that is different from the first city.

16. A mobile device comprising:

a processor;

a secure element in a memory that stores medical information associated with a user of the mobile device and provides the medical information to the processor; and

a first wireless interface that communicates with a wireless communication system;

wherein the memory stores instructions that are executable by the processor to perform operations including;

accessing the secure element;

retrieving a medical access point name from the secure element;

providing the medical access point name to a gateway of the wireless communication system via the first wireless interface, wherein the gateway is identified based on the medical access point name; and

transmitting the medical information to the gateway, wherein the gateway provides, via a coordination gateway, the medical information to a particular computer system of a medical facility, and wherein the particular computer system is identified based on the medical information and position information associated with the mobile device.

17. The mobile device of claim 16, wherein the operations further include:

retrieving, from the secure element, the medical infatuation associated with the user; and

providing the medical information to the gateway via the first wireless interface.

18. The mobile device of claim 16, further comprising:

a subscriber identification module coupled to the processor, wherein the subscriber identification module is associated with the secure element and an international mobile subscriber identity, a mobile subscriber integrated services digital network number, a mobile international integrated services digital network number, a subscriber telephone number, or a combination thereof.

19. The mobile device of claim 16, further comprising:

a global positioning system, coupled to the processor that determines the position information and provides the position information to the processor, wherein the operations further include providing the position information to the gateway via the first wireless interface.

20. The mobile device of claim 16, further comprising:

a second wireless interface, coupled to the processor, that communicates with a near field communication terminal via near field communications;

wherein the operations further include;

authenticating the near field communication terminal via the second wireless interface; and

providing the medical information to the near field communication terminal via the second wireless interface; and

wherein the medical information includes a drug allergy, a food allergy, a health issue, physician contact information, emergency contact information, medication information, sex, age, height, weight, health insurance information, a preferred medical provider facility, a medical provider in an insurance network, an image of the user, or a combination thereof.