Systems, methods, and devices for health monitoring

• US 8,795,171 B2
• Filed: 05/25/2007
• Issued: 08/05/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 07/31/2003
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Bellsouth Intellectual Property Corporation (AT&T, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I LP (AT&T, Inc.)
• Inventors: Adamczyk, Maria
• Primary Examiner(s): Jackson, Gary
• Assistant Examiner(s): SORIANO, BOBBY GILES
• Application Number:
  US11/805,927
• Publication Number:
  US 20070232935A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,629 Days
• Field of Search: 600300-301, 128903-905, 128/920, 340/539, 340/573.1, 340/539.12, 705 2- 4
• US Class Current: 600/301
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/7282 Event detection, e.g. detecting unique waveforms indicative of a medical condition A61B5/4094, A61B5/4818, A61B5/349, A61B5/0823 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2212/174 Telecommunications system
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/67 for remote operation
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 50/30 for calculating health indices; for individual health risk assessment
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/01 Protocols
• 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: H04W 8/20 Transfer of user or subscriber data
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 128/904 Telephone telemetry
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 128/92 Computer assisted medical diagnostics

Abstract

A health monitoring system is disclosed. According to one embodiment, the health monitoring system includes a first server configured to receive a first set of information from a monitoring device, wherein the first set of information includes a health condition reading of a subscriber, and wherein the first server is configured to process the first set of information and transmit a second set of information to the monitoring device and/or a telecommunications device, wherein the second set of information includes medical treatment information and/or medical advice concerning the subscriber. The health monitoring system also includes a database in communication with the first server and configured to store a third set of information therein, wherein the third set of information includes emergency contact information, one or more health conditions of the subscriber, monitoring time intervals, and/or numerical ranges defining acceptable health conditions and medical alert conditions.

Claims

1. A method, comprising:

receiving, at a cellular base station, a health condition reading sent over a cellular network from a cellular device associated with a subscriber, the health condition reading generated by a monitoring device and sent over a residential network to the cellular device;

querying, by the cellular base station, a home location register for an address assigned to the cellular device;

retrieving, at the cellular base station, medical ranges of data from the home location register that are associated with the address assigned to the cellular device, the medical ranges of data defining acceptable health conditions associated with the address assigned to the cellular device;

comparing, by the cellular base station, the health condition reading to the medical ranges of data;

determining, by the cellular base station, that the health condition reading lies outside one of the medical ranges of data;

determining, by the cellular base station, an alert condition exists in response to the health condition reading lying outside the one of the medical ranges of data; and

sending an alert from the cellular base station to the address associated with the cellular device, the alert describing the health condition reading lying outside the one of the medical ranges of data,

wherein the alert describes an unacceptable health condition.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising retrieving contact information from the home location register.

3. The method of claim 2, further comprising sending a short message service message from the cellular base station to a number associated with the subscriber, the short message service message describing the alert condition.

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising determining, by the cellular base station, that the health condition reading lies within a red range of values.

5. The method of claim 4, further comprising routing a call through the cellular base station to the address associated with the cellular device.

6. The method of claim 1, further comprising retrieving, by the cellular base station, a medical instruction from the home location register.

7. The method of claim 6, further comprising sending the medical instruction from the cellular base station to the address associated with the cellular device.

8. A system, comprising:

a server; and

programming stored in the server that when executed causes the server to perform operations, the operations comprising;

storing medical ranges of data in a home location register associated with an address assigned to a cellular device, the medical ranges of data defining acceptable health conditions associated with the address assigned to the cellular device;

receiving a health condition reading sent from the cellular device, the health condition reading generated by a monitoring device communicating with the cellular device over a residential network;

comparing the health condition reading to the medical ranges of data defining the acceptable health conditions;

determining the health condition reading lies outside one of the medical ranges of data;

determining an alert condition exists in response to the health condition reading lying outside the one of the medical ranges of data defining the acceptable health conditions;

defining the alert condition as one of an orange alert and a red alert, the orange alert indicating the health condition reading lies with orange ranges requiring notification of the subscriber, and the red alert indicating the health condition reading lies within red ranges requiring the notification of emergency personnel;

accessing contact information stored in the home location register that is associated with the address assigned to the cellular device;

in response to the orange alert, causing a short message service message to be sent to the address, the short message service message describing the alert condition; and

in response to the red alert, initiating a call from the address associated with the cellular device and emergency personnel.