Patient management device, system and method
First Claim
1. A method of diagnosing a degree of a neurological disease or an effect of a medication on said neurological disease, said method comprising:
- transmitting a questionnaire via a communication link from an application on a local computer system to a portable apparatus, wherein said portable apparatus comprises an integrated accelerometer and said questionnaire comprises questions and an instruction to initiate a predefined motion exercise;
registering movement of said portable apparatus during said predefined motion exercise in response to said instruction by registration of an output signal from said accelerometer and storing said output signal as stored measurement data elements;
correlating said questions and said instruction to said measurement data elements; and
analyzing said measurement data elements for determining said degree of said neurological disease or an effect of said medication on said neurological disease.
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Abstract
A portable apparatus for managing a plurality of events related to a patient and for recording and storing input data related to said events is disclosed. The portable apparatus comprises a man machine user interface; a timer unit; a control unit, arranged to provide an invitation to the patient as an instruction via the interface to perform a motion exercise, upon a trigger from the timer unit or upon a patient self initiation. In an embodiment the apparatus comprises a sensor to record measurements related to said motion exercise. Further, a storage unit is arranged to retrievably store patient input data and said measurements. This enables diagnosing a degree of a neurological disease or an effect of a medication on said neurological disease.
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15 Claims
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1. A method of diagnosing a degree of a neurological disease or an effect of a medication on said neurological disease, said method comprising:
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transmitting a questionnaire via a communication link from an application on a local computer system to a portable apparatus, wherein said portable apparatus comprises an integrated accelerometer and said questionnaire comprises questions and an instruction to initiate a predefined motion exercise; registering movement of said portable apparatus during said predefined motion exercise in response to said instruction by registration of an output signal from said accelerometer and storing said output signal as stored measurement data elements; correlating said questions and said instruction to said measurement data elements; and analyzing said measurement data elements for determining said degree of said neurological disease or an effect of said medication on said neurological disease. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13)
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14. A method of diagnosing a degree of a neurological disease or an effect of a medication on said neurological disease, said method comprising:
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transmitting a questionnaire via a communication link from an application on a local computer system to a portable apparatus comprising an integrated accelerometer, wherein said questionnaire comprises questions and an instruction to initiate a predefined motion exercise; registering movement of said portable apparatus during said predefined motion exercise in response to said instruction by registration of an output signal from said accelerometer and storing said output signal as stored measurement data elements; correlating said questions and said instruction to said measurement data elements; and analyzing said measurement data elements for determining said degree of said neurological disease or an effect of said medication on said neurological disease; wherein said predefined motion exercise comprises holding said portable apparatus in a hand of a patient and dropping or throwing or catching said portable apparatus. - View Dependent Claims (15)
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