Measurement, collection, reporting and processing of health condition data

• US 9,047,648 B1
• Filed: 03/30/2006
• Issued: 06/02/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 03/30/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Cingular Wireless II LLC (AT&T, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: AT&T Mobility II LLC (AT&T, Inc.)
• Inventors: Lekutai, Gaviphat, MacDonald, Alan Denis
• Primary Examiner(s): Lubin, Valerie
• Application Number:
  US11/393,328
• Time in Patent Office: 3,351 Days
• Field of Search: 455/403, 600/300, 705/2, 705/3, 235/380, 604/66
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/02 Reservations, e.g. for tickets, services or events
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 15/00 ICT specially adapted for medical reports, e.g. generation or transmission thereof
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/40 for the management of medical equipment or devices, e.g. scheduling maintenance or upgrades
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/60 for the operation of medical equipment or devices
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/67 for remote operation

Abstract

Systems and methods for measuring, collecting, managing, reporting and distributing data pertaining to medical device measurements, such as personal health condition data, are provided. In various embodiments, medical device(s) are paired (integrated, tethered, or wirelessly coupled) with a user'"'"'s portable computing device, such as a cell phone, so that the portable device receives locally made health data measurement(s) recorded by the medical device(s). After any pre-processing by the portable device, standard interfaces enable the health data measurement(s) to be transmitted, e.g., periodically, from the portable device to a health station server on a wireless communications network. The health station server may then analyze the health data measurement(s), e.g., versus historical and demographic data, so that the results of the analysis can be distributed to end users and service providers alike who make use of the communications network in a variety of ways.

Claims

1. A method, comprising:

configuring, via a mobile phone comprising a processor, a parameter of a health data service pertaining to a health associated with a subscriber identity, wherein the mobile phone is communicatively coupled to a health data measuring device;

receiving, by the mobile phone, health data related to the subscriber identity as recorded by the health data measuring device in accordance with the parameter;

in response to receiving the health data, directing, by the mobile phone, the health data to be sent from the mobile phone to a health data server that hosts the health data service and collectively stores and manages health information comprising the health data related to the subscriber identity;

forwarding, by the mobile phone, the health data to the health data server; and

transmitting, by the mobile phone, to the health data server, a request to present a subset of the health data on a second mobile phone associated with a non-medical identity, wherein, in response to the request, the health data server filters the health data to generate the subset of the health data and forwards the subset of the health data to the second mobile phone.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

processing, by the mobile phone, the health data; and

generating, by the mobile phone, a notification related to a condition of the health associated with the subscriber identity in response to detecting a change regarding the health data as recorded by the health data measuring device.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

processing, by the mobile phone, the health data; and

generating, by the mobile phone, contact information associated with a third mobile phone facilitating delivery of a notification, to the third mobile phone, of a condition related to the health associated with the subscriber identity in response to detecting a change regarding the health data as stored by the health data measuring device.

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

transmitting, by the mobile phone, a portion of the health data relating to a health-related event, wherein the portion of the health data facilitates detecting of a false positive indication of a specified activity in the health associated with the subscriber identity based on the portion of the health data, wherein the detecting comprises comparing the health data with a specified aberration associated with the portion of the health data, and wherein the aberration indicates the portion of the health data represents a false alarm.

5. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

requesting, by the mobile phone, forwarding of health-related data relating to the health data and pertaining to the subscriber identity stored by the health data server, via a network device of a wireless communications network, from the health data server to the mobile device;

receiving, by the mobile device, the health-related data; and

displaying, on the mobile device, the health-related data.

6. The method of claim 5, further comprising authenticating, by the mobile phone, the subscriber identity associated with the health-related data.

7. The method of claim 5, further comprising customizing, by the mobile phone, the health-related data to facilitate the displaying of the health-related data according to medical knowledge associated with a viewer identity determined for a viewer of the display.

8. The method of claim 5, wherein the receiving the health data comprises receiving the health data in a format facilitating the displaying of the health data as a graph on a display of the mobile phone.

9. The method of claim 5, wherein the receiving the health data comprises receiving, by the mobile phone, a uniform resource locator link identifying a location of the health data stored on the health data server.

10. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

requesting, by the mobile phone, from the health data server, a portion of the health information to be delivered to a designated recipient device, thereby directing the health data server to send the portion of the health information to the designated recipient device.

11. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

receiving, by the mobile phone, input information indicating actuation of an emergency button; and

in response to the input information being received, initiating, by the mobile phone, transmitting a message to the health data server, wherein, in response to receipt of the message at the health data server, an emergency response action is initiated.

12. The method according to claim 1, further comprising configuring, by the mobile phone, the processor of the mobile phone to perform an operation associated with the health data measuring device.

21. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

pre-processing, by the mobile phone, prior to transmission by the mobile phone to the health data server, the health data as stored by the health data measuring device, wherein the pre-processing comprises compressing the health data.

24. The method of claim 21, wherein the pre-processing further comprises encrypting the health data.

26. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

transmitting, by the mobile phone, to the health data server, a request to present a second subset of the health data on a third mobile phone associated with a medical-professional identity, wherein, in response to the request to present the second subset of the health data, the health data server filters the health data to generate the second subset of health data, based on a filter in connection with the request to present the second subset of the health data being associated with the medical-professional identity, and forwards the second subset of the health data to the third mobile phone.

13. A mobile phone, comprising:

a memory to store executable instructions; and

a processor, coupled to the memory, that executes the executable instructions to perform operations comprising;

receiving health data related to a subscriber identity from a health measuring device;

transmitting the health data, via a network device of a wireless wide area network, to a health station server that hosts a health data service and collectively stores and manages health information comprising the health data;

transmitting a request to display a first portion of the health data on a second mobile phone associated with a non-medical identity, wherein, in response to the request, the health data server generates the first portion of the health data and forwards the first portion of the health data to the second mobile phone;

transmitting a request to display a second portion of the health data on a third mobile phone associated with the non-medical identity, wherein, in response to the request, the health data server generates the second portion of the health data and forwards the second portion of the health data to the third mobile phone; and

displaying a third portion of the health data, wherein the third portion of the health data is received from the health station server.

14. The mobile phone according to claim 13, wherein the health measuring device is a heart rate monitor.

15. The mobile phone according to claim 13, wherein the operations further comprise facilitating an operation of the health measuring device.

16. The mobile phone according to claim 13, wherein the health measuring device is attached to the mobile phone via a cable.

17. The mobile phone according to claim 13, wherein the health measuring device is communicatively coupled to the mobile phone via a wireless communication link.

22. The mobile phone according to claim 13, wherein the operations further comprise:

delivering a request to the health station server for a medical software update for the health measuring device; and

receiving the medical software update via the network device of the wireless wide area network from the health station server.

25. The mobile phone of claim 13, wherein the operations further comprise enabling access by the mobile phone to the health data service associated with the health station server based on collection of the health data.

18. A method, comprising:

receiving, by a system comprising a processor, health data related to a subscriber identity that is associated with a health data service hosted by the system and contact information relating to the health data, wherein the contact information comprises;

first contact information for a first contact identity associated with a first mobile phone, wherein the first mobile phone is communicatively coupled to a health data measuring device utilized to record the health data relating to a health associated with the subscriber identity,

second contact information for a second contact identity associated with a second mobile phone, wherein the second contact identity is determined to lack a defined level of medical proficiency, and

third contact information for a third contact identity associated with a third mobile phone, wherein the third contact identity is determined to have the defined level of medical proficiency;

receiving, by the system via the first mobile phone, the health data as recorded by the health measuring device;

storing, by the system, health information comprising the health data;

receiving, by the system, first input information relating to a first portion of the health information for forwarding based on the lack of the defined level of medical proficiency of the second contact identity;

receiving, by the system, second input information relating to a second portion of the health information for forwarding based on the defined level of medical proficiency of the third contact identity;

in response to receiving the health information, parsing, by the system, the health information to a parsed first portion according to the first input information;

in response to receiving the health information, parsing, by the system, the health information to a parsed second portion according to the second input information;

forwarding, by the system, the parsed first portion of the health information to the second mobile phone; and

forwarding, by the system, the parsed second portion of the health information to the third mobile phone.

19. The method according to claim 18, further comprising:

determining, by the system, that the health associated with the subscriber identity is in an emergency condition based on processing the health data.

20. The method of claim 19, further comprising:

notifying, by the system, a device of a notification center of the emergency condition, wherein the emergency condition is determined based on analyzing health measurement data comprising identifying a pattern in a historical set of the health data.

23. The method of claim 18, further comprising:

processing, by the system, the health data; and

detecting, by the system, a false positive indication of a specified activity of the subscriber identity based on comparing a portion of the health data received by the system with a defined aberration associated with the health data, the defined aberration indicating the portion of the health data is determined to be a false alarm.