Medical device for the measurement and processing of a health parameter of a patient

• US 9,492,088 B2
• Filed: 04/11/2013
• Issued: 11/15/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 04/12/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Marque Verte Sante
• Original Assignee: Marque Verte Sante
• Inventors: Chapusot, Thierry
• Primary Examiner(s): Mehmood, Jennifer
• Assistant Examiner(s): POINT, RUFUS C
• Application Number:
  US14/389,872
• Publication Number:
  US 20150048956A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,314 Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2560/0266 for monitoring or limiting apparatus function
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/0022 Monitoring a patient using a global network, e.g. telephone networks, internet
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/02055 Simultaneously evaluating both cardiovascular condition and temperature
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/021 Measuring pressure in heart or blood vessels A61B5/0205 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/024 Detecting, measuring or recording pulse rate or heart rate A61B5/0205, A61B5/021 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/02438 with portable devices, e.g. worn by the patient
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/1172 using fingerprinting
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/1176 Recognition of faces
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/14532 for measuring glucose, e.g. by tissue impedance measurement
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/14546 for measuring analytes not otherwise provided for, e.g. ions, cytochromes
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/742 using visual displays A61B5/339 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/32 using biometric data, e.g. fingerprints, iris scans or voiceprints
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 9/37 using biometric data, e.g. fingerprints, iris scans or voice recognition
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/67 for remote operation

Abstract

The invention concerns a medical device comprising a device for the measurement of a health parameter of a patient, a device for capturing a fingerprint identifying the patient, a device for communicating with a remote server and a control means, the control means being designed such that, when it is activated by a single action of the patient, it: activates the device for the measurement of a health parameter of the patient, and obtains a measured parameter in return, activates the fingerprint capture device and obtains a fingerprint in return, and then provides the measured parameter and the captured fingerprint to the communication device in order to transmit the measured parameter and the captured fingerprint to the remote server.

Claims

1. A medical device, comprising:

a control means activated by a single action of a patient;

a device for measuring a health parameter of a patient, said device for measuring being in communication with said control means, wherein said device for measuring communicates a measured health parameter according to said control means;

a device for capturing an imprint identifying the patient, said device for capturing being in communication with said control means, wherein said device for capturing communicates an identified imprint according to said control means;

a remote server having a database of identified imprints corresponding to patients and a database of pre-determined ranges of health parameters corresponding to said patients; and

a device for communicating with said remote server, said device for communicating being in communication with said control means,

wherein said device for communicating transmits said measured health parameter and said identified imprint to said remote server according to said control means,

wherein said device for communicating transmits a confirmation response from said remote server to said control means, when said identified imprint matches at least one identified imprint in said database of identified imprints,

wherein said device for communicating transmits an alert response from said remote server to said control means, when said identified imprint fails to match at least one identified imprint in said database of identified imprints,

wherein said device for communicating transmits a validation response from said remote server to said control means, when said identified imprint matches at least one identified imprint in said database of identified imprints for one patient and when said measured health parameter falls within a pre-determined range of said health parameters corresponding to said one patient, and

wherein said device for communicating transmits a warning response from said remote server to said control means, when said identified imprint matches at least one identified imprint in said database of identified imprints for one patient and when said measured health parameter fails to fall within a pre-determined range of said health parameters corresponding to said one patient.

2. The medical device, according to claim 1, wherein said device for measuring communicates a measured health parameter and said device for capturing communicates an identified imprint simultaneously according to said control means.

3. The medical device, according to claim 1, wherein said health parameter is selected from at least one of a group consisting of:

weight of the patient, blood pressure of the patient, a level of creatinine in blood of the patient, a level of blood glucose in the blood of the patient, a level of prothrombin in the blood of the patient, a temperature of the patient, and a heart rate of the patient.

4. The medical device, according to claim 1, wherein said imprint is selected from at least one of a group consisting of:

a fingerprint, an imprint of an eye, and an imprint of a face of the patient.

5. The medical device according to claim 1,

wherein said imprint is comprised of a fingerprint, said device for capturing comprising a touch screen, said medical device further comprising:

a copying means for said imprint, said copying means being in communication with said control means, said copying means capturing an image of said imprint on said touch screen according to said control means,

wherein said device for capturing communicates an identified imprint according to said control means, when a finger is detected on said touch screen.

6. The medical device of claim 1, wherein the device for communicating comprises:

a device for storing a said measured health parameter; and

a transmission device in communication with said device for storing and a communication network connected to said remote server,

wherein said device for communicating transmits a stored measured health parameter to said remote server through said communication network according to said control means,

wherein said device for communicating transmits said identified imprint to said remote server through said communication network with said stored measured health parameter according to said control means.

7. The medical device, according to claim 6, wherein said device for storing comprises a database of subscription identifications to a health service, and wherein said device for communicating transmits a subscription identification and said identified imprint to said remote server through said communication network with said stored measured health parameter according to said control means.

8. The medical device according to claim 7, wherein said device for communicating transmits a subscription identification and said identified imprint to said remote server through said communication network with said stored measured health parameter according to said control means with encryption.

9. The medical device, according to claim 7, wherein the device for communicating further comprises means for receiving, wherein said means for receiving communicates at least one response of a group consisting of:

said confirmation response, said alert response, said validation response, and said warning response to said control means.

10. The medical device, according to claim 9, further comprising also a display device, said display device being selected from at least one of a group consisting of:

a display screen, an indicator light, and a means for displaying a sound message, wherein said display device is in communication with said means for receiving, said at least one response being displayed on said display device.

11. The medical device, according to claim 1, further comprising:

a storage device in communication with said control means, wherein at least one of said measured parameter and said identified imprint is stored in said storage device according to said control means.

12. The medical device, according to claim 11, wherein said at least one of said measured parameter and said identified imprint is deleted from said storage device according to said control means, after said device for communicating transmits said at least one of said measured parameter and said identified imprint.