Apparatus and method of providing medical data based on a handover of a medical sensor

• US 9,693,223 B2
• Filed: 04/28/2015
• Issued: 06/27/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 02/28/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Kim, Jun-Hyung, Lee, Jong-Hyo
• Primary Examiner(s): Elliott, IV, Benjamin H
• Application Number:
  US14/698,367
• Publication Number:
  US 20150245201A1
• Time in Patent Office: 791 Days
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/0002 Remote monitoring of patients using telemetry, e.g. transmission of vital signals via a communication network A61B5/07 takes precedence; transmission systems for measured values G08C; transmission H04B; transmission of digital information H04L; wireless communication networks H04W
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/747 in case of emergency, i.e. alerting emergency services
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 10/60 for patient-specific data, e.g. for electronic patient records
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/67 for remote operation
• 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 12/08 Access security
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 36/302 due to low signal strength
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 76/50 for emergency connections
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 84/18 Self-organising networks, e.g. ad-hoc networks or sensor networks

Abstract

An apparatus for providing medical data based on a handover of a medical sensor. The apparatus includes a medical data client that requests and receives the medical data from the medical sensor; a security module that manages access to the medical data; a data management unit that stores the received medical data; and an event handler that receives a predetermined condition notification from the medical sensor and sends a command to release access to the medical data, based on the predetermined condition notification.

Claims

1. An apparatus worn by or attached to a user, the apparatus comprising:

a medical sensor configured to measure medical data from the user;

a processor configured to;

carry out an access security for the medical data,

detect a predetermined condition of the user from the medical data,

send a predetermined condition notification to a medical gateway, based on the predetermined condition,

receive an access security release command from the medical gateway,

release the access security for the medical data in response to the access security release command,

receive a request for the medical data from an ambulance gateway, and

transmit the medical data to the ambulance gateway after releasing the access security for the medical data.

2. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the medical data comprises a biological condition of a patient measured by the medical sensor.

3. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the processor is further configured to store disease history information of a patient, and medical history data received from the medical sensor.

4. The apparatus of claim 3, wherein the processor is further configured to send the disease history information and the medical history data to the medical gateway, when the disease history information and the medical history data are requested by the medical gateway.

5. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the processor is further configured to receive a request of access information to access the medical gateway from the ambulance gateway and transmit the access information to access the medical gateway to the ambulance gateway.

6. A method of an apparatus worn by or attached to a user, the method comprising:

measuring, by a medical sensor, medical data from the user;

carrying out, by a processor, an access security for the medical data;

detecting, by the processor, a predetermined condition of the user from the medical data;

sending, by the processor, a predetermined condition notification to a medical gateway, based on the predetermined condition;

receiving, by the processor, an access security release command from the medical gateway;

releasing, by the processor, the access security for the medical data in response to the access security release command;

receiving, by the processor, a request for the medical data from an ambulance gateway; and

transmitting, by the processor, the medical data to the ambulance gateway after releasing the access security for the medical data.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein the medical data comprises a biological condition of a patient measured by the medical sensor.

8. The method of claim 6, wherein the processor is further configured to store disease history information of a patient, and medical history data received from the medical sensor.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein the processor is further configured to send the disease history information and the medical history data to the medical gateway, when the disease history information and the medical history data are requested by the medical gateway.

10. The method of claim 6, further comprising:

receiving a request of access information to access the medical gateway from the ambulance gateway; and

transmitting the access information to access the medical gateway to the ambulance gateway.