Personal, medical & financial risk management device
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1. A personal multifunction portable device compact capable of being worn on a human forearm comprising:
- a display screen controller including a display screen;
a no/don'"'"'s select switch and a yes/select switch on said device as the means for entering data, manipulating data and/or controlling navigation through a tree of data menus displayed on the display screen and for selecting specific menu items displayed on said screen, said yes/select switch disposed on said device at a position separated from said no/don'"'"'t select switch for entering of the selected menu items as field generated data by said user;
a time keeper device for generating time and displaying the time and time on the display screen;
an electronic read/write data storage system comprising a non-volatile memory having stored therein said tree of data menus;
a system controller including a microprocessor for executing at least one software program to display said tree of data menus on said screen, and scan, read only, select and write from said tree of menus in said data storage system;
a system battery operatively connected to said system controller, said data storage system, and said display screen;
a communications port to allow said device to be connected to a computer for data transfer; and
a sensor operatively connected to said controller for sensing data on a living human body as the sensed data.
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Abstract
The present invention provides users with a personally managed medical information system and organizer that is standardized and Internet based that is small enough so that it be conveniently worn on the user'"'"'s wrist. The backbone controlling system software enables the interaction of various sub-components of the present invention for seamless communication and protocol managed data exchange. The present invention provides extensive personal medical history, risk management and other organizational information.
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1. A personal multifunction portable device compact capable of being worn on a human forearm comprising:
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a display screen controller including a display screen;
a no/don'"'"'s select switch and a yes/select switch on said device as the means for entering data, manipulating data and/or controlling navigation through a tree of data menus displayed on the display screen and for selecting specific menu items displayed on said screen, said yes/select switch disposed on said device at a position separated from said no/don'"'"'t select switch for entering of the selected menu items as field generated data by said user;
a time keeper device for generating time and displaying the time and time on the display screen;
an electronic read/write data storage system comprising a non-volatile memory having stored therein said tree of data menus;
a system controller including a microprocessor for executing at least one software program to display said tree of data menus on said screen, and scan, read only, select and write from said tree of menus in said data storage system;
a system battery operatively connected to said system controller, said data storage system, and said display screen;
a communications port to allow said device to be connected to a computer for data transfer; and
a sensor operatively connected to said controller for sensing data on a living human body as the sensed data. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22)
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23. A method of data capture/retrieval of medical patient data using a personal multifunction portable device having a read/write data entry, storage and retrieval portion comprising the steps of:
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storing personal identification data in a non-volatile memory of said personal multifunction portable device;
displaying sequentially a tree of data entry menus on a display screen of said personal multifunction portable device;
navigating through said tree of data entry menus and selecting data from said tree of data entry menus by depressing a yes/select or no/don'"'"'t select switch as the means for controlling passage through the tree of data entry menus, said yes/select and no/don'"'"'t select switches mounted on said personal multifunction portable device;
entering data selected from said tree of data entry menus by depressing a yes/select switch mounted on said read/write portion to create field entered data; and
storing said field entered data into said non-volatile memory of said personal multifunction portable device. - View Dependent Claims (24)
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25. A method of providing patient medical data from a host microcomputer having a memory storage device for storing the data items therein, wherein the data is collected by the user which comprises:
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providing the host microcomputer with a first memory interface controlled by a first microprocessor including first data item entry means to the first microprocessor;
a personal multifunction portable device having a second memory interface controlled by a second microprocessor including a second data item entry means to the second microprocessor and a second visual display means for showing the data items;
a communications link means for communication between the first and second memory interfaces;
a first program in the first host microcomputer which transfers data to the personal multifunction portable device upon command;
a second program in the personal multifunction portable device which collects data items using the second data entry means wherein the data items are transferred when linked with the first host microcomputer by the communications link means and memory interfaces;
collecting through the user the data items in the personal multifunction portable device using the second data entry means;
running the second program in the personal multifunction portable device and the first program in the host microcomputer to transfer the data items to the host microcomputer by the communications link means and memory interfaces and to thereby transfer the data of the personal multifunction portable device to the host microcomputer;
running the second program in the personal multifunction portable device and the first program in the host microcomputer to receive data items through the communications link means.
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