MOBILE HEALTHCARE DATA

• US 20090187421A1
• Filed: 04/24/2007
• Published: 07/23/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 04/28/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Koninklijke Philips N.V.
• Original Assignee: Koninklijke Philips N.V.
• Inventors: Kelly, Declan Patrick, Kim, Sheng
• Granted Patent: US 8,655,678 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/2
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/0008 Temperature signals
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/0022 Monitoring a patient using a global network, e.g. telephone networks, internet
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/67 for remote operation

Abstract

The present invention provides an apparatus for configuring a mobile healthcare network of monitoring a being. The apparatus comprises a sender for sending the composition of the mobile healthcare network to a home healthcare network of monitoring the being, a receiver for receiving a configuration recommendation, the configuration recommendation corresponds to the composition of the mobile healthcare monitoring network and a history database of the home healthcare monitoring network, and an arranger for arranging parameters of the mobile healthcare network according to the configuration recommendation.

Claims

1. An apparatus for configuring a mobile healthcare network of monitoring a being, comprising:

a sender for sending the composition of the mobile healthcare network to a home healthcare network of monitoring the being,

a receiver for receiving a configuration recommendation, the configuration recommendation corresponds to the composition of the mobile healthcare monitoring network and a history database of the home healthcare network, and

an arranger for arranging setting parameters of the mobile healthcare network according to the configuration recommendation.

2. The apparatus of claim 1, further comprising a detector for detecting the composition of the mobile healthcare network.

3. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the composition of the mobile healthcare network includes the types of sensors deployed on/in the body of the being.

4. The apparatus of claim 3, wherein the composition of the mobile healthcare network further includes the quantity of each type of the sensors.

5. The apparatus of claim 3, wherein the composition of the mobile healthcare network further includes the status of each of the sensors.

6. An apparatus for handing over an application of monitoring a being from a home network to a mobile healthcare network, comprising:

a receiver for receiving the composition of the mobile healthcare network, a generator for generating a configuration recommendation according to the composition of the mobile healthcare network and a history database of the home healthcare network, and

a sender for sending the configuration recommendation to the mobile healthcare network.

7. A method for configuring a mobile healthcare network of monitoring a being, comprising the steps of:

sending the composition of the mobile healthcare network to a home healthcare network of monitoring the being,

receiving a configuration recommendation, the configuration recommendation corresponds to the composition of the mobile healthcare network and a history database of the home healthcare network, and

arranging setting parameters of the mobile healthcare network according to the configuration recommendation.

8. A method for handing over an application of monitoring a being from a home network to a mobile healthcare network, comprising the steps of:

receiving the composition of the mobile healthcare network,

generating a configuration recommendation according to the composition of the mobile healthcare network and a history database of the home healthcare network, and

sending the configuration recommendation to the mobile healthcare network.

9. A computer program for configuring a mobile healthcare network of monitoring a being, comprising:

code for sending the composition of the mobile healthcare network to a home healthcare network of monitoring the being,

code for receiving a configuration recommendation, the configuration recommendation corresponds to the composition of the mobile healthcare monitoring network and a history database of the home healthcare network, and

code for arranging setting parameters of the mobile healthcare network according to the configuration recommendation.

10. A computer program for handing over an application of monitoring a being from a home network to a mobile healthcare network, comprising:

code for receiving the composition of the mobile healthcare network,

code for generating a configuration recommendation according to the composition of the mobile healthcare network and a history database of the home healthcare network, and

code for sending the configuration recommendation to the mobile healthcare network.