Remote health monitoring system

• US 8,990,260 B2
• Filed: 09/28/2012
• Issued: 03/24/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 09/30/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: General Electric Company
• Original Assignee: General Electric Company
• Inventors: Devenyi, Csaba, Lohner, Roland
• Primary Examiner(s): NGUYEN, CAM LINH T
• Application Number:
  US13/631,312
• Publication Number:
  US 20130086122A1
• Time in Patent Office: 907 Days
• Field of Search: 707/736, 707/778, 707/797
• US Class Current: 707/797
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/67 for remote operation
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 50/20 for computer-aided diagnosis, e.g. based on medical expert systems

Abstract

Health monitoring system comprising a patient side subsystem, a health care provider side subsystem, and a server station. The patient side subsystem is able to periodically receive and apply a monitoring profile comprising profile elements being connected to each other in a predetermined manner, the monitoring profile elements comprising patient related data, monitoring related data, evaluating process elements, wherein the monitoring profile elements are connected to each other to provide a multi-level tree structure consisting of at least two monitoring profile levels comprising a higher or top level and a lower or bottom level, wherein the monitoring profile elements are divided according to the tree structure of the multi level monitoring profile and a part of the monitoring profile elements is assigned to the top monitoring profile level and a part of the monitoring profile elements is assigned to the bottom monitoring profile level.

Claims

1. A health monitoring system comprising a patient side subsystem, a health care provider side subsystem, and a server station with a database and a communication system for providing communication links between the system elements, the patient side subsystem configured to periodically receive and apply a monitoring profile from the server station, the monitoring profile consisting of profile elements being connected to each other in a predetermined manner, the monitoring profile elements comprising:

patient related data;

monitoring related data; and

evaluating process elements,

wherein the monitoring profile elements are connected to each other to provide a multi level tree structure comprising at least two monitoring profile levels comprising;

a higher or top level defining a top-level monitoring profile; and

a lower or bottom level containing the low-level monitoring profile elements,

wherein the monitoring profile elements are divided according to the tree structure of the multi level monitoring profile and a part of the monitoring profile elements is assigned to the top monitoring profile level and a part of the monitoring profile elements is assigned to the bottom monitoring profile level and wherein the tree structure of the multi level monitoring profile is stored in the health monitoring system in a template.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the tree structure of the multi level monitoring profile comprises at least one intermediate monitoring profile level between the top monitoring profile level and the bottom monitoring profile level and a part of the monitoring profile elements is assigned to the at least one intermediate monitoring profile level.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the number of the monitoring profile levels may be different for the different top level monitoring profiles.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein the top level elements comprise top level parameters and the parameters of the subordinated (child) level elements are derived from the parameters of the parent-level elements.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein the bottom level elements are configured to collect bottom level (row) data and the superimposed (parent) level elements are configured to generate derived (higher order) data from the data collected by the associated child elements.

6. The system of claim 1, wherein predetermined structures of the different monitoring profile elements assigned to the different monitoring levels and the predetermined connection of the monitoring profile elements are stored in predetermined default templates.

7. The system of claim 1, wherein modified structures of the different monitoring profile elements assigned to the different monitoring levels and the modified connection of the monitoring profile elements are stored in modified templates.

8. A method for operating a health monitoring system, the monitoring system comprises system elements including a patient side subsystem, a health care provider side subsystem, and a server station with a database and a communication system for providing communication links between the system elements, the method comprising:

providing a template to be stored in the server station, the template comprising a monitoring profile, the monitoring profile consisting of profile elements being connected to each other in a predetermined manner, the monitoring profile elements comprising patient related data, monitoring related data, and evaluation process elements, wherein the monitoring profile elements are connected to each other to provide a multi level tree structure consisting of at least two monitoring profile levels comprising a higher or top level defining a top-level monitoring profile adapted to a specific health status, and a lower or bottom level containing the low-level monitoring profile elements, wherein the monitoring profile elements are divided according to the tree structure of the multi level monitoring profile and a part of the monitoring profile elements is assigned to the top monitoring profile level and a part of the monitoring profile elements is assigned to the bottom monitoring profile level;

using a health care provider side subsystem, selecting the template or creating, storing and selecting a modified template in the server station;

communicating the selected template or modified template from the server station to the patient side subsystem; and

storing and applying the selected template or modified template in the patient side subsystem.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein the tree structure of the multi level monitoring profile comprises at least one intermediate monitoring profile level between the top monitoring profile level and the bottom monitoring profile level and a part of the monitoring profile elements are assigned to the at least one inter-mediate monitoring profile level.

10. The method of claim 8, wherein the number of the monitoring profile levels may be different for the different top level monitoring profiles.

11. The method of claim 8, wherein parameters of the top level monitoring profile elements are delegated from the top monitoring profile level in direction to the bottom monitoring profile level.

12. The method of claim 11, wherein during the parameter delegation derived parameter delegated derived parameters are delegated to the subordinated (child) levels.

13. The method of claim 8, wherein data collected by the bottom level monitoring profile elements are delegated from the bottom monitoring profile level in direction to the top monitoring profile level.

14. The method of claim 13, wherein during the data delegation de-rived (higher-order) data elements are delegated to the superimposed (parent) levels.

15. The method of claim 8, wherein predetermined structures of the different monitoring profile elements assigned to the different monitoring levels and the predetermined connection of the monitoring profile elements are stored in predetermined default templates.

16. The method of claim 8, wherein modified structures of the different monitoring profile elements assigned to the different monitoring levels are stored in modified templates.

17. The method of claim 8, wherein a patient specific monitoring profile is derived from a predetermined template and stored for a specific patient.