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Method for establishing a telecommunications system for patient monitoring

  • US 9,949,641 B2
  • Filed: 10/19/2007
  • Issued: 04/24/2018
  • Est. Priority Date: 10/19/2007
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method of disseminating information relating to physical attributes of patients, comprising:

  • associating with a patient at least one patient monitoring device having at least one sensor working cooperatively with at least a transmitter;

    detecting at least one physical attribute from the patient using the sensor;

    transmitting from the patient monitoring device patient data corresponding to the one detected physical attribute out to a device transmission area;

    providing a plurality of mobile communicators each having a transceiver adapted to receive data transmitted from said patient monitoring device and from other mobile communicators, wherein each of the plurality of mobile communicators has a predetermined broadcast range for broadcasting and receiving data and is adapted to broadcast data stored therein out to its corresponding broadcast range for reception by all communicators that are within its broadcast range;

    wherein when one communicator of said plurality of communicators moves to within the device transmission area of said one patient monitoring device, the patient data transmitted from the patient monitoring device is received by said one communicator;

    said one communicatorcomparing patient data of the one patient, if any, previously stored in said one communicator with the received patient data;

    storing the more recent of the received patient data and the previously stored patient data as updated patient data in said one communicator; and

    broadcasting the updated patient data to its broadcast range;

    wherein any one to multiple of the plurality of mobile communicators not located within the device transmission area of the patient monitoring device but located within the broadcast range of said one communicator are adapted to receive the updated patient data from said one communicator so that the users of said one communicator and said any one to multiple communicators that have received the patient data from said one communicator are able to monitor the physical attribute of the patient.

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