Wireless, internet-based, medical diagnostic system

A system for monitoring a patient, comprising:

• a vital-sign monitor comprising sensors for measuring vital-sign information describing at least one of the following:
• O2 saturation, blood pressure, heart rate, electro-cardiogram, respiratory rate, temperature and blood glucose level;
• a wireless transmitter in electrical communication with the vital-sign monitor and configured to:
• i) receive the vital-sign information;
• ii) receive signals from a network to determine location-based information;
• and iii) wirelessly transmit both vital-sign and location-based information through the network to a central computer system;
• a gateway software program configured to receive the vital-sign and location-based information;
• a database software program configured to communicate with the gateway software program to receive the vital-sign and location-based information and store this information in a computer memory;
• and
• a user interface configured to display the vital sign and location-based information.

A system for monitoring a patient, comprising:

• a patch configured to connect to the patient and comprising sensors for measuring pulse oximetry information;
• a wireless transmitter comprised by the patch and configured to receive the pulse oximetry information and wirelessly transmit this information to a wireless network;
• a gateway software program configured to receive the pulse oximetry information from the wireless network;
• a database software program configured to communicate with the gateway software program to receive the pulse oximetry information and store this information in a computer memory;
• and
• a user interface configured to display the pulse oximetry information.

A system for monitoring a patient, comprising:

• a head-worn unit comprising sensors for measuring vital-sign information describing at least one of the following:
• O2 saturation, blood pressure, heart rate, electro-cardiogram, respiratory rate, and temperature;
• a wireless transmitter within the head-worn unit configured to receive the vital-sign information and wirelessly transmit this information to a wireless network;
• a gateway software program configured to receive the vital-sign information from the wireless network;
• a database software program configured to communicate with the gateway software program and configured to receive the vital-sign information and store this information in a computer memory;
• and
• a user interface configured to display the vital sign information.