US 2007/0168242 A1 · NETWORKED SYSTEM FOR INTERACTIVE COMMUNICATION AND REMOTE MONITORING OF PHARMACEUTICAL MANUFACTURER AND CLINICAL TRIALS

Abstract

A system for remotely monitoring an individual. The system includes a server system for generating a script program from a set of queries. The script program is executable by a remote apparatus that displays information and/or a set of queries to the individual through a user interface. Responses to the queries that are entered through the user interface together with individual identification information are sent from the remote apparatus to the server system across a communication network. The server system also includes an automated answering service for providing a series of questions from a stored set of questions for an individual at the remote apparatus to respond to, storing responses to each provided question in the series of questions and providing a service based on the individual's response to the questions.

Claims20

Dependent claims

A method of monitoring a clinical trial, comprising:

A) selecting a program from a number of programs stored on a server;
B) transmitting the program to a remotely situated apparatus through at least one communication network, wherein the program causes the apparatus to present one or more queries and one or more response choices to an individual and collect responses from the individual;
C) receiving the responses through the at least one communication network and storing the responses in the server;
and
D) generating a report about a clinical trial based upon the responses.

2 more elements

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application

11/613,621Filed 20 Dec 2006

Priority

28 Mar 1997

Published

19 Jul 2007

Term ends

Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification13 codes

G16H 40/67
For the operation of medical equipment or devices: for remote operation
A61B 5/0002
Measuring for diagnostic purposes ; Identification of persons: remote monitoring of patients using telemetry, e.g. transmission of vital signals…
G06Q 30/02
Commerce: marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising
G06Q 30/0601
Buying, selling or leasing transactions: electronic shopping [e-shopping]

Family

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