Medical device having a reminder function
AssigneeKoninklijke Philips Electronics N.V.
InventorHarm Jacob Buisman
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Abstract
There is provided a medical device having a reminder function, the medical device comprising a reminder generator for issuing a reminder to a user to perform a predetermined action with the medical device; and a controller for selecting the reminder from a plurality of available reminders and for controlling the reminder generator to issue the selected reminder in accordance with a reminding schedule; wherein the controller is configured to maintain a measure of the effectiveness of each of said available reminders and to select the reminder from the plurality of available reminders based on said measures.
Claims16
A medical device having a reminder function, the medical device comprising:
- a reminder generator for issuing a reminder to a user to perform a predetermined action with the medical device;
- and
- a controller for selecting the reminder from a plurality of available reminders and for controlling the reminder generator to issue the selected reminder in accordance with a reminding schedule;
- wherein the controller is configured to maintain a measure of the effectiveness of each of said available reminders and to select the reminder from the plurality of available reminders based on said measures.
A method of operating a medical device, the method comprising:
- determining that a reminder should be issued to a user of the medical device to remind the user to perform a predetermined action with the medical device;
- selecting a reminder from a plurality of available reminders, the selection of the reminder being based on measures of the effectiveness of each of said reminders in the plurality;
- and
- issuing the selected reminder to the user.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.