US 2013/0297344 A1Published application

Downloadable datasets for a patient monitoring system

AssigneeCardiocom, LLC

InventorsDaniel L. Cosentino, Louis C. Cosentino, Brian A. Golden, Todd F. Young

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Abstract

In general, this disclosure describes techniques for remotely monitoring the health of an ambulatory patient. As described herein, an ambulatory patient may interact with a monitoring device that is located at the patient's home. The monitoring device may ask the patient to provide responses to health-related questions or requests for physiological characteristics and may upload the responses. A health care professional may then use the responses to evaluate the health of the patient. A set of firmware instructions stored on the monitoring device may cause the monitoring device to perform these functions. The monitoring device may download a prompt that is associated with at least one instruction in the set of firmware instructions. The prompt may cause the patient monitoring device to execute the at least one instruction in the set of firmware instructions to gather information relating to a patient.

Claims17

Dependent claims

A method comprising:

pre-programming a patient monitoring device with a set of firmware instructions;
storing the set of firmware instructions in a memory of the patient monitoring device;
repeatedly executing, on the patient monitoring device, instructions in the stored set of firmware instructions that cause the patient monitoring device to:
download a prompt from a monitoring server via a communications network;
store the prompt in the memory of the patient monitoring device, wherein the prompt is associated with at least one instruction in the set of firmware instructions, and wherein the prompt causes the patient monitoring device to execute the at least one instruction in the set of firmware instructions to gather information relating to a patient;
receive information relating to the patient;
upload the information, the information being uploaded to the monitoring server;
wherein, after the patient monitoring device finishes executing instructions in the stored set of firmware instructions, the stored set of firmware instructions is the same as before the patient monitoring device executed the instructions in the stored set of firmware instructions.

5 more elements

A computer-readable medium comprising a stored set of firmware instructions that, when executed by a processor of a patient monitoring device, cause the patient monitoring device to:

download a prompt from a monitoring server via a communications network;
store the prompt in a memory of the patient monitoring device, wherein the prompt is associated with at least one instruction in the set of firmware instructions, and wherein the prompt causes the patient monitoring device to execute the at least one instruction in the set of firmware instructions to gather information relating to a patient;
receive information relating to the patient;
upload the information, the information being uploaded to the monitoring server;
wherein, after the processor finishes executing the stored set of firmware instructions, the stored set of firmware instructions is the same as before the processor executed the stored set of firmware instructions.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 13/860,105Filed 10 Apr 2013
Priority: 16 Apr 1999
Published: 7 Nov 2013
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification26 codes

G16H 20/10
ICT specially adapted for therapies or health-improving plans, e.g. for handling prescriptions, for steering therapy or for monitoring patient…:…
A61B 5/0022
Characterised by features of the telemetry system: monitoring a patient using a global network, e.g. telephone networks, internet
A61B 5/0537
Measuring electrical impedance or conductance of a portion of the body: measuring body composition by impedance, e.g. tissue hydration or fat content
A61B 5/0538
Measuring electrical impedance or conductance of a portion of the body: invasively, e.g. using a catheter

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