Health monitoring system

A personal health tracker comprising:

• a portable, multiparametric monitoring device which provides a periodic measuring and recording of a plurality of different physiological data from a subject;
• a time base which tracks the time of recording of the physiological data;
• a data storage unit in which the physiological data is stored with reference to the time base such as to provide a chronological health history of the subject;
• a power saving controller which controls distribution of power to intermittently energize and de-energize elements of the monitor and reduce overall power consumption of the health tracker, the controller initiating said periodic measuring of physiological data and energizing said elements of the monitor just prior to each occurrence of said periodic measuring;
• a crystal-based oscillator an output signal of which is used by the controller in determining when to initiate said periodic measuring of physiological data;
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• an RC oscillator used by the controller in performing data processing functions. the RC oscillator being intermittently de-energized by the controller with other elements of the monitor.

A personal health tracker comprising:

• a portable, multiparametric monitoring device which provides a continous periodic and automatic measuring and recording of a plurality of different physiological data from a subject;
• a time base which tracks the time of recording of the physiological data;
• a data storage unit in which the physiological data is stored with reference to the time base such as to provide a chronological health history of the subject;
• a controller which controls said measuring and recording of physiological data by the monitor, said measuring and recording including the controller initiating periodic sampling of physiological parameters of the subject and initiating transfer and processing of the sampled physiological data;
• a crystal-based oscillator an output signal of which is used by the controller as a time reference for said initiating of the periodic sampling;
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• an RC-based oscillator an output signal of which is used by the controller as a time reference for processing of the sampled physiological data.

A method of tracking a medical subject's state of health, the method comprising:

• periodically and automatically measuring and recording a plurality of different physiological data from a subject with a portable, multiparametric physiological monitoring device, said different physiological data being pertinent to a plurality of different physiological systems and being collected as an ensemble of measurements taken over time, said ensemble of measurements not being directed to any particular medical condition of the subject but being indicative of a variety of trends in the subject's health such as to describe a general state of health of the subject;
• tracking the time of recording of the physiological data with a time base;
• storing the physiological data in a data storage unit with reference to the time base such as to provide a chronological health history of the subject which covers a period of time that includes time periods during which the subject is in substantially good health and those during which the subject is subject to adverse medical conditions;
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• collecting subjective data from the subject with a subjective data logger, said data logger being a data input device which records data input thereto by the subject and transfers the recorded data to the data storage unit, the data logger providing data prompts to the subject to selectively elicit particular information from the subject, the data prompts including an interactive graphical display with a depiction of a human body, various regions of which include data input means which allow the subject to provide a data input by designating one of said regions as being associated with a particular symptom.