Health care information system
AssigneeComputerized Screening, Inc.
InventorsCharles Bluth, James Bluth
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Abstract
A health kiosk provides blood pressure testing, a health and fitness evaluation, and a medication encyclopedia. The health kiosk typically interfaces to a computer or server, such as a pharmacy computer or a remote server which compares pharmaceuticals selected by a user to information in the medication encyclopedia to determine compatibility for prescription medications and over-the-counter medications. In some systems, the kiosk also supplies one item or more of an extended health information, a weight scale constructed into the seat of the kiosk, a directory of health care service and product providers, an a directory of community health, support, and service groups.
Claims57
A kiosk-based system for accessing health-related services and information, comprising:
- a controller;
- local storage coupled to the controller;
- a kiosk comprising a user-interactive display, the user-interactive display being coupled to the controller, and providing access to a health services and information system;
- a communications interface coupled to the controller;
- and
- health test interface coupled to the controller;
- the controller being capable of communicating with a remote server that comprises a remote storage via the communications interface, and comprising:
- logic for controlling the health test interface to performing measurements on a user to acquire user health test measurement data;
- logic for processing the user health test measurement data to generate a user health test result;
- logic for controlling storage of the user health test result in the local storage in a user local storage element allocated for the user;
- and
- logic for controlling storage of the health test result in the remote storage in a user remote storage element allocated for the user.
A kiosk-based system for accessing health-related services and information, comprising:
- a controller;
- local storage coupled to the controller;
- a kiosk comprising a user-interactive display, the user-interactive display being coupled to the controller and providing access to a health services and information system;
- a communications interface coupled to the controller;
- and
- a health test interface coupled to the controller;
- the controller being capable of communicating with a remote server, having a remote storage, via the communications interface, and comprising:
- logic for controlling the health test interface to perform measurements on a user to acquire user health test measurement data;
- logic for processing the user health test measurement data to generate a user health test result;
- logic for controlling storage of the user health test result in the local storage in a user local storage element allocated for the user;
- and
- logic for controlling storage of the health test result in the remote storage in a user remote storage clement allocated for the user;
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- logic, at least partly executable on the controller and at least partly executable on the remote server, providing access to health-related information via the interactive display.
A kiosk-based system for accessing health-related services and information, comprising;
- a server;
- a server storage coupled to the server, the server being capable of storing at least one of a health test result and a health measurement for users in user storage elements, each user storage element being allocated to a user;
- at least one kiosk, the kiosk comprising:
- a controller;
- a user-interactive display coupled to the controller, the user-interactive display providing access to a health services and information system;
- and
- diagnostic equipment coupled to the controller;
- the controller being capable of appraising user health risk from at least one of diagnostic test data acquired via the diagnostic equipment, user health-related information obtained via the user-interactive display, and user information stored in the user storage element;
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- a communications interface coupled to the server, the server being capable of communicating with the kiosk via the communications interface to transfer at least one of the health test result and the health measurement from the kiosk to the server and to transfer at least the user health risk to the kiosk.
A kiosk-based system for accessing health-related services and information, comprising:
- a server;
- a server storage coupled to the server, the server being capable of storing a health test result and a health measurement for users in user storage elements, each user storage element being allocated to a user;
- at least one kiosk, the kiosk comprising:
- a controller;
- a user-interactive display coupled to the controller and providing access to a health services and information system;
- and
- diagnostic equipment coupled to the controller;
- the controller being capable of appraising user health risk on the basis of diagnostic test data acquired via the diagnostic equipment, user health-related information obtained via the user-interactive display, and user information stored in the user storage element;
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- a communications interface coupled to the server, the server being capable of communicating with the kiosk via the communications interface to transfer at least one of the health test result and the health measurement from the kiosk to the server and to provide health-related information.
A method of operating a kiosk-based system that comprises a kiosk, a controller and, coupled to the controller, a local storage, diagnostic equipment, a communications interface, and a user-interactive display of the kiosk the method comprising:
- receiving information at the controller via the user-interactive display;
- executing instructions at the controller comprising:
- controlling the diagnostic equipment to perform a user health test measurement;
- processing the health test measurement to produce a user health test result;
- controlling storage of the user health test result in the local storage in a user local storage element allocated for the user;
- and
- communicating with a remote server that comprises a remote storage via the communications interface;
- controlling storage of the user health test result in the remote storage in a user remote storage element allocated for the user;
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- providing access to a health services and information system via the user-interactive display.
The method of 37, wherein the user-interactive display is housed by a the kiosk and providing access to a health services and information system comprises providing access to health-related information via the user-interactive display of the kiosk.
A method of operating a kiosk-based system comprising a kiosk a controller and, coupled to the controller, a local storage, a health test interface, a communications interface, and a user-interactive display of the kiosk, the method comprising:
- receiving information at the controller via the user-interactive display;
- acquiring a user health test measurement from the health test interface;
- executing instructions at the controller comprising:
- processing the user health test measurement to produce a user health test result;
- controlling storage of the user health test result in the local storage in a user local storage element allocated for the user;
- communicating with a remote server that comprises a remote storage via the communications interface;
- controlling storage of the user health test result in the remote storage in a user remote storage element allocated for the user;
- controlling the measurement interface to measure weight and provide a user weight measurement result;
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- controlling storage of the user weight measurement result in the local storage in the user local storage element;
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- providing access to a health services and information system via the user-interactive display.
A method of operating a kiosk-based system comprising a kiosk, a controller and, coupled to the controller, a local storage, blood pressure measurement equipment, a communications interface for communicating with a remote server, and a user-interactive display of the kiosks the method comprising:
- receiving information at the controller via the user-interactive display;
- acquiring a first measurement of user blood pressure via the blood pressure measurement equipment;
- storing the first measurement of user blood pressure at the remote server;
- acquiring at least one subsequent measurement of user blood pressure via the blood pressure measurement equipment;
- storing the subsequent measurement of user blood pressure at the remote server;
- generating a user blood pressure history by retrieving the first and the subsequent measurement of user blood pressure from the remote server;
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- providing access to a health services and information system via the user-interactive display.
The method of any of claim and 55, wherein providing access to a health services and information system comprises providing access to health-related information selected from a group consisting of nutrition information, medication information, remedy information, vitamin-, mineral-, or herbal-supplement information, fitness information, sex-specific information, condition-specific information, educational information, research information, counseling information, health information, disease state management information, health-related information from a network information source, provider credential information, provider directory information, community-specific information, community directory information, business information, and any combination thereof.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.