Tele-care monitoring device
AssigneeMatsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
InventorsJinsei Miyazaki, Kenji Iwano, Kazutoshi Nagai, Toshiyuki Tanaka
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Abstract
A scalable tele-care monitoring device has a plurality of physiological sensors adapted to collect patient physiological data. The device also has an interface adapted to connect with a personal computer, and an expansion module adapted to communicate patient physiological data to the personal computer via the interface. In further aspects, the device has an output adapted to communicate the patient physiological data over a communications network when the device is not interfaced with the personal computer.
Claims34
A tele-care monitoring device, comprising:
- a plurality of physiological sensors that collect patient physiological data;
- a tele-care monitoring device adapted to receive patient physiological data from the plurality of physiological sensors and having an interface configured to connect to a personal computer, the monitoring device further including:
- a data collection module residing on the monitoring device that communicates the patient physiological data via an output over a wired communications network during normal operation;
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- an expansion module in data communication with the data collection module and residing on the monitoring device, the expansion module monitors the interface and, upon detecting a connection via the interface to a personal computer, ceases communication of the patient physiological data over the communications network by the data collection module and initiates communication of the patient physiological data over the interface to the personal computer.
A tele-care monitoring system, comprising:
- an acquisition server connected to a communications network and adapted to receive patient physiological data over the wired communications network, the acquisition server stores the patient physiological data and communicates the patient physiological data to a clinician computer over the communications network;
- a tele-care monitoring device operably connectable to the wired communications network and having an interface for connecting with a personal computer operably connected to the wired communications network, the monitoring device further includes
- a data collection module residing in the monitoring device and communicating the patient physiological data over the communications network in a normal operation mode,
- an expansion module residing on the monitoring device that detects a connection via the interface to a personal computer, the expansion module communicates the patient physiological data in a passive mode via the interface to a personal computer and discontinues communicating the patient physiological data over the communication network when a connection exists via the interface to the personal computer;
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- an expert system guiding a user under said passive operation to obtain physiological data via said device, and affecting communication of the physiological data from the personal computer to the acquisition server.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.