초록 ▼

Many subscriber patients are served by this system. In each patient\s home is an apparatus that includes special furniture on which the patient lies and sits, and embedded in which are devices that automatically sense multiple parameters related to the patient\s health. The patient cooperates only p

Many subscriber patients are served by this system. In each patient\s home is an apparatus that includes special furniture on which the patient lies and sits, and embedded in which are devices that automatically sense multiple parameters related to the patient\s health. The patient cooperates only passively. The parameters are so chosen－and are sufficiently numerous and accurate－as to provide in the aggregate a comprehensive profile of the patient\s general state of health. The apparatus also generates electronic health-parameter signals related to the sensed parameters, and it transmits these signals from the patient\s home to a central surveillance and control office. Equipment there receives the signals, displays corresponding indicia of the parameters, and transmits control signals back to the patient\s apparatus. Two-way voice communication between the patient and a highly trained observer at the central office supplements the electronic measurements. The observer conducts routine diagnostic sessions except when an emergency is noted from these sessions or from a patient-initiated communication. The observer determines whether a nonroutine therapeutic response is required, and if so facilitates such a response. Selection among emergency cases follows a highly refined emergency-priority hierarchy.

대표청구항 ▼

A system for medical surveillance and care of spatially distributed, passively-cooperating patients, each of who has a primary physician having a physician\s office, by a remote, trained observer, comprising: (a) a patient subscriber apparatus located proximate one of said patients operable by the p

A system for medical surveillance and care of spatially distributed, passively-cooperating patients, each of who has a primary physician having a physician\s office, by a remote, trained observer, comprising: (a) a patient subscriber apparatus located proximate one of said patients operable by the patient without physical interaction with a trained medical personnel including: (i) sensing means for automatically sensing, with only passive cooperation by said patient, multiple parameters related to the state of health of said patient constituting in the aggregate a comprehensive profile of said patient\s state of health; (ii) first electronic means for automatically generating, transmitting and receiving electronic health-parameter signals related to said health parameters; (b) at least one surveillance and control office remote from said patient for accommodating said observer, including: (i) second electronic means for receiving, generating and transmitting electronic signals to and from said patient subscriber apparatus; (ii) display means for selecting and displaying indicia derived from said health-parameter signals; (iii) third electronic means for transmitting and receiving data relating to said health parameters of said patient to and from said patient\s primary physician\s office; (iv) means for accommodating such observer, said accommodating means being particularly adapted to afford such observer ready access to the indicia displaying means, and to the second electronic means; and (c) fourth electronic means, located in said patient\s primary physician\s office, for receiving and transmitting data relating to said health parameters of said patient.