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The Informatics Review > Patents > Method and apparatus for alerting patients and medical personnel of emergency medical situations |
United States Patent - 5,416,695 -- May 16, 1995 -- Full-text
Abstract
A medical alert system enables an authorized user, such as a doctor, to remotely set selection and limit parameters pertaining to specific medical and geodetic information of an ambulatory patient and thereafter receive updates of that information over a wireless communications network when the parameters have been met. A telemetry device attached to the patient provides an inbound stream of medical and geodetic information to a host computer, which is configured to extract selected portions of that information in response to the parameters provided by a remote processing device via a communications network. Upon completion of the latter process, the host computer transfers the extracted information to the remote processing device over the network, thereby informing the doctor of a medical situation.
Inventors:
Stutman; Peter S. (Sudbury, MA); Miller; J. Mark (Belmont, MA)
Assignee:
Metriplex, Inc. (Cambridge, MA)
Appl. No.:
028351
Filed:
March 9, 1993
U.S. Class:
64/413.02; 364/413.03; 379/38
Intern'l Class:
G06F 015/42
Field of Search:
364/413.01,413.02,413.03,413.05 128/903,904 379/38,42,49
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