Patent ID: 9232915
Filing Date: 2016-01-12
CPC Classification: A61B,G16H

Claim Text:
1. A computer implemented method of deriving a health index for determining cardiovascular health of a subject; the method performed by a computing device and comprising (i) obtaining values of at least two parameters from one or more PPG signals of the subject, the at least two parameters including Sp02 and at least one other parameter related to Sp02; (ii) assigning, using the computing device, a score using the values of the at least two related parameters from a reference scoring system, wherein the reference scoring system is derived, using the computing device, by (iii) deriving, using the computing device, the health index based on the assigned score; wherein the health index is derived by deriving a preliminary health index from the groupings for each parameter based on the obtained values and verifying if a combination of the groupings is medically possible, and further verifying if the preliminary health index requires corrective adjustment based on the combination of the groupings.