Patent ID: 9633497
Date: 2017-04-25
CPC Classifications: A61B,G06F,G07C,G16H,G16Z,H04W

Claim:
1. A medical monitoring device comprising: a measurement component configured to receive, from at least one sensor, physiological data representative of a physiological condition of a patient; a gesture sensor configured to determine a gesture by a user; a wireless reader configured to read a tag presented by the user and retrieve an identifier from the tag; a processing unit configured to: enable gesture control in response to the wireless reader retrieving the identifier, generate an indication of a status of the gesture control when a gesture is not recognized or when the medical monitoring device is unable to execute the command, generate an indication of a current status of the wireless reader of an attempt to read the tag presented by the user, the current status including scanning for the tag, reading the tag, or authenticating the identifier from the tag, determine an action to perform in response to the gesture; and a display configured to display the indication of the status of the gesture control and the indication of the current status of the wireless reader.