Patent ID: 6955646
Filing Date: 2005-10-18
Classification: A61B,G06Q,G16H,Y10S

Abstract:
1. A method for monitoring a patient after the patient has been postoperatively discharged from a medical facility, the method comprising the steps of: at a location of the patient during the monitoring after the patient has been postoperatively discharged from the facility, providing the patient with a written questionnaire that gathers from the patient data suitable for detecting in the patient at least one of pneumonia, secondary bleeding, a wound healing problem, a pulmonary complication, a urinary tract infection, and a thrombosis; conveying the patient data in the written questionnaire to a data bank over a telephone connection using one of a voice transmission and a facsimile transmission; and automatically evaluating the conveyed data with an evaluating device that is associated with the data bank.