Patent ID: 6909359
Filing Date: 2005-06-21
Classification: A61J,G06Q,G16H

Abstract:
1. A medical alerting system comprising a connectivity server including a digital computer, a supervisory computer program continuously running on the connectivity server, a medication database in machine-readable form stored in computer memory accessible in real-time by the supervisory computer program and comprising medical records for patients each of whom has a unique patient identifier, and which medical records comprise regimens for administration of one or more medications or therapies prescribed for the patients, a wide area network subsystem adapted to wirelessly transmit into a preselected geographic area real-time alerting signals of electromagnetic radiation corresponding to directive signals provided from time-to-time by the connectivity server, and a plurality of portable receivers assigned uniquely to individual patients and operative to receive the alerting signals in real-time, each receiver comprising (a) an electronic filter adapted to selectively accept alerting signals directed to only the one individual patient assigned to the receiver, (b) a visual display unit, and (c) an interpreter system operative to provide to the visual display unit a human-readable message which corresponds to an alert signal in which the supervisory computer program is operative to use the medical records obtained from the medication database to generate directive signals corresponding to events in the regimens of respective patients, and in which the interpreter system comprises a standardized database of pre-programmed messages pertinent to regimens for administration of medications or therapies, and in which the interpreter system is operative to select one or more messages to be displayed in response to receipt by the receiver of corresponding alerting signals.