Patent ID: 6261230
Filing Date: 2001-07-17
Classification: A61B,G16H

Abstract:
A system for providing normalized voice feedback from an individual patient in an automated collection and analysis patient care system, comprising:a medical device having a sensor for monitoring at least one physiological measure of an individual patient, the collected measures set comprising individual measures which each relate to patient information recorded by the medical device;a remote client processing voice feedback into a set of quality of life measures which each relate to patient self-assessment indicators, the voice feedback having been spoken by the individual patient into a remote client substantially contemporaneous to the collection of an identifiable device measures set;a network server over which is periodically received a set of collected measures retrieved on a substantially regular basis from the medical device, the identified collected device measures set is received from the medical device, and the quality of life measures set is received from the remote client;a database coupled to the network server and storing the collected measures set, the identified collected device measures set and the quality of life measures set into a patient care record for the individual patient within a database organized to store one or more patient care records which each comprise a plurality of the collected measures sets; andan application server coupled to the database and analyzing the identified collected device measures set, the quality of life measures set, and one or more of the collected device measures sets in the patient care record for the individual patient relative to one or more other collected device measures sets stored in the database to determine a patient status indicator.