Patent ID: 7840275
Filing Date: 2010-11-23
Classification: G16H

Abstract:
1. A system for remote patient monitoring, comprising: a medical device for collecting and storing medical data; a plurality of external monitoring devices each adapted for wireless communication with the medical device at a first transmission frequency and each adapted for communication with at least one other of the plurality of external monitoring devices; a data communications network coupled to at least one of the plurality of external monitoring devices; and a centralized patient management system coupled to the data communications network for transferring data to or from the at least one of the plurality of external monitoring devices the plurality of external monitoring devices comprising one device operating as a master device and the other of the plurality of devices operating as repeater devices; the master device comprising control circuitry for enabling all of the plurality of external monitoring devices to communicate with the medical device one at a time the enabling comprising reassigning another of the plurality of external monitoring devices to become the active device during the data transmission in response to a change in the signal received from the selected external monitoring device during the data transmission.