Patent ID: 8117046
Filing Date: 2012-02-14
Classification: A61B,G16H,G16Z,H04M

Abstract:
1. A method of providing medical care by clinicians at the home, excluding hospitals and ambulances, of a given patient, comprising: providing to a plurality of mobile licensed clinicians, a plurality of portable computers each equipped with local storage, and a plurality of portable wireless on-site electronic medical care devices including analyzing and transmitting devices for analyzing patient conditions and for transmitting the condition information to a selected one of the portable computers wirelessly; wirelessly downloading to the selected portable computer from a remote central storage facility a sufficiently complete medical record for the given patient to enable the mobile clinician to treat the given patient; storing the downloaded medical record in the local storage in the selected portable computer; transporting the selected portable computer storing the downloaded medical record and transporting the wireless on site medical care devices to the given patient's home by a mobile clinician; applying by a mobile clinician at least one of the portable wireless on-site medical care devices to the given patient in the given patient's home; wirelessly sending patient information from the on-site medical care devices directly to the selected portable computer at the given patient's home; storing the patient information in the local storage of the selected portable computer; directly communicating wirelessly the stored patient information from the selected portable computer at the given patient's home to at least one remote medical care device for analyzing the patient information for the given patient; wirelessly receiving in the selected portable computer at the given patient's home the analysis from the at least one remote medical care device; storing the analysis received from the remote medical care device in the local storage of the selected portable computer at the patient's home; presenting on the selected portable computer to a mobile clinician in the given patient's home, the patient information, and the analysis from the at least one remote medical care device; and treating or not treating the given patient at the patient's home by a mobile clinician in response to the information displayed on the selected portable computer.