Patent ID: 8373557
Filing Date: 2013-02-12
Classification: A61B,G16H,H04W

Abstract:
1. In a wireless communications network having a plurality of transmitting and receiving devices and a plurality of mobile communicators each having a transmission range, said communicators being different from said devices, a method of conveying information relating to physical attributes of a patient remotely, comprising the steps of: a) associating at least one wireless sensor device with a patient for detecting at least one physical attribute of the patient, said sensor device including at least a transmitter; b) transmitting patient data corresponding to the detected physical attribute out onto the network; c) locating a first communicator within transmission range of said sensor device, said first communicator having a transceiver to receive the patient data transmitted from said sensor device; d) broadcasting from said first communicator the received patient data out onto the network; and e) establishing communication between at least a second mobile communicator and said first communicator, said second mobile communicator being located in transmission range with said first communicator and not in direct communication with said wireless sensor device, said second mobile communicator having a second transceiver to receive the patient data broadcast by said first communicator, wherein other mobile communicators also receive the patient data broadcast by said first communicator when said other mobile communicators are located in the transmission range of said first communicator.