Patent ID: 6190313
Filing Date: 2001-02-20
Classification: A61B,G16H,Y10S

Abstract:
An interactive health care system for a patient located at a patient site and under the care of a health care provider located at a health care provider site physically separated from the patient site, the interactive health care system providing for patient participation in the patient's health care, the system comprising:at least one patient operated sensor for obtaining measurement of a patient's physiological parameters;means for converting each measurement into an indexed data record;a patient site data processing unit for sorting and processing said indexed data records;an associated patient site database which stores said indexed data records;an instruction set for said patient site data processing unit for enabling said patient site data processing unit to selectively perform a SPC analysis on said indexed data records, said SPC analysis including the establishment of an XmR control chart having calculated process control limits, a calculated process center line, and a calculated upper limit of the moving range, and to test whether the conditions of one or more of the following rules are met,1. one or more variable values corresponding to said measurements are outside said process control limits,2. eight or more consecutive variable values are on one side of said process center line,3. three out of four consecutive variable values are closer to one of said control limits than they are to said process center line, or4. one or more moving range values defined as the difference between subsequent variable values are above said upper limit of the moving range; andmeans for notifying the patient when one or more of the above four rules of detection are met.