Patent ID: 6730026
Filing Date: 2004-05-04
Classification: A61B,G16H,Y10S

Abstract:
A medical system for monitoring a measured value of a patient in a home environment, characterizing blood clotting of said patient, comprising:a measured value acquisition device adapted for interaction with a patient to acquire measured values relating to blood clotting of said patient; a transmission device connected to said measured value acquisition device for transmitting said measured values to a system central; said system central having a memory at which reference values are stored, and an analysis device, supplied with said measured values and having access to said memory, for comparing the measured values to said reference values and which identifies a level of urgency, from among a plurality of different levels of urgency, for any treatment needed by the patient dependent on a relationship of said measured values to said reference values, and an alarm generator which generates at least one alarm signal from among a plurality of different alarm signals respectively allocated to said different levels of urgency; a plurality of reception devices located remote from said system central, and respectively associated with different persons, respectively adapted o respond to said different levels of urgency, in a response chain; and said system central further including a routing device supplied with said alarm signal, and said routing device routing said alarm signal to at least one of said reception devices to notify at least one person in said response chain adapted to the level of urgency identified by said analysis device, said routing system automatically differently routing said alarm signal, dependent on the level of urgency, to respectively different persons in said response chain.