Patent ID: 8465424

Claim:
An apparatus comprising: a mobile device having an embedded health monitor adapted to take measurements of vital signs of an individual, determine blood pressure and heart rate parameters from the measurements, and transfer the parameters, wherein the embedded health monitor is adapted to perform radial pulse tonometry with a sensor enclosed in a sensor housing with an open cavity adapted to separate the sensor from skin over an artery when placed on a user, the open cavity adapted to become a closed cavity when placed on a user and utilize cavity resonance that transfers changing arterial pressure from the skin to the sensor through air moving in and out of a hole in a wall of the closed cavity, and pressure changes from the changing arterial pressure are transformed by the sensor to a pressure signal proportional to the pressure in the radial artery, and wherein the embedded health monitor is adapted to store the parameters in a memory of the mobile device and displays the stored parameters in a display of the mobile device; and a remote computing system communicably coupled to the mobile device that is adapted to receive and store the parameters, transferred from the mobile device, and perform trend analysis on stored vital sign parameters.