Patent ID: 7778845

Claim:
A system for monitoring a group of patients having a health condition, said system comprising: means for generating and displaying a chart via a display, said chart having a plurality of data points, wherein each of said data points represents one corresponding patient and indicates at least one value for the one corresponding patient, each data point including an icon, the at least one value being based upon a corresponding set of measurements related to a health condition; means for receiving a user input, the user input interactively and graphically designating a selected data point from the plurality of data points, the selected data point being associated with a selected patient; means for correlating the user-selected data point with patient data for the selected patient associated with the user selected data point, the patient data including one of: an electronic mail address associated with the selected patient and a telephone number associated with the selected patient; means for transmitting a communication to the selected patient, wherein said communication is transmitted to the selected patient via one of: an electronic mail message and a telephone message, wherein the system allows the user to monitor the health condition of the plurality of patients via said chart displayed by said system and to proactively initiate said communication with the selected patient via the system by providing said user input selection to the system.