Patent ID: 7056289

Claim:
A system for coordinating communication sessions between a patient location and a health care provider location to allow monitoring of a patient at said patient location by a care giver associated with said health care provider location, comprising: a communication device in said patient location; and a health care provider server located at said health care provider location, wherein: a patient using said system provides input data to said health care provider server using said communication device; said health care provider server stores data inout by said patient and presents questions to said patient; and if appropriate, additional questions are presented to said patient by said health care provider server based upon patient responses. wherein said questions presented to said patient include: a first question set presenting a set of repeating questions to said patient during each communication session; a second question set presenting a set of rotating questions to said patient during each communication session, wherein identical rotating question sets are never presented during sequential communication sessions; and a third question set presenting a branching question to said patient during a communication session, when warranted, based on a response from said patient to a presented question.