Patent ID: 8753273

Claim:
A health monitoring system configured to support a plurality of electronic monitoring devices configured to be affixed to persons to be monitored, said health monitoring system comprising: a monitoring server operatively connected to said electronic monitoring devices via a network, said monitoring server being configured to receive and store health condition information from said electronic monitoring devices, wherein said monitoring server includes at least one processor suitable for execution of computer program code, wherein, for at least one of said electronic monitoring devices, said monitoring server executes computer program code configured to: acquire health condition information of a person being monitored via the corresponding electronic monitoring device; determine an activity associated with the person, the activity being a physical activity that the person has chosen to engage in; determine at least one health threshold condition based on the determined activity associated with the person, the at least one health threshold condition is able to be varied depending on the determined activity associated with the person; determine whether an action condition exists by comparing the acquired health condition information with at least the at least one health threshold condition; and initiate an action when it is determined that the action condition exists.