Patent ID: 7264590

Claim:
A system for medical monitoring of a patient at a residential patient premises, the system comprising: a medical-data collection device that collects medical data from the patient, wherein the medical-data collection device is interfaced with a cable or wire transport medium internal to the residential patient premises; and a network interface device disposed at a perimeter of the residential patient premises, the network interface device comprising: a plurality of application devices interfaced with the transport medium internal to the residential patient premises, wherein: a first of the application devices comprises a medical-monitoring application device processes the collected medical data and a second of the application devices exchanges data with a cable or wire transport medium external to the residential patient premises; and the transport medium internal to the residential patient premises is isolated from the transport medium external to the residential patient premises such that operational changes to one of the internal and external transport media do not affect the other of the internal and external transport media; and a processor in communication with the plurality of application devices and having software instructions to coordinate transmission of the collected medical data over the transport medium external to the residential patient premises.