Patent ID: 8249894

Claim:
A networked health-monitoring system configured to collect and process health-related data of a patient, comprising: at least one microprocessor device (i) including a display, a microprocessor and a memory and (ii) configured to collect the health-related data based on at least one health condition of the patient; at least one central server (i) remotely located from and in signal communication with the microprocessor device on a first communication channel to receive the health-related data from the microprocessor device and (ii) configured to (a) generate health-related information from the health-related data and (b) store the health-related data with identification data, wherein (1) the identification data identifies both the patient and one or more authorized users who can access the health-related information and (2) the authorized users are non-patients; and at least one healthcare professional computer remotely located from and in signal communication with the central server on a second communication channel and configured to (i) send the identification data of at least one of the authorized users, the identification data of at least one patient and identification of a selected one of a plurality of formats of the health-related information to the central server and (ii) receive the health-related information of the at least one patient in the selected format from the central server where the identification data identifies the at least one authorized user as authorized to access the health-related information of the at least one patient, wherein the central server is configured to transfer one or more computer programs to the microprocessor device, the computer programs once transferred being executed by the microprocessor device for collecting the health-related data.