Patent ID: 7229409

Claim:
A method of providing a home health care service, comprising steps of: providing access to a health care center on the Internet, said health care center having personal data necessary for the health care of registered at-home patients as basic health care data and also having the capability of inferring the health conditions of the at-home patients from measurement data provided by the at-home home patients and said basic health care data, and providing services necessary for health care or services appropriate to the inferred health conditions to said at-home patients; distributing biosensor devices to at-home patients who wish to receive a home health care service, said biosensor device having a capability of detecting predetermined chemical components contained in a substance discharged from a human body and automatically generating electrical measurement data at the position of discharge as occasion arises; collecting the measurement data of each registered at-home patient to said health care center from at-home patients by way of said Internet; and managing time-varying health conditions of the at-home patients over a period of time based on the collected measurement data as well as said basic health care data, and providing necessary services for maintaining the health of the at-home patients, wherein said biosensor device includes a urine testing device comprising: a urine collector for collecting urine inside a toilet bowl; a biosensor exchangeably attached inside said urine collector for detecting predetermined chemical component values contained in urine and converting said detected values into electrical signals; a support member for supporting said urine collector away from said toilet bowl during collection and also supporting a transmission path of said electrical signals, said support member being arranged so that said urine collector may be automatically or manually moved from a housing location to a prescribed use-position in the toilet bowl and vice versa; and a signal processor for processing electrical signals supplied from said biosensor through said transmission path.