Patent ID: 8489428

Claim:
A system for determining whether a person should have health care professional attention, the system comprising: a monitoring device having a microprocessor operably coupled to a memory unit, an input device, an output device, and a communication device, the memory unit storing a set of computer program instructions received from a remote computer via the communication device, wherein said set of computer program instructions, when executed by said microprocessor, pose questions to the person via the output device, receive answers from the person via the input device, collect physiological information associated with the person, and transmit the answers entered into the input device and the physiological information collected by the monitoring device to the remote computer via the communication device; the remote computer being programmed (i) to determine whether the person should have health care professional attention based at least in part upon the answers and the physiological information transmitted from the monitoring device to the remote computer via the communication device, (ii) to automatically generate a clinical note containing a current condition and condition trends of the person based upon the answers and the physiological information transmitted from the monitoring device to the remote computer via the communication device, and (iii) to communicate the clinical note to a caregiver.