Patent ID: 6893396

Claim:
A system for remotely monitoring patient variables comprising: at least one patient-wearable, multi-variable sensor means for acquiring medically relevant data from a patient; a patient-wearable monitoring unit connected to the sensor; said patient-wearable monitoring unit comprising a processor means for formatting sensor data from said patient into Extensible Markup Language (XML) and a wireless communication device connected to a first wireless network, wherein said first wireless network includes means adapted to send and receive communications over the Internet and a second network; a Host data archive connected to the Internet to communicate with a plurality of the patient-wearable monitoring units and archive data using XML; a plurality of medical care provider terminal means connected to the second network for communication in a bi-directional manner over said first and second network between each medical care provider and the patient-wearable monitoring unit of a patient under the medical care provider's care, and wherein said plurality of medical care provider terminals are further connected to the Internet for bi-directional XML data communication with said Host data archive.