Patent ID: 7342583

Claim:
A system to generate and deploy a self-monitoring field protocol comprising a sequence of electronic questionnaires, said system comprising: a design computer comprising a processor, a graphical user interface and a memory having a structured database and a library of software modules, wherein said library of software modules comprises a start questionnaire module, an end questionnaire module, and a data collection module, said structured data base comprises data fields linkable to the software modules to enable an exchange of structured data between the modules and the database, and said graphical user interface (GUI) comprises a display presenting a plurality of icons each corresponding to and electronically linked to one of the software modules, a screen display region for arranging selected icons in a logical sequence corresponding to a questionnaire of the field protocol, said GUI further comprises an electronic link to an alerting program for assigning an alert to each questionnaire, wherein said design computer stores the questionnaires generated for the field protocols and assigned alerts, converts the questionnaires and assigned alerts to a plurality of file formats compatible with a plurality of different types of data collection devices, and downloads the field protocols to each of the data collection devices.