Patent ID: 8305423

Claim:
A remote medical visitation system, comprising: (a) a plurality of client access points for patients, relatives, and clinicians; said client access points comprising one or more audio-visual systems connected by a network upon completion of a secure authentication procedure; (b) a secure computer server running an integrated web-enabled platform supporting encrypted data transfer including a relational database to store user profiles, visitation protocols, user data, videoconferencing schedules, and communication information from a plurality of patients, relatives, and clinicians; and (c) a plurality of software modules including a plurality of graphical user interfaces for control, planing, communication activation, and report creation, wherein said plurality of software modules include a module to manage and program a communication protocol between patients and their virtual visitors depending on a patient's health status, and wherein said module to manage and program a communication protocol automatically selects a communication modality as a function of the patient's health status, said communication modality is chosen from the group consisting of full video conference, partial image video conference, static image audio conference, audio conference, and text conference.