Patent ID: 6870913

Claim:
A method for monitoring the condition of one or more individuals by one or more health care workers, the method comprising: providing the one or more health care workers with at least one user device from among a plurality of non-identical user devices, each of the plurality of non-identical user devices being associated with at least one of a plurality of non-identical user interfaces, each of the plurality of user devices being communicatively linked to a device adapter enabling data to be adapted for use via each user device irrespective of associated user interface; said device adapter being communicatively linked to a system by a management service interface; said system comprising a management element for controlling one or more electronic tools within the system: each of said one or more electronic tools programmed to perform a desired function, said system further comprising one or more information sources for processing and storing information; connecting the one or more health care workers to said system by the device adapter communicatively linked to the management service interface; providing the one or more health care workers with one or more requests for information by sending said one or more requests through an interactive message interface extracted from the information source depending on a particular type of user device that is used by the one or more health care workers, the one or more health care workers entering the requested information in the system by way of the particular type of user device communicatively linked to the device adapter; forwarding the requested information to a reporting tool; processing the request information in a desired format by the reporting tool; forwarding the processed information from the reporting tool to the information source to form at least one database; and providing a collaboration tool configured to enable one-to-one, one-to-many, many-to-one and many-to-many communications and collaborations among the one or more health care workers, the device adapter enabling use of the collaboration tool with said plurality of non-identical user devices irrespective of difference in workflow or collaborative contexts among the one or more health care workers or the plurality of non-identical user devices.