Patent ID: 8655678

Claim:
A method for configuring a mobile healthcare network for monitoring a patient comprising: with a home healthcare network: when the patient is at home, monitoring health parameters of the patient with sensors scattered in a patient's home and sensors at least one of on or in the patient, detecting when the patient is leaving home, in response to detecting that the patient is leaving home, transferring monitoring the health parameters of the patient from the home healthcare network to a mobile healthcare network carried by the patient including activating the mobile healthcare network carried by the patient; with the mobile healthcare network: detecting a composition of sensors currently deployed at lest one of on or in the patient in the mobile healthcare network in response to detecting that the patient is leaving home, sending the detected composition of the mobile healthcare network to the home healthcare network; with the home healthcare network: receiving the detected composition from the mobile healthcare network, generating a configuration recommendation for the mobile healthcare network based on the received composition and on patient health information from a database of the home healthcare network, the configuration recommendation including setting parameters including at least one of sampling frequency, reporting frequency, and a reporting threshold for abnormal health data, sending the generated configuration recommendation to the mobile healthcare network; with the mobile healthcare network: receiving the configuration recommendation, the configuration recommendation corresponding to the composition of the mobile healthcare network and the information from the database of the home healthcare network, and setting parameters of the mobile healthcare network according to the received configuration recommendation.