Patent ID: 7970620

Claim:
An apparatus, comprising: a housing that is sufficiently compact to be hand-held and carried by a patient; a measurement apparatus within said housing configured to (i) measure one or more health condition parameters of the patient and (ii) generate health data representative of the health condition parameters; a recording device within said housing configured to store (i) the health data and (ii) identification data unique to each of one or more respective authorized users; a port within said housing connected to the recording device and configured to download the health data and the identification data from the recording device to an external computer; a display within said housing connected to the measurement apparatus and configured to display the health data such as to be viewable by the patient; and a processor within said housing configured to (A) determine if the patient is one of the authorized users based on the identification data and (B) if the patient is authorized (i) receive a program through the port from the external computer, said program comprising an identification number, one or more queries and one or more sets of response choices corresponding to said queries, wherein said identification number of said program is different from said identification data of said one or more authorized users, (ii) execute the program to present said one or more queries and the one or more sets of response choices to the patient via the display, (iii) gather one or more responses from the patient to the queries and (iv) transmit the responses and the identification number of the program that gathered the responses to the external computer through the port.