Patent ID: 8635085

Claim:
An apparatus, comprising: a measurement apparatus within a housing configured to be carried by a patient, said measurement apparatus 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 and configured to (a) store (i) the health data and (ii) identification data unique to each of one or more respective authorized users and (b) communicate the health data and the identification data to an external computer; 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 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 a display within said housing, (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.