Patent ID: 7238156

Claim:
A health monitoring system, comprising: a monitoring device which monitors at least one health condition associated with a subscriber and which transmits a first set of information associated with said at least one health condition; a first server, local to said monitoring device and which provides network addressing, routing and functions as a gateway between said first server and a network and containing at least one transceiver, wherein said transceiver transmits to said monitoring device and receives said first set of information from said monitoring device, wherein said first server stores, processes and retransmits said first set of information; a second server, remote from said monitoring device and which receives said first set of information from said first server; a database, in communication with the second server and which stores a second set of information therein, wherein the second set of information includes: (a) emergency contact information associated with said subscriber, (b) one or more health conditions associated with said subscriber, (c) monitoring time intervals associated with said subscriber, and (d) a plurality of numerical ranges, for each of said at least one health conditions, defining (1) an acceptable health condition range, (2) a first alert range indicating a mild medical alert condition for one of said at least one health condition and (3) a second alert range indicating a more serious medical alert condition for said one of said at least one health condition, wherein said second server processes the first set of information using the second set of information from said database to determine if an alert condition is present, and further wherein if said alert condition is present, said second server transmits a third set of information to the first server if said alert condition is within said first alert range within which said subscriber is to be informed of said alert condition via said monitoring device; and transmits said third set of information to a second telecommunication device if said alert condition is within said second alert range, said second alert range being different from said first alert range, within which an emergency contact is to be informed of said alert condition via said telecommunication device.