Patent ID: 8112293

Claim:
A health care monitoring system, comprising: a data management subsystem that at least coordinates storage and retrieval of medical information for a plurality of users; a remote medical review subsystem that at least coordinates review of one or more of the users' stored medical information available from said data management subsystem; a health care provider subsystem including at least one computer configured to at least permit authorized health care providers to access stored medical information available from said data management subsystem; and a monitoring device delivery/return subsystem that at least coordinates the delivery and/or return of monitoring devices configured for at least monitoring certain health conditions of a plurality of the users, wherein information regarding the certain health conditions monitored by the monitoring devices is subsequently stored in the data management subsystem, wherein said health care monitoring system determines when a particular type of health monitoring is to be performed by one or more of the plurality of users at a specific time, wherein said monitoring device delivery/return subsystem coordinates sending a monitoring device corresponding to the particular type of health monitoring to the one or more of the plurality of users, and wherein the particular type of health monitoring includes skin condition monitoring, and the monitoring device is configured to participate in skin condition monitoring.