Patent ID: 6980958

Claim:
A system that monitors anticoagulation therapy of a patient, wherein the anticoagulation therapy includes a patient-administered medication regimen selected from the group consisting of warfarin and vitamin K antagonists, heparin and glucosaminoglycans, and direct thrombin inhibitors, and a patient-administered regimen for a coagulation test that monitors efficacy of the medication regimen, wherein the coagulation test is selected from the group consisting of prothrombin time (PT) test, partial thromboplastin time (PTT) test, activated clotting time (ACT) test, heparin assays, ecarin clotting time (ECT) test, and thrombin clotting time test, wherein the system comprises: a portable patient apparatus, comprising: a processor; a user interface in communication with the processor; computer code executable by the processor that receives and stores data from a patient, wherein the patient data includes at least one of physiological data, pathophysiological data, biological data, psychological data, neuropsychological data, and behavioral data; computer code executable by the processor that assesses severity of the received patient data; computer code executable by the processor that prompts the patient via the user interface to perform a patient-administered coagulation test if the received patient data are assessed to be above a threshold severity level; computer code executable by the processor that receives and stores coagulation test results from the patient-administered coagulation test; and computer code executable by the processor that communicates the received coagulation test results from the patient-administered coagulation test to a healthcare provider via a communications network; and a remotely located data processing system configured to communicate with and receive data from the portable patient apparatus, the remotely located data processing system comprising: computer code that obtains patient data from the patient apparatus; computer code that analyzes the obtained patient data from to identify medical conditions of a patient; computer code that displays identified patient medical conditions for a patient in selectable, prioritized order according to medical severity via a remotely located client in communication with the central data processing system; and computer code that displays treatment options for treating a selected medical condition for a patient.