Inventors:
Louis C. Cosentino - Excelsior MN
Michael John Duea - Savage MN
Duane Robert Duea - Apple Valley MN
Steven George Dorfe - Maple Grove MN
Daniel L. Cosentino - Minnetonka MN
International Classification:
A61B 500
US Classification:
600300, 128903, 128904, 128920, 600301, 600587, 600592, 705 3
Abstract:
A medical system, apparatus and method for monitoring and managing one or more ambulatory patients on a computer and allowing a caregiver to review the ambulatory patients wellness parameters to provide treatment in accordance with the wellness parameters. The system, apparatus and method provides a patient monitoring apparatus having a first communication device associated therewith for monitoring a patients wellness parameters. A central computer located remote from the monitoring apparatus and in communication therewith, the central computer having a second communication device associated therewith for communicating wellness parameters and treatment data over a communications link established between the central computer and the monitoring apparatus, the central computer being operated for querying the patient via the patient monitoring apparatus, receiving and processing measured wellness parameters from the monitoring apparatus and calculating a score according to the wellness parameters. A main database coupled to the central computer having patient medical records stored therein. One or more computer workstations located remote from the central computer and in communication therewith, the one or more computers having a third communication device associated therewith for communicating physical examination data between the central computer and the one or more workstations over a communication link established therebetween.