Home medical supervision and monitoring system

Abstract

Abstract A home medical supervision and monitoring system with computer-controlled base station provides medical supervision of an individual and controls medical monitoring, environmental, and safety devices. Modular electronic components, a real-time operating system and multilevel application software provide decision-making choices to inform a monitoring service or the like if a medical crisis is occurring or an adverse environmental or safety condition exists. Subsystems include medical monitoring devices to control and monitor specific medical conditions. If a crisis is detected, predefined physician instructions are implemented. A daily medical supervision subsystem records messages to be played back at preset intervals to supervise the individual's daily medical, safety or environmental activities under control of application software. A personal distress call subsystem can contact a monitoring service by pushing a distress button or by voice activating a communication circuit via a speaker telephone. Safety and environmental sensing devices such as motion, fire, smoke, etc., detect abnormal conditions and notify the base station while an archiving subsystem collects and processes information on a hard drive for later retrieval. The system has an optional medication-dispensing cabinet that will open a compartment at a prescribed time containing prescribed medication.

Inventors

• 👤 Donald A. Lucas

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