USOO7761312B2 (12) United States Patent (10) Patent No.: US 7,761,312 B2 BrOWn (45) Date of Patent: *Jul. 20, 2010 (54) REMOTE HEALTH MONITORING AND (58) Field of Classification Search ................. 600/300; MAINTENANCE SYSTEM 128/900 (75)75 Inventor: sphen James Brown, Woodside, CA (56) See applicationReferences file for complete Cited search history. (73) Assignee: Health Hero Network, Inc., Palo Alto, U.S. PATENT DOCUMENTS CA (US) 3,426,150 A 2/1969 Tygart (*) Notice: Subject to any disclaimer, the term of this (Continued) patent is extended or adjusted under 35 FOREIGN PATENT DOCUMENTS U.S.C. 154(b) by 0 days. EP O251520 1, 1988 This patent is Subject to a terminal dis- (Continued) claimer. OTHER PUBLICATIONS (21) Appl. No.: 11/396.558 +5 V Powered Isolated RS-232 Drivers/Receivers Maxim Integrated Products. (22) Filed: Apr. 4, 2006 (Continued) 65 Prior Publication D Primary Examiner Gerald J. O’Connor (65) rior Publication Data Assistant Examiner—Linh-Giang Michelle Le US 2006/O1789 14 A1 Aug. 10, 2006 (74) Attorney, Agent, or Firm—Christopher P. Maiorana, PC Related U.S. Application Data (57) ABSTRACT A system and method is described that enables a health care (60) Division of application No. 09/422,046, filed on Oct. provider to monitor and manage a health condition of a 20, 1999, now Pat. No. 7,624,028, which is a continu patient. The system includes a health care provider apparatus ation of application No. 09/271,217, filed on Mar. 17, operated by a health care provider and a remotely program 1999, now Pat. No. 6,168,563, which is a continuation mable patient apparatus that is operated by a patient. The in-part of application No. 08/481.925, filed on Jun. 7, health care provider develops a script program using the 1995, now Pat. No. 5,899,855, which is a continuation health care provider apparatus and then sends the Script pro of application No. 08/233,397, filed on Apr. 26, 1994, gram to a remotely programmable patient apparatus through now abandoned, which is a continuation-in-part of a communication network Such as the World WideWeb. The application No. 07/977.323, filed on Nov. 17, 1992, Script program is a computer-executable patient protocol that now Pat. No. 5,307.263, said application No. 09/271, provides information to the patient about the patients health condition and that interactively monitors the patient health 217 is a continuation-in-part of application No. condition by asking the patient questions and by receiving 08/946,341, filed on Oct. 7, 1997, now Pat. No. 5,997, answers to those questions. The answers to these health 476, which is a continuation-in-part of application No. related questions are then forwarded as patient data from the 08/847,009, filed on Apr. 30, 1997, now Pat. No. 5,897, remotely programmable patient apparatus to the health care 493. provider apparatus through the communication network. The patient data may also include information Supplied by a (60) Provisional application No. 60/041,746, filed on Mar. physiological monitoring device Such as a blood glucose 28, 1997, provisional application No. 60/041,751, monitor that is connected to the remotely programmable filed on Mar. 28, 1997. patient apparatus. When the patient data arrives at the health (51) Int. Cl. care provider apparatus, the patient data is processed for further management of the patients health condition by the A6 IB5/00 (2006.01) health care provider, such as forwarding another script pro G06F 9/00 (2006.01) gram to the remotely programmable patient apparatus. (52) U.S. Cl. ................... 705/3; 705/2; 705/4; 600/300; 128/900 22 Claims, 25 Drawing Sheets ar. ----- Y - - - - 42- - - - Prof. L. 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