A system for remotely monitoring an individual. The system includes a server system for generating a script program from a set of queries. The script program is executable by a remote apparatus that displays information and/or a set of queries to the individual through a user interface. Responses to the queries that are entered through the user interface together with individual identification information are sent from the remote apparatus to the server system across a communication network. The server system also includes an automated answering service for providing a series of questions from a stored set of questions for an individual at the remote apparatus to respond to, storing responses to each provided question in the series of questions and providing a service based on the individual's response to the questions.

Networked system for interactive communication and remote monitoring of individuals

A system and method is described that enables a health care provider to monitor and manage a health condition of a patient. The system includes a health care provider apparatus operated by a health care provider and a remotely programmable patient apparatus that is operated by a patient. The health care provider develops a script program using the health care provider apparatus and then sends the script program to a remotely programmable patient apparatus through a communication network such as the World Wide Web. The script program is a computer-executable patient protocol that provides information to the patient about the patient's health condition and that interactively monitors the patient health condition by asking the patient questions and by receiving answers to those questions. The answers to these health related questions are then forwarded as patient data from the remotely programmable patient apparatus to the health care provider apparatus through the communication network. The patient data may also include information supplied by a physiological monitoring device such as a blood glucose monitor that is connected to the remotely programmable patient apparatus. When the patient data arrives at the health care provider apparatus, the patient data is processed for further management of the patient's health condition by the health care provider, such as forwarding another script program to the remotely programmable patient apparatus.

Remote health monitoring and maintenance system

A diabetes management system for predicting a future blood glucose value of a patient and for recommending a corrective action to the patient when the future blood glucose value lies outside of a target range. The system includes a patient-operated apparatus for measuring blood glucose values and for storing data relating to insulin doses administered to the patient. The apparatus predicts the patient's future blood glucose value based upon the patient's current blood glucose value, the fraction of insulin action remaining from the insulin doses, and the patient's insulin sensitivity. The apparatus also determines the corrective action for the patient when the predicted blood glucose value lies outside of a target range. The system also includes a physician computer in communication with the apparatus for receiving the blood glucose values and insulin dose data and for calculating an adjusted insulin sensitivity for use in subsequent predictions.

Diabetes management system and method for controlling blood glucose

A system and method for monitoring a group of patients having a chronic disease or ongoing health condition. The method includes the step of collecting from each patient a corresponding set of measurements of a control parameter of the health condition. Each set of measurements has a collection date. A control value is calculated for each patient from the corresponding set of measurements. The method further includes the steps of generating and displaying a group overview chart having one data point for each patient. Each data point indicates the control value calculated for the corresponding patient and a time period which has elapsed since the collection date of the patient's corresponding set of measurements. In a preferred embodiment, the method includes the additional steps of selecting from the group overview chart at least one of the patients represented thereon and transmitting supervisory instructions to the at least one selected patient.

Multiple patient monitoring system for proactive health management

The invention presents a networked system for identifying an individual, communicating information to the individual, and remotely monitoring the individual. The system includes a server and a workstation for entering in the server queries to be answered by the individual. The server is preferably a web server and the workstation is preferably a personal computer or remote terminal connected to the server via the Internet. The system also includes a remotely programmable apparatus connected to the server via a communication network, preferably the Internet. The remotely programmable apparatus interacts with the individual in accordance with a script program received from the server. The server includes a script generator for generating the script program from the queries entered through the workstation. The script program is received and executed by the remotely programmable apparatus identify the individual, to communicate the queries to the individual, to receive responses to the queries, and to transmit the responses from the remotely programmable apparatus to the server. Identification of the individual can also be achieved via a data card, a remote monitoring device, or the interception of data from a separate information system. As the present invention has multi-user capabilities, it can be used in a public place, such as a pharmacy or health care clinic. The multi-user capabilities also allow collection and tracking of user data for the healthcare industry.

Multi-user remote health monitoring system

A computation-universal two-dimensional 8-state triangular reversible cellular automaton

Using microprocessor techniques, a portable digital memory device has been designed for the ambulatory monitoring of heart rate and physical activity The device consists of a microprocessor, an ECG amplifier to record the heart rate and an accelerometer to detect the physical activity This accelerometer is piezo-resistive and is suitable for ambulatory physical activity recording, because this sensor requires low electrical power, has high durability and wide frequency response (DC approximately 12 kHz) Changes in heart rates and physical activity in daily life have been successfully recorded

Microprocessor-based memory device for ambulatory heart rate and physical activity recording.

Self-reproduction in a reversible cellular space

Due to inevitable power dissipation, it is said that nano-scaled computing devices should perform their computing processes in a reversible manner. This will be a large problem in constructing three-dimensional nano-scaled functional objects. Reversible cellular automata (RCA) are used for modeling physical phenomena such as power dissipation, by studying the dissipation of garbage signals. We construct a three-dimensional self-inspective self-reproducing reversible cellular automaton by extending the two-dimensional version SR8. It can self-reproduce various patterns in three-dimensional reversible cellular space without dissipating garbage signals.

Self-reproduction in three-dimensional reversible cellular space

A number-conserving reversible cellular automaton (NC-RCA) is a computing model that reflects both reversibility and mass or energy conservation law in physics. We show that, despite strict constraints of reversibility and number-conservation, there exist simple two-dimensional NC-RCAs that are capable of universal computation. These automata are classified into two types. Automaton of the first type implements a Fredkin gate in its space-time dynamic. That is a Fredkin gate, as a universal logical element, is embedded in its cellular space. Automaton of the second type, incorporate a novel logical element, called a “rotary element” in its lattice dynamic. NC-RCAs of the second type simulate any reversible two-counter machine in their space-time configuration. In both types of cellular automata the computation is realized via appropriate control of “moving particles” in the cellular space.

Katsunobu Imai

Papers

A computation-universal two-dimensional 8-state triangular reversible cellular automaton

Microprocessor-based memory device for ambulatory heart rate and physical activity recording.

Self-reproduction in a reversible cellular space

Self-reproduction in three-dimensional reversible cellular space

Universal computing in reversible and number-conserving two-dimensional cellular spaces