Appeal No. 2005-0860
Application No. 09/363,728
patient information to be sent from the data management unit to
the clearinghouse and items such as system software updates to be
sent from the clearinghouse to the data management unit. Brown
also teaches that the clearinghouse may be used to manage the
care of a number of remote patients:
[r]eferring first to FIG. 2, clearinghouse 54
receives data from a plurality of self-care
microprocessor-based healthcare systems of the type
shown in FIG. 1, with the individual self-care health
monitoring systems being indicated in FIG. 2 by
reference numeral 58. Preferably, the data supplied to
clearinghouse 54 by each individual self-care health
monitoring system 58 consists of "raw data," i.e., test
results and related data that was stored in memory
circuits of data management unit 10, without further
processing by data management unit 10. For example,
with respect to the arrangement shown in FIG. 1, blood
glucose test results and associated data such as food
intake information, medication dosage and other such
conditions are transmitted to clearinghouse 54 and
stored with a digitally encoded signal that identifies
both the source of the information (i.e., the system
user or patient) and those having access to the stored
information (i.e., the system user's doctor or other
healthcare professional).
As shall be recognized upon understanding the
manner in which it operates, clearinghouse 54 can be
considered to be a central server for the various
system users (58 in FIG. 2) and each healthcare
professional 60. In that regard, clearinghouse 54
includes conventionally arranged and interconnected
digital processing equipment (represented in FIG. 2 by
digital signal processor 57) which receives digitally
encoded information from a user 58 or healthcare
professional 60; processes the information as required;
stores the information (processed or unprocessed) in
memory if necessary; and, transmits the information to
an intended recipient (i.e., user 58 or healthcare
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