Optimizing oxygen tank deliver or refills for COPD patients through measurement of blood oxygen levels
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.
1. A method of monitoring health supplies, comprising:
A) selecting one of a number of programs stored on a server;
B) transmitting the program to a remotely situated apparatus through at least one communication network, wherein the program causes the apparatus to present one or more queries and one or more predetermined response choices associated with the one or more queries to an individual and collect at least one of the predetermined response choices selected by the individual in response to the one or more queries;
C) receiving the at least one of the predetermined response choices selected by the individual through the at least one communication network and storing the at least one of the predetermined response choices selected by the individual in the server;
D) adjusting a schedule at a health supplies supplier for delivering the health supplies to a home of the individual based upon the at least one of the predetermined response choices selected by the individual;
E) monitoring an inventory of the health supplies at the home of the individual; and
F) scheduling deliveries of the health supplies to the home of the individual.
2. The method according to claim 1 , further comprising the step of measuring a physiological condition of the individual.
3. The method according to claim 2 , wherein said physiological condition comprises a blood oxygen level.
4. The method according to claim 2 , wherein said physiological condition comprises a blood glucose level.
5. The method according to claim 1 , wherein monitoring the inventory of the health supplies comprises measuring a status of the health supplies.
6. The method according to claim 5 , wherein measuring a status of the health supplies comprises measuring a rate of oxygen usage.
7. The method according to claim 5 , wherein measuring a status of the health supplies comprises measuring a number of oxygen tanks stationed at said home.
8. The method according to claim 7 , wherein measuring a status of the health supplies further comprises measuring a quantity of oxygen in the number of oxygen tanks.
9. The method according to claim 7 , wherein measuring a status of the health supplies further comprises measuring a pressure in each of the number of oxygen tanks.
10. The method according to claim 1 , wherein adjusting said schedule takes into account that said individual is managing a chronic disease or condition and timing of the deliveries is optimized for said individual.
11. The method according to claim 10 , wherein said chronic disease comprises chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD).
12. The method according to claim 1 , further comprising the steps of:
entering said one or more queries and said one or more predetermined response choices into the server, wherein said one or more predetermine response choices correspond to said one or more queries and regard one or more home-stationed health supplies;
generating one or more programs in the server using the queries and the corresponding predetermined response choices; and
storing the one or more programs on the server.
13. A system for remotely monitoring health supplies, comprising:
a server configured to communicate with at least one remotely situated apparatus through at least one communication network;
a user interface configured to communicate with the server and adapted for (i) entering, authoring, selecting, or any combination thereof, a set of queries to be answered by an individual and (ii) entering, authoring, selecting, or any combination thereof, corresponding predetermined response choices for each of the queries;
a program generator configured to generate a program to be executed by the remotely situated apparatus, wherein the program causes the apparatus to present one or more of the queries and one or more of the corresponding predetermined response choices to the individual and to collect at least one of the corresponding predetermined response choices selected by the individual in response to the one or more queries; and
one or more databases accessible by the server for storing the program, the at least one selected corresponding predetermined response choice received from the remotely situated apparatus and a list of health supplies, wherein a schedule at a health supplies supplier of the health supplies to be delivered to a home of the individual is adjusted based upon the at least one selected corresponding predetermined response choice received, wherein an inventory of the health supplies at the home of the individual is monitored and deliveries of the health supplies to the home of the individual are scheduled based on the inventory.
14. The system according to claim 13 , further comprising a monitoring device remotely situated from the server, the monitoring device configured to measure a physiological condition of the individual.
15. The system according to claim 14 , wherein said physiological condition comprises a blood oxygen level.
16. The system according to claim 14 , wherein said physiological condition comprises a blood glucose level.
17. The system according to claim 13 , further comprising a monitoring device remotely situated from the server, the monitoring device configured to measure a status of the health supplies at the home of the individual.
18. The system according to claim 17 , wherein said monitoring device is configured to measure a rate of oxygen usage.
19. The system according to claim 17 , wherein said monitoring device is configured to measure a number of oxygen tanks stationed at said home.
20. The system according to claim 19 , wherein said monitoring device is configured to measure a quantity of oxygen in the number of oxygen tanks.
21. The system according to claim 17 , wherein said monitoring device is configured to measure a pressure in each of the number of oxygen tanks.
22. The system according to claim 13 , wherein adjustment of said schedule takes into account that said individual is managing a chronic disease or condition and timing of the deliveries is optimized for said individual.
23. The system according to claim 22 , wherein said chronic disease comprises chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD).