Medical bracelet standard
Various embodiments described herein relate to a wearable device for monitoring health parameters of a patient. According to various embodiments, a wearable device, associated mobile device, or other user device may receive health parameters of the user obtained by at least one sensor configured to sense one or more health parameters from the user; receive an identification of a medical alert to be provided to third parties with respect to the user, persist the identification of the medical alert in a memory of the user device, and repeatedly transmit at least one of the identification of the medical alert and an indication of the availability of the medical alert via a communications interface of the user device configured to communicate wirelessly with nearby reader devices.
1. A mobile user device comprising:
a wireless communications interface configured to communicate wirelessly with nearby reader devices;
a memory; and
a processor in communication with the communications interface and the memory, wherein the processor is configured to:
receive, at a user interface of the mobile user device, a user selection identifying a medical event to be monitored for alerting third parties with respect to a user possessing the mobile user device, wherein the medical event is associated with a trigger;
receive health parameters of the user obtained by at least one sensor configured to sense one or more health parameters from the user;
identify as a medical alert the occurrence of the monitored medical event based on a comparison of the received health parameters and the trigger;
persist the medical alert in the memory;
generate an information alert that includes at least one of the medical alert and an indication of the availability of the medical alert; and
repeatedly broadcast, via the communications interface, the same information alert.
2. The user device of claim 1 , wherein, in repeatedly broadcasting the same information alert, the processor is further configured to additionally transmit at least one of the health parameters with the same information alert.
3. The user device of claim 2 , wherein the processor is further configured to select the at least one of the health parameters for transmission based on the identification of the medical alert.
4. The user device of claim 1 , wherein, in receiving the identification of a medical event to be monitored, the processor is configured to receive a user selection of the medical alert from a list of predefined possible medical alerts.
5. A method performed by a mobile user device for providing medical alert information, the method comprising:
receiving, at a user interface of the mobile user device, a user selection identifying a medical event to be monitored for alerting third parties with respect to a user possessing the mobile user device, wherein the medical event is associated with a trigger;
receiving, by a processor of the mobile user device, health parameters of a user obtained by at least one sensor configured to sense one or more health parameters from the user;
identifying as a medical alert the occurrence of the monitored medical event based on a comparison of the received health parameters and the trigger;
persisting the medical alert in a memory of the mobile user device;
generating an information alert that includes at least one of the medical alert and an indication of the availability of the medical alert; and
repeatedly broadcasting, via a wireless communications interface, the same information alert.
6. The method of claim 5 , wherein repeatedly broadcasting the same information alert comprises additionally transmitting at least one of the health parameters with the same information alert.
7. The method of claim 6 , further comprising selecting the at least one of the health parameters for transmission based on the identification of the medical alert.
8. The method of claim 5 , wherein, receiving the identification of a medical event to be monitored comprises receiving a user selection of the medical alert from a list of predefined possible medical alerts.
9. A non-transitory machine-readable storage medium encoded with instructions for execution by a mobile user device for providing medical alert information, the non-transitory machine-readable storage medium comprising:
instructions for receiving, at a user interface of the mobile user device, a user selection identifying a medical event to be monitored for alerting third parties with respect to a user possessing the mobile user device, wherein the medical event is associated with a trigger;
instructions for receiving, by a processor of the mobile user device, health parameters of the user obtained by at least one sensor configured to sense one or more health parameters from the user;
instructions for identifying as a medical alert the occurrence of the monitored medical event based on a comparison of the received health parameters and the trigger;
instructions for persisting the medical alert in a memory of the mobile user device;
instructions for generating an information alert that includes at least one of the medical alert and an indication of the availability of the medical alert; and
instructions for repeatedly broadcasting, via a wireless communications interface, the same information alert.
10. The non-transitory machine-readable storage medium of claim 9 , wherein repeatedly broadcasting the same information alert includes additionally transmitting at least one of the health parameters with the same information alert.
11. The non-transitory machine-readable storage medium of claim 10 , further comprising instructions to select the at least one of the health parameters for transmission based on the identification of the medical alert.
12. The non-transitory machine-readable storage medium of claim 10 , wherein receiving the identification of a medical event to be monitored includes receiving a user selection of the medical event to be monitored from a list of predefined possible medical alerts.