Remote patient management and monitoring systems and methods
Inventors
Ahmed, Omar • Barker, Nicholas Evan • Indorf, Keith Ward • Cha, Sungwhan • Frey, Sebastian T. • CHO, Hyejin
Assignees
Publication Number
US-12295708-B2
Publication Date
2025-05-13
Expiration Date
2041-03-19
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Abstract
Systems and methods are provided for remote patient management and monitoring. The patient is monitored with a wireless sensor system connected to an application executing on a patient user computing device. The system continuously monitors physiological parameters, such as, but not limited to, blood oxygen saturation (SpO2), pulse rate, perfusion index, pleth variability index, and/or respiration rate from the photoplethysmograph. The system triggers alarms if the patient physiological data violates thresholds. Care providers review patient data and associated alarm(s) with graphical user interfaces.
Core Innovation
The invention relates to remote patient management and monitoring systems and methods, enabling care providers to remotely configure, deliver, and monitor patient care. The system employs wireless sensor devices to continuously collect patient physiological parameters, such as blood oxygen saturation, pulse rate, perfusion index, pleth variability index, and respiration rate. A patient care application, installed on a user's computing device, communicates with these wireless sensors and transmits the collected physiological data to a backend monitoring system.
Care providers are given the ability to design tailored patient care user interfaces, using a patient care configuration interface, without requiring programming expertise. These interfaces can include graphical layouts, action items, and sensor configurations relevant to specific health conditions such as COVID-19, diabetes, cardiac diseases, obesity, and respiratory diseases. Once configured, client configuration packages containing these specifications are generated and transmitted to the patient's device, where the patient care application dynamically updates to present the customized interface, facilitate sensor pairing, and guide user actions.
The remote patient monitoring solution addresses the challenge of effective home-based, non-invasive monitoring and patient engagement, especially crucial during communicable disease outbreaks or when healthcare resources are limited. It overcomes the difficulty of requiring patients to self-report and minimizes technical barriers for providers in updating or individualizing patient-facing applications. The system also supports real-time alerts and notifications, allowing care providers and authorized third parties to review patient data visually, prioritize interventions, and, where thresholds are violated, trigger alarms or further actions.
Claims Coverage
The patent includes a set of independent claims that cover multiple inventive features relating to remote patient care and monitoring involving dynamic configuration, sensor integration, and user interface customization.
Dynamic patient care user interface configuration and deployment
The system provides a patient care configuration user interface comprising a plurality of configuration user interface elements. Care providers can select from these elements to define the graphical layout, patient care action items, and sensor item configuration for a patient care user interface. A client configuration package is generated containing these configurations and is transmitted to a patient user computing device, where a patient care application uses it to: - Arrange the graphical layout as specified - Present patient care action items according to configuration - Interface, including initiating pairing, with a patient sensor device for capturing physiological parameters The configuration package enables deployment and update of patient care user interfaces without recompiling the patient care application.
Real-time physiological parameter acquisition and monitoring with alert generation
Physiological parameters captured by the patient sensor device—such as oxygen saturation, respiration rate, pulse rate, or perfusion index—are received by the patient care application and transmitted to the system. The system can: - Receive and monitor these physiological parameter values over time - Determine when values violate configurable thresholds (including through subset analysis over a period) - Generate and transmit alerts upon threshold violations - Allow presentation of information and visualizations based on these parameters on clinician user devices
Conditional logic and customization in monitoring and alerting
The system permits definition and application of conditional threshold logic, including logic influenced by response data from patient prompts. For example: - Thresholds for alerts can be dynamically selected based on patient responses (such as the presence of comorbidities) - Logic for alerting is customizable via the configuration user interface, supporting condition-specific care and tailored interventions
Programmatic extensibility without requiring application recompilation
The system supports the incorporation of program instructions in an interpreted language (such as JavaScript) received through the configuration interface and deployed within new or updated client configuration packages. This enables changes to application behavior—including logic and alerting—without requiring recompiling or republishing the patient care application.
In summary, the independent claims cover inventive features including customizable, remotely deployed patient care interfaces; direct sensor integration and threshold-based monitoring; conditional alerting logic responsive to patient input; and dynamic, programmatic extensibility—all supporting efficient and scalable remote patient management.
Stated Advantages
Allows care providers to create and update customized patient care user interfaces without requiring programming skills or application recompilation.
Enables continuous, non-invasive monitoring of physiological parameters with real-time alerts and notifications when thresholds are violated.
Reduces technical and logistical barriers for delivering personalized remote monitoring, especially during communicable disease outbreaks or when hospital resources are constrained.
Improves efficiency and usability of graphical user interfaces, including faster and easier device pairing and configuration for end users.
Provides flexibility to tailor monitoring and alerting logic, including condition-specific thresholds and prompts, without technical intervention.
Enables sharing of patient data and alerts with care providers, emergency services, and authorized third parties to support rapid intervention and prioritization.
Documented Applications
Remote monitoring and management of patients with communicable diseases such as COVID-19, influenza, and respiratory illnesses from home or non-clinical environments.
Monitoring and treatment support for chronic diseases including diabetes, sleep apnea, cardiac diseases, obesity, and respiratory diseases.
Remote detection and intervention in opioid addiction and overdose, including automatic medication administration and emergency notification.
Hospital surge capacity management during infectious disease outbreaks by monitoring patients in non-clinical spaces and determining when to relocate patients.
Continuous monitoring and early detection of respiratory health conditions through wireless pulse oximetry and temperature sensors.
Utilization of remote monitoring kits, including sensors and connectivity hubs, mailed or delivered to patients' residences for scalable monitoring implementation.
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