Remote health management system

Abstract

A system and method that remotely accesses and diagnoses the medical condition of an individual patient and of each patient in a group of patients and provides treatment based upon the diagnoses of the individual patient and the risk stratification the individual patient assumes in the group of patients.

The embodiments of the invention in which an exclusive property or privilege is claimed are defined as follows:  
     
         1 . A remote health management system, the system comprising: 
 an accessing system having a profile computer, the profile computer further having a monitoring application, a task scheduler, a content assignor, a dialog generator, a script generator, and a report generator;    a database in communication with the accessing system, the database having a protocol section, a profile section, a task list section, and a dialogs library section; and    a communication network connected to the accessing system, the communication network further connected to a plurality of remote terminals, each remote terminal connected to a monitoring device operated by an individual patient, an external data source, a healthcare provider, and a managed care organization,    such that the medical condition of each individual patient is diagnosed, a risk-stratification is established of each individual patient in a group of patients, and a treatment provided to each individual patient based upon the diagnosis of the individual patient and the risk stratification that the individual patient assumes in the group of patients.