KR20090014481A - System and method for health care - Google Patents

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KR20090014481A
KR20090014481A KR1020070078465A KR20070078465A KR20090014481A KR 20090014481 A KR20090014481 A KR 20090014481A KR 1020070078465 A KR1020070078465 A KR 1020070078465A KR 20070078465 A KR20070078465 A KR 20070078465A KR 20090014481 A KR20090014481 A KR 20090014481A
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    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
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Abstract

A health care system and a method thereof are provided to decrease manufacturing cost of an apparatus by analyzing health condition of a diagnosed user through various sensor-devices in a server. A health care system comprises a sensor-device(100), a relay device(200), a mobile phone(300) and a server(400). The sensor-device receives health condition information of a user from a sensor through wire/wireless communications with one or more sensors(110a~110d). The relay device wirelessly receives health condition information from the sensor-device. The relay device transmits the health condition information received from the sensor-device to the mobile phone. At least, the mobile phone transmits a part of the health condition information to a server for analysis. The server analyzes the health condition information. The mobile phone indicates the analyzed result to the user.

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SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR HEALTH CARE}

The present invention relates to a health care system and method, and more particularly, to a health care system and method for obtaining health state information from a sensor and analyzing the same to provide a user's health state and diagnostic information to a user through a wireless communication terminal. .

In general, the diagnosis and testing of periodic health conditions is very important for health care. Although it is the most accurate and safe health care option for an individual to have a medical examination in a hospital, the medical examination in a hospital is limited in terms of cost and time. Especially for patients who need continuous health care such as heart disease and diabetes, it is almost impossible to prevent accidental accidents only by medical examination in hospital. In addition, it is difficult to share the results of diagnosis at home or in other hospitals.

To solve this problem, various medical examination devices have been proposed that can easily check the state of health anywhere. For example, blood pressure monitors and blood glucose meters have been developed for use at home as well as in hospitals. However, information such as heart rate, blood pressure, blood sugar level, pulse wave, and stress level provided by these devices is difficult to decipher unless it is an expert, and even the person who owns the device has to visit the hospital again for interpretation. Will occur. It is also possible for the device itself to have such analytical capabilities, but this requires not only the inclusion of an analytical tool in the device, but also the development of a user interface that can be easily understood by non-expert users. Increase the price of the device.

In addition, various information provided by the device can be checked only when the user owns the device, so if the user wants to check his or her health status information on the go or if the user's doctor wants to check the patient's health information, the information Access is not possible.

Due to these problems, the user must endure the inconvenience of having to check the medical result and confirm the result at the hospital while traveling to the hospital to check his / her health information.

It is an object of the present invention to provide a health diagnosis system and method for solving such a problem and enabling a user to check and use his / her health state information and analysis results thereof from anywhere.

It is also an object of the present invention to provide a health diagnosis system and method that enables the user and the attending physician and the like to freely obtain their own health information without increasing the development cost of the device.

According to an aspect of the present invention for achieving the above object, a receiving means for receiving the health state information from one or more sensor means for obtaining information relating to the health state of the human body and generating health state information therefrom, and the health And communication means for transmitting status information to a wireless communication terminal, wherein the wireless communication terminal transmits at least a portion of the health status information to a server for analysis and receives the analysis result from the server and displays the analysis result to the user. Is provided. The sensor device may further comprise analyzing means for analyzing and providing the health state information from the sensor means to the communication means. The communication means may transmit the information to the wireless communication terminal via a relay means, the communication means and the relay means communicate wirelessly, and the relay means and the wireless communication terminal may communicate by wire.

According to another aspect of the present invention, there is provided a receiving means for receiving the health state information from a sensor device for obtaining health state information associated with a health state of a human body, and a transmission means for transmitting the received health state information to a wireless communication terminal. A relay device comprising a, wherein the wireless communication terminal is provided with a relay device for transmitting at least a portion of the health state information to a server for analysis and receiving the analysis results from the server and display to the user. The relay apparatus may further include analyzing means for analyzing the health state information and providing the same to the transmitting means. The receiving means may wirelessly receive the health state information, and the transmitting means may transmit the health state information by wire.

According to another aspect of the present invention, a receiving means for receiving the health state information from a sensor device for obtaining health state information related to a health state of a human body, and at least a part of the received health state information to a server for analysis Communication means for transmitting and receiving analysis result information from the server, and display means for displaying the analysis result information to a user is provided. The communication means may transmit the health state information using a wireless data communication protocol. The display means may further display at least a portion of the health state information to the user.

According to another aspect of the present invention, a receiving means for receiving the health state information from a wireless communication device that receives health state information related to a health state of a human body from a sensor device, and analyzes the received health state information to analyze analysis result information. And analyzing means for generating a data transmitting means, and transmitting means for transmitting the analysis result information to the wireless communication device, wherein the wireless communication device displays the received analysis result information to a user. The server may further include storage means for storing the health state information and the analysis result information in association with a user. In addition, the communication means may transmit the analysis result information to the personal terminal via the Internet upon request.

According to another aspect of the invention there is provided a method performed in a sensor device in communication with one or more sensor means for obtaining information relating to a health state of a human body and generating health state information therefrom, the health state from the sensor means. A receiving step of receiving information, and a communication step of transmitting the health state information to a wireless communication terminal, wherein the wireless communication terminal transmits at least a part of the health state information to a server for analysis and an analysis result from the server. A health care method is provided for receiving and displaying it to a user.

According to another aspect of the invention, the receiving step of receiving the health state information from the sensor device for obtaining health state information associated with the health state of the human body, and a transmission for transmitting the received health state information to a wireless communication terminal And the wireless communication terminal transmits at least a part of the health state information to a server for analysis, receives the analysis result from the server, and displays the analysis result to the user.

According to another aspect of the invention, the receiving step of receiving the health state information from a sensor device for obtaining health state information related to the health state of the human body, at least a portion of the received health state information to the server for analysis A health care method is provided that includes transmitting and receiving analysis result information from the server, and displaying the analysis result information to a user.

In another aspect, a receiving step of receiving the health state information from a wireless communication device that has received health state information related to the health state of the human body from a sensor device, analyzing the received health state information to generate analysis result information And a transmitting step of transmitting the analysis result information to the wireless communication device, wherein the wireless communication device displays the received analysis result information to a user.

On the other hand, there is also provided a computer readable recording medium having recorded thereon a program for causing the method to be executed on a computer.

According to the present invention, it is possible to obtain a health diagnosis system and a method that enables a user to check and use his / her health state information and an analysis result thereof anywhere.

In addition, according to the present invention, it is possible to obtain a health diagnosis system and method that enables a user and a doctor or the like to freely obtain their own health information without increasing the development cost of the device.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION Hereinafter, specific embodiments of the present invention will be described with reference to the accompanying drawings, but this is only an example and the present invention is not limited thereto. In the following description, the terms "transfer", "communication", "transmit", "receive" and other similar meanings of signals or information are not only meant to directly convey the signal or information from one component to another. It also includes passing through other components. In particular, "transmitting" or "sending" a signal or information to a component indicates the final destination of the signal or information and does not mean a direct destination. The same is true for the "reception" of a signal or information. In addition, in this specification, "relating" two or more pieces of data or information means that if one data (or information) is obtained, at least a portion of the other data (or information) can be obtained based thereon. On the other hand, the term "device asset" as used herein refers to a type of device having a communication function of a signal or information.

1 illustrates a health care system according to one embodiment of the invention. The system of this embodiment includes a sensor device 100 that communicates with one or more sensors 110, and a relay device 200 that transmits health state information (or a signal) from the sensor device 100 to the wireless communication terminal 300. The wireless communication terminal receives the health state information and transmits at least a portion thereof to the server 400 for analysis, and the server 400 analyzes the health state information and provides and stores the analysis result information.

The sensor device 100 communicates with one or more sensors 110 in a wired or wireless manner to receive information about a health state of a user acquired by the sensor 110. The information on the health state of the user may be different according to the type of sensor, and may be quantifiable data that can be measured from the user's body. The information can be transmitted in the form of an electrical signal, which is typically an analog signal.

For example, the blood pressure monitor 110a transmits information about the blood pressure of the user. The blood pressure of the user may be measured through a cuff attached to the user's arm by an oscillometric method. The measured blood pressure value may be in the form of quantified data, but is often in the form of an electrical signal, and may also be an analog signal.

The sensor may be a heart rate sensor 110b that measures heart rate. The signal from the heart rate sensor may be a signal indicating the pressure measured by the sensor attached to the blood vessel of the user, and the heart rate may be measured based on the change in the value. Therefore, the information from the sensor 110b may be an analog signal having a predetermined intensity before the heart rate is determined, or may be data including the heart rate determined by determining the magnitude of the value. This is also the same for HRV (Heart Rate Variability) determined based on the intensity and change of heart rate when measuring APG (Accelerated Plethysmography) which determines the pulse wave as a differential value.

Therefore, the sensor 110 may be a sensing means that actually detects a physical value and generates an analog signal, or may be a device that generates new information by performing a predetermined determination and / or calculation based on the analog value. The function of this sensor 110 may be distributed with the sensor device 100. That is, the sensor 110 includes only sensing means and the determination and / or calculation may be performed by the sensor device 110. The distribution of these functions may be different depending on the type of sensor, the degree of judgment and / or computation required. Therefore, in the present specification, the term "health state information" is used to include all analog signals including information on physical measurements, digital signals converted from the same, and data extracted from the signals.

On the other hand, the sensor 110 may be a MPXV5050G blood pressure sensor from Freescale Semiconductor, a blood pressure sensor, a Nellcor SpO2 Finger Clip Sensor, a blood saturated oxygen sensor from Nellcor, or a Freeze Frame sensor from HeartMath, an HRV and PTG sensor.

Health state information obtained by the sensors 110 is transmitted to the sensor device 100. The sensor device 100 processes the received health state information, analyzes it as necessary, and transmits the health state information to the wireless communication terminal 300. The transmission to the wireless communication terminal 300 may go through the relay device 200. With reference to FIG. 2, the specific structure of the sensor apparatus 100 of one Embodiment is demonstrated.

The sensor device 100 includes a receiver 120 for receiving health state information from a sensor. The receiver 120 functions to properly filter and amplify an electrical signal and to receive complete data according to an appropriate protocol with respect to the data. The health state information thus received is transferred to the conversion unit 130 and converted into an appropriate form. Representatively, the converter 130 may include an A / D converter for converting an analog signal into a digital signal. Alternatively, or in addition, the conversion unit 130 may convert the signal or day into a form suitable for analysis and transmission.

The converted information is then passed to the analysis unit 160. The analysis unit 160 may function to extract data from the electrical signal as described above. For example, an analysis may be performed to determine the heart rate from an analog signal representing a simple heart rate. The analysis unit 160 may perform various analysis in addition to this, but in order to reduce the manufacturing and development costs of the sensor device 100, it is preferable to perform only minimal analysis. Accordingly, the analysis of the analysis unit 160 may be limited to only operations such as counting, comparison, and the like.

The information analyzed by the analysis unit 160 is transmitted by the communication unit 150 to the relay means. In this case, in order to improve the mobility of the sensor device 100, communication with the relay means is preferably performed wirelessly, and in particular, in order to use a plurality of sensor devices 100, it is more advantageous to communicate with the ZigBee ™ system. .

The ZigBee ™ method uses signals in the 2.4 GHz, 868 MHz, and 915 MHz bands, and can realize transmission rates of 250 Kbps, 40 Kbps, and 20 Kbps, respectively. The ZigBee TM method consumes low power and can secure personal health information using AES-128 encryption. In addition, since a 64-bit IEEE address is used, it is possible to accommodate a large number of nodes (i.e., the sensor device 100), and to add and delete nodes easily as an ad-hoc network. Accordingly, by using the ZigBee TM method, various sensor devices 100 can be easily joined or deleted from the network, and a lot of health state information can be transmitted to the wireless communication device.

To this end, the communication unit 150 may include a commercial RF driver, and the usable driver may be a CC2420 manufactured by ChipCon.

Meanwhile, components of the sensor device 100 may be controlled by the controller 140 such as a CPU, a microcontroller, and the like. The controller 140 may be implemented with, for example, an ATMega128 microcontroller manufactured by ATMEL. The controller 140 provides a clock signal for synchronizing components in the sensor device 100 and manages communication between them.

Next, with reference to FIG. 3, the structure of the relay apparatus 200 of one Embodiment is demonstrated. The relay device 200 includes a receiver 220, which preferably receives the health state information from the sensor device wirelessly. To this end, the receiver 220 may also include a CC2420 RF driver of ChipCon.

The received information is transferred to the conversion unit 230 to be appropriately converted, and again to the analysis unit 260 is analyzed. The operations performed by the converter 230 and the analyzer 260 are substantially the same as the converter and the analyzer of the sensor device, and the converter and the analyzer are appropriately distributed to both in consideration of the load of the sensor device and the relay device. Can be arranged. That is, when the designer of the system wants to concentrate the load on the sensor device, both the converter and the analyzer are included in the sensor device, and the relay device 200 does not include the converter 230 and the analyzer 260. Can be. Alternatively, the relay device 200 may include both the converter 230 and the analyzer 260 and may not be included in the sensor device. In yet another embodiment, the converter and the analyzer are provided in both the sensor device and the relay device, and one of the sensor device and the relay device may selectively perform the conversion and analysis depending on the type of sensor. In another embodiment, the converter and the analyzer may be included in separate devices.

The information analyzed by the analyzer 260 is transmitted by the communication unit 250 to the wireless communication terminal device. In this case, the communication between the relay device 200 and the wireless communication terminal may be performed using various wired or wireless methods, but it is practical to use serial communication. That is, when the user wants to receive the health state information through the wireless communication terminal, the relay device 200 and the wireless communication terminal may be connected with a serial cable to perform communication. However, in addition to the communication can be performed using a wireless communication technology such as Bluetooth TM , WiBro TM , infrared communication. In the case of using the wireless communication, since it is easy to receive the health status information periodically regardless of the user's intention, it may be useful for health status monitoring.

Components of the relay device 200 may be controlled by a controller 240 such as a CPU, a microcontroller, and the like. The controller 240 may be implemented with, for example, an ATMega128 microcontroller manufactured by ATMEL. The controller 240 may provide a clock signal for synchronizing the components in the relay device 200 and manage a communication therebetween.

The wireless communication terminal 300 receives the health state information analyzed or not analyzed from the relay device. For this purpose, referring to FIG. 4, the wireless communication terminal 300 includes a receiver 320. The receiver 320 may have various configurations according to a communication method with the relay device, and may preferably include a driver for serial communication. The receiver 320 transmits the received health state information to the converter 330. On the other hand, as will be described later, the analysis result information from the server may be received through the receiver 320.

The conversion unit 330 may perform substantially the same operation as the conversion unit of the sensor device, but instead of or in addition to this, the conversion unit 330 may perform conversion for processing in the wireless communication terminal 300. For example, the form of data received by the receiver 630 may be converted to be suitable for analysis in the analyzer 360, or may be converted to be suitable for display on the display unit 370.

In detail, at least a part of the health state information converted by the conversion unit 330 may be displayed to the user by the display unit 370. The display unit 370 may be a display device included in the wireless communication terminal. To this end, the conversion unit 330 may change the data structure of the health state information in a form that can be displayed on the display unit 370 or change the electrical signal into data.

Meanwhile, the display unit 370 does not need to display all of the health state information, and may selectively display information that can be understood by the user. For example, only information such as blood pressure and heart rate, which can be easily understood by the user, may be displayed in the form of numbers. For this purpose, the conversion unit 330 converts only this information into a form that the display unit 370 can display. can do. In this case, the analysis unit of the sensor device 100 or the relay device 200 may extract data in numerical form by analyzing only signals corresponding to the information. The display unit 370 may distinguish between the information to be displayed and the information to be transmitted to the server by using a division field included in the data or by identifying a type of information (electrical signal or data).

On the other hand, some or all of the information converted by the conversion unit 330 is provided to the analysis unit 360 is analyzed as necessary. The analysis in the analysis unit 360 may be performed before transmission to the display unit 370 so that the display unit 370 displays the analyzed result. Similar to the above, in order to reduce the load of the wireless communication terminal, it is preferable that the analysis unit 360 performs only minimal analysis. Finally, the health state information is transmitted to the server for analysis through the communication unit 350. Meanwhile, as described later, analysis result information from the server may be received through the communication unit 350.

The components of these wireless communication terminals 300 may be controlled by the controller 340. Although the control unit 340 may be configured to include a separate processing device and included in the wireless communication terminal 300, it is preferable to use a processor included in the general wireless communication terminal 300. Such a wireless communication terminal may be a handheld electronic device such as a laptop computer as well as a telephone device such as a mobile phone or a personal digital assistant (PDA).

Information from the wireless communication terminal 300 is transmitted to the server 400, and the configuration of the server 400 of one embodiment will be described with reference to FIG.

The server 400 includes a receiving unit 420 for receiving information from a wireless communication terminal. The communication between the receiver 420 and the wireless communication terminal may use one of various wireless communication protocols used in the mobile communication terminal. This protocol is based on TCP / IP, so that the server 400 and the wireless communication terminal 300 can communicate via the Internet. Alternatively, the protocol may be based on UDP (User Datagram Protocol).

The health state information thus received is provided to the analysis unit 430 for analysis. The analysis unit 430 analyzes the data in an analysis method suitable for each health state information, and derives analysis result information therefrom. The analysis result may include various information for managing the user's health and appropriately dealing with the user's health, such as whether the user's disease, the risk of the disease, the current state of health, the contents of the treatment required, the location of the nearest specialized hospital. In addition, the information can be presented in the form of a graph to help the user understand. The analysis method performed by the analysis unit 430 may be developed to mimic the thinking of the expert. The analysis result thus obtained is provided to the wireless communication terminal 300 again through the communication unit 450, and the wireless communication terminal 300 displays the analysis result to the user through the display unit 370 (FIG. 4). For display, the conversion unit 330 of the communication terminal 300 may convert the data. The analysis may be for all health status information or only for selected portions. For example, the information already analyzed by the wireless communication terminal 300 may not be analyzed again.

Meanwhile, the analysis result information may be stored in the memory 460. At this time, the analysis result information is stored in association with the user information, so that the user or doctor can easily search and use the personal health information. To this end, it may further include an authentication means to restrict the access of unauthorized users or doctors. In addition, unresolved health status information may also be stored in the memory 460 in association with the user. As a result, the user or the doctor may access the health state information at any time to verify past analysis results or to obtain better analysis result information by reanalyzing when a new analysis method is developed.

Access to information stored in the memory 460 can be made through the communication unit 450. The communication unit 460 may receive a data request from the wireless communication terminal and in response thereto, may provide analysis result information and / or health state information stored in the memory 460. In addition, a user may communicate with the communication unit 450 and access necessary information through a personal computer (PC).

To this end, the communication unit 450 may be configured to support Internet protocols such as TCP / IP, UDP, and the like, and may also be configured to support various wireless data communication protocols. To this end, the communication unit 450 may include a function module implemented in various ways such as software, firmware, hardware, and the like.

Meanwhile, the components of the server 400 may be controlled by the controller 440, and the controller 440 may be a main computing device of a server computer such as a CPU. The controller 440 may substantially coordinate communication with the wireless communication terminal and control data transmission between each component.

In this manner, the system enables the user to diagnose a state of health through various sensor devices, analyze the result in a server, and confirm the analysis result through a wireless communication terminal. Therefore, a heavy load can be performed in the server to reduce the development and manufacturing costs of the mobile communication terminal, the sensor device or the relay device. Analysis and storage are also performed on the server, allowing data to be easily accumulated and analyzed, resulting in consistent user health management.

Next, a health care method according to another embodiment of the present invention will be described. The health care method of this embodiment can be performed in each apparatus of the system shown in FIG.

First, referring to FIG. 6, the sensor device receives health state information from a sensor (S110). The health state information may be in the form of arithmetic data or may be an analog or digital electrical signal. The received signal is analyzed in step S120 and is transmitted to the relay device in step S130. The analysis in step S120 may include conversion of signal / data types such as analog-digital conversion, data conversion of electrical signals, and the like. In addition, the analysis may include relatively simple operations such as coefficients, comparisons, and the like. As described above in the previous embodiment, the analysis of step S120 is preferably minimized in order to reduce the load on the sensor device and reduce the device cost.

Meanwhile, as described above, the transmission of step S130 may be performed using a wireless communication scheme such as ZigBee ™ .

Next, referring to FIG. 7, the relay device receives health state information from the sensor device (S210). Next, the received information is converted and / or analyzed (S220) and transmitted to the wireless communication terminal (S230). The transformation and / or analysis in step S220 is also substantially the same as that described above. On the other hand, the transmission of step S230 may be by wired or wireless communication, but preferably using a wired serial communication.

Referring to FIG. 8, the wireless communication terminal starts the method by receiving health state information from the relay device (S310). The received health state information is transmitted to the server for analysis (S320), and in step S330, analysis result information about the health state information is received. In an embodiment, the method may further include converting and / or analyzing information in the wireless communication terminal itself before step S320. In another embodiment, the method may further include displaying information to a user through a display unit, which may not be separately analyzed or may be easily analyzed by the terminal itself.

The analysis result information received in step S330 is displayed to the user through the display unit of the terminal (S340). Therefore, the user can easily check his or her health state and diagnosis results through the terminal. In addition, it is possible to simplify the configuration of the terminal and reduce the cost to the user by delegating the analysis of the health state information that requires complex computation to the server.

A health management method executed in the server will be described with reference to FIG. 9. First, the server receives health state information from the wireless communication terminal (S410). The received information is analyzed in an appropriate manner in step S420, and based on the analysis result information is generated. The analysis method may be applied in various ways according to the type of health status information, and may be continuously updated according to the development of analysis technology.

The generated analysis result information is transmitted back to the wireless communication terminal (S430). Meanwhile, the analysis result information and the health state information are stored in the database in relation to the user information (S440). As a result, the user and the related person can access and use the information afterwards and monitor and manage the user's health remotely. Accumulated information also enables individual health care.

For example, it is determined in step S450 whether there is a request for analysis result information or the like. If there is no request, it waits until there is a request, and if there is a request, the process proceeds to step S460 to transmit the requested information and again to monitor the existence of the information request.

In one embodiment, if there is a request for information, it may go through a user authentication step before proceeding to step S460. This prevents unauthorized access to your health information.

Various wireless data communication methods may be used for the communication between the wireless communication terminal and the server, but it is preferable to use TCP / IP or UDP to receive information from various types of terminals. This makes it possible to obtain information by accessing the server through a general personal computer as well as a wireless communication terminal.

Meanwhile, the method may be implemented in software and executed on a computer. The software may be implemented in a form that includes one or more software modules that execute some or all of the above described method steps. Software can also be implemented on a variety of platforms in a variety of programming languages. For example, the method of FIG. 8 performed on a wireless communication terminal may be developed based on Binary Runtime Environment for Wireless (BREW). BREW is an application development environment developed by Qualcomm, which can run on chipsets provided by Qualcomm.

In addition, a method executed on a wireless communication terminal for wireless Internet communication may be implemented based on a wireless internet platform for interoperability (WIPI). WIPI is a wireless Internet platform used in Korea, and all mobile communication terminals sold in Korea are now forced to include this platform.

In addition, software and software modules may be implemented in various service models. For example, when the server communicates with a PC, the method performed on the server may be an application implemented in the form of an application service provider (ASP) and provided and operated according to a request of the user PC. Alternatively, the application may run on the server itself and only the results may be sent to the user's PC. In addition, the software can be implemented in a user-friendly form such as PHP, JSP (JAVA Script Page), etc. to facilitate the user's use.

The software is recorded on various optical, electrical and magnetic recording media such as CD-ROM, floppy disk, flash memory, hard disk, magnetic tape, and can be read and executed by a computer as necessary.

The present invention has been described above with reference to specific embodiments of the present invention, but this is only illustrative and does not limit the scope of the present invention. Those skilled in the art can change or modify the described embodiments without departing from the scope of the present invention. Each of the functional blocks or means described herein may be implemented by various well-known elements such as an electronic circuit, an integrated circuit, an application specific integrated circuit (ASIC), and the like. Can be. Components such as means described as separate in the specification and claims may be simply functionally distinct and may be physically implemented as one means, and components such as means described as a single element may be It can be made in combination. In addition, each method step described herein may be changed in order without departing from the scope of the present invention, and other steps may be added. In addition, the various embodiments described herein may be implemented independently as well as each other as appropriate. Therefore, the scope of the invention should be defined by the appended claims and their equivalents, rather than by the described embodiments.

1 is a diagram illustrating a health care system according to an embodiment of the present invention.

2 is a diagram illustrating a configuration of a sensor device according to an embodiment of the present invention.

3 is a diagram illustrating a configuration of a relay device according to an embodiment of the present invention.

4 is a diagram illustrating a configuration of a wireless communication terminal according to one embodiment of the present invention.

5 is a diagram illustrating a configuration of a server according to an embodiment of the present invention.

6 is a flow chart illustrating a method executed in a sensor device according to one embodiment of the invention.

7 is a flowchart illustrating a method executed in a relay apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention.

8 is a flowchart illustrating a method executed in a wireless communication terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention.

9 is a flowchart illustrating a method executed in a server according to an embodiment of the present invention.

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Receiving means for receiving the health state information from one or more sensor means for obtaining information relating to the health state of a human body and generating health state information therefrom; And Communication means for transmitting the health state information to a wireless communication terminal, And the wireless communication terminal transmits at least a portion of the health state information to a server for analysis, receives the analysis result from the server, and displays the analysis result to the user. The method of claim 1, And sensoring means for analyzing the health state information from the sensor means and providing it to the communication means. The method of claim 1, The communication means transmits the information to the wireless communication terminal via a relay means, The communication means and the relay means communicate wirelessly, And the relay means and the wireless communication terminal communicate by wire. Receiving means for receiving the health state information from a sensor device for obtaining health state information associated with a health state of a human body; And A relay device comprising transmission means for transmitting the received health state information to a wireless communication terminal, And the wireless communication terminal transmits at least a portion of the health state information to a server for analysis, receives the analysis result from the server, and displays the analysis result to the user. The method of claim 4, wherein And relaying means for analyzing the health state information and providing the analyzed state information to the transmission means. The method of claim 4, wherein The receiving means wirelessly receives the health state information, And the transmitting means transmits the health state information by wire. Receiving means for receiving the health state information from a sensor device for obtaining health state information associated with a health state of a human body; Communication means for transmitting at least a portion of the received health state information to a server for analysis and receiving analysis result information from the server; And And display means for displaying the analysis result information to a user. The method of claim 7, wherein And the communication means transmits the health state information using a wireless data communication protocol. The method of claim 7, wherein And the display means further displays at least a portion of the health state information to a user. Receiving means for receiving the health state information from a wireless communication device that has received health state information related to a health state of a human body from a sensor device; Analysis means for analyzing the received state of health information and generating analysis result information; And Transmitting means for transmitting the analysis result information to the wireless communication device, And the wireless communication device displays the received analysis result information to a user. The method of claim 10, And storage means for storing the health state information and the analysis result information in association with a user. The method of claim 10, And the communication means transmits the analysis result information to a personal terminal via the Internet upon request. A method performed in a sensor device in communication with one or more sensor means for obtaining information relating to a health state of a human body and generating health state information therefrom, the method comprising: A receiving step of receiving the health state information from the sensor means; And A communication step of transmitting the health state information to a wireless communication terminal, The wireless communication terminal transmits at least a part of the health state information to a server for analysis, and receives the analysis result from the server and displays to the user, the health care method The method of claim 13, And analyzing the health state information from the sensor means. The method of claim 13, The communication step transmits the information to the wireless communication terminal through a relay device, The sensor device and the relay device communicate wirelessly, And the wireless communication terminal communicates by wire. Receiving the health state information from a sensor device for obtaining health state information related to a health state of a human body; And Transmitting the received health state information to a wireless communication terminal; And the wireless communication terminal transmits at least a portion of the health state information to a server for analysis, receives the analysis result from the server, and displays the analysis result to the user. The method of claim 16, And analyzing the health state information before the transmitting step. The method of claim 16, The receiving step may wirelessly receive the health state information, The transmitting step is a health care method for transmitting the health state information by wire. Receiving the health state information from a sensor device for obtaining health state information related to a health state of a human body; A communication step of transmitting at least a part of the received health state information to a server for analysis and receiving analysis result information from the server; And And a display step of displaying the analysis result information to a user. The method of claim 19, And wherein said communicating step transmits said health status information using a wireless data communication protocol. The method of claim 19, And the displaying step further displays at least a portion of the health state information to the user. A reception step of receiving the health state information from a wireless communication device that receives health state information related to a health state of a human body from a sensor device; An analysis step of analyzing the received health state information and generating analysis result information; And A transmission step of transmitting the analysis result information to the wireless communication device, And the wireless communication device displays the received analysis result information to a user. The method of claim 22, And storing the health state information and the analysis result information in association with a user. The method of claim 22, And transmitting the analysis result information to a personal terminal through the Internet when a request is made. A computer-readable recording medium having recorded thereon a program for causing the method of any one of claims 13 to 24 to be executed on a computer.
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