Monitoring Outpatient Care

About this technology

Overview

Cybernet Medical's MedStarT Disease Management Data Collection System is an affordable, widely deployable solution for improving in-home-patient chronic disease management. The battery-powered and portable MedStar interface device collects physiological data from off-the-shelf instruments regularly used at home by chronic-disease patients with high blood pressure, diabetes, congestive heart failure, or respiratory conditions. The MedStar device then securely transmits the data over a standard telephone line to the Cybernet Medical collection server, located at a hospital or a disease management company's facility, for retrieval and analysis. The process enables a health care team to immediately note changes in a patient's condition and make appropriate action recommendations. Using a database management system, health care professionals can access the data through the Internet in order to remotely manage their patients. Cybernet's MedStar Web Server retrieves digitized physiological data from a data collection device and uses it to populate a database. It then formats this information for display via a secure Web site, enabling physicians and disease management professionals to analyze changes in a patient's condition. MedStarT is a trademark of Cybernet Systems Corporation.