Hand-held medical-data capture-device having a digital infrared sensor with no A/D converter and having interoperation with electronic medical record systems via an authenticated communication channel

US9782073B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• ARC Devices Limited · IE

Inventors

• Irwin Gross · Boca Raton, US
• Michael G. Smith · Austin, US
• Mark Khachaturian · Boca Raton, US
• Martin Crawley · Belfast, GB
• Steven Gerst · Boca Raton, US
• John Barrett · Cork, IE
• Michael Cronin · West Hollywood, US
• Derek Turnbull · Cork, IE
• Jason Bodnick · Boca Raton, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Dec 30, 2014
• Grant date: Oct 10, 2017
• Expiry date: Apr 16, 2035

Classification

• Technology area (CPC H): Electricity
• CPC primary: H04N25/76
• WIPO field: Medical technology
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

In one implementation, an apparatus estimates body core temperature from an infrared measurement of an external source point using a cubic relationship between the body core temperature and the measurement of an external source point is described, estimates temperature from a digital infrared sensor and determines vital signs from a solid-state image transducer, or determines vital signs from a solid-state image transducer and estimates body core temperature from an infrared measurement of an external source point using a cubic relationship between the body core temperature and the measurement of an external source point; after which the estimated and/or determined information is transmitted to an external database.