PATIENT DATA ACQUISITION UNIT AND DATA SUPPORT SYSTEM

摘要

A system for collecting patient data from patients featuring at least one mobile computing device, such as personal digital assistant (PDA) unit (20), that stores data representing predetermined medical forms to be populated with information collected from patients via the PDA unit and at least one supporting application server (30). The PDA unit stores a software program to be executed by the processor to facilitate patient data entry in accordance with a predetermined medical form. The PDA unit is capable of connecting to a supporting application server via modem or through direct connection (40) or indirectly through a computer network (70). The application server (30) maintains and organizes scheduling information for both patients and their assigned healthcare professionals, contains data representing predetermined medical forms to be populated with patient health status information obtained via the PDA unit, and receives, formats, and preserves the data for export and use by other data processing systems (80).