General Electric Company
Wireless sensor and monitored patient association system and method

Abstract:

Systems and methods for wireless sensing include a wireless senor which includes a physiological sensor and an identification sensor. The physiological sensor obtains physiological data from a patient and the identification sensor detects a unique characteristic of the patient as identification data. The identification data is used to produce a unique identifier which is transmitted wirelessly from the wireless sensor along with the physiological data to associate the transmitted physiological data to the patient.