Abstract: Vital data including data regarding a pulse is continuously obtained from a wearable terminal worn by a person to be monitored and stored in a database as target quantitative information associated with disease information and physical condition information regarding the person; an analysis with time-series patterns based on the vital data as an explanatory variable and the disease information and/or the physical condition information at and after times when the time-series patterns were obtained as a response variable is performed using the target quantitative information accumulated in the database; a time-series pattern based on new vital data is compared with the time-series pattern found in the analysis to be correlated with the disease information and/or the physical condition information; and a physical event including disease onset and a physical condition change of a person who has shown the new vital data is estimated or predicted.

Abstract: In a monitoring assistance system that includes a wearable terminal which is worn by a person to be monitored and which continuously obtains vital data, a watcher terminal associated with the wearable terminal, and a management server communicably connected to the watcher terminal and/or the wearable terminal and that processes vital data to which an identification code of the wearable terminal is attached, the vital data includes pulse rate data and blood oxygen level data, it is determined, in a case where the pulse rate data and the blood oxygen level data is not being detected, that a non-wearing state, where the wearable terminal is removed from the person, has been established, and it is determined, in a case where the pulse rate data is not being detected and the blood oxygen level data is being detected, that a pulse of the person to be monitored has stopped.