Abstract: A method including a healthcare server of a healthcare person receiving an Internet packet including vital signs of a human patient, a processor of the healthcare server automatically providing acknowledgement to the human patient of receipt of the vital signs, a processor the healthcare server sending a visual explanation to the human patient explaining an impact of patient behavior on the patient's health and suggested changes based upon the patient's vital signs and a processor the healthcare server presenting a set of alert limits for the vital signs of the human patient to the healthcare person based upon a set of rules for the human patient and similarly situated human patients

Abstract: A system for monitoring vital signs of an individual functions in accordance with a predetermined monitoring profile. The profile can be automatically revised by a management system in accordance with vital signs data, monitor operational information and manual inputs from a care provider to form a revised profile. The revised profile can be can be approved and then transferred to the monitoring system.