NOVELTY - The remote medical monitoring and servicing method involves providing from a monitoring location an interactive task list enumerating tasks to be performed at patient locations (110), and recording information representative of performance of the tasks, including confirmation of completion of the tasks. The information includes video information and audio information. The audio recording includes audio recording made by a person performing the tasks, or audio recording of medical procedure.    USE - Method for remote medical monitoring and servicing of patient in remote locations, such as homes, apartments, and hotel rooms, in disease quarantine situations, such as severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), smallpox, influenza, multi-drug resistant tuberculosis, congestive heart failure, asthma, diabetes, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, heart attack, stroke, seizure. Uses include but are not limited to, educational services and monitoring, interactive advertising services, weather services, energy management services and monitoring, healthcare and fitness services, safety and security services, remote control, remote audio and/or video monitoring, and audio and/or video conferencing.    ADVANTAGE - Provides for remote operation, calibration, and maintenance of certain input/output devices by service providers. Alerts an individual of some important events. Saves costs since health care providers can use a monitoring facility in another country, e.g., where doctor and nurse salaries are lower, and health care providers will not necessarily have to staff a particular monitoring facility 24 hours a day, but rather the individual can be made to communicate with different monitoring facilities at different times of the day in different parts of the world, e.g., a monitoring facility in the vicinity of the remote location during daytime, a monitoring facility overseas during nighttime. Individuals can be automatically directed to specialists if necessary. Individuals can communicate with health care providers that satisfy language, religion, custom, and other concerns, e.g., a person from a foreign country can communicate with a health care provider in their native country. Information in the profile can be maintained in secret and within the patient's/user's controls, and the profile can be applied to various transactions without revealing the contents of the profile, improving both security and privacy. Servers at the remote location and/or the monitoring facility allows for automatic monitoring, diagnosis, and limited treatment of an individual. Through patient monitoring, a health care provider can track such things as the amount of medication taken, the pattern/timing of medication, the effects of the medication, and/or other factors, and warnings can also be generated when medications or supplies are running low.    DETAILED DESCRIPTION - The information, such as reminder to take medications, first aid information, home remedy information, medicine information such as side effects and precautions, surgery recovery information, or infectious/contagious disease management information, is entered through a remote controller at a patient location and forwarded to the monitoring location via an interface device at the patient location. The task list relates to tasks performed by a patient, tasks performed by a caregiver of the patient. or tasks performed by a supplier. The task list is dynamically changed based on the recorded information. A video camera at the patient location allow a medical services provider to visually inspect the individual to assess physical condition, to monitor the individual during a medical procedure, e.g., to make sure the individual performs a procedure correctly, or to confirm that the individual has completed a medical procedure, e.g., to confirm that the individual took the correct medication at the correct time by actually watching the individual take the medication.    DESCRIPTION OF DRAWING(S) - The drawing shows a block diagram illustrating components of remote services and monitoring system.    Patient locations (110)    Remote connection networks (120)    Head-end server (130)    Service provider servers (140)    Service provider centers (150)