1. A system for determining whether a person should have health care professional attention and for providing clinical notes to the caregiver, the system comprising: a monitoring device having a microprocessor operably coupled to a memory unit, an input device, an output device, and a communication device, the memory unit being programmed with a set of instructions for posing questions to the person via the output device, receiving answers from the person via the input device, and transmitting the answers to a remote computer via the communication device; the remote computer being programmed to determine whether the person should have health care professional attention based at least in part upon the answers entered into the input device; and automatically generate a clinical note based upon the answers transmitted to the remote computer.