Disease management system and method including analysis of disease specific changes
First Claim
1. A computerized critical curve assessment method, comprising:
- providing a critical curve for a particular disease;
providing a plurality of health parameters in an electronic medical record corresponding to a particular patient having the particular disease; and
comparing at least one of the health parameters to the critical curve to obtain health assessment information.
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Abstract
A system and method for allowing a patient to access an automated process for managing a specified health problem called a disease. The system performs disease management in a fully automated manner, using periodic interactive dialogs with the patient to obtain health state measurements from the patient, to evaluate and assess the progress of the patient'"'"'s disease, to review and adjust therapy to optimal levels, and to give the patient medical advice for administering treatment and handling symptom flare-ups and acute episodes of the disease. The medical records are updated, the progression of the disease is stored and tracked, and the patient'"'"'s preferences for treatment are stored and then used to offer medical advice based on the current state of the disease. A prestored general disease trend curve is compared against a patient specific disease trend curve, and the system makes an automated response such as adjusting therapy.
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37 Claims
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1. A computerized critical curve assessment method, comprising:
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providing a critical curve for a particular disease;
providing a plurality of health parameters in an electronic medical record corresponding to a particular patient having the particular disease; and
comparing at least one of the health parameters to the critical curve to obtain health assessment information. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7)
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8. A system for performing a computerized critical curve assessment, the system comprising:
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a computer;
a storage, in data communication with the computer, configured to store an electronic medical record corresponding to each particular patient of a plurality of patients; and
a disease management module executed by the computer and configured to;
access a critical curve for a disease, generate a plurality of health parameters in the electronic medical record corresponding to a particular patient having the disease, and compare at least one of the health parameters to the critical curve to obtain health assessment information. - View Dependent Claims (9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20)
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21. A system for performing a computerized critical curve assessment, the system comprising:
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a computer;
means, in data communication with the computer, for storing electronic medical records corresponding to each particular patient of a plurality of patients; and
disease management means, executed by the computer, for;
accessing a critical curve for a particular disease, generating a plurality of health parameters in a selected electronic medical record corresponding to a particular patient having the particular disease, and comparing at least one of the health parameters to the critical curve to obtain health assessment information. - View Dependent Claims (22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27)
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28. A computer usable medium having computer readable program code embodied therein for performing a critical curve assessment, the computer readable code comprising instructions for:
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accessing a critical curve for a particular disease;
generating a plurality of health parameters in an electronic medical record corresponding to a particular patient having the particular disease; and
generating a comparison of at least one of the health parameters to the critical curve to obtain health assessment information. - View Dependent Claims (29, 30, 31, 32)
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33. A computerized method for generating a critical curve to assess a patient'"'"'s need for medical treatment, comprising:
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determining disease specific health parameters from the patient'"'"'s medical history;
adding current health parameters to the patient'"'"'s medical history;
plotting a patient specific curve consisting of health parameters measured against time;
performing statistical analysis on the patient specific critical curve;
accessing a standard critical curve for the disease;
comparing values from the patient specific critical curve to the standard critical curve to determine if a threshold has been met; and
indicating medical treatment if the value threshold has been met. - View Dependent Claims (34)
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35. A computerized system for generating a critical curve to assess a patient'"'"'s need for medical treatment, the system comprising:
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means for determining disease specific health parameters from the patient'"'"'s medical history, means for adding current health parameters to the patient'"'"'s medical history;
means for plotting a patient specific curve consisting of health parameters measured against time;
means for performing statistical analysis on the patient specific critical curve;
means for accessing a standard critical curve for the disease;
means for comparing values from the patient specific critical curve to the standard critical curve to determine if a threshold has been met; and
means for indicating medical treatment if the value threshold has been met. - View Dependent Claims (36)
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37. A computerized critical curve assessment system, comprising:
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means for providing a critical curve for a particular disease;
means for providing a plurality of health parameters in an electronic medical record corresponding to a particular patient having the particular disease; and
means for comparing at least one of the health parameters to the critical curve to obtain health assessment information.
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