Health management support method, system and healthy life expectancy prediction data generation method and system

• US 20030101075A1
• Filed: 02/21/2002
• Published: 05/29/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 11/29/2001
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
• Inventors: Ban, Hideyuki, Kuriyama, Hiroyuki, Matsuo, Hitoshi, Sakuma, Tsutomu, Minami, Kuniaki
• Granted Patent: US 7,302,398 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/2
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 20/00 ICT specially adapted for therapies or health-improving plans, e.g. for handling prescriptions, for steering therapy or for monitoring patient compliance
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 50/30 for calculating health indices; for individual health risk assessment
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 70/60 relating to pathologies

Abstract

It was difficult for previous health management support systems to grasp daily health condition quantitatively through using comprehensive indexes of personal health conditions, optimize advice as healthcare guidance, and show its expected effect in a favorable way. The disclosed method and system implement the following: estimating a predicted period of healthy life expectancy of each person who underwent health screening from health screening report data obtained through the health screening report data entry step, wherein healthy life expectancy prediction data is used that is prepared as basic data for predicting healthy life expectancy from a diversity of health screening report data. The predicted period of healthy life expectancy and related information for each person are displayed by display means or printed out by printing means.

Claims

1. A health management support method comprising:

a health screening report data entry step which comprises getting health screening report data for each person who underwent health screening;

a personal healthy life expectancy prediction data generating step which comprises preparing healthy life expectancy prediction data beforehand as basic data for predicting healthy life expectancy and generating personal healthy life expectancy prediction data from the health screening report data for a person, using the healthy life expectancy prediction data; and

a personal healthy life expectancy prediction step which comprises estimating a predicted period of healthy life expectancy of said person, using the generated personal healthy life expectancy prediction data.

2. A health management support method as recited in claim 1 further comprising:

a health management plan generation step which comprises generating health management plans for each person who underwent health screening, based on the predicted value of healthy life expectancy of each person estimated in the personal healthy life expectancy prediction step.

3. A health management support method as recited in claim 2, wherein the health management plan generation step comprises health screening plan generation steps for generating health screening recommendation plans.

4. A health management support method as recited in claim 2, wherein the health management plan generation step further comprises healthy life-style plan generation steps for generating practice recommendation plans for guiding each person in improving his or her living habits such as meals, exercise, and smoking.

5. A health management support method as recited in claim 2, further comprising:

a health management effect prediction step which comprises estimating change to the predicted period of healthy life expectancy of a person, the change expected, assuming that the person would practice life-style improvement advised in a health management plan generated in the health management plan generation step.

6. A health management support method as recited in claim 5, further comprising:

a medical payment prediction step which comprises preparing medical payment prediction knowledge data beforehand as basic data for predicting medical payment from a diversity of healthy life expectancy and calculating change to medical payment predicted for a person who underwent health screening, based on the change to the predicted period of healthy life expectancy of the person estimated in the health management effect prediction step and through the use of the medical payment prediction knowledge data.

7. A health management support method as recited in claim 1, further comprising:

a medical payment prediction step which comprises preparing medical payment prediction knowledge data beforehand as basic data for predicting medical payment from a diversity of healthy life expectancy and calculating predicted medical payment that each person who underwent health screening may pay in future, based on the predicted period of healthy life expectancy of each person estimated in the personal healthy life expectancy prediction step and through the use of the medical payment prediction knowledge data.

8. A health management support method as recited in claim 1, further comprising:

a medical insurer management support step which comprises predicting aggregate medical payment of a medical insurer as a whole, based on the predicted period of healthy life expectancy of each assured person who is a policyholder insured by the medical insurer.