Virtual neuro-psychological testing protocol
First Claim
1. A software driven protocol for managing a virtual clinical neuro-psychological testing program, the protocol including for each client of a plurality of clients the steps:
- a) evaluating of a prior history of the client;
b) according to the evaluated prior history, forming an appropriate battery of tests for testing the client wherein said battery incorporates pseudo-randomization of at least one representational or organizational parameter;
c) via a data-communications medium, interactively i. delivering, to the client, the formed battery of tests, and ii. accepting, from the client, a substantially completed response to the delivered formed battery of tests;
d) analyzing the accepted response; and
e) into the prior history of the client, integrating i. the accepted substantially completed response or ii. at least one analytical metric thereof.
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Abstract
The present invention software driven protocol for managing a virtual clinical neuro-psychological testing program delivers, to individual or small groups of certified Neuro-psychology professionals, an interface protocol for clinically monitoring and managing the neuro-psychological needs of very large numbers of individual patients. The preferred approach to such monitoring and testing, is within the scope of normal and routine activities. These patients are most often in need of regular testing, screening, and monitoring and, only occasionally, of referral or intervention. The protocol provides a majority of patients, with regular testing, screening, and monitoring services on a “virtual-out-patient” basis by interactively delivering individually configured batteries of tests to each patient; via the Internet. These tests include normal activity observation and monitoring. The delivery and respectively corresponding acceptance of the testing batteries is a substantially automatically scheduled feature of the protocol.
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56 Claims
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1. A software driven protocol for managing a virtual clinical neuro-psychological testing program, the protocol including for each client of a plurality of clients the steps:
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a) evaluating of a prior history of the client;
b) according to the evaluated prior history, forming an appropriate battery of tests for testing the client wherein said battery incorporates pseudo-randomization of at least one representational or organizational parameter;
c) via a data-communications medium, interactively i. delivering, to the client, the formed battery of tests, and ii. accepting, from the client, a substantially completed response to the delivered formed battery of tests;
d) analyzing the accepted response; and
e) into the prior history of the client, integrating i. the accepted substantially completed response or ii. at least one analytical metric thereof. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43)
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11. A clinical protocol for normal-use activities, the protocol including the steps of:
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a) for substantially each client in an ensemble of clients, monitoring at least one metric of normal-use activities;
b) for substantially each metric of the at least one metric of normal use activities, until a predetermined threshold of validation is achieved for an ensemble of clients, first managing a virtual clinical neuro-psychological testing program for substantially each client in the ensemble; and
correlating analytical metrics derived from the neuro-psychological testing program with the monitored metrics of normal-use activities, thereby validating at least one of the monitored metrics of normal-use activities as a neuro-psychological metric; and
c) for substantially each validated metric of the at least one metric of normal use activities, second managing a virtual clinical neuro-psychological testing program for at least one client wherein a validated normal-use activity metric is used as a classical testing instrument. - View Dependent Claims (12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26)
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27. A software driven protocol for managing a virtual clinical neuro-psychological dynamic hierarchical testing program, the protocol including for each client of a plurality of clients the steps:
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a) evaluating of a prior history of the client;
b) according to the evaluated prior history, i. interactively forming an appropriate battery of tests for testing the client wherein said battery incorporates pseudo-randomization of at least one representational or organizational parameter, ii. via a data-communications medium, interactively delivering, to the client, the formed battery of tests, iii. accepting, from the client, a substantially completed response to the delivered formed battery of tests, iv. analyzing the accepted response, and v. returning to step b)i until complete; and
c) into the prior history of the client, integrating i. the accepted substantially completed response or ii. at least one analytical metric thereof. - View Dependent Claims (28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 56)
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44. A software driven protocol for managing a virtual clinical neuro-psychological testing program based on normal use activities, the protocol including for each client of a plurality of clients the steps:
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a) evaluating of a prior history of the client;
b) according to the evaluated prior history, forming at least one normal use activity factor of tests for testing the client wherein said at least one normal use activity factor incorporates pseudo-randomization of at least one representational or organizational parameter;
c) via a data-communications medium, interactively i. delivering the formed at least one normal use activity factor tests to the client, ii. the client substantially completing the normal use activity factor tests, and iii. accepting, from the client, a substantially completed response to the delivered normal use activity factor tests;
d) analyzing the accepted response; and
e) into the prior history of the client, integrating i. the accepted substantially completed response or ii. at least one analytical metric thereof. - View Dependent Claims (45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55)
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