Systems and methods for managing biological data and providing data interpretation tools

• US 20030233250A1
• Filed: 02/18/2003
• Published: 12/18/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 02/19/2002
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: David Joffe, Michael Peter Hickey, Stephen N. Xenakis, Steven M. Snyder, Vincent J. Colwell
• Original Assignee: David Joffe, Michael Peter Hickey, Stephen N. Xenakis, Steven M. Snyder, Vincent J. Colwell
• Inventors: Colwell, Vincent J., Xenakis, Stephen N., Snyder, Steven M., Joffe, David, Hickey, Michael Peter
• Application Number:
  US10/368,295
• Publication Number:
  US 20030233250A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/2
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 15/00 ICT specially adapted for medical reports, e.g. generation or transmission thereof
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/67 for remote operation
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 50/20 for computer-aided diagnosis, e.g. based on medical expert systems

Abstract

The invention includes systems and methods for managing a patient'"'"'s biological data and providing a data interpretation tool for the biological data via a network. An exemplary system and method includes collecting biological data from a patient; transmitting a portion of the biological data through the network to a storage device; determining at least one potential indicator variable associated with the patient'"'"'s biological data; comparing the at least one potential indicator variable associated with the patient'"'"'s biological data to a standardized set of data associated with a health condition; based upon the comparison, selecting at least one indicator variable; and generating a report including the indicator variable and at least one data interpretation tool to a health care provider associated with the patient.

Claims

1. A method for managing a patient'"'"'s biological data and providing a data interpretation tool for the biological data via a network, comprising:

collecting biological data from a patient;

transmitting a portion of the biological data through the network to a storage device;

determining at least one potential indicator variable associated with the patient'"'"'s biological data;

comparing the at least one potential indicator variable associated with the patient'"'"'s biological data to a standardized set of data associated with a health condition;

based upon the comparison, selecting at least one indicator variable; and

generating a report including the indicator variable and at least one data interpretation tool to a health care provider associated with the patient.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

optimizing at least one selected indicator variable, wherein the optimized indicator variable provides an improved comparison over the originally selected indicator variable for comparing a patient'"'"'s biological data to a standardized set of data associated with the health condition.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the optimizing at least one selected indicator variable, further comprises:

determining a vector for the selected indicator variable;

based upon new data, updating the vector for the selected indicator variable; and

determining a new indicator variable.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein collecting biological data from a patient comprises at least one of the following types of data:

blood pressure, weight, a blood component measurement, a bodily fluid component measurement, body temperature, a heart measurement, a brain wave measurement, another measurement associated with a biological function, or another measurement associated with a physiological function.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein collecting biological data from a patient comprises:

transforming the collected biological data into a set of corresponding time and spectral data.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein the transformation applies at least one of the following:

Fourier analysis, Fast Fourier Transform, a statistical analysis, or a mathematical transformation.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein determining at least one potential indicator variable associated with the patient'"'"'s biological data comprises:

based upon the variance of the biological data for a set of potential indicator variables, selecting at least one potential indicator variable from the set of potential indicator variables.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the standardized set of data associated with a health condition comprises a predetermined indicator that is indicative of a health condition.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein the standardized set of data associated with a health condition comprises data from at least one of the following:

an in-house database, a public research database, a normative database.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein comparing the at least one potential indicator variable associated with the patient'"'"'s biological data to a standardized set of data associated with a health condition comprises:

applying an analytical tool to the indicator variable and standardized set of data associated with the health condition, wherein the analytical tool comprises at least one of the following;

statistical analysis, neural network, learning machine, or judgment scheme.

11. The method of claim 1, wherein the data interpretation tool comprises at least one of the following:

a graph, a chart, a comparative analysis, a statistical analysis.

12. The method of claim 1, wherein generating a report including the at least one selected indicator variable and at least one data interpretation tool to a health care provider associated with the patient comprises formatting the report with the at least one selected indicator variable, data interpretation tool, and at least one research source.

13. A method for determining an indicator variable for a patient'"'"'s health condition, comprising:

receiving biological data from a patient;

artifacting the patient'"'"'s biological data;

applying an analytical tool to the patient'"'"'s biological data to determine at least one potential indicator variable;

comparing at least one potential indicator variable to at least one predetermined indicator associated with a health condition; and

based upon the comparison, selecting an indicator variable to characterize the patient'"'"'s health condition.

14. The method of claim 13, further comprising:

optimizing the selected indicator variable, wherein the optimized indicator variable provides an improved comparison over the originally selected indicator variable for comparing a patient'"'"'s biological data to other data associated with the health condition.

15. The method of claim 14, wherein the optimizing the selected indicator variable, further comprises:

determining a vector for the selected indicator variable;

based upon new data, updating the vector for the selected indicator variable; and

determining a new indicator variable.

16. The method of claim 13, wherein receiving biological data from a patient comprises:

transforming the received biological data into a set of corresponding time and spectral data.

17. The method of claim 16, wherein the transformation applies at least one of the following:

Fourier analysis, Fast Fourier Transform, a statistical analysis, or a mathematical transformation.

18. The method of claim 13, wherein artifacting the patient'"'"'s biological data comprises:

based upon at least one predetermined threshold, filtering the patient'"'"'s biological data.

19. The method of claim 18, wherein the predetermined threshold comprises at least one of the following:

a time domain, a spectal power, a frequency magnitude, or a frequency power.

20. The method of claim 13, wherein applying an analytical tool to the patient'"'"'s biological data to determine at least one potential indicator variable, comprises:

determining a variance of a portion of the patient'"'"'s biological data with respect to at least one potential indicator variable; and

selecting at least one potential indicator variable that displays a lesser variance over a portion of the patient'"'"'s biological data.

21. The method of claim 13, wherein the at least one predetermined indicator comprises a standardized set of data associated with a health condition.

22. The method of claim 21, wherein the standardized set of data associated with a health condition comprises data from at least one of the following:

an in-house database, a public research database, a normative database.

23. The method of claim 13, wherein comparing at least one potential indicator variable to at least one predetermined indicator associated with a health condition comprises:

applying an analytical tool to the potential indicator variable and predetermined indicator associated with the health condition, wherein the analytical tool comprises at least one of the following;

statistical analysis, neural network, learning machine, or judgment scheme.

24. The method of claim 23, further comprising:

based upon a correlation of the potential indicator variable to the predetermined indicator associated with a health condition,

selecting a data interpretation tool for a report; and

transmitting the selected data interpretation tool and at least one indicator variable to a user.

25. The method of the claim 13, further comprising:

receiving additional biological data from the patient; and

based upon a portion of the additional biological data, optimizing the selected indicator variable.

26. A method for managing research data for comparison with collected biological data of a patient, comprising:

selecting a health condition;

receiving research from at least one data source, wherein the research is associated with the health condition;

analyzing the research to determine at least one aspect of the health condition; and

characterizing the aspect of the health condition with at least one indicator, wherein the indicator can be compared with at least one potential indicator variable associated with a particular patient'"'"'s biological data.

27. The method of claim 26, wherein the data source comprises at least one of the following:

an in-house database, a research database, or a normative database.

28. The method of claim 26, further comprising:

optimizing the indicator with new data from at least one data source, wherein the optimized indicator can be compared with at least one potential indicator variable associated with a particular patient'"'"'s biological data.

29. A system for managing a patient'"'"'s biological data and providing a data interpretation tool for the biological data via a network, comprising:

a data collection module, comprising;

a biological data collector adapted to collect biological data from a patient;

a network interface adapted to receive biological data from the data collector, and further adapted to transmit the biological data via the network to a storage device; and

a report generation module, comprising;

a processor-based device adapted to,

receive the patient'"'"'s biological data from the biological data collector;

determine at least one potential indicator variable from a portion of the patient'"'"'s biological data;

compare the biological data to a standardized set of data associated with a health condition;

select at least one potential indicator;

generate a data interpretation tool adapted to analyze the selected indicator variable; and

transmit a report with the data interpretation tool and selected indicator to a user via the network; and

a storage device adapted to store the patient'"'"'s biological data, potential indicator variables, and any selected indicator variables.

30. A system for determining an indicator variable for a patient'"'"'s health condition, comprising:

a research analysis module, comprising;

a processor adapted to,

collect relevant research for at least one health condition;

determine at least one indicator for the health condition;

a report generation module, comprising;

a processor adapted to,

receive biological data from a patient;

artifact the patient'"'"'s biological data;

apply an analytical tool to the patient'"'"'s biological data to determine at least one potential indicator variable;

compare at least one potential indicator variable to the predetermined indicator associated with the health condition; and

based upon the comparison, select at least one indicator variable to characterize the patient'"'"'s health condition.

31. A system for managing research data for comparison with collected biological data of a patient, comprising:

a research analysis module adapted to,

select at least one health condition;

receive research from at least one data source, wherein the research is associated with the health condition;

analyze the research to determine at least one aspect of the health condition; and

characterize the aspect of the health condition with at least one indicator, wherein the indicator can be compared with at least one potential indicator variable associated with a particular patient'"'"'s biological data.