Business process for delivering health behavior prevention services
First Claim
1. A method of promoting and of supporting maintenance of changes in health risk related behaviors, the method comprising:
- offering an individual a screening examination for a health risk related behavior using an offer communication technology;
if the individual accepts the offer, conducting the screening examination;
recording information from the screening examination in an electronic database; and
if a health risk related behavior is identified during the screening examination, performing an intervention with the individual.
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Abstract
A health care system and method are provided to promote and to support maintenance of changes in health risk related behaviors. The method includes offering an individual a screening examination for a health risk related behavior, where the offering is performed using an offer communication technology. If the individual accepts the offer, a screening examination is conducted. Information from the screening examination is recorded in an electronic database. If a health risk related behavior is identified during the screening examination, an intervention with the individual is performed. Various communication technologies can be used to conduct the operations of the method. These communication technologies may be short messaging service text messaging, multimedia messaging service text messaging, instant messaging, e-mail, telephone, Internet, interactive voice response system, or mail. The electronic database may store the communications between preventive health care providers and the individual, and these communications may be accessible by preventive health care providers during later contacts.
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58 Claims
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1. A method of promoting and of supporting maintenance of changes in health risk related behaviors, the method comprising:
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offering an individual a screening examination for a health risk related behavior using an offer communication technology;
if the individual accepts the offer, conducting the screening examination;
recording information from the screening examination in an electronic database; and
if a health risk related behavior is identified during the screening examination, performing an intervention with the individual. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32)
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33. A system of promoting and of supporting maintenance of changes in health risk related behaviors, the system comprising:
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an offer for a screening examination for health risk related behavior conducted using an offer communication technology;
if the individual accepts the offer, a screening examination to identify a health risk related behavior;
an electronic database comprising information obtained during the screening examination; and
if a health risk related behavior is identified during the screening examination, an intervention. - View Dependent Claims (34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58)
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