Interactive user interface for accessing health and financial data

• US 20070011026A1
• Filed: 05/11/2006
• Published: 01/11/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 05/11/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: iMetrikus, Inc.
• Original Assignee: iMetrikus, Inc.
• Inventors: Higgins, Rose, Van Brunt, Deryk, Nobel, Jeremy
• Application Number:
  US11/432,658
• Publication Number:
  US 20070011026A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/2
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/02 Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 10/60 for patient-specific data, e.g. for electronic patient records

Abstract

A user interface that integrates and uniformly presents to a healthcare consumer all or most of the consumer'"'"'s health, health-related, and financial data is described. The interactive user interface is comprised of multiple dashboards which all have a generally uniform appearance and contain one category of health or financial data. A user can configure the size of each dashboard and its placement on the screen. By doing so, a healthcare consumer can view in one screen display data from multiple sources all relating to healthcare. The user interface is presented to a user by a service provider as the interface or window into a healthcare data management system provided by the service provider. The service provider itself stores and manages some of the consumer'"'"'s health data, such as biometric readings. A dashboard of the present invention can contain data from the service provider or can contain data from an external source, such as an insurance company, a hospital, or a financial services company. In both cases the data are presented in the dashboards in a uniform manner. A consumer can open or “click on” the data in a dashboard and get further detail on the data. In the case of an external source or Web site providing the data, the consumer is taken to the site. The consumer only authenticates herself once when signing on to the service provider'"'"'s system to view the user interface and dashboards. The consumer does not have to re-authenticate or sign on again when going to an external site via a dashboard.

Claims

1. A method of providing health data and health-related data to a healthcare consumer, the method comprising:

displaying in a first plurality of dashboards, first data from internal sources;

displaying in a second plurality of dashboards, second data from external sources;

enabling access by the healthcare consumer to the second data stored at the external sources through communication over a computer network; and

authenticating the healthcare consumer once to allow healthcare consumer to view and access the first data and the second data at the external sources, wherein authentication procedures at the external sources are satisfied.

2. A computer system for providing healthcare and health-related data to a user that are displayed and viewed through a user interface, the computer system comprising:

an internal data display module having access to a personal health record of the user and able to display personal health record data in a first plurality of dashboards in the user interface;

an external data display module enabling access by the computer system to a third-party data site on a computer network such that third-party data can be displayed at a first level of detail in a second plurality of dashboards in the user interface; and

an authentication module that authenticates the user thereby enabling the user to view and edit data in the first plurality of dashboards and view at a second level of detail the third-party data at the third-party data site.

3. A user interface for displaying health-related data on a computer, the user interface comprising:

a first plurality of dashboards for displaying biometric data;

a second plurality of dashboards for displaying health-related data;

a third plurality of dashboards for displaying financial data;

wherein the first, second and third pluralities of dashboards all provide a uniform appearance of the user interface and an integrated and consolidated view of a patient'"'"'s biometric data, health-related data, and financial data related to health spending; and

wherein these data are retrieved from a plurality of sources.

4. A user interface as recited in claim 3 wherein the user interface has a configuration of dashboards that facilitates financial healthcare decision-making by a patient.