Method and apparatus for monitoring and treating medical signs and symptoms
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Abstract
A method may identify, through a form, one or more medical signs, medical symptoms and/or medication side effects. The method may also record, through the form, one or more medical signs, medical symptoms and/or medication side effects associated with a person. The method may then identify, through the form, one or more medications that alleviates the one or more medical signs, medical symptoms and/or medication side effects associated with the person. The form may be a hardcopy and/or electronic form.
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117 Claims
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1-67. -67. (canceled)
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68. An apparatus comprising:
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means for displaying to a patient one or more medical signs, medical symptoms and/or medication side effects;
means for inputting by a patient said one or more medical signs, medical symptoms and/or medication side effects;
means for receiving said inputted information identifying at least one of (i) one or more medications associated with a person and (ii) the extent of one or more medical signs, medical symptoms and/or medication side effects associated with the person;
means for processing coupled to means for receiving, to make a determination whether to adjust, change and/or discontinue the one or more medications associated with the patient depending, in whole or in part, upon the extent of one or more medical signs, medical symptoms and/or medication side effects associated with the person; and
means for transmitting, coupled to means for processing, to send information identifying whether to adjust, change and/or discontinue the one or more medications associated with said patient. - View Dependent Claims (69, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74)
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75-87. -87. (canceled)
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88. A machine-readable medium having encoded information, which when read and executed by a machine causes a method comprising:
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displaying to a patient at least one of (i) one or more medications associated with a person, (ii) the extent of one or more medical signs and/or symptoms associated with the person and (iii) the extent of one or more medication side effects associated with the person;
inputting by said patient said at least one of (i) one or more medications associated with a person, (ii) the extent of one or more medical signs and/or symptoms associated with the person and (iii) the extent of one or more medication side effects associated with the person;
receiving said inputted information identifying at least one of (i) one or more medications associated with a person and (ii) the extent of one or more medical signs, medical symptoms and/or medication side effects associated with the person; and
processing, responsive to said inputted information, adjusting, changing and/or discontinuing the one or more medications associated with the person depending, in whole or in part, upon at least one of (i) the extent of the one or more medical signs and/or symptoms associated with the person and (ii) the extent of the one or more medication side effects associated with the person. - View Dependent Claims (89, 90, 91)
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92-111. -111. (canceled)
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112. An apparatus for compliance-driven monitoring of a treatment program of a patient comprising:
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means for displaying at least one of the group consisting of medical signs, medical symptoms, and medication side effects and at least one descriptor identifying said patient'"'"'s status related to said at least one of the medical signs, medical symptoms, and medication side effects, said presentation being repeated on said medium at temporal intervals;
means for inputting on said medium said at least one descriptor identifying said patient'"'"'s status related to said one of said medical signs, medical symptoms, and medication side effects at said at least one temporal intervals; and
means for monitoring, responsive to said inputted at least one descriptor, said patient'"'"'s compliance with said treatment program. - View Dependent Claims (113, 114, 115, 116, 117)
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