PERSONALIZED INFORMATION DISCOVERY AND PRESENTATION SYSTEM

• US 20090070147A1
• Filed: 09/02/2008
• Published: 03/12/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 09/04/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Dynamic Health Initiatives
• Original Assignee: Dynamic Health Initiatives
• Inventors: Kashani, Mariam, Vernalis, Marina
• Granted Patent: US 7,957,985 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/3
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 10/20 for electronic clinical trials or questionnaires
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 10/60 for patient-specific data, e.g. for electronic patient records
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 20/00 ICT specially adapted for therapies or health-improving plans, e.g. for handling prescriptions, for steering therapy or for monitoring patient compliance
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/63 for local operation
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 50/20 for computer-aided diagnosis, e.g. based on medical expert systems
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 70/20 relating to practices or guidelines

Abstract

A personalized health information discovery and presentation system is presented. The system has an input device, a subject-profile module, an information database, an alignment module, a solutions module, an integration engine, a plan module, a graphical user interface, and a processor. The input device allows a user to enter a personalized subject-profile, the subject-profile module receives the subject-profile and converts it into a recognized health profile. The health information database comprises a library of health information, and the alignment module aligns the recognized health profile with relevant health information. The solution'"'"'s module parses the relevant information into information subsets, and the integration engine integrates the information; identifies conflicting health information, contraindications, or health warnings; creates notifications; and compiles data for presentation to the user. The plan module converts the integrated health information into a personalized health maintenance plan for display in a form selected by the user.

Claims

1. A health information discovery and presentation system, comprising

an input device to allow a user to enter a personalized subject-profile into a computing system, wherein the personalized subject-profile is a questionnaire designed to obtain information to be used to produce a personalized health maintenance plan;

a subject-profile module embodied in a computer readable medium for receiving the personalized subject-profile and converting the personalized subject profile into a recognized health profile, wherein the personalized subject-profile comprises the subject'"'"'s health profile and the user'"'"'s display preferences;

a health information database embodied in a computer readable medium and comprising a library of health information;

an alignment module embodied in a computer readable medium for aligning the recognized health profile with relevant health information from the health information database;

a solutions module embodied in a computer readable medium for parsing the relevant information in the health information database into information subsets in response to the user selecting a customized set of information subset options;

an integration engine embodied in a computer readable medium for integrating the recognized health profile with the relevant health information;

identifying one or more of conflicting health information, contraindications, and health warnings obtained from the health information database;

notifying the user about one or more of the conflicting health information, contraindications, and health warnings obtained from the health information database; and

compile data for presentation to the user, wherein the data is compiled using the customized set of information subset options;

a plan module embodied in a computer readable medium for converting the integrated health information into the personalized health maintenance plan; and

a graphical user interface for displaying the personalized health maintenance plan to the user.

2. The computing system of claim 1, wherein the subject-profile comprises one or more the subject'"'"'s age, sex, height, weight, known medical conditions, vital signs, laboratory test results, prior conditions, prior treatments, prescriptions, and family medical history.

3. The computing system of claim 2, wherein the system comprises a data exchange module embodied in a computer readable medium for interacting with external medical data formats, wherein the subject-profile comprises external medical data obtained from a health provider'"'"'s database.

4. The computing system of claim 1, wherein

the relevant health information includes the subject'"'"'s activity, nutrition, stress, and sleep;

the solutions module parses the relevant health information into activity, nutrition, stress, and sleep;

the alignment engine aligns the library of health information with the subject'"'"'s activity, nutrition, stress and sleep; and

the plan module provides a personalized health maintenance plan comprising the four categories of activity, nutrition, stress, and sleep.

5. The computing system of claim 1, wherein the health maintenance plan comprises a care management plan, a disease management plan, or both.

6. The computing system of claim 1 further comprising a parameterization module embodied in a computer readable medium for deriving display-preference parameters from the user profile;

wherein the graphical user interface displays the health maintenance plan in the form of the customized set of information subset options and in accordance with the user'"'"'s display preferences.

7. The computing system of claim 1 further comprising a multilanguage database embodied in a computer readable medium, a translation engine embodied in a computer readable medium, and a template look-up engine embodied in a computer readable medium;

wherein,

the multilanguage database includes a plurality of phrase templates associated with a plurality of phrases in the recognized health profile and the library of health information;

the translation engine translates the relevant phrase template from a source language to a destination language selected from multiple languages in the multilanguage database; and

the template look-up engine finds the phrase template associated with the destination phrase from among the multiple languages.

8. The system of claim 1 further comprising an external computer connection and a browser program module embodied in a computer readable medium, wherein the browser program module accesses external data through the external computer connection to update the health information database.

9. The system of claim 8 further comprising security measures to protect the subject'"'"'s privacy, integrity of data, or both.

10. The system of claim 1, wherein the system is provided over a network.

11. The system of claim 1, wherein the system is coupled to a network.

12. The system of claim 1, wherein the personalized health maintenance plan second personalized health maintenance plan optimized from a first personalized health maintenance plan by the user interactively answering additional queries generated by the system and the subject-profile.

13. The system of claim 12, wherein the second personalized health maintenance plan is further optimized by the user interactively answering one or more additional queries generated by the system and the subject-profile, wherein the personalized health maintenance plan is iteratively optimized at each level of questioning.

14. The system of claim 1, wherein the input device, the graphical user interface, or both, is provided through a portable, single unit device.

15. The system of claim 14, wherein the portable, single unit device is a hand-held device.

16. The system of claim 1, wherein the plan module further functions by selecting multimedia data forms to provide the user with the integrated health information through a layered hierarchy of multimedia in a manner selected by the user, wherein the layered hierarchy segments complex lessons into one or more lesson subsets in each layer of the layered hierarchy segments.

17. The system of claim 16, wherein the subject-profile includes data on the subject'"'"'s personal interests, and the integration engine further functions enhance learning by

aligning the data on the subject'"'"'s personal interests with relevant health information from the health information database;

selecting relevant information in a manner that minimizes negative suggestion effect; and

displaying the personalized health maintenance plan to the user in a manner that reflects the subject'"'"'s personal interests.

18. The system of claim 16, where the integration engine further functions to enhance learning by

linking related information;

removing unrelated information; and

displaying the personalized health maintenance plan to the user in a manner that is focused to information and in accordance with the user'"'"'s customized set of information subset options.

35. The system of claim 16, wherein the subject-profile includes data on the subject'"'"'s personal interests, and the integration engine further functions enhance learning by

aligning the data on the subject'"'"'s personal interests with relevant health information from the health information database;

selecting relevant information in a manner that minimizes negative suggestion effect; and

displaying the personalized health maintenance plan to the user in a manner that reflects the subject'"'"'s personal interests.

36. The system of claim 16, where the integration engine further functions to enhance learning by

linking related information;

removing unrelated information; and

displaying the personalized health maintenance plan to the user in a manner that is focused to information and in accordance with the user'"'"'s customized set of information subset options.

19. A system for providing a personalized health maintenance plan, comprising

an input device operable to allow a user to enter a personalized subject-profile into a computing system;

a subject-profile module operable to receive the personalized subject-profile and convert the subject-profile into a recognized health profile;

a health information database comprising a library of health information;

an alignment module operable to align the recognized health profile with relevant health information from the health information database;

a solution'"'"'s module operable to parse the relevant information in the health information database into information subsets in response to the user selecting a customized set of information subset options;

an integration engine operable to integrate the recognized health profile with the relevant health information;

identify conflicting health information, contraindications, or health warnings obtained from the health information database;

notify the user about the conflicting health information, contraindications, or health warnings obtained from the health information database; and

compile data for presentation to the user, wherein the data is compiled using the customized set of information subset options;

a plan module operable to convert the integrated health information into a personalized health maintenance plan;

a processor; and

a graphical user interface operable to display the personalized health maintenance plan to the user.

20. The system of claim 19, wherein the subject-profile comprises one or more of the subject'"'"'s age, sex, height, weight, known medical conditions, vital signs, laboratory test results, prior conditions, prior treatments, prescriptions, and family medical history.

21. The system of claim 19, wherein the system comprises a data exchange module operable to interact with external medical data formats, wherein the subject-profile comprises external medical data obtained from a health provider'"'"'s database.

22. The system of claim 19, wherein

the relevant health information includes the subject'"'"'s activity, nutrition, stress, and sleep;

the solutions module is operable to parse the relevant health information into activity, nutrition, stress, and sleep;

the alignment engine is operable to align the library of health information with the subject'"'"'s activity, nutrition, stress; and

the plan module is operable to provide a personalized health maintenance plan consisting of the four categories of activity, nutrition, stress, and sleep.

23. The system of claim 19, wherein the health maintenance plan comprises one a care management plan, a disease management plan, or both.

24. The system of claim 19 further comprising a parameterization module operable to derive display-preference parameters from the user profile;

and the graphical user interface displays the health maintenance plan in accordance with the user'"'"'s display preferences and in the form of the customized set of information subset options.

25. The system of claim 19 further comprising a multilanguage database, a translation engine, and a template look-up engine;

wherein,

the multilanguage database includes a plurality of phrase templates associated with a plurality of phrases in the recognized health profile and the library of health information;

the translation engine is operable to translate the relevant phrase template from a source language to a destination language selected from multiple languages in the multilanguage database; and

the template look-up engine is operable to find the phrase template associated with the destination phrase from among the multiple languages.

26. The system of claim 19 further comprising an external computer connection and a browser program module, wherein the browser program module is operable to access external data through the external computer connection to update the health information database.

27. The system of claim 19 further comprising security measures to protect the subject'"'"'s privacy, integrity of data, or both.

28. The system of claim 27, wherein the system is provided by a network.

29. The system of claim 27, wherein the system is coupled to a network.

30. The system of claim 19, wherein the personalized health maintenance plan second personalized health maintenance plan optimized from a first personalized health maintenance plan by the user interactively answering additional queries generated by the system and the subject-profile.

31. The system of claim 20, wherein the second personalized health maintenance plan is further optimized by the user interactively answering one or more additional queries generated by the system and the subject-profile, wherein the personalized health maintenance plan is iteratively optimized at each level of questioning.

32. The system of claim 19, wherein the input device, the graphical user interface, or both, is provided through a portable, single unit device.

33. The system of claim 32, wherein the portable, single unit device is a hand-held device.

34. The system of claim 19, wherein the plan module is further operable to select multimedia data forms to provide the user with the integrated health information through a layered hierarchy of multimedia in a manner selected by the user, wherein the layered hierarchy segments complex lessons into one or more lesson subsets in each layer of the layered hierarchy segments.

37. A computer readable medium comprising a subject-profile module, a health information database, an alignment module, a solutions module, an integration engine, and a plan module;

wherein,

the input device is operable to allow a user to enter a personalized subject-profile into the computing system;

the subject-profile module is operable to receive the personalized subject-profile and convert the subject-profile into a recognized health profile;

the health information database comprises a library of health information;

the alignment module is operable to align the recognized health profile with relevant health information from the health information database;

the solution'"'"'s module is operable to parse the relevant information in the health information database into information subsets in response to the user selecting a customized set of information subset options;

the integration engine is operable to integrate the recognized health profile with the relevant health information;

identify conflicting health information, contraindications, or health warnings obtained from the health information database;

notify the user about the conflicting health information, contraindications, or health warnings obtained from the health information database; and

compile data for presentation to the user, wherein the data is compiled using the customized set of information subset options; and

the plan module is operable to convert the integrated health information into a personalized health maintenance plan;

wherein the subject-profile module, the health information database, the alignment module, the solutions module, the integration engine, and the plan module are components of a computer system and are coupled to a processor, an input device, and a graphical user interface, the graphical user interface operable to display the personalized health maintenance plan to the user.