SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING HEALTHCARE PROGRAM SERVICE BASED ON VITAL SIGNALS AND CONDITION INFORMATION

• US 20090070378A1
• Filed: 09/10/2008
• Published: 03/12/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 09/11/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
• Inventors: LEE, Min-Kyu, HAN, Dong-Soo, SONG, Ji-Soo, JUNG, Sun-Tae, CHO, Jae-Geol, CHO, Chul-Ho
• Granted Patent: US 8,706,731 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/67 for remote operation
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 50/70 for mining of medical data, e.g. analysing previous cases of other patients

Abstract

A method for providing a healthcare program service in a system for providing a healthcare service over a wireless communication network includes: receiving vital signals for condition, measured by means of corresponding measurement devices, transmitted from multiple users over the wireless communication network, and grouping the received receiving vital signals for condition according to particular condition; registering by a plurality of service providers, corresponding healthcare programs classified by particular diseases, and providing a healthcare program service to the multiple users, receiving a feedback of a use satisfaction for each of the healthcare programs from each user via said wireless communication network, and gathering satisfaction information for each of the healthcare programs, counting the number of uses of each of the healthcare programs, and gathering utilization information for each of the healthcare programs, searching for a corresponding group of users using each of the healthcare programs, adding up the gathered user satisfactions and utilizations, and databasing the results according to preferred healthcare programs of the corresponding user group; upon receipt of vital signals for condition from a particular user, comparing a similarity of the vital signals for condition of the particular user using the databased healthcare programs, and recommending a preferred healthcare program for a corresponding user group having vital signals for condition, which is most similar to the vital signals for the particular user, according to the comparison result.

Claims

1. A method for providing a healthcare program service in a system for providing a healthcare service over a wireless communication network, the method comprising:

receiving vital signals associated with condition, measured by means of corresponding measurement devices, transmitted from multiple users over the wireless communication network, and grouping the received vital signals according to particular condition;

registering corresponding healthcare programs classified by particular diseases receiving a feedback for a use satisfaction for each of the healthcare programs from each user by means of the corresponding measurement devices, and gathering information associated with a satisfaction for each of the healthcare programs;

counting the number of uses for each of the healthcare programs, and determining utilization for each of the healthcare programs;

searching for a corresponding group of users using each of the healthcare programs, adding up the gathered user satisfactions and utilizations, and databasing the results according to preferred healthcare programs of the corresponding user group;

upon receipt of vital signals from a particular user, comparing a similarity of the vital signals of the particular user using the databased healthcare programs; and

recommending a preferred healthcare program for a corresponding user group having vital signals for condition, which is most similar to the vital signals for the particular user, according to the comparison result.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein types of the vital signals for condition are subject to change according to diseases or provided services.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the vital signals for condition of each of the users make a set of at least two vital signals and a combination of condition, the number of which is equal to the number of vital signals corresponding to the combination of the at least two vital signals.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the vital signals for condition are classified according to their strength measured by the corresponding measurement devices on a level-by-level basis.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the user satisfactions and utilizations are associated with vital signals for condition of each user for each healthcare program.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein comparing a similarity comprises:

searching for a group having vital signals for condition, which most highly converge onto vital signal information for condition of a particular user Pi having a combination of at least two vital signals and a combination of condition;

checking differences of vital signals and condition between users Pj and Pi by applying vital signal information for condition of the user Pj belonging to the searched group and vital signal information for condition of the user Pi to the following Equations (1) and (2), respectively;

diff_of_condition(Pi,Pj)={|s1,i[1]−

s1,j[1]|, . . . , |s1,i[m]−

s1,j[m]|} 

 

(1)

diff_of_vital_sign(Pi,Pj)={|v1,i[1]−

v1,j[1]|, . . . , |v1,i[n]−

v1,j[n]|} 

 

(2)

where diff_of_condition denotes a difference of condition, and diff_of vital_sign denotes a difference of vital signals; and

acquiring differences of vital signals and condition between Pj and Pi from Equations (1) and (2),

calculating inner products of weight vectors indicating weights of the vital signal and condition of each user using the acquired differences,

deriving a sum of the differences as;

...(3).

7. The method of claim 6, wherein the weight vectors are predetermined.

8. The method of claim 6, wherein the similarity value derived from Equation (3) is large for a low similarity between Pj and Pi, and is small for a high similarity between Pj and Pi.

9. The method of claim 6, wherein the similarity value between users having vital signals for the same condition is zero (0).

10. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

providing a healthcare program recommendation list sort in the highest-priority order.

11. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

performing a learning-based healthcare program update process based on a use satisfaction acquired from the user.

12. A recording medium readable in a computer, in which a program for executing the method is recorded thereon, the program when accessed by a processor causes the processor to execute the steps of;

receiving vital signals associated with condition, measured by means of corresponding measurement devices, transmitted from multiple users over the wireless communication network, and grouping the received vital signals according to particular condition;

registering corresponding healthcare programs classified by particular diseases, receiving a feedback for a use satisfaction for each of the healthcare programs from each user by means of the corresponding measurement devices, and gathering information associated with a satisfaction for each of the healthcare programs;

counting the number of uses for each of the healthcare programs, and determining utilization for each of the healthcare programs;

searching for a corresponding group of users using each of the healthcare programs, adding up the gathered user satisfactions and utilizations, and databasing the results according to preferred healthcare programs of the corresponding user group;

upon receipt of vital signals from a particular user, comparing a similarity of the vital signals of the particular user using the databased healthcare programs; and

recommending a preferred healthcare program for a corresponding user group having vital signals for condition, which is most similar to the vital signals for the particular user, according to the comparison result.

13. A system for providing a healthcare program service in a system for providing a healthcare service over a wireless communication network, the system comprising:

a classification unit for receiving vital signals for condition, measured by means of corresponding measurement devices, from multiple users over the wireless communication network, and grouping the received receiving vital signals for condition according to particular condition;

a monitoring unit for gathering satisfaction and utilization information of a used healthcare program for each group classified by the vital signals for particular condition; and

a database for collecting information regarding each healthcare program for each user using the gathered utilization and satisfaction information.

14. The system of claim 13, wherein the database comprises:

a registration unit for registering a plurality of healthcare programs classified by diseases at a site capable of supporting a service or a web site supporting a service for a portable terminal;

a searching unit for searching for a group classified by vital signals for condition which are similar to the vital signals for the corresponding condition are received from a particular user Pi;

a calculation unit for determining differences of vital signals for condition between users Pi and Pj by applying a similarity to vital signals for condition of an arbitrary user Pj in the searched group as;

diff_of_condition(Pi,Pj)={|s1,i[1]−

s1,j[1]|, . . . , |s1,i[m]−

s1,j[m]|} 

 

(1)

diff_of_vital_sign(Pi,Pj)={|v1,i[1]−

v1,j[1]|, . . . , |v1,i[n]−

v1,j[n]|} 

 

(2)

where diff_of_condition denotes a difference of condition, and diff_of_vital_sign denotes a difference of vital signals; and

calculating a similarity value between users Pi and Pj by applying the acquired difference of vital signals for condition between Pi and Pj as;

...(3);

where c1 and c2 are constants determined according to relative weights applied to the vital signal and condition; and

a controller for recommending a healthcare program to a user corresponding according to the similarity value calculated by the calculation unit, and making an update according to feedback information for the recommended healthcare program.

15. The system of claim 13, wherein the vital signals for condition of each of the users is a set of at least two vital signals and a combination of condition, the number of which is equal to the number of vital signals corresponding to the combination of the at least two vital signals.

16. A mobile device for providing vital signal information via a wireless network, said mobile device comprising:

a sensor receiving units for receiving vital signal information from corresponding sensor units;

a transceiver unit for transmitting to and receiving from information via said wireless network.

17. The mobile device of claim 16, wherein said corresponding sensor units are included within said mobile device.

18. The mobile device of claim 16 further comprising:

a short-range communication receiver.

19. The mobile device of claim 16, wherein said corresponding sensor units are separated from said mobile device and in communication with said mobile device via said short-range communication receiver.