SYSTEM, METHOD, AND DEVICE FOR PERSONAL MEDICAL CARE, INTELLIGENT ANALYSIS, AND DIAGNOSIS

• US 20090177495A1
• Filed: 04/16/2007
• Published: 07/09/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 04/14/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Fuzzmed Incorporated
• Original Assignee: Fuzzmed Incorporated
• Inventors: Abousy, Khalid, Abouissa, Sameh, Sallam, Hamed
• Granted Patent: US 10,410,308 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/3
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 10/60 for patient-specific data, e.g. for electronic patient records
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/20 for the management or administration of healthcare resources or facilities, e.g. managing hospital staff or surgery rooms
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/67 for remote operation
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 50/20 for computer-aided diagnosis, e.g. based on medical expert systems

Abstract

A system for personal medical care, intelligent analysis and diagnosis may include: at least one source of medical information; at least one source of personal medical data for at least one patient; and one or more servers, where the medical information and the personal medical data are accessible to the server(s). The server(s) may include: an artificial intelligence (AI) component for analyzing the personal medical data with the medical information and identifying at least one issue requiring follow-up by the patient or by at least one external authorized entity; and at least one real-time communication link for bi-directional communication with at least one external authorized entity.

Claims

1. A system comprising:

at least one source of medical information;

at least one source of personal medical data for at least one patient; and

at least one server, wherein said medical information and said personal medical data are accessible to said at least one server, said at least one server including;

an artificial intelligence (AI) component for analyzing said personal medical data with said medical information and identifying at least one issue requiring follow-up by said patient or by at least one external authorized entity; and

at least one real-time communication link for bi-directional communication with at least one external authorized entity.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein said personal medical data for at least one patient is accessible to said at least one patient.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein said AI component comprises:

an AI conduction component; and

an AI derivation component.

4. The system of claim 3, said at least one server further comprising:

a data management engine to organize, store, edit, maintain, format, and process data from said personal medical data and from said medical information.

5. The system of claim 3, wherein said AI derivation component comprises:

a diagnosis protocol;

a therapy protocol; and

an inference engine.

6. The system of claim 5, wherein said AI derivation component creates said diagnosis and therapy protocols using information from said at least one source of medical information.

7. The system of claim 1, wherein said at least one source of medical information includes at least one of:

a standard medical guideline;

a pharmaceutical guideline;

a government regulatory guideline;

a health preventative guideline;

a medical condition description;

an insurance guideline;

a medical journal;

a research report;

International Classification of Diseases (ICD) code;

Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) codes;

or a consensus medical committee guideline.

8. The system of claim 1, wherein said at least one source of personal medical data comprises at least one of:

patient medical records, including;

physician records, vaccine records, dental records, cardiac records, pharmaceutical records, laboratory records, radiological records;

advance directives;

do not resuscitate (DNR) orders;

living wills;

organ donation designations;

scanned medical records;

indexed medical information;

textual medical record information;

image information;

streamed data;

video data;

audio data;

handwritten notes;

dictation;

insurance information;

prescription information;

drug interaction information;

allergy information;

optical character recognition (OCR) data;

recognized data;

voice recognition data;

or captured data.

9. The system of claim 1, wherein said AI component identifies at least one of:

a potential drug interaction;

a potential side effect;

a potential drug toxicity;

a suggested medical test to be performed;

an allergic reaction;

a prior condition before a medical procedure is performed;

a clinical decision;

a recommendation for treatment;

a recommendation for management;

a recommendation for therapy;

a diagnosis;

or

a procedure of interest to a health care monitoring agency.

10. The system of claim 1, wherein said AI component includes at least one of:

fuzzy logic;

artificial intelligence (AI);

a knowledge base (KB);

a neural network;

a decision support system (DSS);

an agent;

a software agent;

or an expert system.

11. The system of claim 1, wherein said medical information and said personal medical data are accessible to said at least one server or said at least one patient for doing at least one of:

communicating;

replicating;

synchronizing;

reading, writing, storing, retrieving, editing, modifying, adding to, updating, deleting, inserting, uploading, data mining, downloading, transferring, emailing, scheduling, notifying, alerting, text messaging, or instant messaging said medical information and said personal medical data.

12. The system of claim 1, wherein said at least one real-time communication link uses the Health Level 7 protocol.

13. The system of claim 1, wherein said at least one external authorized entity comprises at least one of:

a health insurance provider, a pharmacy, a hospital, an urgent care facility, a health clinic, a physician, a physician'"'"'s office, a nurse, a physician'"'"'s assistant, a federal agency, a state agency, a regulatory agency, an emergency medical service, an outpatient clinic, an outpatient diagnostic clinic, a medical laboratory, the patient, or another entity authorized by said patient.

14. The system of claim 1, further comprising:

a client personal medical device comprising;

a storage medium for storing said personal medical data for said at least one patient; and

a communication interface for communicating with said system as one of said at least one external authorized entities.

15. The system of claim 14, further comprising:

a graphical user interface (GUI) adapted to access said personal medical data;

wherein said GUI is operative on at least one of;

a display on said client device, or a computer.

16. The system of claim 14, further comprising:

a display adapted to display at least one of said personal medical data or analyzed medical data.

17. The system according to claim 14, wherein said personal medical device comprises at least one of:

a computing device;

a communications device;

a storage device comprising at least one of;

a hard drive, a universal serial bus (USB) device, a flash memory device, a memory device, a magnetic device, an optical, a magneto-optical (MO), a compact disk (CD), a radio frequency identification device (RFID), a passive device, an active device, or a chip;

a card;

a smartcard;

a telephony device;

personal digital assistant (PDA);

a handheld device;

a portable device;

a wireless device;

or a networked device.

18. The system according to claim 14, wherein said storage medium comprises at least one of:

a hard disk;

a universal serial bus (USB) storage medium;

a flash memory medium;

a non-volatile memory medium;

memory;

a magnetic medium;

an optical medium;

a magneto-optical (MO) medium;

a compact disk (CD) medium;

a digital versatile disk (DVD) medium;

CD-R medium;

a DVD-R medium;

a radio frequency identification (RFID) medium;

a passive medium;

an active medium;

or a medium comprising a chip.

19. The system of claim 14, wherein said personal medical device further comprises an intelligent analysis device including at least one of:

means for suggesting improved care;

means for suggesting improved management;

means for filtering said personal medical information;

means for providing a pre-operative assessment;

means for providing suggestions;

means for providing analyzed information comprising at least one of health, insurance or personal information;

means for providing analyzed information comprising at least one of health insurance, civil or government entities;

means of analyzing data comprising medical conditions listed within or outside the ICD &

CPT domains;

means for analyzing data comprising at least one of;

genetics, hypercholesteremia, hypertension, diabetes, smoking or obesity;

means of generating a medical health profile comprising the patients medical conditions;

means for generating a cardiovascular health profile comprising means for tracking at least one of;

patient weight, blood pressure;

cholesterol profile, blood sugar level, or glycocylated hemoglobin level;

means for providing a portal for medical information comprising means for linking at least one of;

healthcare provider, hospital, insurance provider, physicians, civil and government entities;

means for providing organ system checkups comprising at least one of;

thyroid tests, prostate specific antigen, mammography, colonoscopy examination, pelvic exams, chest x-rays, dexa bone scan, cell blood counts, chemistries, or vaccinations;

means for at least one of;

reducing a need for repeat testing, or avoiding unnecessary testing;

means for formulating a diagnosis;

or means for retrieving pertinent medical data in a timely fashion.

20. The system of claim 1, further comprising:

a user interface for allowing said patient or said at least one external authorized entity to read, write, store, retrieve, edit, modify, add to, update, delete, insert, upload, data mine, download, transfer, email, schedule, notify, alert, text message, or instant message said medical information and said personal medical data.

21. The system of claim 20, wherein said user interface includes a medical adviser component.

22. The system of claim 1, further comprising an electronic health record and an electronic medical record.

23. The system of claim 1, further comprising:

an alert generator for generating and sending an alert to at least one of said patient or said at least one external authorized entity regarding said identified issue.

24. A method comprising:

receiving data about a patient from an external health care entity in a medical center system;

storing said received data in a patient medical data database (PMDB);

intelligently analyzing said data according to medical information;

identifying at least one issue requiring follow-up by at least one external authorized entity; and

communicating said at least one issue to at least one external authorized entity.

25. The method of claim 24, further comprising:

retrieving said stored patient data in an artificial intelligence (AI) conduction component; and

converting said retrieved data to a first format.

26. The method of claim 25, wherein said converting said retrieved data includes “

fuzzifying”

said data.

27. The method of claim 24, further comprising:

pre-processing said received data in prior to storing said data in said PMDB, including at least one of;

synchronizing, organizing, maintaining, editing, or processing said received data.

28. The method of claim 24, wherein said intelligently analyzing comprises at least one of:

deriving a diagnosis protocol;

deriving a therapy protocol;

querying and retrieving data from at least one of standard medical guideline data, physician recommendations, intelligent rules from medical experts; and

using at least one of fuzzy logic;

artificial intelligence (AI);

a knowledge base (KB);

a neural network;

providing a decision support system (DSS);

providing agent;

providing software agent;

or providing an expert system.

29. The method of claim 24, further comprising:

maintaining a medical decision database; and

updating said medical decision database with said identified at least one issue.

30. The method of claim 24, further comprising:

alerting at least one of;

said patient, a health care provider of said patient, or an external authorized entity of said identified at least one issue.

31. The method of claim 24, further comprising:

communicating said at least one issue to a plurality of external authorized entities.

32. The method of claim 31, further comprising, for each of said plurality of external authorized entities, communicating a message regarding said at least one issue, wherein said message is specific to said each of said plurality of external authorized entities.

33. A computer readable medium with program logic embodied thereon, said program logic which when executed on a computer enables performing the method of claim 24.

34. A method comprising:

receiving or placing medical data on a personal medical device;

analyzing said medical data with intelligence;

formatting said analyzed medical data according to said intelligence; and

storing said formatted medical data.

35. The method of claim 34, wherein said receiving medical data comprises at least one of:

scanning said medical data;

imaging said medical data;

capturing said medical data;

accessing said medical data;

displaying said medical data;

processing said medical data;

indexing said medical data;

archiving said medical data;

backing up said medical data;

updating said medical data;

providing said medical data;

storing said medical data;

capturing ECG data;

capturing textual data;

capturing image data;

capturing streamed data;

capturing video data;

capturing audio data;

capturing handwritten notes;

capturing dictation;

capturing insurance information;

capturing prescription information;

capturing drug interaction information;

capturing allergy information;

scanning optical character recognition (OCR) data;

recognizing data;

using voice recognition data;

or capturing metadata about said medical data.

36. The method of claim 34, wherein said medical data comprises at least one of:

patient medical records;

medical records comprising at least one of;

doctor records, vaccine records, dental records, or cardiac records;

scanned medical records;

indexed medical information;

textual information;

image information;

streamed data;

video data;

audio data;

handwritten notes;

dictation;

insurance information;

prescription information;

drug interaction information;

allergy information;

optical character recognition (OCR) data;

recognized data;

voice recognition data;

or captured data.

37. The method of claim 34, wherein said placing medical data comprises at least one of:

storing said medical data on said personal medical information device;

storing said medical data on a storage device;

or

placing said medical data on a storage medium.

38. The method of claim 34, wherein said intelligence comprises at least one of:

providing fuzzy logic;

providing artificial intelligence (AI);

providing a knowledge base (KB);

providing a neural network;

providing a decision support system (DSS);

providing agent;

providing software agent;

or

providing an expert system.

39. The method according to claim 34, wherein said personal medical information device comprises at least one of:

a computing device;

a communications device;

a storage device comprising at least one of;

a hard drive, a universal serial bus (USB) device, a flash memory device, a memory device, a magnetic device, an optical, a magneto-optical (MO), a compact disk (CD), a radio frequency identification device (RFID), a passive device, an active device, or a chip;

a card;

a smartcard;

a telephony device;

personal digital assistant (PDA);

a handheld device;

a portable device;

a wireless device;

or a networked device.

40. The method of claim 34, wherein said storing on said storage device comprises storing on at least one of:

a computing device;

a communications device;

a storage device comprising at least one of;

a hard drive, a universal serial bus (USB) device, a flash memory device, a memory device, a magnetic device, an optical, a magneto-optical (MO), a compact disk (CD), a radio frequency identification device (RFID), a passive device, an active device, or a chip;

a card;

a smartcard;

a telephony device;

personal digital assistant (PDA);

a handheld device;

a portable device;

a wireless device;

or a networked device.

41. The method of claim 34, wherein said analyzing said medical data comprises at least one of:

suggesting improved care;

suggesting improved management;

filtering said personal medical information;

providing a pre-operative assessment;

providing suggestions;

providing analyzed information comprising at least one of health, insurance or personal;

analyzing data comprising at least one of;

genetics, hypercholesteremia, hypertension, diabetes, smoking or obesity;

generating a cardiovascular health profile comprising means for tracking at least one of;

patient weight, blood pressure;

cholesterol profile, blood sugar level, or glycocylated hemoglobin level;

providing organ system checkups comprising at least one of;

thyroid tests, prostate specific antigen, mammography, colonoscopy examination, pelvic exams, chest x-rays, dexa bone scan, cell blood counts, chemistries, or vaccinations;

reducing a need for repeat testing;

avoiding unnecessary testing;

formulating a diagnosis;

or retrieving pertinent medical data in a timely fashion.

42. A computer readable medium with program logic embodied thereon, said program logic which when executed on a computer enables performing the method of claim 34.

43. A portable personal medical device, comprising:

a storage medium for storing personal medical data for a patient; and

a communication interface for communicating with a centralized intelligent health care system.

44. The portable personal medical device of claim 43, further comprising:

a graphical user interface (GUI) adapted to access said personal medical data;

wherein said GUI is operative on at least one of;

a display on said client device, or a computer.

45. The portable personal medical device of claim 43, further comprising:

a display adapted to display at least one of said personal medical data or analyzed medical data.

46. The portable personal medical device of claim 43, wherein said personal medical device comprises at least one of:

a computing device;

a communications device;

a storage device comprising at least one of;

a hard drive, a universal serial bus (USB) device, a flash memory device, a memory device, a magnetic device, an optical, a magneto-optical (MO), a compact disk (CD), a radio frequency identification device (RFID), a passive device, an active device, or a chip;

a card;

a smartcard;

a telephony device;

personal digital assistant (PDA);

a handheld device;

a portable device;

a wireless device;

or a networked device.

47. The portable personal medical device of claim 43, wherein said storage medium comprises at least one of:

a hard disk;

a universal serial bus (USB) storage medium;

a flash memory medium;

a non-volatile memory medium;

memory;

a magnetic medium;

an optical medium;

a magneto-optical (MO) medium;

a compact disk (CD) medium;

a digital versatile disk (DVD) medium;

CD-R medium;

a DVD-R medium;

a radio frequency identification (RFID) medium;

a passive medium;

an active medium;

or a medium comprising a chip.

48. The portable personal medical device of claim 43, wherein said personal medical device further comprises an intelligent analysis device including at least one of:

means for suggesting improved care;

means for suggesting improved management;

means for filtering said personal medical information;

means for providing a pre-operative assessment;

means for providing suggestions;

means for providing analyzed information comprising at least one of health, insurance or personal information;

means for providing analyzed information comprising at least one of health insurance, civil or government entities;

means of analyzing data comprising medical conditions listed within or outside the ICD &

CPT domains;

means for analyzing data comprising at least one of;

genetics, hypercholesteremia, hypertension, diabetes, smoking or obesity;

means of generating a medical health profile comprising the patients medical conditions;

means for generating a cardiovascular health profile comprising means for tracking at least one of;

patient weight, blood pressure;

cholesterol profile, blood sugar level, or glycocylated hemoglobin level;

means for providing a portal for medical information comprising means for linking at least one of;

healthcare provider, hospital, insurance provider, physicians, civil and government entities;

means for providing organ system checkups comprising at least one of;

thyroid tests, prostate specific antigen, mammography, colonoscopy examination, pelvic exams, chest x-rays, dexa bone scan, cell blood counts, chemistries, or vaccinations;

means for at least one of;

reducing a need for repeat testing, or avoiding unnecessary testing;

means for formulating a diagnosis;

or means for retrieving pertinent medical data in a timely fashion.