APPARATUS AND METHODS FOR RENDERING PERSONAL STORIES TO MEDICAL PATIENTS

• US 20100131297A1
• Filed: 04/17/2008
• Published: 05/27/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 04/18/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V. (Koninklijke Philips N.V.)
• Original Assignee: Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V. (Koninklijke Philips N.V.)
• Inventors: Lieberman, Debra, Lemke, Gilbert
• Granted Patent: US 8,930,220 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/3
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 5/06 with both visual and audible presentation of the material to be studied
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 7/12 characterised by modifying the teaching programme in response to a wrong answer, e.g. repeating the question, supplying further information
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 10/20 for electronic clinical trials or questionnaires
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/67 for remote operation

Abstract

A health care apparatus (10) and methods are described for rendering audio visual content to a medical patient in the patient'"'"'s home, in which a content element storage (22) stores a plurality of audio visual content elements (28) to be rendered to the patient in the patient'"'"'s home, including personal story content elements (40) in which an interviewee (42) is shown discussing one or more issues related to the patient'"'"'s medical condition. One or more content elements are selected according to a medical condition of a given patient and presented to the patient via a display device (14) of a user interface (12) located in the patient'"'"'s home. Methods are presented for generating audio visual content for presentation to a medical patient in the patient'"'"'s home in which a set of questions relating to a given medical condition is generated (102) and questions from the set are presented (104) to at least one interviewee, such as an actor or a person having the given medical condition. The interviewee'"'"'s responses to the presented questions are recorded (106) and edited (108) to create a personal story content element which is then stored (110) in a content element storage coupled with a communications network from which content elements are selected for presentation to patients having the given medical condition.

Claims

1. A health care apparatus (10) to render audio visual content to a medical patient, comprising:

a content element storage (24) coupled with a communications network (20) and adapted to store a plurality of audio visual content elements (28) to be rendered to a medical patient, the plurality of audio visual content elements including a plurality of personal story elements (40) individually including an interviewee (42) shown discussing at least one issue related to a medical condition;

an itinerary arrangement system (32) operatively coupled with the content element storage and adapted to select one or more content elements from the content element storage including at least one personal story element to be rendered to the patient in a given viewing session based at least partially on the patient'"'"'s medical condition; and

a user interface (12) operatively coupled with the communications network and with a display device (14), the user interface being operable by the patient to render the selected content elements to the patient via the display device.

2. The health care apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the content element storage (24) is located in the user interface (12).

3. The health care apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the itinerary arrangement system (32) is located in the user interface (12).

4. The health care apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the itinerary arrangement system (32) selects the at least one personal story element (40) and at least one educational content element (28) to be rendered to the patient in a given viewing session based at least partially on the patient'"'"'s medical condition, and wherein the itinerary arrangement system arranges the selected content elements into a serially ordered itinerary for presentation to the patient with the personal story element presented to the patient after the educational content element.

5. The health care apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the itinerary arrangement system (32) selects the at least one personal story element (40) and at least one interactive survey or quiz content element (28) to be rendered to the patient in a given viewing session based at least partially on the patient'"'"'s medical condition, and wherein the itinerary arrangement system arranges the selected content elements into a serially ordered itinerary for presentation to the patient with the personal story element presented to the patient after the interactive survey or quiz content element.

6. The health care apparatus according to claim 5, wherein the itinerary arrangement system (32) selects the at least one personal story element (40) based at least partially on a patient response to the interactive survey or quiz content element (28) in the viewing session.

7. The health care apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the itinerary arrangement system (32) is adapted to obtain information regarding the patient'"'"'s medical condition from the content element storage (24) to select one or more content elements (28) from the content element storage to be rendered to the patient in a given viewing session.

8. A method of rendering health care information to a patient, comprising:

storing (110) a plurality of audio visual content elements to be rendered to a medical patient, the plurality of audio visual content elements including a plurality of personal story elements individually including an interviewee shown discussing at least one issue related to a medical condition;

selecting (112) one or more stored content elements based at least partially on the patient'"'"'s medical condition, the selected content elements including at least one personal story element to be rendered to the patient in a given viewing session; and

rendering (200) a display of the selected content elements to the patient.

9. The method according to claim 8, wherein the one or more selected stored content elements are transferred to a patient'"'"'s home for display.

10. The method according to claim 8, wherein selecting one or more content elements includes selecting at least one personal story element and at least one educational content element to be rendered to the patient in a given viewing session, and further including arranging (114) the selected content elements into a serially ordered itinerary for presentation to the patient.

11. The method according to claim 8, wherein selecting one or more content elements includes selecting at least one personal story element and at least one educational content element or interactive survey or quiz content element to be rendered to the patient in a given viewing session based at least partially on the patient'"'"'s medical condition, and further including arranging (114) the selected content elements into a serially ordered itinerary for presentation to the patient with the personal story element presented (210) to the patient after the educational content element (204) or the interactive survey or quiz content element (206).

12. The method according to claim 8, wherein selecting one or more content elements includes selecting at least interactive survey content element and selecting at least one personal story element based at least partially on a patient response to the interactive survey content element in the viewing session.

13. The method according to claim 12, wherein selecting one or more content elements includes incorporating at least one personal story content element (40) into a defined care plan.

14. The method according to claim 13, further including arranging (114) the selected content elements into a serially ordered itinerary with the at least one personal story content element (40) arranged to correspond to a chronology of the defined care plan.

15. The method according to claim 8, further comprising obtaining information regarding the patient'"'"'s medical condition prior to selecting the one or more content elements.

16. The method according to claim 8, further comprising:

generating (102) a set of questions relating to a given medical condition;

presenting (104) questions from the set to at least one interviewee;

recording (106) the interviewee'"'"'s responses to the presented questions;

editing (108) the interviewee'"'"'s responses to create a personal story content element; and

storing (110) the personal story content element.

17. The method according to claim 16, comprising:

gathering a plurality of interviewees in a group session;

presenting questions from the set to two or more of the interviewees;

recording responses by two or more of the interviewees; and

editing the responses to create at least one personal story content element.

18. The method according to claim 8, wherein selecting one or more content elements includes allowing the patient to select (208) from a list of interviewees and selecting a personal story content element showing the selected interviewee discussing at least one issue related to the patient'"'"'s medical condition.

19. The method according to claim 8, further comprising determining an availability of one or more personal story content elements (40) based on personal information other than the patient'"'"'s medical condition.

20. A computer readable medium or processor programmed to implement the method according to claim 8.

21. A method of rendering health care information to a patient, comprising:

recording (106) at least one interviewee'"'"'s responses to at least one question related to a given medical condition;

editing (108) the interviewee'"'"'s responses to create a personal story content element showing the interviewee discussing the given medical condition; and

storing (110) personal story content element elements to be rendered to a medical patient, the plurality of audio visual content elements including a plurality of personal story elements individually including an interviewee shown discussing at least one issue related to a medical condition;

selecting (112) one or more content elements including at least one personal story element to be rendered to the patient in a given viewing session based at least partially on the patient'"'"'s medical condition; and

rendering (200) a display of the selected content elements to the patient.

22. The method according to claim 21, wherein selecting one or more content elements includes incorporating at least one personal story content element (40) into a defined care plan.

23. The method according to claim 22, further including arranging (114) the selected content elements into a serially ordered itinerary with the at least one personal story content element (40) arranged to correspond to a chronology of the defined care plan.

24. The method according to claim 21, further comprising allowing the patient to select (208) from a list of interviewees, and selecting a personal story content element showing the selected interviewee discussing at least one issue related to the patient'"'"'s medical condition.