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Prescription Zero: A non-pharmaceutical prescription device for prescribing, administering, monitoring, measuring and motivating a therapeutic lifestyle regimen for prevention and treatment of chronic diseases

  • US 20110046519A1
  • Filed: 08/21/2009
  • Published: 02/24/2011
  • Est. Priority Date: 08/21/2009
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A non-pharmaceutical method of achieving zero drug intervention (Rx Zero) in treatment and prevention of chronic diseases by means of prescribing, administering, measuring, quantifying, monitoring, motivating and implementing a lifestyle behavior modification approach involving therapeutic physical activity and related dietary and behavioral lifestyle changes resulting in consequent health benefits in terms of risk reduction for future morbidities/mortalities, prognosis for current morbidities, reduction, weaning out or elimination of the long term pharmaceutical drugs, and rewards therein for achieving the prescribed lifestyle goals, comprising of:

  • a) a wearable/handheld communication device or a personal user device, which may be a mobile wearable computer, a PDA or a mobile phone;

    b) a sensor module comprising of;

    i. the first sensor sub-module wherein the sensor is a physical activity sensing MEMS (Micro Electro Mechanical System) single, double or triple axis accelerometer hardware sensor and a device activity sensing software sensor application either integrated within a hand held communication device, or resident in a disparate wireless device attached to user'"'"'s body, or to user'"'"'s apparel, or to a personal communication device carrying case, or to the exercise apparatus such as a bicycle or a treadmill, in each of which case it communicates wirelessly with the handheld communication device using close range radiofrequency transmission, and,ii. the second sensor sub-module wherein the sensor is a software client sensor application that monitors user'"'"'s usage of the different functions of the handheld communication device that is analyzed to provide the user'"'"'s free-living lifestyle that includes sleep patterns, physical activity patterns, socializing patterns, and also to provide greater accuracy of the accelerometer measurements by switching the accelerometer to sleep mode when the device is connected to the external power source for charging or when the user goes to sleep.c) a distributed sensor data analysis module, which is a client-server application that has a client-resident local analysis sub-module and a server resident global analysis sub-module operating in tandem to analyze the free-living sensing data generated by the sensor module, and output as user readable outcome that includes steps walked, calories consumed, morbidity risk reduced, treatment prognosis improved, prescription compliance achieved;

    d) a central server or data repository module, which is a database of user profiles that include user'"'"'s personal health-related information such as age, sex, smoking, substance abuse, dietary habits, body mass index, morbidities, and corresponding sensor module-sensed user activities that the user of any one or more of the modules of the system can access at anytime and utilize for reference, inference, analysis, action and display;

    e) the caregiver services module, which is a World Wide Web enabled server application that allows the authorized doctor, nurse or related paramedic from the caregiver healthcare infrastructure, to prescribe, monitor, alter, counsel or remind prescription compliance of the patient'"'"'s lifestyle activities through a Web browser interface from any client computer or communication device connected to the Internet by means of either direct audio or instant text messages or by means of changes in the data repository module (database);

    f) The payer services module, which is a World Wide Web enabled server application deploying actuarial algorithm that allows the third party payer/insurer of the healthcare services to automatically estimate changes in patient'"'"'s health insurance premium based on the changed health parameters analyzed by the data analysis module and authorize corresponding alteration in the health insurance premium automatically or manually through a browser interface from any client computer or communication device connected to the Internet;

    g) The user health status dashboard GUI module, which displays user'"'"'s health indices in the form of distance traversed and calories burnt, and combines them with the device-measured lifestyle routines that include sleeping, resting and activity patterns, and user-profiled lifestyle traits that include smoking, drug use, dietary habits, body mass index and morbidities, to display to the user the therapeutic lifestyle targets achieved, morbidities reduced and prognosis improved, either on the output inlay of the user'"'"'s handheld communication device or via an active server webpage accessed through any computer connected to the Internet.

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