Automated patient monitoring and counseling system
First Claim
1. An automated system for vicariously and remotely coaching a person into sound behavior or compliance with a prescribed therapeutic regimen, said system comprising:
- a central data processing installation;
at least one station accessible to said person;
a communication link between said installation and said station;
at said station,an automated library of prerecorded motivating and behavior modification coaching messages;
an automated collection of prerecorded inquiries about said person'"'"'s mental attitude toward and compliance with said prescribed regimen;
a collected data memory;
a series of controlling computer programs in said installation including;
programs for selectively scripting and transmitting said enquiries and for acquiring answers to said enquiries;
programs for parsing said answers and collecting therefrom data about said person'"'"'s attitude;
programs for conducting analyses of said answers and said data;
programs responsive to said analyses to selectively transmit to said station at least one of said messages.
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Abstract
An automated, computerized system for vicariously and remotely monitoring the conditions of a patient, providing professional counseling, and coaching the patient into sound behavior and health-enhancing activities. A computerized central installation receives, over a public communication network, patient'"'"'s vital sign measurements such as blood pressure, glucose level, and pulse rate. The measurements are gathered at the patient'"'"'s residence by a battery of instrumental monitoring devices, polled by the central installation at scheduled intervals, automatically checked by a central processing unit against preset limits and analyzed to generate diagnostics and assessments of patient'"'"'s condition and are stored in libraries. The diagnostics and assessments are used to selectively retrieve from a data bank of prerecorded messages, feedback advice, past performance charts and motivating audiovisual programs stored in libraries. If warranted, health professionals are alerted so that they can intervene and contact the patient directly. The communications between the central installation and the patient are scripted by a computer program routine to mimic a natural telephone conversation.
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20 Claims
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1. An automated system for vicariously and remotely coaching a person into sound behavior or compliance with a prescribed therapeutic regimen, said system comprising:
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a central data processing installation; at least one station accessible to said person; a communication link between said installation and said station; at said station, an automated library of prerecorded motivating and behavior modification coaching messages; an automated collection of prerecorded inquiries about said person'"'"'s mental attitude toward and compliance with said prescribed regimen; a collected data memory; a series of controlling computer programs in said installation including; programs for selectively scripting and transmitting said enquiries and for acquiring answers to said enquiries; programs for parsing said answers and collecting therefrom data about said person'"'"'s attitude; programs for conducting analyses of said answers and said data; programs responsive to said analyses to selectively transmit to said station at least one of said messages. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10)
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11. A method, for vicariously and remotely coaching a person into beneficial behavior and compliance with a prescribed therapeutic regimen, which comprises the steps of:
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providing a central automatic data processing installation at least one remote station accessible to said person, said installation and station being linked over a communication network; recording and storing at said installation; a variety of motivating messages toward said compliance and behavior modification messages; a collection of inquiries about said person'"'"'s mental attitude toward and compliance with a prescribed regimen; selectively transmitting at least one of said enquiries to said station; recording at least one answer to an enquiry received from said station analyzing said answer, and selectively retrieving and transmitting to said station, at least one of said messages in response to said analyzing. - View Dependent Claims (12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18)
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19. A method, for vicariously and automatically providing a person with motivating advice toward compliance with a prescribed regimen in response to recorded indications of said person'"'"'s mental attitude, which comprises:
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recording at a data processing installation, a plurality of motivating messages responsive to a plurality of said person'"'"'s mental attitude; receiving at said installation, communications of personal data from said person; analyzing said personal data to detect critical conditions and generate program branching instructions to selectively retrieve at least one of said messages; and transmitting said message to said person. - View Dependent Claims (20)
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