Systems and Methods for Predicting Patient Health Problems and Providing Timely Intervention

• US 20110201901A1
• Filed: 02/17/2011
• Published: 08/18/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 02/17/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Carematix, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Carematix, Inc.
• Inventors: Khanuja, Sukhwant Singh
• Application Number:
  US13/029,474
• Publication Number:
  US 20110201901A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 600/300
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/00 Measuring for diagnostic purposes radiation diagnosis A61B6/00; diagnosis by ultrasonic, sonic or infrasonic waves A61B8/00; Identification of persons
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/021 Measuring pressure in heart or blood vessels A61B5/0205 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/7275 Determining trends in physiological measurement data; Predicting development of a medical condition based on physiological measurements, e.g. determining a risk factor
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 20/10 relating to drugs or medications, e.g. for ensuring correct administration to patients
• 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
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 50/30 for calculating health indices; for individual health risk assessment

Abstract

A system and method is provided which predicts patient health problems so that timely help may be provided to the patient. In one embodiment, a patent monitors one or more of their biometric characteristics using a biometric data reader for at least several days. The biometric data is then passed to a central server that develops a model of the patient'"'"'s normal biometric readings and normal procedures for taking a biometric reading including time of day and frequency of readings. Later readings are compared to the patient'"'"'s model and a significant deviation from the model by the patient is correlated with patient data like diagnosis, claims history, demographics, etc to predict the onset of a health problem.

Claims

1. A method of personalizing a care program for a person and determining an appropriate intervention, the method comprising:

acquiring data over a first period time that characterizes the person'"'"'s health;

identifying characteristics of the data that was acquired during the first period of time;

comparing subsequent data to characteristics of the data acquired during the first period of time;

identifying a deviation of subsequent data from the characteristics of data acquired during the first period of time; and

determining whether the identified deviation indicates change in health for which an intervention is appropriate.

2. The method of personalizing a care program for a person and providing timely intervention of claim 1, wherein the data acquired during the first period includes timing and frequency of taking of health measurements.

3. The method of personalizing a care program for a person and providing timely intervention of claim 2, wherein the data acquired during the first period includes health measurements.

4. The method of personalizing a care program for a person and providing timely intervention of claim 3, wherein the health measurements include body temperature.

5. The method of personalizing a care program for a person and providing timely intervention of claim 1, wherein the data acquired during the first period includes demographic, genetic history, and pre-conditions.