HEALTH CONDITION DETERMINING DEVICE

• US 20110201902A1
• Filed: 04/21/2011
• Published: 08/18/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 11/19/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Omron Healthcare Company Limited (Omron Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Omron Healthcare Company Limited (Omron Corporation)
• Inventors: NAKAJIMA, Hiroshi, TSUTSUMI, Masakazu, YONEDA, Mitsuhiro, SHIGA, Toshikazu, TSUCHIYA, Naoki, OSHIMA, Yoshitake
• Application Number:
  US13/091,973
• Publication Number:
  US 20110201902A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 600/300
• 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
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 50/50 for simulation or modelling of medical disorders
• CPC Class Codes: G16Z 99/00 Subject matter not provided for in other main groups of this subclass

Abstract

A health condition determining device accumulates data measured or input by an evaluation subject for each index of a plurality of items including a lifestyle index, which is an index related to body activity or lifestyle habit, and a biomarker, which is an index related to physiological state of the body. The health condition determining device then selects one or a plurality of biomarkers that lowers the evaluation of the health condition of the evaluation subject as a problematic index, extracts one or a plurality of lifestyle indices having the highest correlation with the problematic index as an improvable factor by comparing accumulated past data of the lifestyle index and the biomarker, and displays the improvable factor along with the evaluation of the health condition of the evaluation subject.

Claims

1-11. -11. (canceled)

12. A health condition determining device comprising:

a storage means for accumulating data measured or input by an evaluation subject for each index of a plurality of items including a lifestyle index, which is an index related to body activity or lifestyle habit, and a biomarker, which is an index related to physiological state of the body;

an evaluating means for evaluating a health condition of the evaluation subject based on a plurality of indices including the biomarker;

a problematic index selecting means for selecting one or a plurality of biomarkers that lowers the evaluation of the health condition of the evaluation subject from the biomarkers used in the evaluation of the evaluating means as a problematic index;

an improvable factor extracting means for reading data for a predetermined period in the past for the lifestyle index and the problematic index of the evaluation subject from the storage means, and evaluating correlation between amount of change in the lifestyle index and amount of change in the problematic index to extract one or a plurality of lifestyle indices having the highest correlation with the selected problematic index as an improvable factor; and

a display means for displaying the improvable factor along with the evaluation of the health condition of the evaluation subject.

13. The health condition determining device according to claim 12, further comprising:

an improvement target setting means for causing the evaluation subject to set an improvement target with respect to the improvable factor; and

an improvement effect calculation means for predicting the improvement effect in the problematic index when the improvement target is achieved after the improvement target is set by the improvement target setting means;

wherein

the evaluating means evaluates the health condition after the improvement by taking the improvement effect of the problematic index into consideration, and the display means further displays the improvement target of the improvable factor and the evaluation of the health condition after the improvement.

14. The health condition determining device according to claim 13, wherein the improvement target setting means sets an upper limit of a value that can be set as the improvement target based on a distribution of values of the improvable factors accumulated in the storage means.

15. The health condition determining device according to claim 13, wherein the improvement effect calculation means models influence of the value of the improvable factor and change thereof on the value of the problematic index based on the past data of the improvable factor and the problematic index accumulated in the storage means, and calculates the improvement effect of the problematic index using the model.

16. The health condition determining device according to claim 15, wherein if the past data of the evaluation subject accumulated in the storage means does not meet a predetermined amount, the improvement effect calculation means also uses data prepared in advance in the storage means to generate the model.

17. The health condition determining device according to claim 12, wherein the display means further displays the evaluation of the health condition and an average value of the improvable factor in a person of the same age and same gender as the evaluation subject.

18. The health condition determining device according to claim 12, wherein if there are plural the improvable factors, the display means further displays intensity of the influence of the respective improvable factors on the problematic index.

19. A health condition determining system comprising:

the health condition determining device according to claim 12; and

one or a plurality of measurement devices for measuring the index from the evaluation subject.

23. A health condition determining system comprising:

the health condition determining device according to claim 13; and

one or a plurality of measurement devices for measuring the index from the evaluation subject.

24. A health condition determining system comprising:

the health condition determining device according to claim 14; and

one or a plurality of measurement devices for measuring the index from the evaluation subject.

25. A health condition determining system comprising:

the health condition determining device according to claim 15; and

one or a plurality of measurement devices for measuring the index from the evaluation subject.

26. A health condition determining system comprising:

the health condition determining device according to claim 16; and

one or a plurality of measurement devices for measuring the index from the evaluation subject.

27. A health condition determining system comprising:

the health condition determining device according to claim 17; and

one or a plurality of measurement devices for measuring the index from the evaluation subject.

28. A health condition determining system comprising:

the health condition determining device according to claim 18; and

one or a plurality of measurement devices for measuring the index from the evaluation subject.

20. A health condition determining method in which a computer executes the steps of:

accumulating data measured or input to a storage means by an evaluation subject for each index of a plurality of items including a lifestyle index, which is an index related to body activity or lifestyle habit, and a biomarker, which is an index related to physiological state of the body;

evaluating a health condition of the evaluation subject based on a plurality of indices including the biomarker;

selecting one or a plurality of biomarkers that lowers the evaluation of the health condition of the evaluation subject from the biomarkers used in the evaluation in the evaluating step as a problematic index;

reading data for a predetermined period in the past for the lifestyle index and the problematic index of the evaluation subject from the storage means, and evaluating correlation between amount of change in the lifestyle index and amount of change in the problematic index to extract one or a plurality of lifestyle indices having the highest correlation with the selected problematic index; and

displaying the improvable factor along with the evaluation of the health condition of the evaluation subject.

21. A program for causing a computer to execute each step in the health condition determining method according to claim 20.

22. A computer readable recording medium recorded with the program according to claim 21.