SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MANAGEMENT OF PERSONAL HEALTH AND WELLNESS

• US 20120059664A1
• Filed: 09/07/2010
• Published: 03/08/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 09/07/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: General Electric Company
• Original Assignee: General Electric Company
• Inventors: Georgiev, Emil Markov, Wodecki, Lionel, Kemper, Erik, Lu, Zhiye, Sun, Tao
• Application Number:
  US12/876,328
• Publication Number:
  US 20120059664A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/2
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/02 Detecting, measuring or recording pulse, heart rate, blood pressure or blood flow; Combined pulse/heart-rate/blood pressure determination; Evaluating a cardiovascular condition not otherwise provided for, e.g. using combinations of techniques provided for in this group with electrocardiography or electroauscultation; Heart catheters for measuring blood pressure
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/021 Measuring pressure in heart or blood vessels A61B5/0205 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/1072 measuring distances on the body, e.g. measuring length, height or thickness A61B5/1076 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/145 Measuring characteristics of blood in vivo, e.g. gas concentration, pH value; Measuring characteristics of body fluids or tissues, e.g. interstitial fluid, cerebral tissuemeasuring of blood pressure or blood flow A61B5/02; non-radiation detecting or locating of foreign bodies in blood A61B5/06
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/318 Heart-related electrical modalities, e.g. electrocardiography [ECG]
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/4866 Evaluating metabolism A61B5/083 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/6895 Sport equipment
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/7465 Arrangements for interactive communication between patient and care services, e.g. by using a telephone network telemetry of measured physiological signal A61B5/0002
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 15/00 ICT specially adapted for medical reports, e.g. generation or transmission thereof
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 20/30 relating to physical therapies or activities, e.g. physiotherapy, acupressure or exercising
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 20/60 relating to nutrition control, e.g. diets
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 20/70 relating to mental therapies, e.g. psychological therapy or autogenous training
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 50/20 for computer-aided diagnosis, e.g. based on medical expert systems

Abstract

A system and method for management of personal health and wellness is disclosed. The system receives an input for generating a user profile for a user, with the user profile having an initial health status goal associated therewith including target physiological parameter levels, nutritional uptake, and physical fitness activity. Physiological data, nutritional data, and physical fitness data are received by the system over a period of time on measured physiological parameters, dietary consumption, and physical activity of the user, with the system then analyzing and comparing the received data to the physiological parameters, nutritional uptake, and physical fitness activity associated with the initial health status goal. The system communicates to the user a personalized health and wellness status update that is based on the analysis of the received data and the comparison of such data to the physiological, nutritional, and physical activity metrics associated with the initial health status goal.

Claims

1. A non-transitory computer readable storage medium having stored thereon a computer program comprising instructions, which, when executed by a computer, cause the computer to:

receive an input for generating a user profile for a user of interest, the user profile having an initial health status goal associated therewith including target physiological parameter levels, nutritional uptake, and physical fitness activity;

receive physiological data, nutritional data, and physical fitness data for the user of interest over a period of time, the physiological data, nutritional data, and physical fitness data being directed respectively to a plurality of measured physiological parameters, dietary consumption, and physical activity of the user of interest;

analyze each of the physiological data, nutritional data, and physical fitness data;

compare each of the physiological data, nutritional data, and physical fitness data to the physiological parameters, nutritional uptake, and physical fitness activity associated with the initial health status goal; and

communicate to the user of interest a personalized health and wellness status update based on the analyzed physiological data, nutritional data, and physical fitness data, and on the comparison of such data to the physiological parameter levels, nutritional uptake, and physical fitness activity associated with the initial health status goal.

2. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 1 wherein the instructions further cause the computer to:

set-up and manage profiles of third-party recipients associated with the user of interest;

generate summary reports directed to the physiological data, the nutritional data, and the physical fitness data received for the user of interest; and

share the summary reports with the third-party recipients by way of the profiles associated therewith.

3. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 2 wherein the instructions further cause the computer to share the summary reports with the third-party recipients by way of a secure encrypted data transmission.

4. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 2 wherein the instructions further cause the computer to:

receive feedback from the third-party recipients; and

update at least one of the target physiological parameter levels, nutritional uptake, and physical fitness activity level associated with the initial health status goal based on the third-party feedback.

5. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 1 wherein the instructions further cause the computer to:

register a plurality of enabled devices configured to acquire physiological data, nutritional data, and physical fitness data; and

automatically receive the physiological data, nutritional data, and physical fitness data from the plurality of enabled devices.

6. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 5 wherein the instructions further cause the computer to:

provide for registration of a plurality of users each having a user profile; and

authenticate physiological data, nutritional data, and physical fitness data received from the plurality of enabled devices as being from the user of interest, so as to distinguish the data received from the plurality of enabled devices as being from the user of interest or from one of the other plurality of users.

7. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 5 wherein the instructions further cause the computer to cause the enabled devices to transmit the physiological data, nutritional data, and physical fitness data in a common transmittable data format.

8. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 1 wherein the instructions further cause the computer to provide a visual health dashboard display to the user of interest of the physiological data, the nutritional data, and the physical fitness data, and the comparison of such data to the physiological parameter levels, nutritional uptake, and physical fitness activity associated with the initial health status goal, the visual health dashboard display including at least one of a graphical display, a textual display, and a numerical display.

9. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 8 wherein the instructions further cause the computer to:

analyze each of the physiological data, nutritional data, and physical fitness data to identify trends in each respective set of data; and

provide a graphical display on the visual health dashboard display illustrative of the received physiological data, nutritional data, and physical fitness data and of the trend in each respective set of data over time.

10. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 1 wherein the instructions further cause the computer to update the initial health status goal based on the comparison of the physiological data, nutritional data, and physical fitness data to the physiological parameters, nutritional uptake, and physical fitness activity associated with the initial health status goal.

11. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 10 wherein the instructions further cause the computer to:

correlate the received nutritional data and physical fitness data to the received physiological data; and

update at least one of the target nutritional uptake and target physical fitness activity level based on the correlation, so as to generate the updated health status goal.

12. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 1 wherein the instructions further cause the computer to generate an alert if a measured physiological parameter falls outside of a pre-determined threshold.

13. A method for managing health and wellness for a user of interest, the method comprising:

generating a user profile for a user of interest on a health and wellness management system in response to a user input;

establishing initial health and wellness goals for the user of interest and tied to the user profile, the initial health and wellness goals having associated therewith target physiological parameter levels, nutritional uptake levels, and physical fitness activity levels;

acquiring and tracking physiological data, nutritional uptake data, and physical fitness activity data for the user of interest over a period of time by way of the health and wellness management system;

analyzing each of the physiological data, nutritional uptake data, and physical fitness activity data using the health and wellness management system to determine at least one of;

a trend in user health and wellness, compliance with the physiological parameter levels, nutritional uptake levels, and physical fitness activity levels associated with the initial health and wellness goals, and a correlation between the nutritional uptake levels, physical fitness activity levels, and acquired physiological data; and

communicating to the user of interest a personalized health and wellness status update based on the analysis of the physiological data, nutritional uptake data, and physical fitness activity data.

14. The method of claim 13 further comprising:

generating profiles of third-party recipients associated with the user of interest on the health and wellness management system;

generating summary reports directed to the physiological data, nutritional uptake data, and physical fitness activity data for the user of interest; and

sharing the summary reports with the third-party recipients by way of the profiles associated therewith.

15. The method of claim 14 further comprising:

receiving feedback from the third-party recipients; and

updating at least one of the target physiological parameter levels, nutritional uptake levels, and physical fitness activity levels associated with the initial health and wellness goals based on the third-party feedback.

16. The method of claim 13 wherein acquiring the physiological data, nutritional uptake data, and physical fitness activity data comprises:

registering a plurality of enabled devices with the health and wellness management system that are configured to acquire the physiological data, nutritional uptake data, and physical fitness activity data; and

automatically receiving the physiological data, nutritional uptake data, and physical fitness activity data from the plurality of enabled devices, the data received from the plurality of enabled devices having an authentication tag embedded therein to verify the data was acquired from the user of interest.

17. The method of claim 13 wherein communicating the personalized health and wellness status update to the user of interest comprises displaying to the user of interest a personalized health dashboard having at least one of a graphical display, a textual display, and a numerical display illustrative of the analyzed physiological data, nutritional uptake data, and physical fitness activity data, and that provides recommendations for the user of interest regarding nutritional uptake and physical fitness activity levels for meeting the initial health and wellness goals.

18. The method of claim 17 wherein displaying the personalized health dashboard comprises:

displaying a plurality of time plots of received physiological data, nutritional uptake data, and physical fitness activity data;

displaying a trend line for each of the plurality of time plots to illustrate a trend for each of a plurality of specified physiological parameters, nutritional uptake, and physical fitness activity.

19. A health and wellness management system comprising:

a display screen configured to display health and wellness data to a user; and

a processor programmed to;

formulate an initial health and wellness goal specific to a user of interest that includes target physiological parameter, nutritional uptake, and physical activity levels;

automatically receive data on physiological parameters, dietary consumption, and physical activity for the user of interest from a plurality of enabled devices over a period of time;

analyze the data for each of the received physiological parameters, dietary consumption, and physical activity; and

generate a personalized health dashboard on the display screen illustrative of the analyzed data on the physiological parameters, dietary consumption, and physical activity, the personalized health dashboard displaying at least one of a trend chart of user physiological parameters, nutritional uptake, and physical activity levels, compliance with the initial health and wellness goal, and recommendations for the user of interest regarding nutritional uptake and physical fitness activity levels for meeting the initial health and wellness goal.

20. The health and wellness management system of claim 19 wherein the processor is further programmed to:

generate summary reports directed to the received physiological parameters data, dietary consumption data, and physical activity data for the user of interest; and

transmit the summary reports to third-party recipients associated with the user of interest.

21. The health and wellness management system of claim 20 wherein the processor is further programmed to:

receive feedback from the third-party recipients; and

update at least one of the target physiological parameter levels, nutritional uptake levels, and physical fitness activity levels associated with the initial health and wellness goal based on the third-party feedback.

22. The health and wellness management system of claim 19 wherein the processor is further programmed to correlate the received dietary consumption data and the physical activity data with received physiological parameter data to determine a relationship therebetween.

23. The health and wellness management system of claim 19 wherein the processor is further programmed to:

compare the received physiological parameters data, dietary consumption data, and physical activity data to the target physiological parameter, nutritional uptake, and physical activity levels associated with the initial health and wellness goal; and

update the initial health and wellness goal based on the comparison of the received physiological parameters data, dietary consumption data, and physical activity data to the initial health and wellness goal.

24. The health and wellness management system of claim 19 wherein the processor is further programmed to authenticate the data received from the plurality of enabled devices as being acquired from the user of interest.