Method and System for Analyzing Health Related Data of Patients

• US 20120259657A1
• Filed: 06/18/2012
• Published: 10/11/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 09/08/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Healarium, Inc. (Apollo Medical Holdings, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Healarium, Inc. (Apollo Medical Holdings, Inc.)
• Inventors: KEYNAN, Amnon, WEINSTEIN, Amir, WESCHLER, Arturo
• Application Number:
  US13/525,761
• Publication Number:
  US 20120259657A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/2
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 15/00 ICT specially adapted for medical reports, e.g. generation or transmission thereof
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 50/20 for computer-aided diagnosis, e.g. based on medical expert systems
• 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

System and method for analyzing health related data associated with a patient, comprising: an expert'"'"'s station; a health database comprising health related data of patients; a wizard application, enabling the expert to create a template of commands for analyzing the health related data of the patient according to the expert'"'"'s school of method, using a generic model associated with the expert'"'"'s field of expertise, where the analysis calculates health related profile of the patient; a templates database comprising templates of commands created by experts; a generic models database, enabling the wizard to retrieve and store a generic model associated with the expert'"'"'s field of expertise; and a main server for using the template of commands to analyze the health data of a patient, according to the analysis method of the expert, by operating the commands in the template for calculating health related profile of the patient.

Claims

1. A system for building and supporting health related programs, said system comprising:

a) a computerized support platform comprising at least one processor that operates a wizard for allowing experts, using expert terminal devices, to build generic health programs for patients, each said generic health program comprises instructions structured as a set of rules and commands operable according thereto in a generic manner that allows operating the commands and/or changing their respective parameters according to received data, wherein each respective health program comprises actionable care plans; and

b) at least one data storage for enabling storage and retrieval of generic health programs including said respective actionable care plans thereof,

wherein the generic configuration of the health programs allows said support platform to automatically personalize each respective said health program for a specific patient by receiving personal input data of the respective patient and adapting the care plans of the respective health program, according to the respective health program'"'"'s instructions and the input data.

2. The system according to claim 1, wherein said wizard allows the expert to define actions of care plans and interrelations therebetween by providing and supporting an expert interface, said interrelations comprise stages according to which said actionable care plans are executed.

3. The system according to claim 2, wherein at least some of said actions are scheduled according to a timeline, in which some of said actions preceding other actions trigger said respective other actions according to said timeline—

, said timeline defines said care plans stages of the respective health program.

4. The system according to claim 1, wherein said instructions of each generic health program comprises a set of interpretation rules and target setting rules, wherein said interpretation rules determine how input data of the patient is interpreted for determining indexes of the respective patient;

and said target setting rules enable associating at least one target to each index set according to said interpretation rules, each respective set target is associated with a set of interrelated care plans and allows executing and operating said respective associated care plans set in respect to said target.

5. The system according to claim 1, further comprising a patients manager and a supervision module, said patient manager allows adapting the generic health programs to each respective specific patient by using observations inputted by the patient and creating respective patients'"'"' profile thereby, and said supervision module allows a supervisor, using a supervisor terminal to supervise the patients in performing their respective personal health programs.

6. The system according to claim 5, wherein each said health program also comprises a feedback layout allowing providing feedbacks to the patient in relation to the patient performances, wherein at least some of said actions are associated with feedback options triggering automatic feedbacks in relation to various progress situations, said feedback comprises awarding the patient with incentive healthies ranks.

7. The system according to claim 5, wherein said supervision module enables the supervisor to provide online feedback to his/her patients.

8. The system according to claim 1, wherein said support platform supports expert applications operated by experts'"'"' terminal devices and patient applications operated therethrough, wherein said expert application allows the expert to build health programs, monitor and feedback his/her patients through his/her terminal device using a designated expert interface and the user application allows the user to operate personal health programs and to receive feedback through his/her user terminal device using a designated user interface.

9. The system according to claim 1, further enabling the expert to associate content to each recommendation and/or action, wherein once operating the respective health program each recommendation or action that is associated with content is presented with its associated content or content indication.

10. The system according to claim 9, wherein said wizard further allows the expert to assign content or an indication linking thereto.

11. The system according to claim 1, wherein each profile is created by receiving input data from each respective patient and calculating observations based on said input data, said observations are then used to build the patient'"'"'s respective patient'"'"'s profile by using a designated profiler module operable through said support platform.

12. The system according to claim 1, wherein care plans of a specific health program are configured in a hierarchal structure.

13. The system according to claim 1, wherein said support platform further enables presenting the user with optional multiple suitable health programs selected from said data storage, wherein the suitable health programs are selected by the support platform according to predefined suitability conditions depending on said input data.

14. A method for building and supporting health related programs, said method comprising:

a) providing a computerized support platform operating a wizard for allowing experts to build generic health programs;

b) building generic health programs for patients, wherein an expert uses said wizard through an expert terminal to build said generic health program, wherein each said generic health program comprises instructions structured as a set of rules and commands operable according thereto in a generic manner that allows operating the commands and/or changing their respective parameters according to received data, wherein each respective health program comprises actionable care plans;

c) storing generic health programs including said respective actionable care plans thereof in at least one data storage;

d) receiving input data of a patient from at least one user terminal; and

e) automatically personalizing at least one health program by adapting the respective generic health program according to commands and instructions thereof and according to the received input data.

15. The method according to claim 14, further comprising supervising the progress of patients in performing their respective personal health programs, using a supervision module of the support platform used by a supervisor.

16. The method according to claims 14, further comprising providing feedbacks to the patient in relation to the patient performances, wherein at least some of said actions are associated with feedback options triggering automatic feedbacks in relation to various progress situations, said feedback comprises awarding the patient with incentive ranks.

17. The method according to claim 15, further comprising providing online feedback to patients, said expert enables providing such feedbacks through messaging and/or direct call communication enabled by said supervision module.

18. The method according to claim 14, wherein building a respective said health program further comprises associating content to at least one the health program'"'"'s care plans, wherein once operating the respective health program each care plan that is associated with content is presented with its associated content or content indication.

19. The method according to claim 18, further comprising assigning each relevant content or an indication linking thereto to at least one content group and/or sub group.

20. The method according to claim 14, further comprising creating a patient profile for each patient according to the input data thereof, using a patient application supported by a patients manager operated by said wizard, wherein said input data is translated into at least one observation, which is then used to build the patient'"'"'s respective at least one profile by using a designated generic translation technique.

21. The method according to claim 14, further comprising selecting and presenting the user with optional multiple suitable health programs selected from said data storage, wherein the suitable health programs are selected by the support platform according to predefined suitability conditions depending on said input data.

22. The method according to claim 15, further comprising providing feedbacks to the patient in relation to the patient performances, wherein at least some of said actions are associated with feedback options triggering automatic feedbacks in relation to various progress situations, said feedback comprises awarding the patient with incentive ranks.