Automated System for Monitoring Mental Status of Individuals Receiving Outpatient Mental Health Treatment
First Claim
1. A method for a detailed monitoring of a mental health status, during an interim period between visits to a mental health professional, of a caseload of individual patients who are outpatients of the mental health professional, comprising steps performed by an automated system comprising at least one computer or machine, of:
- receiving into the automated system, via a portal accessed by the mental health professional, a schedule for each patient of a frequency at which the automated system is to send a probe to the patient;
maintaining, by the automated system, a table in which each patient in the caseload has an entry for the frequency at which the automated system is to send a probe to the patient;
updating the table, performed by the automated system, based on the schedule received in the receiving step;
according to the sending-frequency table, selectively sending, performed by the automated system, a probe including at least one question and a set of predefined answers each of which is selectable, to a remote device associated with a patient, and repeating the selectively sending step for other patients within the caseload.
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Abstract
A computerized system useable in methods for monitoring mental health status of individuals receiving outpatient mental health treatment during the time periods between office visits with the doctor. The computerized system is particularly useful to the doctor to see a graph of a parameter on which survey responses have been collected from the patient between office visits and onto which graph the automated system has overlaid a history of medication changes.
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1. A method for a detailed monitoring of a mental health status, during an interim period between visits to a mental health professional, of a caseload of individual patients who are outpatients of the mental health professional, comprising steps performed by an automated system comprising at least one computer or machine, of:
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receiving into the automated system, via a portal accessed by the mental health professional, a schedule for each patient of a frequency at which the automated system is to send a probe to the patient; maintaining, by the automated system, a table in which each patient in the caseload has an entry for the frequency at which the automated system is to send a probe to the patient; updating the table, performed by the automated system, based on the schedule received in the receiving step; according to the sending-frequency table, selectively sending, performed by the automated system, a probe including at least one question and a set of predefined answers each of which is selectable, to a remote device associated with a patient, and repeating the selectively sending step for other patients within the caseload. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10)
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11. A mental health patient alert method performed by a computerized mental health patient alert system, comprising steps, performed by the system, of:
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surveying a patient according to a survey schedule wherein the patient is surveyed between office visits; collecting a set of responses by the patient obtained through the surveying step; storing patient-specific historical data and current data for medications taken by the patient; based on the survey responses collected from the patient for a first parameter and on the stored patient-specific data, plotting a patient-specific graph covering a period of time for the first parameter and overlaying at least one medication change indicator onto the plotted graph; outputting the plotted patient-specific graph for the first parameter with the overlaid medication change indicator to an electronic device that is viewed by a mental health professional who is responsible for the patient. - View Dependent Claims (12)
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