PERSONALIZED MANAGEMENT AND COMPARISON OF MEDICAL CONDITION AND OUTCOME BASED ON PROFILES OF COMMUNITY PATIENTS

• US 20130066652A1
• Filed: 04/13/2012
• Published: 03/14/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 10/12/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: PatientsLikeMe LLC (UnitedHealth Group Incorporated)
• Original Assignee: PatientsLikeMe, Inc. (UnitedHealth Group Incorporated)
• Inventors: Heywood, Benjamin, Heywood, James, Cole, Jeff
• Granted Patent: US 8,930,224 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/3
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/0002 Remote monitoring of patients using telemetry, e.g. transmission of vital signals via a communication network A61B5/07 takes precedence; transmission systems for measured values G08C; transmission H04B; transmission of digital information H04L; wireless communication networks H04W
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/4824 Touch or pain perception evaluation A61B5/4821 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/4833 Assessment of subject's compliance to treatment
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/22 Social work or social welfare, e.g. community support activities or counselling services
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 10/20 for electronic clinical trials or questionnaires
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 10/60 for patient-specific data, e.g. for electronic patient records
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 15/00 ICT specially adapted for medical reports, e.g. generation or transmission thereof
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 20/10 relating to drugs or medications, e.g. for ensuring correct administration to patients
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 20/40 relating to mechanical, radiation or invasive therapies, e.g. surgery, laser therapy, dialysis or acupuncture
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/20 for the management or administration of healthcare resources or facilities, e.g. managing hospital staff or surgery rooms
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/63 for local operation
• 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: G16H 50/70 for mining of medical data, e.g. analysing previous cases of other patients
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 70/60 relating to pathologies
• CPC Class Codes: Y02A 90/10 Information and communication technologies [ICT] supporting adaptation to climate change, e.g. for weather forecasting or climate simulation

Abstract

The invention can be directed toward a method for personalized management and comparison of medical condition and outcome based on patient profiles of a community of patients. The method can include the steps of providing a database of patient profiles, providing a user interface for inputting a query of the database from a user, generating a query result including one or more matching patient profiles from the database, and displaying the query result as a correlation medical condition parameters of the user with a medical outcome.

Claims

1. A method of facilitating a clinical study to determine the efficacy of an intervention, the method comprising:

providing a graphical user interface on a client computer, the graphical user interface allowing one or more patients within a community of patients to input information regarding their diseases and symptoms;

collecting information regarding diseases and symptoms on a server computer from patients within the community of patients via the graphical user interface on the client computer before each of the patients employs the intervention to treat a disease;

collecting information on the server computer from the graphical user interface about the intervention employed by the one or more patients;

collecting information on the server computer from the plurality of patients within the community of patients regarding experienced symptoms via the graphical user interface after a subset of the patients employs the intervention to treat the disease; and

analyzing the information regarding diseases, symptoms, and intervention on the server computer to determine the efficacy of the intervention in treating the disease.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the analyzing step includes comparing the efficacy of the intervention with data from one or more control patients within the community of patients on the server computer.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the analyzing step includes comparing pre-remedy information with post-remedy information.

21. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

conducting a multivariate pattern matching search of data related to the other patients.

23. The method of claim 1, wherein the intervention is selected from the group consisting of:

administration of a medication, administration of a remedy, administration of a nutritional supplement, administration of a vitamin, exercise, physical therapy, massage, stretching, consumption of food, rest, sleep, and a modification of any of the foregoing.

24. The method of claim 1, wherein the analyzing step includes utilizing data collected from the community of patients prior to the clinical study as a baseline for comparison with the information collected after the subset of the patients employs the intervention to treat the disease.

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