GENERATING, DELIVERING AND DISPLAYING PERSONALIZED HEALTHCARE INSTRUCTIONS

• US 20130132118A1
• Filed: 11/19/2012
• Published: 05/23/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 11/22/2011
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Sedara Medical Applications
• Original Assignee: Sedara Medical Applications
• Inventors: Iyer, Shankar G., Narayan, Girish, Ramamurthy, Bhaskar S., Melkote, Ramaswamy N.
• Application Number:
  US13/681,325
• Publication Number:
  US 20130132118A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/3
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 10/20 for electronic clinical trials or questionnaires
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/67 for remote operation
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 50/20 for computer-aided diagnosis, e.g. based on medical expert systems

Abstract

Personalized heath care instructions are created, delivered and displayed. These instructions may be displayed on one or multiple devices. The devices are not specialized devices. They may be any one of the many devices readily available in the marketplace such as a smartphones, tablet computers, laptops or other computers. Better and effective communication between a caregiver and a patient improves patient care.

Claims

1. A method of providing healthcare instructions comprising the steps of:

creating personalized content in an electronic form for at least one patient;

delivering the electronic content to at least one first electronic device;

displaying the electronic content on the at least one first electronic device;

having the patient provide input about his or her condition by using the first electronic device in response to the personalized content;

having the first electronic device send the responses back to at least one second electronic device;

having the second electronic device provide a status of the at least one patient.

2. The method of claim 1 where the creation of personalized content step further comprising a selection step comprising at least one of:

selecting an existing patient record;

creating a new patient record;

accepting a patient record from another source.

3. The method of claim 1 wherein the electronic content is at least one of text, graphics, photographs, electronic files, animations, clips, references to other electronic or non-electronic material.

4. The method of claim 1 wherein the electronic content is personalized according to information about the patient.

5. The method of claim 4 wherein the information about the patient is at least one of age, height, weight, language, demographic, race, culture, physical ability, mental ability, general heath, health history.

6. The method of claim 1 wherein the first electronic device receiving said personalized content is at least one of a smart phone, a computer, a laptop or a tablet device.

7. The method of claim 1 further comprising a security step wherein the first electronic device does not display the electronic content until a security tag is entered.

8. The method of claim 7 wherein the security to is at least one of a password, a security question, a biometric reading or other electronic entry.

9. The method of claim 1 wherein the delivering step comprises delivering the electronic content to the patient and at least one of a caregiver, friend, family members, other authorized personnel.

10. The method of claim 9 wherein the content is personalized according to each person'"'"'s role.

11. The method of claim 1 wherein input providing step is accomplished by using at least one of typing in text, typing in numbers, using voice or automatically by accepting the output of another machine

12. A method of addressing a condition of a person comprising:

a user using a server-based computer tool for producing instructions;

a server creating a one or more definitions and one or more applications for use by the person, the one or more applications being structured to carry out the interaction in accordance with the definition;

the person using one or more devices for running the one or more applications;

in the course of running the one or more applications, soliciting feedback from the person concerning the condition;

communicating the feedback from the one or more devices to one or more servers, and tracking the feedback; and

at least one of communicating the feedback to the user; and

making the feedback accessible to the user.

13. The method of claim 12 wherein the device used by the person is at least one of a smart phone, a computer, a laptop or a tablet device.

14. The method of claim 12 wherein the server is at least one of a computer or a laptop.

15. The method of claim 12 wherein the definition resides within the device.

16. The method of claim 15 wherein the definition further comprises at least one of information about the device, information about the application, or information about the person.

17. The method of claim 16 wherein the information about the application further comprises information about how to display the instructions on the device.

18. The method of claim 17 wherein the information about how to display the instructions further comprises at least one of size, shape, color, position on the screen, orientation within the screen to be used for each display element.

19. The method of claim 12 where the device evaluates the feedback and takes action based on the feedback.

20. The method of claim 19 wherein the action further comprises at least one of displaying a message, sounding an alarm, calling a health care provider, passing the message on to the server.

21. The method of claim 12 where the definition is a database.

22. The method of claim 12 further comprising a modification step wherein the instructions are modified based on the feedback.

23. A method of creating personalized healthcare instructions comprising:

choosing to display of at least one of a message, instructions, questions or information;

choosing a next action based on a response;

determining a classification of an object based on at least one response; and

creating a software file containing this information for the first electronic device.

24. The method of claim 23 wherein the response is at least one of a response or a no response.

25. The method of claim 23 wherein an object at least one of a patient, or a user.

26. A personalized healthcare instructions generation and communication system comprising at least:

a first electronic device;

a second electronic device; and

a third electronic device;

wherein the first electronic device is configured to display healthcare instructions;

wherein the second electronic device is configured to communicate between the first electronic device and the third electronic device; and

wherein the third electronic device is configured to generate healthcare instructions.

27. The system of claim 26 wherein the first and third electronic device is at least one of a smart phone, a computer, a laptop or a tablet device.

28. The system of claim 26 where the second electronic device is at least one of a computer or a server.