DIGITAL HEALTH CARE ENVIRONMENT FOR IMPLEMENTING AND MONITORING PATIENT HEALTH CARE FOR CHRONIC DISEASES THROUGH CONFIGURABLE AND INTERACTIVE TASKS

• US 20130138450A1
• Filed: 05/28/2012
• Published: 05/30/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 05/27/2011
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Emergis Incorporated (Telus Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Emergis Incorporated (Telus Corporation)
• Inventors: Vigneux, Alexandre
• Application Number:
  US13/481,905
• Publication Number:
  US 20130138450A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/2
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/00 Administration; Management
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 70/20 relating to practices or guidelines

Abstract

A system and method for coordinating a series of health related tasks for a chronic disease management in interaction with a patient device comprising: a task rule set customized for each patient of a plurality of patients registered with a management system, the customized rule set based on a health care plan for the patient administered by a clinician; implementing the task rule set customized for the respective patient; receiving patient health data dependent upon at least one specific task of the task rule set completed by the patient; transmitting the received patient data to a clinician device via a clinician interface; and transmitting a message to a parent device including content related to the patient health data including information about the one specific task of the task rule set completed by the patient. The task rule set can be embodied as a series of steps involving game play.

Claims

1. A management computer system for coordinating a series of health related tasks in interaction with a patient device, the system comprising:

a task rule set customized for each patient of a plurality of patients registered with the management system;

a user interface accessible by the patient device configured for implementing the task rule set customized for the respective patient and configured for receiving patient health data dependent upon at least one specific task of the task rule set completed by the patient;

a clinician interface accessible by a clinician device configured for transmitting the received patient data and for receiving proposed rule set modifications from the clinician device related to the transmitted patient data; and

a modification module configured for modifying at least one task of the task rule set customized for the respective patient using the proposed rule set modifications, such that subsequent specific tasks completed by the patient are influenced by the modified at least one task.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the proposed rule set modification is related to timing of collection of the patient health data.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the proposed rule set modification is related to a value or type of health care related reading.

4. The system of claim 1 further comprising a comparison module configured for comparison of the received patient data with corresponding data in a health care plan of the patient, such that the proposed rule set modifications are a result of the comparison.

5. The system of claim 4, wherein the health care plan is for a chronic disease and the customized task rule set contains task rules and associated content relevant to aspects of the chronic disease.

6. The system of claim 5, wherein the chronic disease is diabetes and the one specific task of the task rule set completed by the patient is operating a glucose meter.

7. The system of claim 1, wherein the one specific task of the task rule set completed by the patient is a task associated with a game play that results in a reward being assigned to the patient.

8. The system of claim 7, wherein the amount of the reward is determined based on a level of adherence to the one specific task based on an adherence threshold.

9. The system of claim 7, wherein the customized task rule set specifies the level of difficulty of the game play.

10. The system of claim 1, wherein the customized task rule set specifies the specific dietary selections available to the patient based on contents of a health care plan administered by the clinician.

11. A method for coordinating a series of health related tasks in interaction with a patient device comprising instructions stored on a physical storage for execution by a computer processor, the instructions comprising:

a task rule set customized for each patient of a plurality of patients registered with the management system;

implementing the task rule set customized for the respective patient;

receiving patient health data dependent upon at least one specific task of the task rule set completed by the patient;

transmitting the received patient data to a clinician device via a clinician interface;

receiving proposed rule set modifications from the clinician device related to the transmitted patient data; and

modifying at least one task of the task rule set customized for the respective patient using the proposed rule set modifications, such that subsequent specific tasks completed by the patient are influenced by the modified at least one task.

12. The method of claim 11, wherein the proposed rule set modification is related to timing of collection of the patient health data.

13. The method of claim 11, wherein the proposed rule set modification is related to a value or type of health care related reading.

14. The method of claim 11 further comprising instructions for comparison of the received patient data with corresponding data in a health care plan of the patient, such that the proposed rule set modifications are a result of the comparison.

15. The method of claim 14, wherein the health care plan is for a chronic disease and the customized task rule set contains task rules and associated content relevant to aspects of the chronic disease.

16. The method of claim 15, wherein the chronic disease is diabetes and the one specific task of the task rule set completed by the patient is operating a glucose meter.

17. The method of claim 11, wherein the one specific task of the task rule set completed by the patient is a task associated with a game play that results in a reward being assigned to the patient.

18. The method of claim 17, wherein the amount of the reward is determined based on a level of adherence to the one specific task based on an adherence threshold.

19. The method of claim 17, wherein the customized task rule set specifies the level of difficulty of the game play.

20. The method of claim 11, wherein the customized task rule set specifies the specific dietary selections available to the patient based on contents of a health care plan administered by the clinician.

21. The method of claim 11, wherein a computer generated avatar assigned to an account of the patient is presented to the patient along with health condition information of the avatar based on a result of the one specific task of the task rule set completed by the patient.

22. A method for coordinating a series of health related tasks in interaction with a patient device comprising instructions stored on a physical storage for execution by a computer processor, the instructions comprising:

a task rule set customized for each patient of a plurality of patients registered with the management system, the customized rule set based on a health care plan for the patient administered by a clinician;

implementing the task rule set customized for the respective patient;

receiving patient health data dependent upon at least one specific task of the task rule set completed by the patient;

transmitting the received patient data to a clinician device via a clinician interface; and

transmitting a message to a parent device including content related to the patient health data including information about the one specific task of the task rule set completed by the patient.

23. The method of claim 22, wherein the one specific task of the task rule set completed by the patient is a task associated with a game play that results in a reward being assigned to the patient.

24. The method of claim 23, wherein the amount of the reward is determined based on a level of adherence to the one specific task based on an adherence threshold.

25. The method of claim 22 further comprising the instructions of:

modifying at least one task of the task rule set customized for the respective patient using the proposed rule set modifications, such that subsequent specific tasks completed by the patient are influenced by the modified at least one task.