MULTIMODAL PHYSIOLOGIC DATA STATION AND WELLNESS TRANSFORMATION OF LARGE POPULATIONS

• US 20130211852A1
• Filed: 02/14/2013
• Published: 08/15/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 02/15/2012
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Cleveland Clinic Foundation
• Original Assignee: Cleveland Clinic Foundation
• Inventors: Roizen, Michael F., Kuban, Barry D.
• Application Number:
  US13/767,249
• Publication Number:
  US 20130211852A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/2
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/063 Operations research, analysis or management
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 20/30 relating to physical therapies or activities, e.g. physiotherapy, acupressure or exercising
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/63 for local operation
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/67 for remote operation
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 50/70 for mining of medical data, e.g. analysing previous cases of other patients

Abstract

A method includes determining team participant members for one or more wellness teams. The method includes aggregating participant medical data for each of the one or more wellness teams from one or more networked physiologic stations configured to receive the medical data. The method includes analyzing the medical data to determine wellness information for the one or more wellness teams associated with the aggregated participant medical data. The method can be operated on a system where the system includes at least one physiologic station to generate participant medical information from a plurality of participants. This can include an identification component to facilitate trust in collected data. A storage medium collects the medical information over a network from the plurality of participants and an analyzer determines group wellness information from the collected medical information.

Claims

1. A method, comprising:

determining team participant members for one or more wellness teams;

aggregating participant medical data for each of the one or more wellness teams from one or more networked physiologic stations configured to receive the medical data; and

analyzing the medical data to determine wellness information for the one or more wellness teams associated with the aggregated participant medical data.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising scanning a card with a biomarker to validate the originator of the participant medical data.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising sorting the participant medical data into a relational database.

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising capturing images to verify height, waist size, body mass index (BMI), and waist-to-height ratios.

5. The method of claim 1, further comprising capturing multiple identifications to store and compare initial, final, and multiple pictures on a scale that enables validation of individual measurements to facilitate trust in the validity of data collection.

6. The method of claim 1, further comprising aggregating the participant medical data across and/or within an entity, wherein the entity can include neighborhoods, towns, countries, or companies to enable validated weight loss competitions and validated BMI or waist loss competitions.

7. The method of claim 1, further comprising aggregating biologic markers including, heart rate, blood sugar, or cholesterol, entering the biologic markers into a relational database, and transmitting the biologic markers to emergency medical rooms, coaching professionals, or social media based competitions.

8. The method of claim 1, further comprising providing an interactive screen to allow for answering health or related food questions.

9. The method of claim 1, further comprising comparing input data and physiologic data that allows determination of what foods or activities result in changes in physiologic data for an individual or team.

10. The method of claim 1, further comprising providing health, promotional, and instructional material to medical data participants.

11. A system, comprising:

at least one physiologic station to generate participant medical information from a plurality of team participants;

a dual identification component to facilitate trust in collected data from the plurality of team participants;

a storage medium to collect the medical information over a network from the plurality of team participants; and

an analyzer to determine group wellness information from the collected medical information.

12. The system of claim 11, further comprising linking the plurality of team participants in a contest.

13. The system of claim 11, the contest involves determining which team participant or which team has lost the most weight, lost the most amount of fat, lowered their blood pressure the most, changed their cholesterol by the largest amount, or reduced their waste size the most, and what foods or exercises led to the changes.

14. The system of claim 11, further comprising an incentive component to induce the plurality of team participants o provide the participant medical information.

15. The system of claim 14, wherein statistics are applied to the group information to determine the group wellness information.

16. The system of claim 15, wherein trained classifiers or neural networks are employed to analyze the group information.

17. The system of claim 15, wherein the group wellness information is employed to determine health conditions for a group, contamination of a group, or effects of habits on the group.

18. A system, comprising:

a network to communicate medical information from a plurality of team participants;

at least one physiologic station coupled to the network to collect the medical information from the plurality of team participants;

an identification component to authenticate the plurality of team participants before the medical information is collected and communicated on the network;

a storage medium to aggregate the medical information over the network from the plurality of team participants;

an incentive component to induce the plurality of team participants to provide the medical information to the at least one physiologic station; and

an analyzer to determine group wellness information from the collected medical information and determine at least one leader team from the plurality of team participants.

19. The system of claim 19, wherein the identification component is a biometric device to authenticate the plurality of team participants.

20. The system of claim 19, wherein the incentive component is an electronic card that is updated with a reward when a given team participant from the plurality of team participants provides the medical information.