Facilitating Health Management of Subjects

• US 20130282398A1
• Filed: 03/27/2013
• Published: 10/24/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 07/24/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Ideal Life, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Ideal Life, Inc.
• Inventors: Goldberg, Jason
• Granted Patent: US 8,930,215 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/3
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/22 Social work or social welfare, e.g. community support activities or counselling services
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 10/60 for patient-specific data, e.g. for electronic patient records
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/67 for remote operation
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 80/00 ICT specially adapted for facilitating communication between medical practitioners or patients, e.g. for collaborative diagnosis, therapy or health monitoring

Abstract

A peer system of subjects with health-related issues is formed based on an association of subjects and a particular type of electronic device or devices which provides information related to a specific health-related issue or issues obtained from particular subjects. By means of such associations, subjects can transmit to and receive messages from other subjects associated with the same type of electronic device. One way to associate subjects with health-related issues is through an association of a subject with a type or types of sensors. For example, each monitoring device may be associated with a subject, and the type or types of sensor or sensors may be associated with the subject and/or monitoring device. Devices, systems, methods and computer program products may be provided leveraging this association for various applications, e.g., management of the health care of subjects, peering among subjects with a common heath-related issue or issues, advertising, research and other applications involving such subjects.

Claims

1. A heath care management system comprising:

a computer system including at least one database that stores health-related information of a plurality of persons including health-related information of a plurality of persons arranged in at least one group in which each person in a respective group has a health-related issue in common; and

a device for obtaining health-related information from each of the plurality of persons;

each device obtaining health-related information from each of the plurality of persons for transmission over a network to the computer system and the computer system generating health-related information for transmission over the network to each device;

each device including a messaging component for sending and receiving over a network or the network at least text messages originated by another device of a person within the same group or originated by the computer system.