PHARMACEUTICAL PRODUCT AND COMMUNICATION TOOL

• US 20130304502A1
• Filed: 01/20/2012
• Published: 11/14/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 01/21/2011
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: ScientificMed Sweden AB
• Original Assignee: ScientificMed Sweden AB
• Inventors: Cederlund, Johan, Fjellstrom, Jan
• Application Number:
  US13/980,611
• Publication Number:
  US 20130304502A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/2
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0203 Market surveys; Market polls
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 10/20 for electronic clinical trials or questionnaires
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 20/10 relating to drugs or medications, e.g. for ensuring correct administration to patients
• 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 50/70 for mining of medical data, e.g. analysing previous cases of other patients

Abstract

The present invention relates to a substance with pharmaceutical activity against a medical condition for use in a treatment of said medical condition in combination with a computer program product comprising instructions causing a computer to perform a method comprising the steps —providing a patient with a set of questions according to a question schedule, wherein said set of questions is specific to the pharmaceutical product; —collecting answers to said questions from said patient; —subjecting said answers to a set of functions specific for the set of questions and the pharmaceutical product thereby generating patient-specific feedback information; —providing said feedback information to the patient; and —optionally extracting clinically relevant information from said answers and providing said clinically relevant information to a database adapted for collecting clinically relevant information during clinical use of said substance. The invention further relates to a corresponding kit-of-parts comprising the substance and the computer program product, and the computer program product and its method as such.

Claims

7. A kit of parts comprising

a pharmaceutical product;

and

a computer program product comprising instructions causing a computer to perform a method comprising the steps

a) providing a patient with a set of questions according to a question schedule, wherein said set of questions is specific to the pharmaceutical product;

b) collecting answers to said questions from said patient;

c) subjecting said answers to a set of functions specific for the set of questions and the pharmaceutical product thereby generating patient-specific feedback information;

d) providing said feedback information to the patient

e) optionally extracting clinically relevant information from said answers and providing said clinically relevant information to a database adapted for collecting clinically relevant information during clinical use of said substance;

f) optionally obtaining a revised set of questions and/or a revised set of functions by subjecting the sets of questions and/or the sets of functions to a review based on clinically relevant information collected during clinical use of the substance; and

g) optionally repeating steps a)-f) for the duration of said treatment

20-1. The computer program product of any of claims 1-19.