Methods and Systems for Facilitating Access by a Patient to Actionable Tasks Associated with a Chronic Care Plan

• US 20140156292A1
• Filed: 03/30/2013
• Published: 06/05/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 11/30/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Cellco Partnership, Inc. (Verizon Communications Inc.), Verizon Patent and Licensing Incorporated (Verizon Communications Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Cellco Partnership, Inc. (Verizon Communications Inc.), Verizon Patent and Licensing Incorporated (Verizon Communications Inc.)
• Inventors: Kozicki, Scott, Lane, Arthur W. III, Relyea, Donald H., Solleti, Anil K.
• Granted Patent: US 9,449,355 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/2
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0631 Item recommendations
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 10/20 for electronic clinical trials or questionnaires
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/67 for remote operation

Abstract

An exemplary method includes a chronic care solutions provider system 1) maintaining data representative of a chronic care plan for a patient with a chronic medical condition, 2) receiving data representative of a biometric reading acquired by a biometric device associated with the patient, 3) generating a plurality of actionable tasks based on the biometric reading and in accordance with the chronic care plan, and 4) concurrently presenting, within a patient portal accessible by the patient, a plurality of graphical task cards each representative of a distinct actionable task included in the plurality of actionable tasks. Corresponding methods and systems are also disclosed.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

maintaining, by a chronic care solutions provider system, data representative of a chronic care plan for a patient with a chronic medical condition;

receiving, by the chronic care solutions provider system, data representative of a biometric reading acquired by a biometric device associated with the patient;

generating, by the chronic care solutions provider system, a plurality of actionable tasks based on the biometric reading and in accordance with the chronic care plan, the actionable tasks configured to assist the patient in managing the chronic medical condition; and

concurrently presenting, by the chronic care solutions provider system within a patient portal accessible by the patient, a plurality of graphical task cards each representative of a distinct actionable task included in the plurality of actionable tasks.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the concurrently presenting of the plurality of graphical task cards comprises presenting the graphical task cards in a staggered stack arrangement such that at least a portion of each of the graphical task cards is visible within the patient portal.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the graphical task cards are ordered within the staggered stack arrangement in accordance with an order in which the actionable tasks represented by the graphical task cards are to be completed by the patient.

4. The method of claim 2, further comprising:

detecting, by the chronic care solutions provider system, a touch gesture performed by the patient; and

shuffling, by the chronic care solutions provider system, the graphical task cards within the staggered stack arrangement in response to the touch gesture.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein the shuffling comprises graphically bringing a graphical task card included in the plurality of graphical task cards and located beneath a top of the staggered stack arrangement prior to the touch gesture being performed to being located at the top of the staggered stack arrangement.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein each graphical task card included in the plurality of graphical task cards is interactive and configured to facilitate completion by the patient of a corresponding actionable task.

7. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

detecting, by the chronic care solutions provider system, a selection by the patient of a graphical task card included in the plurality of graphical task cards; and

enlarging, by the chronic care solutions provider system, the selected graphical task card within the patient portal.

8. The method of claim 7, wherein the enlarging comprises maximizing a size of the selected graphical task card within the patient portal such that a remaining number of graphical task cards included in the plurality of graphical task cards are not visible within the patient portal.

9. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

detecting, by the chronic care solutions provider system, a selection by the patient of a graphical task card included in the plurality of graphical task cards, the graphical task card representative of an actionable task included in the plurality of actionable tasks; and

presenting, by the chronic care solutions provider system in response to the selection of the graphical task card and within the patient portal, content associated with the actionable task.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein the receiving of the data representative of the biometric reading acquired by the biometric device comprises receiving the data representative of the biometric reading from the biometric device by way of a cellular connection between the biometric device and a network interconnecting the biometric device and the chronic care solutions provider system.

11. The method of claim 1, wherein the receiving of the data representative of the biometric reading acquired by the biometric device comprises receiving the data representative of the biometric reading from a computing device associated with the patient.

12. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

maintaining, by the chronic care solutions provider system, data representative of a library of actionable tasks;

wherein the generating of the actionable tasks comprises using the biometric reading to automatically select the actionable tasks from the library of actionable tasks.

13. The method of claim 1, wherein the generating of the actionable tasks comprises:

presenting, within a practitioner portal accessible by a health care practitioner assigned to the patient, the biometric reading acquired by the biometric device;

receiving, by way of the practitioner portal, input provided by the health care practitioner in response to the presentation of the biometric reading; and

generating the actionable tasks based on the input provided by the health care practitioner.

14. The method of claim 1, wherein the generating of the actionable tasks is further based on one or more other biometric readings acquired by the biometric device prior to the biometric reading being acquired by the biometric device.

15. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

receiving, by the chronic care solutions provider system, data representative of an additional biometric reading associated with the patient acquired by an additional biometric device;

wherein the generating of the actionable tasks is further based on the additional biometric reading.

16. The method of claim 1, embodied as computer-executable instructions on at least one non-transitory computer-readable medium.

17. A method comprising:

maintaining, by a chronic care solutions provider system, data representative of a chronic care plan for a patient with a chronic medical condition;

providing, by the chronic care solutions provider system, a patient portal accessible by the patient; and

concurrently presenting, by the chronic care solutions provider system within the patient portal, a plurality of graphical objects each representative of a distinct actionable task included in a plurality of actionable tasks configured to assist the patient in managing the chronic medical condition and selected in accordance with the chronic care plan, a graphical object representative of progress made by the patient towards one or more goals associated with the chronic care plan, and at least one recommendation for managing the chronic medical condition.

18. The method of claim 17, wherein the concurrently presenting further comprises presenting, within the patient portal, at least one of information associated with the chronic care plan, social network content associated with the patient, and an advertisement associated with at least one of the chronic medical condition and the biometric reading.

19. The method of claim 17, embodied as computer-executable instructions on at least one non-transitory computer-readable medium.

20. A system comprising:

a storage facility configured to maintain data representative of a chronic care plan for a patient with a chronic medical condition; and

a chronic care management facility communicatively coupled to the storage facility and configured to

receive data representative of a biometric reading acquired by a biometric device associated with the patient,

determine that the biometric reading is outside an acceptable range specified in the chronic care plan,

generate a plurality of actionable tasks based on the biometric reading and in accordance with the chronic care plan, the actionable tasks configured to assist the patient in managing the chronic medical condition, and

concurrently present, within a patient portal accessible by the patient, a plurality of graphical task cards each representative of a distinct actionable task included in the plurality of actionable tasks.