SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PERFORMING A DIAGNOSTIC ANALYSIS OF PHYSIOLOGICAL INFORMATION
First Claim
1. An avatar engine, comprising:
- a processing system including a processor; and
a memory that stores executable instructions that, when executed by the processing system, facilitate performance of operations, comprising;
generating an avatar through equipment of a user, wherein the avatar interacts with the user through the equipment of the user;
analyzing an interaction between the avatar and the user to determine a desire to determine a medical status of the user;
requesting, by way of the avatar, that the user perform physiological tests to generate current physiological information from the physiological tests responsive to the desire to determine the medical status of the user;
receiving, by way of a measurement device associated with the equipment of the user, the current physiological information;
accessing prior physiological information;
comparing the prior physiological information with the current physiological information as a comparison;
determining a health condition of the user that indicates an improvement or deterioration in health based on the comparison;
presenting the health condition to equipment of a medical agent of the user, wherein the medical agent is presented the health condition by way of the avatar;
receiving from the equipment of the medical agent a prognosis and prescription determined from the comparison as determined by the medical agent; and
presenting the user with the health condition, the prognosis and the prescription by way of the avatar.
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Abstract
A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, an avatar engine having a controller to retrieve a user profile of a user, present the user an avatar having characteristics that correlate to the user profile, detect one or more responses of the user during a communication exchange between the user and the avatar, identify from the one or more responses a need to determine a medical status of the user, establish communications with a medical diagnostic system, receive physiological information associated with the user, submit the physiological information to the medical diagnostic system, receive from the medical diagnostic system a diagnostic analysis of the physiological information, and present the diagnostic analysis to at least one of the user and a medical agent of the user, wherein the user is presented the diagnostic analysis by way of the avatar. Other embodiments are disclosed.
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1. An avatar engine, comprising:
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a processing system including a processor; and a memory that stores executable instructions that, when executed by the processing system, facilitate performance of operations, comprising; generating an avatar through equipment of a user, wherein the avatar interacts with the user through the equipment of the user; analyzing an interaction between the avatar and the user to determine a desire to determine a medical status of the user; requesting, by way of the avatar, that the user perform physiological tests to generate current physiological information from the physiological tests responsive to the desire to determine the medical status of the user; receiving, by way of a measurement device associated with the equipment of the user, the current physiological information; accessing prior physiological information; comparing the prior physiological information with the current physiological information as a comparison; determining a health condition of the user that indicates an improvement or deterioration in health based on the comparison; presenting the health condition to equipment of a medical agent of the user, wherein the medical agent is presented the health condition by way of the avatar; receiving from the equipment of the medical agent a prognosis and prescription determined from the comparison as determined by the medical agent; and presenting the user with the health condition, the prognosis and the prescription by way of the avatar. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7)
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8. A method, comprising:
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generating, by a processing system including a processor, an avatar presenting, by the processing system, the avatar at a device of a user; analyzing, by the processing system, a communication exchange between the user and the avatar to determine a desire to determine a medical status of the user; requesting, by the processing system via the avatar, that the user perform physiological tests responsive to the desire to determine the medical status of the user; receiving, by the processing system, physiological information from the physiological tests; submitting, by the processing system, the physiological information and the communication exchange to equipment of a medical agent by way of the avatar; receiving, by the processing system, from the equipment of the medical agent, a prognosis and prescription determined from the physiological information and the communication exchange; and presenting, by the processing system, the user with the prognosis and the prescription by way of the avatar. - View Dependent Claims (9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14)
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15. A machine-readable storage medium, comprising executable instructions that, when executed by a processing system including a processor, facilitate performance of operations, comprising:
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conducting a communication exchange between a user and an avatar, wherein the communication exchange is associated with interactive media services for the user; identifying a desire to determine a medical status of the user based on the communication exchange; selecting a physiological measuring device from a group of physiological measuring devices as a selected physiological measuring device responsive to identifying the desire to determine the medical status of the user; collecting physiological information associated with the user by the selected physiological measuring device; accessing prior physiological information associated with the user; comparing the physiological information associated with the user with the prior physiological information associated with the user to generate a comparison; determining whether a health condition of the user has changed based on the comparison; presenting the comparison and a notification that the health condition has changed to equipment of a medical agent of the user by way of the avatar; receiving, from the equipment of the medical agent, one of a prognosis and prescription as determined by the medical agent from the comparison and a notification that the health condition has changed; and presenting the user with the health condition, the prognosis and the prescription by way of the avatar. - View Dependent Claims (16, 17, 18, 19, 20)
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