Generation and Data Management of a Medical Study Using Instruments in an Integrated Media and Medical System

• US 20160371465A1
• Filed: 08/30/2016
• Published: 12/22/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 10/20/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Universal Research Solutions, LLC
• Original Assignee: Universal Research Solutions, LLC
• Inventors: Plummer, Otho Raymond, Hussam, Ali Adel
• Granted Patent: US 11,170,343 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/24 Querying
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/3344 using natural language analysis
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0481 based on specific properties of the displayed interaction object or a metaphor-based environment, e.g. interaction with desktop elements like windows or icons, or assisted by a cursor's changing behaviour or appearance
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 10/20 for electronic clinical trials or questionnaires
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/63 for local operation
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/67 for remote operation

Abstract

In general, a computer-implemented method is described for receiving one or more requests to generate a medical study, retrieving from one or more data repositories one or more medical study instruments, receiving a selection of a particular medical study instrument to use in the medical study, generating by one or more computers a list of one or more research collaborators invited to review the medical study, and generating by one or more computers a list of one of more participants invited to join the medical study.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

transmitting, to a client device, information indicative of a medical study instrument;

determining, by one or more processing devices based on application of a scoring rule to answers to questions in the medical study instrument, score values for one or more of the questions;

wherein the scoring rule comprises a series of instructions for assigning a first score value to a first answer to a first question and for associating a weighted value with a second question, and with the weighted value indicating an importance of the second question associated with the weighted value relative to other questions in the medical study instrument;

determining, by one or more computers based on one or more of the instructions of the scoring rule and the determined score values, a score for the medical study instrument.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein determining score values comprises:

determining one or more weighted score values.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein determining the score for the medical study instrument comprises:

determining a weighted score for the medical study instrument.

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

receiving information indicative of the answers.

5. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

generating a notification messaging indicating that one or more of the questions included in the medical study instrument need to be answered; and

sending the notification message to one or more devices used by one or more participants.

6. The method of claim 1 further comprising:

generating by the one or more computers information for a multimedia module to explain one or more features of a particular question.

7. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

generating information for a graphical user interface that when rendered on a display device comprises a visual representation of the medical study instrument.

8. One or more machine-readable storage devices storing instructions that are executable by one or more processing devises to perform operations comprising:

transmitting, to a client device, information indicative of a medical study instrument;

determining, based on application of a scoring rule to answers to questions in the medical study instrument, score values for one or more of the questions;

wherein the scoring rule comprises a series of instructions for assigning a first score value to a first answer to a first question and for associating a weighted value with a second question, and with the weighted value indicating an importance of the second question associated with the weighted value relative to other questions in the medical study instrument;

determining, based on one or more of the instructions of the scoring rule and the determined score values, a score for the medical study instrument.

9. The one or more machine-readable storage devices of claim 8, wherein determining score values comprises:

determining one or more weighted score values.

10. The one or more machine-readable storage devices of claim 8, wherein determining the score for the medical study instrument comprises:

determining a weighted score for the medical study instrument.

11. The one or more machine-readable storage devices of claim 8, wherein the operations further comprise:

receiving information indicative of the answers.

12. The one or more machine-readable storage devices of claim 8, wherein the operations further comprise:

generating a notification messaging indicating that one or more of the questions included in the medical study instrument need to be answered; and

sending the notification message to one or more devices used by one or more participants.

13. The one or more machine-readable storage devices of claim 8, wherein the operations further comprise:

generating information for a graphical user interface that when rendered on a display device comprises a visual representation of the medical study instrument.

14. An electronic system comprising:

one or more processing devices; and

one or more machine-readable storage devices storing instructions that are executable by one or more processing devises to perform operations comprising;

transmitting, to a client device, information indicative of a medical study instrument;

determining, based on application of a scoring rule to answers to questions in the medical study instrument, score values for one or more of the questions;

wherein the scoring rule comprises a series of instructions for assigning a first score value to a first answer to a first question and for associating a weighted value with a second question, and with the weighted value indicating an importance of the second question associated with the weighted value relative to other questions in the medical study instrument;

determining, based on one or more of the instructions of the scoring rule and the determined score values, a score for the medical study instrument.

15. The electronic system of claim 14, wherein determining score values comprises:

determining one or more weighted score values.

16. The electronic system of claim 14, wherein determining the score for the medical study instrument comprises:

determining a weighted score for the medical study instrument.

17. The electronic system of claim 14, wherein the operations further comprise:

receiving information indicative of the answers.

18. The electronic system of claim 14, wherein the operations further comprise:

generating a notification messaging indicating that one or more of the questions included in the medical study instrument need to be answered; and

sending the notification message to one or more devices used by one or more participants.

19. The electronic system of claim 14, wherein the operations further comprise:

generating information for a graphical user interface that when rendered on a display device comprises a visual representation of the medical study instrument.