System and method for developing and selecting a customized wellness plan

• US 6,269,339 B1
• Filed: 12/29/1998
• Issued: 07/31/2001
• Est. Priority Date: 04/04/1997
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Sharecare, Inc. (Warner Bros. Discovery, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Real Age Incorporated
• Inventors: Silver, Charles
• Primary Examiner(s): Trammell, James P.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Tesfamariam, Mussie
• Application Number:
  US09/222,687
• Time in Patent Office: 945 Days
• Field of Search: 705/1, 705/2, 705/3, 705/4, 600/300, 600/301
• US Class Current: 705/2
• 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 15/00 ICT specially adapted for medical reports, e.g. generation or transmission thereof
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 20/30 relating to physical therapies or activities, e.g. physiotherapy, acupressure or exercising
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 20/60 relating to nutrition control, e.g. diets
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 50/20 for computer-aided diagnosis, e.g. based on medical expert systems
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 50/30 for calculating health indices; for individual health risk assessment

Abstract

The System and Method for Developing a Customized Wetness Plan of the present invention provides a means of measuring a user'"'"'s wellness by determining a user'"'"'s physiological age. The disclosed system and method also provides a means by which a user can learn about personalized wellness options, where the wellness options have been chosen for the user based upon wellness factors input by the user, additional constraints input by the user and the most recently available information relating to the health sciences. The user can select one or more of the disclosed options, and determine the potential effect implementing the options could have on the user'"'"'s physiological age over the short or long term. In this fashion, the user can continue selecting various groups of alternatives until he or she has determined the group of options that the user would like to implement as a wellness plan. The user can then obtain further information regarding the chosen wellness plan from the system and method of the present invention. The disclosed system and method also provides a means whereby a user can monitor their progress toward improving wellness, wherein this progress can be positive or negative.

Claims

1. An interactive wellness system comprising:

means for collecting information relating to a user'"'"'s wellness factors;

means responsive to the user'"'"'s wellness factor information collecting means for determining the user'"'"'s physiological age;

means responsive to the user'"'"'s wellness factor information collecting means for providing the user with wellness program options for improving the user'"'"'s wellness;

means for allowing the user to select from the wellness program options to form a wellness plan; and

means for allowing the user to determine the effects the selected wellness plan has on the user'"'"'s physiological age;

means for identifying products associated with the user-selected options.

2. An interactive wellness system according to claim 1, wherein the wellness program options are chosen in response to the information related to a user'"'"'s wellness factors.

3. An interactive wellness system according to claim 1, further comprising:

means for allowing the user to select a preferred wellness plan.

4. An interactive wellness system according to claim 3, further comprising:

means responsive to the preferred wellness plan selection means for presenting a description of the chosen wellness plan.

5. An interactive wellness system according to claim 4, further comprising:

means responsive to the description presentation means for providing the user with further information related to various aspects of the chosen wellness plan.

6. An interactive wellness system according to claim 1, wherein information related to the user'"'"'s wellness factors comprises information related to the user'"'"'s life style, habits, environment, and health, medical and genetic history.

7. An interactive wellness system according to claim 1, further comprising:

means for determination of the user'"'"'s changing physiological age.

8. An interactive wellness system according to claim 3, wherein the results of implementing a chosen wellness plan are presented to the user.

9. An interactive wellness system according to claim 8, wherein the results of implementing a chosen wellness plan over a short term and the results of implementing a chosen wellness plan over a long term are presented to the user.

10. An interactive wellness system according to claim 8, wherein the potential results of implementing a chosen wellness plan for a three month period and a three year period are presented to the user.

11. An interactive wellness system according to claim 8, wherein the results presented are in the form of physiological age.

12. An interactive wellness system according to claim 1, wherein the user'"'"'s wellness factor information can be updated at a time after initial collection of the user'"'"'s wellness factor information.

13. An interactive wellness system according to claim 3, wherein the user can select a new preferred wellness plan after the initial selection of the preferred wellness plan.

14. An interactive wellness system according to claim 1, wherein the means for collecting wellness factor information comprises decision nodes that allow the user to skip irrelevant or unnecessary questions.

15. An interactive wellness system according to claim 1, further comprising:

is means for determining a composite relative risk responsive to the user'"'"'s collected wellness factor information.

16. An interactive wellness system according to claim 1, wherein means for collecting information related to a user'"'"'s wellness factors further comprises:

a questionnaire, wherein the questionnaire elicits information pertaining to a series of wellness factors.

17. An interactive wellness system according to claim 16, wherein a user inputs wellness factor data in response to the questionnaire.

18. An interactive wellness system according to claim 17, wherein the wellness factor data is stored in a data base table.

19. An interactive wellness system according to claim 18, wherein the wellness factor data is manipulated into transformed data.

20. An interactive wellness system according to claim 19, wherein the transformed data is stored in a database table for transformed data.

21. An interactive wellness system according to claim 20, wherein a means for determining the user'"'"'s physiological age further comprises:

means for processing each of a user'"'"'s wellness factors according to stratification rules;

means responsive to the stratification rule processing for determining a relative risk value for each of the user'"'"'s wellness factors;

means for adjusting the wellness factor relative risk results for covariance; and

means responsive to the user'"'"'s wellness factor relative risk calculation for determining the user'"'"'s equivalent survival rate and physiological age.

39. The system of claim 1 wherein the products identified are products for which advertising fees are paid.

40. The system of claim 1 wherein the products identified are products for which no advertising fees are paid.

22. A method of creating and selecting a wellness program comprising:

inputting data relating to a user'"'"'s wellness factors;

storing the user'"'"'s wellness factor data input data;

manipulating the user'"'"'s wellness factor data into transformed data;

storing the transformed data;

manipulating the transformed data to determine the user'"'"'s physiological age;

presenting physiological age to the user;

determining wellness program options based upon the user'"'"'s wellness factor data and the transformed data;

presenting the wellness program options to the user;

selecting wellness program options by the user to form a wellness plan; and

calculating the physiological age change that occurs if the user adopts the selected wellness plan; and

identifying for the user products associated with selected wellness plan options.

23. A method of creating and selecting a wellness program according to claim 22, further comprising allowing the user to select and appraise the potential effects of various wellness plans.

24. A method of creating and selecting a wellness program according to claim 23, further comprising the user choosing a preferred wellness plan.

25. A method of creating and selecting a wellness program according to claim 24, further comprising presenting the preferred wellness plan to the user.

26. A method of creating and selecting a wellness program according to claim 25, further comprising providing the user with further information relating to various aspects of the preferred wellness plan.

27. A method of creating and selecting a wellness program according to claim 22, wherein data relating to the user'"'"'s wellness factors comprises information relating to a user'"'"'s life style, habits, environment, and health, medical, and genetic history.

28. A method of creating and selecting a wellness program according to claim 22, further comprising determining the change in a user'"'"'s physiological age.

29. A method of creating and selecting a wellness program according to claim 24, further comprising presenting the physiological age effect of implementing a chosen wellness plan to the user.

30. A method of creating and selecting a wellness program according to claim 29, wherein the results of implementing a chosen wellness plan over the short term and the results of implementing a chosen wellness plan over the long term are presented to the user.

31. A method of creating and selecting a wellness program according to claim 29, wherein the results of implementing a chosen wellness plan for a three month and a three year period are presented to the user.

32. A method of creating and selecting a wellness program according to claim 29, wherein the results presented are in the form of physiological age.

33. A method of creating and selecting a wellness program according to claim 22, further comprising:

updating information relating to the user'"'"'s wellness factors at a time after initial inputting of the user'"'"'s wellness factor data.

34. A method of creating and selecting a wellness program according to claim 23, further comprising:

selecting a new preferred wellness plan after initial selection of the preferred wellness plan.

35. A method of creating and selecting a wellness program according to claim 22 further comprising the automatic skipping of irrelevant or unnecessary questions.

36. A method of creating and selecting a wellness program according to claim 22 further comprising determining a composite relative risk based upon the user'"'"'s wellness factor data.

37. A method of creating and selecting a wellness program according to claim 22 wherein inputting data relating to the user'"'"'s wellness factors results from the user responding to a questionnaire.

38. A method of creating and selecting a wellness program according to claim 22 wherein the determination of the user'"'"'s physiological age further comprises:

processing the user'"'"'s wellness factors according to stratification rules;

determining a relative risk vale for each of the user'"'"'s wellness factors according to the stratification rules;

adjusting the wellness factor relative risk values for covariance; and

determining the user'"'"'s equivalent survival rate and physiological age.

41. The method of claim 22 further comprising paying for an endorsement of the products identified to the user.

42. The method of claim 22 further comprising identifying products to the user without requiring endorsement fees to be paid.