Method and system for outpatient monitoring
First Claim
1. A system for coordinating communication sessions between a patient location and a health care provider location to allow monitoring of a patient at said patient location by a care giver associated with said health care provider location, comprising:
- a communication device in said patient location; and
a health care provider server located at said health care provider location, wherein;
a patient using said system provides input data to said health care provider server using said communication device;
said health care provider server stores data inout by said patient and presents questions to said patient; and
if appropriate, additional questions are presented to said patient by said health care provider server based upon patient responses.wherein said questions presented to said patient include;
a first question set presenting a set of repeating questions to said patient during each communication session;
a second question set presenting a set of rotating questions to said patient during each communication session, wherein identical rotating question sets are never presented during sequential communication sessions; and
a third question set presenting a branching question to said patient during a communication session, when warranted, based on a response from said patient to a presented question.
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Abstract
The present invention is an outpatient monitoring system which enables patients to interact with a health care provider using a standard telephone. A patient is presented with a series of condition-appropriate questions. Based upon the patient responses, additional questions are posed on a real-time dynamic basis. In addition, certain general questions from a predefined set of questions are asked of the patient in a rotating manner to ensure that there is variety with each telephone session. Further, the question sets can be recorded in the voice of the patient'"'"'s clinician, or other person familiar to the patient, so that a familiar voice is heard by the patient, thereby personalizing the medical experience.
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32 Claims
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1. A system for coordinating communication sessions between a patient location and a health care provider location to allow monitoring of a patient at said patient location by a care giver associated with said health care provider location, comprising:
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a communication device in said patient location; and a health care provider server located at said health care provider location, wherein; a patient using said system provides input data to said health care provider server using said communication device; said health care provider server stores data inout by said patient and presents questions to said patient; and if appropriate, additional questions are presented to said patient by said health care provider server based upon patient responses. wherein said questions presented to said patient include; a first question set presenting a set of repeating questions to said patient during each communication session; a second question set presenting a set of rotating questions to said patient during each communication session, wherein identical rotating question sets are never presented during sequential communication sessions; and a third question set presenting a branching question to said patient during a communication session, when warranted, based on a response from said patient to a presented question. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9)
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10. A method for coordinating communication sessions between a patient location and a health care provider location to allow monitoring of a patient at said patient location by a care giver associated with said health care provider location, comprising the steps of:
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providing a communication device in said patient location; and providing a health care provider server located at said health care provider location; having a patient provide input data to said health care provider server using said communication device; storing said patient input data on said health care provider server; presenting one or more questions to said patient from said health care provider server, comprising at least the steps of; presenting a first question set of repeating questions to said patient during each communication session; and presenting a second question set of rotating questions to said patient during each communication session, wherein identical rotating question sets are never presented during sequential communication sessions; receiving patient responses to said one or more questions by said health care provider server; and presenting additional questions to said patient by said health care provider server based upon patient responses. - View Dependent Claims (11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19)
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20. A method for interaction between a patient and a healthcare provider, comprising the steps of:
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providing an interactive system enabling bidirectional interactive communication between said patient and said healthcare provider; conveying a first query to said patient via said interactive system; receiving a response to said first query from said patient via said interactive system; conveying a second query to said patient via said interactive system, wherein said second query is selected from a set of questions, with the selection being based on said response; and conveying a series of rotating questions to said patient from a rotating question set, said rotating questions being of a general nature and wherein no questions from said rotating question set are repeated before every question in said rotating question set has been conveyed to said patient. - View Dependent Claims (21, 22, 23, 24)
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25. A system for gathering, storing, and presenting patient data, said data being transmitted to a health care provider server by a patient over a communication connection during a communication session, said system comprising:
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a repeating-question module on a computer readable medium presenting a set of repeating questions to said patient during each communication session; a rotating-question module on a computer readable medium presenting a set of rotating questions to said patient during each communication session, wherein identical rotating questions sets are never presented during sequential communication sessions; and a branching question module on a computer readable medium presenting a branching question to said patient during a communication session based on a response from said patient to a presented question. - View Dependent Claims (26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32)
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