System and method for managing, manipulating, and analyzing data and devices over a distributed network

• US 7,349,947 B1
• Filed: 08/06/2001
• Issued: 03/25/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 08/04/2000
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Firelogic Incorporated
• Original Assignee: Firelogic Incorporated
• Inventors: Yu, Hao, Slage, Irena, Slage, Michael
• Primary Examiner(s): SALAD, ABDULLAHI ELMI
• Application Number:
  US09/921,595
• Time in Patent Office: 2,423 Days
• Field of Search: 709/217, 709/224, 705 2- 3, 707/10, 707/104.1, 379/106.02, 600/301, 715/507, 704 2- 3
• US Class Current: 709/217
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 10/20 for electronic clinical trials or questionnaires
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 10/60 for patient-specific data, e.g. for electronic patient records
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 15/00 ICT specially adapted for medical reports, e.g. generation or transmission thereof
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/125 involving control of end-device applications over a network
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/306 User profiles

Abstract

A system and method for managing, manipulating, and analyzing data over a distributed network, such as the Internet is generally applicable to any field which could benefit from a centralized system for gathering, storing and analyzing data from multiple remote data sources over a distributed network. The present invention is particularly applicable for gathering, storing and analyzing health data from remotely located health data sources, such as remotely located medical devices, via the Internet.

Claims

1. A clinical trial data management server method, comprising:

receiving, at a server, a user profile provided by a client;

based on said user profile, indicating to said client one or more matching clinical trials;

receiving a clinical trail selection from said client;

providing to said client a selected clinical trial module, indicated by said clinical trial selection and corresponding to a selected one of said matching clinical trials, said module being adapted to obtain clinical trial data including a respective data observation;

receiving, at said server, said respective data observation;

storing said respective data observation in a database of data observations; and

in response to a report request;

retrieving selected ones of said data observations from said database in accordance with parameters in said report request to provide a plurality of observations; and

producing a report based on said plurality of retrieved observations, and

wherein;

said server includes a data engine;

said server comprises a plurality of modules, including said selected clinical trial module, a health data management module, and a clinical trials management module;

said health data management module comprises data analysis algorithms used by said data engine to analyze said clinical trial data; and

said clinical trials management module;

selects said one or more matching clinical trials, based on said user profile;

provides an approval of said clinical trial selection; and

provides said selected clinical trial module.

2. The clinical trial data management server method as set forth in claim 1, wherein said clinical trial data is provided to said server by a data sampling device.

3. The clinical trial data management server method as set forth in claim 1, wherein said clinical trial data is provided to said server over the Internet.

4. The clinical trial data management server method as set forth in claim 1, wherein said clinical trial data is provided to said server by a general-purpose computing device having said clinical trial data manually inputted by a user.

5. The clinical trial data management server method as set forth in claim 4, wherein said general-purpose computing device is one of:

a personal computer, a handheld computing device, and a telephone.

6. The clinical trial data management server method as set forth in claim 1, wherein said clinical trials management module performs said selecting of said one or more matching clinical trial by comparing said received user profile with clinical trial profiles stored in a clinical trials database.

7. The clinical trial data management server method as set forth in claim 1, wherein said health data management module comprises data analysis algorithms and is adapted to accept data for one or more of:

cardiology data, diabetes data, allergy data, and immunology data.

8. The clinical trial data management server method as set forth in claim 1, wherein said health data management module is adapted to send analyzed data to said client, said analyzed data comprising one or more of:

a data display, complex data charting, and trend identification.

9. The clinical trial data management server method as set forth in claim 8, wherein said complex data charting comprises mathematical EKG pattern analysis.

10. The clinical trial data management server method as set forth in claim 8, wherein said trend identification is based on a plurality of said data observations form a plurality of different medical devices.