Personalized information discovery and presentation system

• US 7,957,985 B2
• Filed: 09/02/2008
• Issued: 06/07/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 09/04/2007
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Dynamic Health Initiatives
• Original Assignee: Dynamic Health Initiatives
• Inventors: Kashani, Mariam, Vernalis, Marina
• Primary Examiner(s): Gilligan; Luke
• Assistant Examiner(s): SEREBOFF, NEAL
• Application Number:
  US12/203,086
• Publication Number:
  US 20090070147A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,008 Days
• Field of Search: 705/2, 705/3, 600/300
• US Class Current: 705/3
• 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 20/00 ICT specially adapted for therapies or health-improving plans, e.g. for handling prescriptions, for steering therapy or for monitoring patient compliance
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/63 for local operation
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 50/20 for computer-aided diagnosis, e.g. based on medical expert systems
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 70/20 relating to practices or guidelines

Abstract

A personalized health information discovery and presentation system is presented. The system has an input device, a subject-profile module, an information database, an alignment module, a solutions module, an integration engine, a plan module, a graphical user interface, and a processor. The input device allows a user to enter a personalized subject-profile, the subject-profile module receives the subject-profile and converts it into a recognized health profile. The health information database comprises a library of health information, and the alignment module aligns the recognized health profile with relevant health information. The solution'"'"'s module parses the relevant information into information subsets, and the integration engine integrates the information; identifies conflicting health information, contraindications, or health warnings; creates notifications; and compiles data for presentation to the user. The plan module converts the integrated health information into a personalized health maintenance plan for display in a form selected by the user.

Claims

1. An iterative, health information discovery and presentation system for producing an optimized-personalized health maintenance plan for a user, the system comprising:

a processor;

an input device operable to allow a user to enter a personalized subject-profile into a computing system, wherein the personalized subject-profile includes information from answers to a template questionnaire designed to to produce a first personalized health maintenance plan for optimization into an optimized-personalized health maintenance plan;

a subject-profile module embodied in a non-transitory computer readable storage medium for receiving the personalized subject-profile and converting the personalized subject profile into a recognized health profile for the subject;

a health information database embodied in a non-transitory computer readable storage medium and comprising a library of health information;

an alignment module embodied in a non-transitory computer readable storage medium for aligning the recognized health profile with health information from the health information database that is determined by the system as relevant to the recognized health profile;

a solutions module embodied in a non-transitory computer readable storage medium for parsing the relevant health information into information subsets that include a subset selected from the group consisting of activity, nutrition, stress, and sleep;

an integration engine embodied in a non-transitory computer readable storage medium for (i) integrating rating information from the recognized health profile with the relevant health information;

(ii) identifying any conflicting health information, contraindications, and health warnings obtained from the health information database; and

(iii) compiling data comprising the integrated information and any conflicting health information, contraindications, and health warnings for presentation to the user;

a plan module embodied in a non-transitory computer readable storage medium for converting the compiled data into a presentation format for the first personalized health maintenance plan, or an optimized-personalized health maintenance plan; and

an output device operable for displaying the first personalized health maintenance plan, or the optimized-personalized health maintenance plan, to the user;

wherein,

the system functions to produce the optimized personalized health maintenance plan based on an “

n^th”

iteration, n being an integer greater than or equal to 1;

where n=1, a first iterated questionnaire is provided to the user and is based on the answers to the template questionnaire;

where n>

1, an additional nth questionnaire is provided to the user and is based on the answers to the (n−

1)^th questionnaire;

and,

the personalized health maintenance plan is optimized to the n^th iteration to increase the level of specificity of the personalized health maintenance plan for the user.

2. The computing system of claim 1, wherein the subject-profile comprises one or more of the subject'"'"'s age, sex, height, weight, known medical conditions, vital signs, laboratory test results, prior conditions, prior treatments, prescriptions, and family medical history.

3. The computing system of claim 2, wherein the system comprises a data exchange module embodied in a non-transitory computer readable storage medium for interacting with external medical data formats, wherein the subject-profile comprises external medical data obtained from a health provider'"'"'s database.

4. The computing system of claim 1, wherein

the relevant health information includes the subject'"'"'s activity, nutrition, stress, and sleep;

the solutions module parses the relevant health information into activity, nutrition, stress, and sleep;

the alignment engine aligns the library of health information with the subject'"'"'s activity, nutrition, stress and sleep; and

the plan module provides a personalized health maintenance plan comprising the four categories of activity, nutrition, stress, and sleep.

5. The computing system of claim 1, wherein the health maintenance plan comprises a care management plan, a disease management plan, or both.

6. The computing system of claim 1 further comprising a parameterization module embodied in a non-transitory computer readable storage medium for deriving display-preference parameters from the user profile;

wherein the output device includes a graphical user interface that displays the health maintenance plan in the form of a customized set of information subset options and in accordance with the user'"'"'s display preferences.

7. The computing system of claim 1 further comprising a multilanguage database embodied in a non-transitory computer readable storage medium, a translation engine embodied in a computer readable medium, and a template look-up engine embodied in a computer readable medium;

wherein,

the multilanguage database includes a plurality of phrase templates associated with a plurality of phrases in the recognized health profile and the library of health information;

the translation engine translates the relevant phrase template from a source language to a destination language selected from multiple languages in the multilanguage database; and

the template look-up engine finds the phrase template associated with the destination phrase from among the multiple languages.

8. The system of claim 1 further comprising an external computer connection and a browser program module embodied in a non-transitory computer readable storage medium, wherein the browser program module accesses external data through the external computer connection to update the health information database.

9. The system of claim 8 further comprising security measures to protect the subject'"'"'s privacy, integrity of data, or both.

10. The system of claim 1, wherein the system is provided over a network.

11. The system of claim 1, wherein the system is coupled to a network.

12. The system of claim 1, wherein the user is an individual producing the health maintenance plan for the subject and is selected from the group consisting of a health care provider, an insurance provider, a teacher, and an athletic coach.

13. The system of claim 1, wherein the user

accesses a select subtopic from the health information database;

and,

interactively and iteratively answers one or more additional queries generated by the system and the subject-profile about the subtopics;

wherein,

the personalized health maintenance plan is iteratively optimized at each level of questioning to produce a health maintenance plan that is optimized by the user by subtopic.

14. The system of claim 1, wherein the input device, the output device, or both, is provided through a portable, single unit device.

15. The system of claim 14, wherein the portable, single unit device is a hand-held device.

16. The system of claim 1, wherein the plan module further functions by selecting multimedia data forms to provide the user with the integrated health information through a layered hierarchy of multimedia in a manner selected by the user, wherein the layered hierarchy segments complex lessons into one or more lesson subsets in each layer of the layered hierarchy segments.

17. The system of claim 16, wherein the subject-profile includes data on the subject'"'"'s personal interests, and the integration engine further functions enhance learning by

aligning the data on the subject'"'"'s personal interests with relevant health information from the health information database;

selecting relevant information in a manner that minimizes negative suggestion effect; and

displaying the personalized health maintenance plan to the user in a manner that reflects the subject'"'"'s personal interests.

18. The system of claim 16, where the integration engine further functions to enhance learning by

linking related information;

removing unrelated information; and

displaying the personalized health maintenance plan to the user in a manner that is focused to information and in accordance with a customized set of information subset options selected by the user.

19. An iterative system for providing an optimized-personalized health maintenance plan to a user, comprising:

an input device operable to allow a user to enter a personalized subject-profile into a computing system;

a subject-profile module operable to receive the personalized subject-profile and convert the subject-profile into a recognized health profile for the subject;

a health information database comprising a library of health information;

an alignment module operable to align the recognized health profile with health information from the health information database that is determined by the system as relevant to the recognized health profile;

a solution'"'"'s module operable to parse the relevant information in the health information database into information subsets that include a subset selected from the group consisting of activity, nutrition, stress, and sleep;

an integration engine operable to (i) integrate information from the recognized health profile with the relevant health information;

(ii) identify any conflicting health information, contraindications, or health warnings obtained from the health information database; and

(iii) compile data for presentation to the user;

a plan module operable to convert the integrated health information into a presentation format for a first personalized health maintenance plan or an optimized-personalized health maintenance plan;

a processor; and

an output device operable to display the personalized health maintenance plan to the user;

wherein,

the system functions to produce the optimized-personalized health maintenance plan based on an “

n^th”

iteration, n being an integer greater than or equal to 1;

where n=1, a first iterated questionnaire is provided to the user and is based on the answers to a template questionnaire;

where n>

1, an additional nth questionnaire is provided to the user and is based on the answers to the (n−

1)^th questionnaire;

and,

the personalized health maintenance plan is optimized to the n^th iteration to increase the level of specificity of the personalized health maintenance plan for the user.

20. The system of claim 19, wherein the subject-profile comprises one or more of the subject'"'"'s age, sex, height, weight, known medical conditions, vital signs, laboratory test results, prior conditions, prior treatments, prescriptions, and family medical history.

21. The system of claim 19, wherein the system comprises a data exchange module operable to interact with external medical data formats, wherein the subject-profile comprises external medical data obtained from a health provider'"'"'s database.

22. The system of claim 19, wherein

the relevant health information includes the subject'"'"'s activity, nutrition, stress, and sleep;

the solutions module is operable to parse the relevant health information into activity, nutrition, stress, and sleep;

the alignment engine is operable to align the library of health information with the subject'"'"'s activity, nutrition, stress, and sleep; and

the plan module is operable to provide presentation format for the first personalized health maintenance plan or the optimized-personalized health maintenance plan, the format including the four categories of activity, nutrition, stress, and sleep.

23. The system of claim 19, wherein the health maintenance plan comprises a care management plan, a disease management plan, or both.

24. The system of claim 19 further comprising a parameterization module operable to derive display-preference parameters from the user profile;

and the output device includes a graphical user interface that displays the health maintenance plan in accordance with the user'"'"'s display preferences and in the form of a customized set of information subset options selected by the user.

25. The system of claim 19 further comprising a multilanguage database, a translation engine, and a template look-up engine;

wherein,

the multilanguage database includes a plurality of phrase templates associated with a plurality of phrases in the recognized health profile and the library of health information;

the translation engine is operable to translate the relevant phrase template from a source language to a destination language selected from multiple languages in the multilanguage database; and

the template look-up engine is operable to find the phrase template associated with the destination phrase from among the multiple languages.

26. The system of claim 19 further comprising an external computer connection and a browser program module, wherein the browser program module is operable to access external data through the external computer connection to update the health information database.

27. The system of claim 19 further comprising security measures to protect the subject'"'"'s privacy, integrity of data, or both.

28. The system of claim 27, wherein the system is provided by a network.

29. The system of claim 27, wherein the system is coupled to a network.

30. The system of claim 19, wherein the user is an individual producing the health maintenance plan for the subject and is selected from the group consisting of a health care provider, an insurance provider, a teacher, and an athletic coach.

31. The system of claim 19, wherein the user

accesses a select subtopic from the health information database;

and,

interactively and iteratively answers one or more additional queries generated by the system and the subject-profile about the subtopics;

wherein, the personalized health maintenance plan is iteratively optimized at each level of questioning to produce a health maintenance plan that is optimized by the user by subtopic.

32. The system of claim 19, wherein the input device, the output device, or both, is provided through a portable, single unit device.

33. The system of claim 32, wherein the portable, single unit device is a hand-held device.

34. The system of claim 19, wherein the plan module is further operable to select multimedia data forms to provide the user with the integrated health information through a layered hierarchy of multimedia in a manner selected by the user, wherein the layered hierarchy segments complex lessons into one or more lesson subsets in each layer of the layered hierarchy segments.

35. The system of claim 34, wherein the subject-profile includes data on the subject'"'"'s personal interests, and the integration engine further functions to enhance learning by

aligning the data on the subject'"'"'s personal interests with relevant health information from the health information database;

selecting relevant information in a manner that minimizes negative suggestion effect; and

displaying the personalized health maintenance plan to the user in a manner that reflects the subject'"'"'s personal interests.

36. The system of claim 34, where the integration engine further functions to enhance learning by

linking related information;

removing unrelated information; and

displaying the personalized health maintenance plan to the user in a manner that is focused to information and in accordance with a customized set of information subset options selected by the user.

37. A non-transitory computer readable storage medium comprising a subject-profile module, a health information database, an alignment module, a solutions module, an integration engine, and a plan module;

wherein,

the subject-profile module is operable to receive a personalized subject-profile and convert the subject-profile into a recognized health profile, wherein the personalized subject-profile includes information from answers to a template questionnaire designed to produce a first personalized health maintenance plan for optimization into an optimized-personalized health maintenance plan;

the health information database comprises a library of health information;

the alignment module is operable to align the recognized health profile with health information from the health information database that is determined as relevant to the recognized health profile;

the solution'"'"'s module is operable to parse the relevant information in the health information database into information subsets that include activity, nutrition, stress, and sleep;

the integration engine is operable to (i) integrate the recognized health profile with the relevant health information;

(ii) identify any conflicting health information, contraindications, or health warnings obtained from the health information database; and

compile data for presentation to the user; and

,

the plan module is operable to convert the compiled data into a presentation format for a first iteration of a personalized health maintenance plan;

wherein,

the subject-profile module, the health information database, the alignment module, the solutions module, the integration engine, and the plan module are components of a computer system and are coupled to a processor, an input device, and a graphical user interface, the graphical user interface operable to display the personalized health maintenance plan to the user;

the system functions to produce the optimized personalized health maintenance plan based on an “

n^th”

iteration, n being an integer greater than or equal to 1;

where n=1, a first iterated questionnaire is provided to the user and is based on the answers to the template questionnaire;

where n>

1, an additional nth questionnaire is provided to the user and is based on the answers to the (n−

1)^th questionnaire;

and,

the personalized health maintenance plan is optimized to the n^th iteration to increase the level of specificity of the personalized health maintenance plan for the user.