Disease management system and method including pain code
First Claim
1. An automated system, having a computing device configured to allow a patient to self-encode a subjective description of a pain experienced by the patient, via direct interactive dialogue between the patient and the computing device, the system comprising:
- a software function executing on the computing device configured to allow a patient to self-encode a subjective description of said pain to represent a degree or description of pain; and
a set of aspect words stored in a data storage operatively coupled to the computing device, wherein the set of aspect words comprises encoded numeric values representing a plurality of different aspects of subjective patient descriptions of pain;
a pain code array generated by the software function comprising the numeric values representative of the patient'"'"'s self-encoded aspect words.
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Abstract
A system and method for allowing a patient to access an automated process for managing a specified health problem called a disease. The system performs disease management in a fully automated manner, using periodic interactive dialogs with the patient to obtain health state measurements from the patient, to evaluate and assess the progress of the patient'"'"'s disease, to review and adjust therapy to optimal levels, and to give the patient medical advice for administering treatment and handling symptom flare-ups and acute episodes of the disease. The medical records are updated, the progression of the disease is stored and tracked, and the patient'"'"'s preferences for treatment are stored and then used to offer medical advice based on the current state of the disease. A prestored general disease trend curve is compared against a patient specific disease trend curve, and the system makes an automated response such as adjusting therapy.
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1. An automated system, having a computing device configured to allow a patient to self-encode a subjective description of a pain experienced by the patient, via direct interactive dialogue between the patient and the computing device, the system comprising:
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a software function executing on the computing device configured to allow a patient to self-encode a subjective description of said pain to represent a degree or description of pain; and a set of aspect words stored in a data storage operatively coupled to the computing device, wherein the set of aspect words comprises encoded numeric values representing a plurality of different aspects of subjective patient descriptions of pain; a pain code array generated by the software function comprising the numeric values representative of the patient'"'"'s self-encoded aspect words. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6)
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7. A computerized method for digitally representing a self-description of a pain experienced by a patient into a pain code array, the method comprising:
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encoding the self-description of the pain experienced by the patient including; storing a set of aspect words in a data storage, wherein the aspect words correspond to an aspect of pain, the aspect words are mapped to subcodes, the data storage being operatively coupled with a computing device; receiving, via direct interactive dialogue between the patient and the computing device, one or more aspect words from the patient that self-describes the pain experienced by the patient; encoding the received aspect words into the subcodes; and combining the subcodes into the pain code array. - View Dependent Claims (8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18)
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19. A non-transitory computer readable medium having computer readable program code embodied therein configured to allow a patient to self-encode a subjective experience of a pain experienced by the patient in a digitized form, the computer readable code comprising instructions for:
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storing, in a data storage accessible to the program code, a listing of aspect words describing a pain, including a degree or description of the pain; receiving, via direct interactive dialogue between the patient and the program code, a patient self-selection of an aspect word from the listing of aspect words, the self-selection describing a pain experienced by the patient; and converting the received aspect word into an integer subcode that represents the received aspect word. - View Dependent Claims (20, 21, 22, 23, 24)
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