Computer-based system to optimize medical treatment based on consumer choice and comparative effectiveness of treatment data

• US 8,321,372 B1
• Filed: 04/19/2010
• Issued: 11/27/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 04/17/2009
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: BridgeHealth Medical, Inc. (Transcarent, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: BridgeHealth Medical, Inc. (Transcarent, Inc.)
• Inventors: Calone, David, Rakshit, Amitabha, Busby, Lonnie, Dombro, Andrew, Lazzaro, Victor, Klear, Jordan, Garin, William E.
• Primary Examiner(s): Gaffin, Jeffrey A
• Assistant Examiner(s): KENNEDY, ADRIAN L
• Application Number:
  US12/763,117
• Time in Patent Office: 953 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 706/62
• 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 50/30 for calculating health indices; for individual health risk assessment
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 50/50 for simulation or modelling of medical disorders

Abstract

A process, machine, manufacture, or composition of matter, and improvements, illustratively as method of using a machine, the method including: storing data of a population in memory; computing, by a computer accessing the data stored in the memory, a probability of at least one future medical treatment needed by at least one individual having data in the data of a population; ascribing, by the computer applying the computed probabilities, each said individual with one of a plurality of risk stratifications for each said future medical treatment; and producing, by the computer communicating to an output device, output including at least one said ascribed individual in association with the one of the risk stratifications. The method can also include forming, by the computer accessing the data stored in the memory, an association of travel by an individual and a health consequence as a result of the travel by the individual; and generating, at the output device, output including the association. The method can also include determining, by the computer accessing the memory, whether at least one alternative treatment for the future medical treatment may be appropriate for the individual; and producing, at the output device, output tailored responsive to the determination of whether said alternative treatment may be appropriate for the individual.

Claims

1. A method of using an apparatus, the method including:

storing data of a population in memory;

computing, by a computer accessing the data stored in the memory, a probability of at least one future medical treatment needed by at least one individual having data in the data of a population;

ascribing, by the computer applying the computed probabilities, each said individual with one of a plurality of risk stratifications for each said future medical treatment;

forming, by the computer accessing the data stored in the memory, an association of travel by an individual and a health consequence as a result of the travel by the individual; and

producing, by the computer communicating to an output device, output including at least one said ascribed individual in association with the one of the risk stratifications and the travel.

3. The method of claim 1, further including:

determining, by the computer accessing the memory, whether at least one alternative treatment for the future medical treatment may be appropriate for the individual; and

producing, at the output device, output tailored responsive to the determination of whether said alternative treatment may be appropriate for the individual.

2. A method of using an apparatus, the method including:

storing data of a population in memory;

computing, by a computer accessing the data stored in the memory, a probability of at least one preference sensitive condition needing future medical treatment by at least one individual having data in the data of a population;

identifying, by a computer, a multiplicity of medical treatments for each said preference sensitive condition, wherein at least one of the multiplicity of medical treatments is associated with travel; and

producing, by the computer and including communicating to an output device, output including the probability and the multiplicity of treatments.

4. A method of using an apparatus, the method including:

storing data of a population in memory;

computing, by a computer accessing the data stored in the memory, a probability of at least one future medical treatment needed by at least one individual having data in the data of a population;

ascribing, by the computer applying the computed probabilities, each said individual with one of a plurality of risk stratifications for each said future medical treatment;

determining whether at least one alternative treatment for the future medical treatment may be appropriate for at least one said ascribed individual;

forming an association of travel by the at least one said ascribed individual and a health consequence as a result of the travel by the at least one said ascribed individual; and

producing, at the output device, output tailored responsive to the determination of whether said alternative treatment may be appropriate for the at least one said ascribed individual.

5. A method of using an apparatus, the method including:

storing data of a population in memory;

computing, by a computer accessing the data stored in the memory, a probability of at least one condition needing future medical treatment by at least one individual having data in the data of a population;

identifying, by a computer, a multiplicity of medical treatments for each said condition, wherein at least one of the multiplicity of medical treatments is associated with travel; and

producing, by the computer and including communicating to an output device, output including the probability and the multiplicity of treatments.