Personalized medical content recommendation

• US 8,543,422 B2
• Filed: 04/04/2011
• Issued: 09/24/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 04/04/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Maman, Yonatan, Mesika, Yossi, Roitman, Haggai
• Primary Examiner(s): O'Connnor, Gerald J.
• Assistant Examiner(s): GO, JOHN P
• Application Number:
  US13/079,033
• Publication Number:
  US 20120253139A1
• Time in Patent Office: 904 Days
• Field of Search: 600/300, 705/2, 705/3
• US Class Current: 705/3
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/4848 Monitoring or testing the effects of treatment, e.g. of medication
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/7275 Determining trends in physiological measurement data; Predicting development of a medical condition based on physiological measurements, e.g. determining a risk factor
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 10/60 for patient-specific data, e.g. for electronic patient records
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 20/10 relating to drugs or medications, e.g. for ensuring correct administration to patients
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 50/20 for computer-aided diagnosis, e.g. based on medical expert systems
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 70/40 relating to drugs, e.g. their side effects or intended usage

Abstract

Method, system, and computer program product for personalized medical content recommendation are provided. The method may comprise having a patient medical profile; having a concept or relationship relating to the patient medical profile; obtaining medical content relevant to the concept or relationship; determining a score of the concept or relationship to the patient medical profile; enhancing the score with a context score based on the values of attributes of the concept or relationship in the patient medical profile; enhancing the score with an additional knowledge score based on knowledge of the concept or relationship additional to the medical content; recommending medical content with respect to a patient medical profile based on the enhanced scores. The method may also include providing an explanation of a medical content recommendation based on a matching concept or relationship.

Claims

1. A method for personalized medical content recommendation, comprising:

accessing, from a data storage medium, a patient'"'"'s medical profile, a concept or relationship relating to the patient'"'"'s medical profile, and medical content relevant to the concept or relationship,

wherein the concept or relationship is determined worthy of attention and possible reporting to the patient due to recognizing a level of risk to the patient based on an analysis of the patient'"'"'s medical profile, the concept or relationship and the relevant medical content;

determining, via one or more processors, a score for the concept or relationship to the patient'"'"'s medical profile;

enhancing, via one or more processors, the score using a medical context score wherein the enhanced medical context score is determined based on a proximity measure between the concept or relationship and potential intersections that can be formed by the concept or relationship;

enhancing, via one or more processors, the score with an additional knowledge score wherein the enhanced additional knowledge score is determined based on one or more risk levels associated with the concept or relationship and additional medical knowledge that is obtained by searching external sources for medical content relevant to the concept or relationship; and

recommending medical content with respect to a patient medical profile based on the enhanced scores,

wherein the medical content is sorted in a first order according to level of risk to the patient.

2. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein a concept is one of the group of:

a medication, a medical condition, an allergy, an immunization, a treatment plan, a vital sign, a medical test result, a food, a patient symptom.

3. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein a relationship is an interaction between concepts.

4. The method as claimed in claim 1, including:

providing an explanation of a medical content recommendation based on a matching concept or relationship.

5. The method as claimed in claim 4, including:

generating one or more explanation sentences based on the medical context score.

6. The method as claimed in claim 4, including:

generating one or more explanation sentences based on the additional knowledge score.

7. A computer program product comprising a non-transitory data storage medium with logic code embedded therein, wherein execution of the logic code by a computer causes the computer to:

access, from a data storage medium, a patient'"'"'s medical profile, a concept or relationship relating to the patient'"'"'s medical profile, and medical content relevant to the concept or relationship,

wherein the concept or relationship is determined worthy of attention and possible reporting to the patient due to recognizing a level of risk to the patient based on an analysis of the patient'"'"'s medical profile, the concept or relationship and the relevant medical content;

determine, via one or more processors, a score for the concept or relationship to the patient'"'"'s medical profile;

enhance, via one or more processors, the score using a medical context score wherein the enhanced medical context score is determined based on a proximity measure for the concept or relationship and potential intersections formed by the concept or relationship;

enhance, via one or more processors, the score with an additional knowledge score wherein the enhanced additional knowledge score is determined based on one or more risk levels associated with the concept or relationship and additional medical knowledge that is obtained by searching external sources for medical content relevant to the concept or relationship; and

recommend medical content with respect to a patient medical profile based on the enhanced scores,

wherein the medical content is sorted in a first order according to level of risk to the patient.

8. A system for personalized medical content recommendation, comprising:

a processor adapted to access, from a data storage medium, a patient'"'"'s medical profile, a concept or relationship relating to the patient'"'"'s medical profile, and medical content relevant to the concept or relationship,

wherein the concept or relationship is determined worthy of attention and possible reporting to the patient due to recognizing a level of risk to the patient based on an analysis of the patient'"'"'s medical profile, the concept or relationship and the relevant medical content;

a processor adapted to determine a score for the concept or relationship to the patient'"'"'s medical profile;

a processor adapted to enhance the score using a medical context score wherein the enhanced medical context score is determined based on a proximity measure between the concept or relationship and potential intersections formed by the concept or relationship;

a processor adapted to enhance the score with an additional knowledge score wherein the enhanced additional knowledge score is determined based on one or more risk levels associated with the concept or relationship and additional medical knowledge that is obtained by searching external sources for medical content relevant to the concept or relationship; and

a processor adapted to recommend medical content with respect to a patient medical profile based on the enhanced medical context and additional knowledge scores,

wherein the medical content is sorted in a first order according to level of risk to the patient.

9. The system as claimed in claim 8, including:

a context determining component for determining values of attributes of the concept or relationship in the patient medical profile.

10. The system as claimed in claim 8, wherein a concept is one of the group of:

a medication, a medical condition, an allergy, an immunization, a treatment plan, a vital sign, a medical test result, a food, a patient symptom.

11. The system as claimed in claim 8, wherein a relationship is an interaction between concepts.

12. The system as claimed in claim 8, including:

an explanation component for providing an explanation of a medical content recommendation based on a matching concept or relationship.

13. The system as claimed in claim 12, wherein the explanation component includes generating one or more explanation sentences based on the context score.

14. The system as claimed in claim 12, wherein the explanation component includes generating one or more explanation sentences based on the additional knowledge score.

15. A method of providing a service to a customer over a network, the service comprising:

retrieving, from a non-transitory data storage medium, a patient'"'"'s medical profile, a concept or relationship relating to the patient'"'"'s medical profile, and medical content relevant to the concept or relationship, using one or more processors,

wherein the concept or relationship is determined worthy of attention and possible reporting to the patient due to recognizing a level of risk to the patient based on an analysis of the patient'"'"'s medical profile, the concept or relationship and the relevant medical content;

determining, via one or more processors, a score for the concept or relationship to the patient'"'"'s medical profile;

enhancing, via one or more processors, the score using a medical context score wherein the enhanced medical context score is determined based on a proximity measure between the concept or relationship and potential intersections formed by the concept or relationship;

enhancing, via one or more processors, the score with an additional knowledge score wherein the enhanced additional knowledge score is determined based on one or more risk levels associated with the concept or relationship and additional medical knowledge that is obtained by searching external sources for medical content relevant to the concept or relationship;

recommending medical content with respect to a patient medical profile based on the enhanced medical context and additional knowledge scores,

wherein the medical content is sorted in a first order according to level of risk to the patient.