Disease management system and method including medication therapy self-management
First Claim
1. A patient medication therapy self-management method, utilizing a non-transitory computer readable medium, operating a computer readable program code, configured to provide therapy according to patient self-assessed pain, the computer readable code comprising instructions that are executed by a computer device or processor, causing the processor to perform the steps of:
- storing, in a data storage accessible to the program code,(a) a listing of aspect words describing a pain and at least one of a degree or description of the pain; and
(b) a therapy alteration permission level (TAPL) limiting available therapy changes;
receiving, via direct interactive dialog between the patient and the computer device or processor, a patient self-selection of an aspect word from the listing of aspect words, the self-selection describing a pain experienced by the patient, the computer device or processor providing an interface configured to engage the patient in the direct interactive dialog;
converting the received aspect word into an integer subcode that represents the received aspect word; and
altering the patient'"'"'s therapy within the limitations of the TAPL based on at least one of the integer subcodes.
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Abstract
A method and system for patient medication therapy self-management. The system performs medication therapy self-management in a fully automated manner, using periodic interactive dialogs with a patient to obtain health state measurements from the patient. The system and method utilizes a computer usable medium having computer readable program code embodied therein for representing a description of a pain in a digitized form allowing the patient to directly interact with the program code via the periodic dialogs. The system and method utilizes a therapy alteration permission level (TAPL) limiting the possible self-adjustments available to the patient to change the patient'"'"'s therapy. Via the interactive dialogs, the patient self-selects aspect words concerning the patient'"'"'s current pain allowing the program code to adjust the patient'"'"'s medication therapy within the TAPL.
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16 Claims
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1. A patient medication therapy self-management method, utilizing a non-transitory computer readable medium, operating a computer readable program code, configured to provide therapy according to patient self-assessed pain, the computer readable code comprising instructions that are executed by a computer device or processor, causing the processor to perform the steps of:
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storing, in a data storage accessible to the program code, (a) a listing of aspect words describing a pain and at least one of a degree or description of the pain; and (b) a therapy alteration permission level (TAPL) limiting available therapy changes; receiving, via direct interactive dialog between the patient and the computer device or processor, a patient self-selection of an aspect word from the listing of aspect words, the self-selection describing a pain experienced by the patient, the computer device or processor providing an interface configured to engage the patient in the direct interactive dialog; converting the received aspect word into an integer subcode that represents the received aspect word; and altering the patient'"'"'s therapy within the limitations of the TAPL based on at least one of the integer subcodes. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8)
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9. A system for patient medication therapy self-management, the system comprising:
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a computer readable medium having non-transitory computer readable program code embodied therein for providing therapy according to patient self-assessed pain, the computer readable program code executed by a computer device or processor; a data storage accessible to the program code, the data storage configured to store; (a) a listing of aspect words describing a pain and at least one of a degree or description of the pain; (b) a therapy alteration permission level (TAPL) limiting available therapy changes; (c) a patient self-selection of an aspect word from the listing of aspect words, the self-selection received via direct interactive dialog between the patient and the computer device or processor, the computer device or processor providing an interface configured to engage the patient in the direct interactive dialog, the self-selection describing a pain experienced by the patient; and (d) a conversion of the received patient self-selection of an aspect word into an integer subcode, the subcode representing the received aspect word; wherein the computer device or processor alters the patient'"'"'s therapy within the limitations of the TAPL based on at least one of the integer subcodes. - View Dependent Claims (10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16)
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