Information management and communications system for communication between patients and healthcare providers
First Claim
1. An information management and communications system for communications between a population of patients and healthcare providers and providing automated interactive health assessment monitoring of the population of patients that enables healthcare providers to selectively provide any of health screening, medical compliance, wellness program compliance, and disease management tailored for an individual patient within the population of patients, the system comprising:
- a nontransitory storage mechanism of a computer network system and on which is stored a plurality of call objects, the call objects comprising a plurality of health assessment questions and at least one message chosen from the group consisting of authentication messages, greeting messages, announcements, closing messages, conditional announcements, third-party announcements, interactive prompts, notices, disclaimers, and conditional messages;
a graphical user interface of the computer network system and on which a healthcare provider interactively builds an entire monitoring call dialog that is audible and tailored for an individual patient by using the graphical user interface toselect multiple call objects from the plurality of call objects including selecting the at least one message and selecting multiple health assessment questions from the plurality of health assessment questions,edit at least some of the multiple call objects including the multiple health assessment questions thereof and thereby further tailoring the monitoring call dialog for the individual patient,position and configure the multiple call objects and the multiple health assessment questions thereof and thereby creating and configuring a sequence of elements of the monitoring call dialog and thereby further tailoring the monitoring call dialog for the individual patient, andsave the entire monitoring call dialog to the storage mechanism; and
an automated interactive patient response system that audibly communicates the entire monitoring call dialog to the individual patient, enables the individual patient to provide responses to the multiple health assessment questions, and records the responses of the individual patient in the storage mechanism;
wherein the computer network system containing the storage mechanism and the graphical user interface provides secure health assessment monitoring of the individual patient, performs a risk evaluation based on the responses of the individual patient by aggregating relative risk factors obtained by comparing the responses of the individual patient to comparative measures, stores the risk evaluation on the storage mechanism, and enables a healthcare provider to access the responses of the individual patient and the risk evaluation stored on the storage mechanism, and modify the monitoring call dialog by editing at least one of the multiple health assessment questions and thereby further tailoring the monitoring call dialog to selectively provide any of health screening, medical compliance, wellness program compliance, and disease management of the individual patient.
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Abstract
An information management and communications system for communication between patients and healthcare providers, including an automated interactive patient response system, and apparatus and software to create, configure, and manage the content and structure of the patient response system to provide secure standards-based outpatient health assessment monitoring, to include disease management, medication compliance, wellness program compliance, and general health screening.
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16 Claims
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1. An information management and communications system for communications between a population of patients and healthcare providers and providing automated interactive health assessment monitoring of the population of patients that enables healthcare providers to selectively provide any of health screening, medical compliance, wellness program compliance, and disease management tailored for an individual patient within the population of patients, the system comprising:
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a nontransitory storage mechanism of a computer network system and on which is stored a plurality of call objects, the call objects comprising a plurality of health assessment questions and at least one message chosen from the group consisting of authentication messages, greeting messages, announcements, closing messages, conditional announcements, third-party announcements, interactive prompts, notices, disclaimers, and conditional messages; a graphical user interface of the computer network system and on which a healthcare provider interactively builds an entire monitoring call dialog that is audible and tailored for an individual patient by using the graphical user interface to select multiple call objects from the plurality of call objects including selecting the at least one message and selecting multiple health assessment questions from the plurality of health assessment questions, edit at least some of the multiple call objects including the multiple health assessment questions thereof and thereby further tailoring the monitoring call dialog for the individual patient, position and configure the multiple call objects and the multiple health assessment questions thereof and thereby creating and configuring a sequence of elements of the monitoring call dialog and thereby further tailoring the monitoring call dialog for the individual patient, and save the entire monitoring call dialog to the storage mechanism; and an automated interactive patient response system that audibly communicates the entire monitoring call dialog to the individual patient, enables the individual patient to provide responses to the multiple health assessment questions, and records the responses of the individual patient in the storage mechanism; wherein the computer network system containing the storage mechanism and the graphical user interface provides secure health assessment monitoring of the individual patient, performs a risk evaluation based on the responses of the individual patient by aggregating relative risk factors obtained by comparing the responses of the individual patient to comparative measures, stores the risk evaluation on the storage mechanism, and enables a healthcare provider to access the responses of the individual patient and the risk evaluation stored on the storage mechanism, and modify the monitoring call dialog by editing at least one of the multiple health assessment questions and thereby further tailoring the monitoring call dialog to selectively provide any of health screening, medical compliance, wellness program compliance, and disease management of the individual patient. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10)
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11. A method for managing information and communications between a population of patients and healthcare providers and providing automated interactive health assessment monitoring of the population of patients using an information management and communications system that enables healthcare providers to selectively provide any of health screening, medical compliance, wellness program compliance, and disease management tailored for an individual patient within the population of patients, the method comprising:
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storing on a nontransitory storage mechanism of a computer network system a plurality of call objects comprising a plurality of health assessment questions and at least one message chosen from the group consisting of authentication messages, greeting messages, announcements, closing messages, conditional announcements, third-party announcements, interactive prompts, notices, disclaimers, and conditional messages; a healthcare provider using a graphical user interface of the computer network system and thereby interactively building an entire monitoring call dialog that is audible and tailored for an individual patient by selecting multiple call objects from the plurality of call objects including selecting the at least one message and selecting multiple health assessment questions from the plurality of health assessment questions, editing at least some of the multiple call objects including the multiple health assessment questions thereof and thereby further tailoring the entire monitoring call dialog for the individual patient, positioning and configuring the multiple call objects and the multiple health assessment questions thereof and thereby creating and configuring a sequence of elements of the monitoring call dialog and thereby further tailoring the monitoring call dialog for the individual patient, and saving the entire monitoring call dialog to the nontransitory storage mechanism; audibly communicating the entire monitoring call dialog to the individual patient with an automated interactive patient response system; the individual patient providing responses to the multiple health assessment questions with the automated interactive patient response system; recording the responses of the individual patient in the storage mechanism; performing a risk evaluation based on the responses of the individual patient by aggregating relative risk factors obtained by comparing the responses of the individual patient to comparative measures; storing the risk evaluation on the storage mechanism; accessing the responses of the individual patient and the risk evaluation stored on the storage mechanism; and
thenmodifying the monitoring call dialog by editing at least one of the multiple health assessment questions and thereby further tailoring the entire monitoring call dialog to selectively provide any of health screening, medical compliance, wellness program compliance, and disease management of the individual patient.
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12. A method for managing information and communications between a population of patients and healthcare providers and providing automated interactive health assessment monitoring of the population of patients and thereby selectively providing any of health screening, medical compliance, wellness program compliance, and disease management tailored for any individual patient within the population of patients, the method comprising:
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storing on a nontransitory storage mechanism of a computer network system a plurality of call objects comprising a plurality of health assessment questions and a plurality of messages chosen from the group consisting of authentication messages, greeting messages, announcements, closing messages, conditional announcements, third-party announcements, interactive prompts, notices, disclaimers, and conditional messages; a healthcare provider using a graphical user interface of the computer network system and thereby interactively building an entire monitoring call dialog that is audible and tailored for an individual patient by using the graphical user interface to select multiple call objects from the plurality of call objects including selecting multiple messages from the plurality of messages and multiple health assessment questions of the plurality of health assessment questions, edit at least some of the multiple call objects including the multiple health assessment questions thereof and thereby further tailoring the entire monitoring call dialog for the individual patient, position and configure the multiple call objects and the multiple health assessment questions thereof and thereby creating and configuring a sequence of elements of the monitoring call dialog and thereby further tailoring the monitoring call dialog for the individual patient, and save the entire monitoring call dialog to the storage mechanism; audibly communicating the entire monitoring call dialog to the individual patient with an automated interactive patient response system; the individual patient providing responses to the multiple health assessment questions with the automated interactive patient response system; recording the responses of the individual patient in the storage mechanism; performing a risk evaluation based on the responses of the individual patient by aggregating relative risk factors obtained by comparing the responses of the individual patient to comparative measures; storing the risk evaluation on the storage mechanism; accessing the responses of the individual patient and the risk evaluation stored on the storage mechanism; and
thenmodifying the monitoring call dialog by editing at least one of the multiple health assessment questions and thereby further tailoring the monitoring call dialog to selectively provide any of health screening, medical compliance, wellness program compliance, and disease management of the individual patient. - View Dependent Claims (13, 14, 15, 16)
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