Interactive testing system for analysing biological samples

• US 8,924,226 B2
• Filed: 08/15/2007
• Issued: 12/30/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 08/16/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sime Diagnostics Limited
• Original Assignee: Sime Diagnostics Limited
• Inventors: Hoskuldsson, Agnar
• Primary Examiner(s): NGUYEN, HIEP VAN
• Application Number:
  US12/377,611
• Publication Number:
  US 20100241442A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,694 Days
• Field of Search: 705/2
• US Class Current: 705/2
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 10/40 for data related to laboratory analysis, e.g. patient specimen analysis
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 15/00 ICT specially adapted for medical reports, e.g. generation or transmission thereof
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/67 for remote operation
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 50/20 for computer-aided diagnosis, e.g. based on medical expert systems
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 50/30 for calculating health indices; for individual health risk assessment

Abstract

The invention relates to a system and a method for health monitoring service based on a central server. Measurements of biological samples (e.g. blood, saliva and urine) are carried out by a remote measurement system. The measurement data are sent to a central server, where the data are processed and analyzed, for example by expert knowledge systems, and a health profile generated is sent back to the remote measurement system. A health care provider may receive the results of the analysis carried out by the expert knowledge system, and the health care provider may further upload laboratory measurements, which can be included in the health analysis of the person. It is preferred that the system and method according to the invention is capable of providing an early warning of diseases that causes changes in chemical components in the biological sample.

Claims

1. An interactive testing system for analysing biological samples, said system comprising:

one or more remote measurement system(s), selected from the group consisting of;

Near-Infrared Spectroscopy, Infrared Spectroscopy, or Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy, for measuring a biological sample, obtained from a patient, said remote measurement system generating measurement data from the measurement of said biological sample, wherein said measurement data comprises spectral data;

a central server;

means for establishing communication between said remote measurement system and the central server over a network;

said remote measurement system further including means for forwarding measurement data from the remote measurement system to the central server through the network, and a display unit;

said central server being operative to;

receive and process said measurement data forwarded from said remote measurement system, so as to generate a set of measurement values corresponding to the biological sample obtained from said patient;

store historical sets of measurement values previously generated from measurement data previously forwarded from said remote measurement system with regard to said patient, and/or store data comprising ranges of measurement values for a normal population;

statistically analyze said set of measurement values with regard to said stored historical sets of measurement values and/or said stored ranges of measurement values for a normal population, so as to generate an individualized health report for said patient; and

forward said individualized health report to said measurement system.

2. The interactive testing system according to claim 1, wherein the health profile comprises an early warning for a disease.

3. The interactive testing system according to claim 1, wherein the remote measurement system comprises a measurement instrument, wherein said measurement instrument includes the means for forwarding the measurement data.

4. The interactive testing system according to claim 1, wherein the remote measurement system comprises one or more measurement instrument(s), each being connected to a computer, wherein said computer includes the means for forwarding the measurement data.

5. The interactive testing system according to claim 1, wherein the measurement data consists of spectral data.

6. The interactive testing system according to claim 1, further providing means for enabling communicating with a health care provider.

7. An interactive testing method for analysing biological samples, said method comprising

establishing one or more remote measurement system(s) for measuring a biological sample obtained from a patient, said remote measurement system generating measurement data from the measurement of said biological sample,

performing a measurement using said remote measurement system obtaining measurement data,

forwarding the measurement data to a central server, said central server being operative to store historical sets of measurement values previously generated from measurement data previously forwarded from said remote measurement system with regard to said patient, and/or store data comprising ranges of measurement values for a normal population,

in said central server, statistically analyzing said set of measurement values with regard to said stored historical sets of measurement values and/or said stored ranges of measurement values for a normal population, so as to generate an individualized health report for said patient, and

forwarding said individualized health report from said central server to the remote system.

8. The interactive testing method according to claim 7, wherein the measurement data consists of spectral data.