Apparatus and methods for rendering personal stories to medical patients
First Claim
1. A health care apparatus to render audio visual content to a medical patient, comprising:
- a content element storage coupled with a communications network and adapted to store a plurality of audio visual content elements to be rendered to a medical patient, the plurality of audio visual content elements including a plurality of educational content elements and a plurality of personal story elements, each personal story element including an interviewee shown discussing at least one issue related to a medical condition and wherein the educational content elements include different content from the personal story elements;
an itinerary arrangement system operatively coupled with the content element storage and adapted to select one or more content elements from the content element storage including at least one of the plurality of educational content elements and at least one of the plurality of personal story elements to be rendered to the patient in a given viewing session based at least partially on the patient'"'"'s medical condition, wherein the itinerary arrangement system orders the at least one of the plurality of educational content elements for rendering to the medical patient before the at least one of the plurality of personal story elements; and
a user interface operatively coupled with the communications network and with a display device, the user interface being operable by the patient to render the selected content elements to the patient via the display device.
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Abstract
A health care apparatus (10) and methods are described for rendering audio visual content to a medical patient in the patient'"'"'s home, in which a content element storage (22) stores a plurality of audio visual content elements (28) to be rendered to the patient in the patient'"'"'s home, including personal story content elements (40) in which an interviewee (42) is shown discussing one or more issues related to the patient'"'"'s medical condition. One or more content elements are selected according to a medical condition of a given patient and presented to the patient via a display device (14) of a user interface (12) located in the patient'"'"'s home. Methods are presented for generating audio visual content for presentation to a medical patient in the patient'"'"'s home in which a set of questions relating to a given medical condition is generated (102) and questions from the set are presented (104) to at least one interviewee, such as an actor or a person having the given medical condition. The interviewee'"'"'s responses to the presented questions are recorded (106) and edited (108) to create a personal story content element which is then stored (110) in a content element storage coupled with a communications network from which content elements are selected for presentation to patients having the given medical condition.
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24 Claims
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1. A health care apparatus to render audio visual content to a medical patient, comprising:
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a content element storage coupled with a communications network and adapted to store a plurality of audio visual content elements to be rendered to a medical patient, the plurality of audio visual content elements including a plurality of educational content elements and a plurality of personal story elements, each personal story element including an interviewee shown discussing at least one issue related to a medical condition and wherein the educational content elements include different content from the personal story elements; an itinerary arrangement system operatively coupled with the content element storage and adapted to select one or more content elements from the content element storage including at least one of the plurality of educational content elements and at least one of the plurality of personal story elements to be rendered to the patient in a given viewing session based at least partially on the patient'"'"'s medical condition, wherein the itinerary arrangement system orders the at least one of the plurality of educational content elements for rendering to the medical patient before the at least one of the plurality of personal story elements; and a user interface operatively coupled with the communications network and with a display device, the user interface being operable by the patient to render the selected content elements to the patient via the display device. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7)
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8. A method of rendering health care information to a patient, comprising:
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storing, by a server, a plurality of audio visual content elements to be rendered to a medical patient, the plurality of audio visual content elements including a plurality of educational content elements and a plurality of personal story elements, each personal story element including an interviewee shown discussing at least one issue related to a medical condition and wherein the educational content elements include different content from the personal story elements; selecting, by the server, one or more stored content elements based at least partially on the patient'"'"'s medical condition, the selected content elements including at least one of the plurality educational content elements and at least one of the plurality of personal story elements to be rendered to the patient in a given viewing session; and rendering, by a display device, a display of the selected content elements to the patient, wherein the rendering includes displaying the at least one of the plurality of educational content elements before the at least one of the plurality of personal story elements. - View Dependent Claims (9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19)
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20. A non-transitory computer readable medium or processor programmed to implement a method of rendering health care information to a patient, the method comprising:
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storing a plurality of audio visual content elements to be rendered to a medical patient, the plurality of audio visual content elements including a plurality of educational content elements and a plurality of personal story elements, each personal story element including an interviewee shown discussing at least one issue related to a medical condition and wherein the educational content elements include different content from the personal story elements; selecting one or more stored content elements based at least partially on the patient'"'"'s medical condition, the selected content elements including at least one of the educational content elements and at least one of the plurality of personal story elements to be rendered to the patient in a given viewing session; and rendering a display of the selected content elements to the patient, wherein the rendering includes displaying the at least one of the plurality of educational content elements before the at least one of the plurality of personal story elements.
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21. A method of rendering health care information to a patient, comprising:
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recording, by a recording device, at least one interviewee'"'"'s responses to at least one question related to a given medical condition; editing the interviewee'"'"'s responses to create a personal story content element showing the interviewee discussing the given medical condition; storing, by a server, an audio visual content element to be rendered to a medical patient, the audio visual content element including an educational content element and the personal story content element, the personal story content element including the interviewee shown discussing at least one issue related to the given medical condition and wherein the educational content element includes different content from the personal story content element; selecting, by the server, the audio visual content element including the educational content element and the personal story content element to be rendered to the patient in a given viewing session based at least partially on the patient'"'"'s medical condition; and rendering, by a display device, a display of the selected audio visual content element to the patient, wherein the rendering includes displaying the educational content element before the personal story element. - View Dependent Claims (22, 23, 24)
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