Personalized management and comparison of medical condition and outcome based on profiles of community patients

• US 8,930,224 B2
• Filed: 04/13/2012
• Issued: 01/06/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 10/12/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: PatientsLikeMe LLC (UnitedHealth Group Incorporated)
• Original Assignee: PatientsLikeMe, Inc. (UnitedHealth Group Incorporated)
• Inventors: Heywood, James, Heywood, Benjamin, Cole, Jeff
• Primary Examiner(s): PAULS, JOHN A
• Application Number:
  US13/446,797
• Publication Number:
  US 20130066652A1
• Time in Patent Office: 998 Days
• Field of Search: 705/3
• US Class Current: 705/3
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/0002 Remote monitoring of patients using telemetry, e.g. transmission of vital signals via a communication network A61B5/07 takes precedence; transmission systems for measured values G08C; transmission H04B; transmission of digital information H04L; wireless communication networks H04W
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/4824 Touch or pain perception evaluation A61B5/4821 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/4833 Assessment of subject's compliance to treatment
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/22 Social work or social welfare, e.g. community support activities or counselling services
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 10/20 for electronic clinical trials or questionnaires
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 10/60 for patient-specific data, e.g. for electronic patient records
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 15/00 ICT specially adapted for medical reports, e.g. generation or transmission thereof
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 20/10 relating to drugs or medications, e.g. for ensuring correct administration to patients
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 20/40 relating to mechanical, radiation or invasive therapies, e.g. surgery, laser therapy, dialysis or acupuncture
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/20 for the management or administration of healthcare resources or facilities, e.g. managing hospital staff or surgery rooms
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/63 for local operation
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 50/20 for computer-aided diagnosis, e.g. based on medical expert systems
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 50/50 for simulation or modelling of medical disorders
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 50/70 for mining of medical data, e.g. analysing previous cases of other patients
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 70/60 relating to pathologies
• CPC Class Codes: Y02A 90/10 Information and communication technologies [ICT] supporting adaptation to climate change, e.g. for weather forecasting or climate simulation

Abstract

The invention can be directed toward a method for personalized management and comparison of medical condition and outcome based on patient profiles of a community of patients. The method can include the steps of providing a database of patient profiles, providing a user interface for inputting a query of the database from a user, generating a query result including one or more matching patient profiles from the database, and displaying the query result as a correlation medical condition parameters of the user with a medical outcome.

Claims

1. A method of facilitating a user-initiated clinical study to determine the efficacy of an intervention, the method comprising:

providing a graphical user interface on a client computer, the graphical user interface allowing one or more patients within a community of patients to input information regarding diseases of the one or more patients, interventions employed by the one or more patients to treat the diseases, and symptoms experienced by the one or more patients before and after the interventions are employed;

receiving a request from a user to initiate the clinical study to determine the efficacy of the intervention;

collecting information, on a server computer, regarding a disease of the one or more patients and a particular intervention employed by the one or more patients to treat the disease, the information having been input by the one or more patients via the graphical user interface on the client computer;

collecting information, on the server computer, regarding symptoms experienced by the one or more patients before the particular intervention is employed by the one or more patients to treat the disease, the information having been input by the one or more patients via the graphical user interface on the client computer;

collecting information, on the server computer, regarding symptoms experienced by the one or more patients after the particular intervention was employed by the one or more patients to treat the disease, the information having been input by the one or more patients via the graphical user interface on the client computer; and

analyzing the information regarding the disease of the one or more patients, the particular intervention employed by the one or more patients to treat the disease, and the symptoms experienced by the one or more patients before and after the particular intervention is employed to determine the efficacy of the particular intervention in treating the disease.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the analyzing step includes comparing the efficacy of the particular intervention with data from one or more control patients within the community of patients on the server computer.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

conducting a multivariate pattern matching search of data related to patients other than the one or more patients.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the particular intervention is selected from the group consisting of:

administration of a medication, administration of a remedy, administration of a nutritional supplement, administration of a vitamin, exercise, physical therapy, massage, stretching, consumption of food, rest, sleep, and a modification of any of the foregoing.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the analyzing step includes utilizing data collected from the community of patients prior to the clinical study as a baseline for comparison with the information collected after the one or more patients employ the particular intervention to treat the disease, wherein the data collected from the community of patients is directed to an intervention employed by patients to treat the disease other than the particular intervention.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the analyzing step includes comparing the symptoms experienced by the one or more patients before the particular intervention is employed to the symptoms experienced by the one or more patients after the particular intervention is employed.