Methods and systems for facilitating access by a patient to actionable tasks associated with a chronic care plan

• US 9,449,355 B2
• Filed: 03/30/2013
• Issued: 09/20/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 11/30/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Cellco Partnership, Inc. (Verizon Communications Inc.), Verizon Patent and Licensing Incorporated (Verizon Communications Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Cellco Partnership, Inc. (Verizon Communications Inc.), Verizon Patent and Licensing Incorporated (Verizon Communications Inc.)
• Inventors: Kozicki, Scott, Lane, Arthur W. III, Relyea, Donald H., Solleti, Anil K.
• Primary Examiner(s): Le, Michelle L
• Application Number:
  US13/854,079
• Publication Number:
  US 20140156292A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,270 Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0631 Item recommendations
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 10/20 for electronic clinical trials or questionnaires
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/67 for remote operation

Abstract

An exemplary method includes a chronic care solutions provider system 1) maintaining data representative of a chronic care plan for a patient with a chronic medical condition, 2) receiving data representative of a biometric reading acquired by a biometric device associated with the patient, 3) generating a plurality of actionable tasks based on the biometric reading and in accordance with the chronic care plan, and 4) concurrently presenting, within a patient portal accessible by the patient, a plurality of graphical task cards each representative of a distinct actionable task included in the plurality of actionable tasks. Corresponding methods and systems are also disclosed.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

maintaining, by a chronic care solutions provider system, data representative of a chronic care plan for a patient with a chronic medical condition;

receiving, by the chronic care solutions provider system, data representative of a biometric reading acquired by a biometric device associated with the patient;

generating, by the chronic care solutions provider system, a plurality of actionable tasks based on the biometric reading and in accordance with the chronic care plan, the actionable tasks configured to assist the patient in managing the chronic medical condition;

concurrently presenting, by the chronic care solutions provider system within a patient portal accessible by the patient and displayed within a touch screen, a plurality of graphical task cards each representative of a distinct actionable task included in the plurality of actionable tasks, the concurrently presenting of the plurality of graphical task cards comprising presenting the graphical task cards in a staggered stack arrangement such that at least a portion of each of the graphical task cards is visible within the patient portal, wherein the graphical task cards are ordered within the staggered stack arrangement in accordance with an order in which the actionable tasks represented by the graphical task cards are to be completed by the patient;

detecting, by the chronic care solutions provider system while the graphical task cards are concurrently presented within the patient portal, a touching by the patient of the touch screen; and

shuffling, by the chronic care solutions provider system, the graphical task cards within the staggered stack arrangement in response to the touching of the touch screen by the patient, wherein the shuffling comprises graphically bringing a graphical task card included in the plurality of graphical task cards and located beneath a top of the staggered stack arrangement prior to the touching being performed to being located at the top of the staggered stack arrangement;

detecting, by the chronic care solutions provider system, a selection by the patient of the graphical task card;

and enlarging, by the chronic care solutions provider system, the selected graphical task card within the patient portal, wherein the enlarging comprises maximizing a size of the selected graphical task card within the patient portal such that a remaining number of graphical task cards included in the plurality of graphical task cards are not visible within the patient portal.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein each graphical task card included in the plurality of graphical task cards is interactive and configured to facilitate completion by the patient of a corresponding actionable task.

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

detecting, by the chronic care solutions provider system, a selection by the patient of a graphical task card included in the plurality of graphical task cards, the graphical task card representative of an actionable task included in the plurality of actionable tasks; and

presenting, by the chronic care solutions provider system in response to the selection of the graphical task card and within the patient portal, content associated with the actionable task.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the receiving of the data representative of the biometric reading acquired by the biometric device comprises receiving the data representative of the biometric reading from the biometric device by way of a cellular connection between the biometric device and a network interconnecting the biometric device and the chronic care solutions provider system.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the receiving of the data representative of the biometric reading acquired by the biometric device comprises receiving the data representative of the biometric reading from a computing device associated with the patient.

7. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

maintaining, by the chronic care solutions provider system, data representative of a library of actionable tasks;

wherein the generating of the actionable tasks comprises using the biometric reading to automatically select the actionable tasks from the library of actionable tasks.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the generating of the actionable tasks comprises:

presenting, within a practitioner portal accessible by a health care practitioner assigned to the patient, the biometric reading acquired by the biometric device;

receiving, by way of the practitioner portal, input provided by the health care practitioner in response to the presentation of the biometric reading; and

generating the actionable tasks based on the input provided by the health care practitioner.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein the generating of the actionable tasks is further based on one or more other biometric readings acquired by the biometric device prior to the biometric reading being acquired by the biometric device.

10. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

receiving, by the chronic care solutions provider system, data representative of an additional biometric reading associated with the patient acquired by an additional biometric device;

wherein the generating of the actionable tasks is further based on the additional biometric reading.

11. The method of claim 1, further comprising presenting, by the chronic care solutions provider system within the patient portal, at least one of information associated with the chronic care plan, social network content associated with the patient, and an advertisement associated with at least one of the chronic medical condition and the biometric reading.

12. The method of claim 1, further comprising presenting, by the chronic care solutions provider system within the patient portal, at least one of a graphical object representative of progress made by the patient towards one or more goals associated with the chronic care plan and at least one recommendation for managing the chronic medical condition.

3. A method comprising:

maintaining, by a chronic care solutions provider system, data representative of a chronic care plan for a patient with a chronic medical condition;

receiving, by the chronic care solutions provider system, data representative of a biometric reading acquired by a biometric device associated with the patient;

generating, by the chronic care solutions provider system, a plurality of actionable tasks based on the biometric reading and in accordance with the chronic care plan, the actionable tasks configured to assist the patient in managing the chronic medical condition;

concurrently presenting, by the chronic care solutions provider system within a patient portal accessible by the patient, a plurality of graphical task cards each representative of a distinct actionable task included in the plurality of actionable tasks, the concurrently presenting of the plurality of graphical task cards comprising presenting the graphical task cards in a staggered stack arrangement such that at least a portion of each of the graphical task cards is visible within the patient portal, wherein the graphical task cards are ordered within the staggered stack arrangement in accordance with an order in which the actionable tasks represented by the graphical task cards are to be completed by the patient;

detecting, by the chronic care solutions provider system, a selection by the patient of a graphical task card included in the plurality of graphical task cards; and

enlarging, by the chronic care solutions provider system, the selected graphical task card within the patient portal, wherein the enlarging comprises maximizing a size of the selected graphical task card within the patient portal such that a remaining number of graphical task cards included in the plurality of graphical task cards are not visible within the patient portal.

13. A system comprising:

at least one physical computing device that comprises;

a storage facility that maintains data representative of a chronic care plan for a patient with a chronic medical condition; and

a chronic care management facility communicatively coupled to the storage facility and that

receives data representative of a biometric reading acquired by a biometric device associated with the patient,

determines that the biometric reading is outside an acceptable range specified in the chronic care plan,

generates a plurality of actionable tasks based on the biometric reading and in accordance with the chronic care plan, the actionable tasks configured to assist the patient in managing the chronic medical condition,

concurrently presents, within a patient portal accessible by the patient and displayed within a touch screen, a plurality of graphical task cards each representative of a distinct actionable task included in the plurality of actionable tasks by presenting the graphical task cards in a staggered stack arrangement such that at least a portion of each of the graphical task cards is visible within the patient portal, wherein the graphical task cards are ordered within the staggered stack arrangement in accordance with an order in which the actionable tasks represented by the graphical task cards are to be completed by the patient;

detects, while the graphical task cards are concurrently presented within the patient portal, a touching by the patient of the touch screen; and

shuffles the graphical task cards within the staggered stack arrangement in response to the touching of the touch screen by the patient, wherein the shuffling comprises graphically bringing a graphical task card included in the plurality of graphical task cards and located beneath a top of the staggered stack arrangement prior to the touching being performed to being located at the top of the staggered stack arrangement;

detects a selection by the patient of the graphical task card; and

enlarges, by the chronic care solutions provider system, the selected graphical task card within the patient portal, wherein the enlarging comprises maximizing a size of the selected graphical task card within the patient portal such that a remaining number of graphical task cards included in the plurality of graphical task cards are not visible within the patient portal.

14. A system comprising:

at least one physical computing device that comprises;

a storage facility that maintains data representative of a chronic care plan for a patient with a chronic medical condition; and

a chronic care management facility communicatively coupled to the storage facility and that

receives data representative of a biometric reading acquired by a biometric device associated with the patient,

generates a plurality of actionable tasks based on the biometric reading and in accordance with the chronic care plan, the actionable tasks configured to assist the patient in managing the chronic medical condition,

concurrently presents, within a patient portal accessible by the patient, a plurality of graphical task cards each representative of a distinct actionable task included in the plurality of actionable tasks, the concurrently presentation of the plurality of graphical task cards comprising presenting the graphical task cards in a staggered stack arrangement such that at least a portion of each of the graphical task cards is visible within the patient portal, wherein the graphical task cards are ordered within the staggered stack arrangement in accordance with an order in which the actionable tasks represented by the graphical task cards are to be completed by the patient,

detects a selection by the patient of a graphical task card included in the plurality of graphical task cards, and

enlarges the selected graphical task card within the patient portal by maximizing a size of the selected graphical task card within the patient portal such that a remaining number of graphical task cards included in the plurality of graphical task cards are not visible within the patient portal.