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Systems and methods for encouragement of data submission in online communities

  • US 9,589,251 B2
  • Filed: 09/01/2011
  • Issued: 03/07/2017
  • Est. Priority Date: 04/30/2009
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A computer-implemented method for a second patient to encourage submission of additional medical information relating to a medical condition metric, intervention data, or information regarding an adverse event by a first patient to a profile of the first patient accessible to other patients in a health-related online community, the method comprising:

  • receiving, by a computer, information from a first patient for inclusion in a profile of the first patient, the information including data related to the medical condition metric, intervention data, or adverse event, the profile of the first patient being stored in a database and accessible to other patients in the health-related online community;

    performing, by the computer, a data mining process on the information received from the first patient stored in the database to determine additional information to be requested from the first patent relating to the medical condition metric, intervention data or adverse effect as related to the data provided by the first patient;

    receiving, by the computer, a request from a second patient that the first patient submit additional medical information to the profile of the first patient, the additional medical information selected from a group consisting of;

    the medical condition metric, intervention data, and information regarding an adverse event; and

    sending, by the computer, a personalized message to the first patient requesting submission of the additional medical information to the profile of the first patient stored in the database and the additional information determined by the computer, both of which are to be accessible to other patients in the health-related online community.

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