Virtual communication platform for healthcare

• US 9,830,423 B2
• Filed: 03/13/2013
• Issued: 11/28/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 03/13/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Abhishek Biswas, Neil Davey, Samir Devalaraja, Sanjay Kunchakarra, Sonya Davey
• Original Assignee: Sanjay Kunchakarra
• Inventors: Biswas, Abhishek, Davey, Neil, Davey, Sonya, Devalaraja, Samir, Kunchakarra, Sanjay
• Primary Examiner(s): Wu, Zhen Y
• Application Number:
  US13/798,745
• Publication Number:
  US 20130241719A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,721 Days
• Field of Search: 600300, 600301, 340850, 3404071
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 13/1668 Details of memory controller
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 13/4022 using switching circuits, e.g. switching matrix, connection or expansion network G06F13/4009 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 13/4221 being an input/output bus, e.g. ISA bus, EISA bus, PCI bus, SCSI bus
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2213/0036 Small computer system interface [SCSI]
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 10/60 for patient-specific data, e.g. for electronic patient records
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 20/30 relating to physical therapies or activities, e.g. physiotherapy, acupressure or exercising
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 20/70 relating to mental therapies, e.g. psychological therapy or autogenous training
• 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

Abstract

A system relates to a first communication device configured to present data to and/or receive data from a health care practitioner; a second communication device configured to present data to and/or receive data from a patient; a processor configured to determine values of one or more metrics that characterize the patient'"'"'s mental state based data received from the patient via the second communication device; a storage configured to store the metrics. Another system for providing tactile and/or electrical stimuli remotely, the system comprising a body-suit to be worn by a human, the body-suit comprising one or more actuators configured to convert electrical signals to tactile and/or stimuli, wherein the body-suit is configured to convey the tactile and/or electrical stimuli to a body part of the human.

Claims

1. A system comprising a virtual communication platform for healthcare comprising a web-based collaboration platform for person-to-healthcare-practitioner communication and a healthcare diagnosis platform comprising an application that is configured for remote diagnosis of a person'"'"'s physical, mental and lifestyle state using data from a healthcare practitioner and the person, the healthcare diagnosis platform including the application being integrated with the virtual communication platform such that the healthcare diagnosis and virtual communication platforms are both (a) integrated by the system and (b) configured for remote diagnosis of the person'"'"'s physical mental and lifestyle state, wherein the virtual communication platform for healthcare and/or the healthcare diagnosis platform comprises:

a first data communication device, wherein the first data communication device presents data to and/or receive data from the healthcare practitioner;

a second data communication device, wherein the second data communication device presents data to and/or receive data from the person;

a processor configured to determine the person'"'"'s physical, mental and lifestyle state by receiving physical characteristics from the person via the second communication device and analyzing the physical characteristics to determine the person'"'"'s physical, mental and lifestyle state; and

a storage containing profile of the person, wherein the profile contains information on social interactions by the person,

wherein multiple healthcare practitioners receive data from the second data communication device, the processor determines the person'"'"'s physical, mental and lifestyle from data of the person and generates keywords representative of the processor'"'"'s result, and one or more of the multiple healthcare practitioners input knowledgeable diagnosis into the healthcare diagnostic platform that dynamically searches and arrives at a correct diagnosis.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the storage is configured to store long term or short term health data of the person.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the data received from the person comprise a video, a sound or combinations thereof.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein the data received from the person comprise a drawing, a handwriting or combinations thereof.

5. The system of claim 1:

wherein the storage is further configured to store one or more metrics that characterize the person'"'"'s mental state, wherein the processor is further configured to determine values of the one or more metrics that characterize the person'"'"'s lifestyle from a combination of data collected from multiple sources.

6. The system of claim 1, the system further being configured to determine values of one or more metrics that characterize the person'"'"'s lifestyle.

7. The system of claim 1, wherein the social interactions include events, experiences and communications.

9. The system of claim 1, wherein the first data communication device and the second data communication device comprises a computing device and/or a cellular device.

11. The system of claim 1, wherein the physical characteristics are measured in real-time.

12. The system of claim 1, wherein the data received from the person comprise the person'"'"'s facial expression, the person'"'"'s pupillary dilation or combinations thereof.

13. The system of claim 1, wherein the data received from the person comprise the person'"'"'s performance in a game.

14. The system of claim 1, wherein the storage comprises a knowledge base, health data of the person or combinations thereof.

8. A device comprising a virtual communication platform for healthcare comprising a web-based collaboration platform for patient-to-healthcare-practitioner communication and a healthcare diagnosis platform comprising an application that is configured for remote diagnosis of a patient'"'"'s physical, mental and lifestyle state using data from a plurality of healthcare practitioners and the patient, the healthcare diagnosis platform including the application being integrated with the virtual communication platform such that the healthcare diagnosis and virtual communication platforms are both (a) integrated by the system and (b) configured for remote diagnosis of the patient'"'"'s physical, mental and lifestyle state, wherein the virtual communication platform for healthcare and/or the healthcare diagnosis platform comprises:

a first data communication device, wherein the first data communication device presents data to and/or receive data simultaneously from the plurality of healthcare practitioners to diagnose the patient that is a human or an animal;

a second data communication device, wherein the second data communication device presents data to and/or receive data from the patient;

a processor configured to determine the patient'"'"'s physical, mental and lifestyle state by receiving physical characteristics from the patient via the second communication device and analyzing the physical characteristics to determine the patient'"'"'s physical, mental and lifestyle state; and

a storage configured to store one or more metrics that characterize the patient'"'"'sphysical, mental and lifestyle state, wherein the device is configured to allow the plurality of the healthcare practitioners to all dynamically interact to arrive at a correct diagnosis,

wherein multiple healthcare practitioners receive data from the second data communication device, the processor determines the patient'"'"'s physical, mental and lifestyle from data of the patient and generates keywords representative of the processor'"'"'s result, and one or more o( the multiple healthcare practitioners input knowledgeable diagnosis into the healthcare diagnostic platform that dynamically searches and arrives at a correct diagnosis.

10. A system comprising a virtual communication platform for healthcare comprising a web-based collaboration platform for person-to-healthcare-practitioner communication and a healthcare diagnosis platform comprising an application that is configured for remote diagnosis of a person'"'"'s physical, mental and lifestyle state using data from a healthcare practitioner and the person, the healthcare diagnosis platform including the application being integrated with the virtual communication platform such that the healthcare diagnosis and virtual communication platforms are both (a) integrated by the system and (b) configured for remote diagnosis of the person'"'"'s physical, mental, and lifestyle state, wherein the virtual communication platform for healthcare and/or the healthcare diagnosis platform comprises:

a first data communication device, wherein the first data communication device presents data to and/or receive data from the healthcare practitioner;

a second data communication device, wherein the second data communication device presents data to and/or receive data from the person;

a processor configured to determine the person'"'"'s physical, mental and lifestyle state by receiving physical characteristics from the person via the second communication device and analyzing the physical characteristics to determine the person'"'"'s physical, mental and lifestyle state; and

a storage containing profile of the person, wherein the profile contains information on social interactions by the person, wherein the storage contains the data received from the person, and the data comprise discussions of emotional content between the person and another person,

wherein multiple healthcare practitioners receive data from the second data communication device, the processor determines the person'"'"'s physical, mental and lifestyle from data of the person and generates keywords representative of the processor'"'"'s result, and one or more of the multiple healthcare practitioners input knowledgeable diagnosis into the healthcare diagnostic platform that dynamically searches and arrives at a correct diagnosis.

15. A device comprising a virtual communication platform for healthcare comprising a web-based collaboration platform for patient-to-healthcare-practitioner communication and a healthcare diagnosis platform comprising an application that is configured for remote diagnosis of a patient'"'"'s physical, mental and lifestyle state using data from a plurality of healthcare practitioners and the patient, the healthcare diagnosis platform including the application being integrated with the virtual communication platform such that the healthcare diagnosis and virtual communication platforms are both (a) integrated by the system and (b) configured for remote diagnosis of the patient'"'"'s physical, mental and lifestyle state, wherein the virtual communication platform for healthcare and/or the healthcare diagnosis platform comprises:

a first data communication device, wherein the first data communication device presents data to and/or receive data simultaneously from the plurality of healthcare practitioners to diagnose the patient that is a human or an animal;

a second data communication device, wherein the second data communication device presents data to and/or receive data from the patient;

a processor configured to determine the patient'"'"'s physical, mental and lifestyle state by receiving physical characteristics from the patient via the second communication device and analyzing the physical characteristics to determine the patient'"'"'s physical, mental and lifestyle state; and

a storage configured to store one or more metrics that characterize the patient'"'"'s physical, mental and lifestyle state, wherein the device is configured to allow the plurality of the healthcare practitioners to all dynamically interact to arrive at a correct diagnosis,

wherein multiple healthcare practitioners receive data from the second data communication device, the processor determines the patient'"'"'s physical, mental and lifestyle from data of the patient and generates keywords representative of the processor'"'"'s result, and one or more of the multiple healthcare practitioners input knowledgeable diagnosis into the healthcare diagnostic platform that dynamically searches and arrives at a correct diagnosis.

16. The device of claim 15, wherein the storage comprises a knowledge base, health data of the patient or combinations thereof.

17. The device of claim 15, wherein the data received from the patient comprise a video, a sound or combinations thereof.

18. The device of claim 15, wherein the data received from the patient comprise a drawing, handwriting or combinations thereof.

19. The device of claim 15, wherein the storage contains the data received from the patient, and the data comprise discussions of emotional content between the patient and another patient.

20. The device of claim 15, wherein the physical characteristics are measured in real-time.

21. The device of claim 15, wherein the data received from the patient comprise the patient'"'"'s facial expression, the patient'"'"'s pupillary dilation or combinations thereof.

22. The device of claim 15, wherein the data received from the patient comprise the patient'"'"'s performance in a game.

23. The device of claim 15, wherein the device is further configured to determine values of the one or more metrics that characterize the patient'"'"'s lifestyle.