Mobile self-management compliance and notification method, system and computer program product

• US 10,025,906 B2
• Filed: 02/01/2016
• Issued: 07/17/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 12/30/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: LifeWIRE Corporation (LifeWIRE Corp., Inc.)
• Original Assignee: LifeWIRE Corporation (LifeWIRE Corp., Inc.)
• Inventors: Rosen, Howard, Harms, William, Marvici, Chaitanya
• Primary Examiner(s): Downey, John R
• Assistant Examiner(s): JIAN, SHIRLEY XUEYING
• Application Number:
  US15/012,329
• Publication Number:
  US 20160147970A1
• Time in Patent Office: 897 Days
• Field of Search: None
• 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 5/02 Detecting, measuring or recording pulse, heart rate, blood pressure or blood flow; Combined pulse/heart-rate/blood pressure determination; Evaluating a cardiovascular condition not otherwise provided for, e.g. using combinations of techniques provided for in this group with electrocardiography or electroauscultation; Heart catheters for measuring blood pressure
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/14532 for measuring glucose, e.g. by tissue impedance measurement
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/242 Query formulation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/24565 Triggers; Constraints
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/1097 Task assignment
• 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 20/30 relating to physical therapies or activities, e.g. physiotherapy, acupressure or exercising
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 20/60 relating to nutrition control, e.g. diets
• 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
• CPC Class Codes: G16Z 99/00 Subject matter not provided for in other main groups of this subclass

Abstract

A computerized interactive method, system and computer program product is provided for managing a person'"'"'s health and lifestyle through self-managing controlled notifications, feedback, and alerts are disclosed. Embodiments provide computerized self-management and compliance scheme that does not require third party intervention or treatment options typical with immediate-response or alert-based systems. Monitoring, notification, and alert parameters can be partially or wholly self-managed using a graphical user interface or computerized device interface to enable two-way communication between the person and at least one computer server.

Claims

1. A computerized method of monitoring patient health using a patient-managed monitoring scheme, the method being performed by a server configured to manage a patient account associated with a patient and an administrator account associated with an administrator of the patient, the method comprising:

receiving, from the patient via a device associated with the patient account, a proposed monitoring scheme for the patient, the proposed monitoring scheme comprising monitoring scheme settings configured by the patient, the monitoring scheme settings including;

a query schedule for scheduling the transmission of a query to the device associated with the patient account, the query requesting response data; and

an alert criterion and an alert procedure for at least one attribute associated with the query or the response data;

activating the proposed monitoring scheme based on an approval information received from a device associated with the administrator account;

generating the query based on the query schedule of the activated monitoring scheme;

sending the generated query to the patient, via the device associated with the patient account, based on the query schedule; and

receiving the response data corresponding to the query from the device associated with the patient account.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the patient account comprises a user tag associated with an item in the query, and the query is generated based in part on the user tag.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the user tag includes at least one of a personalized message and a name of the patient, and the generating the query includes incorporating the at least one of the personalized message and the name of the patient in the query.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the approval information includes modified settings for monitoring scheme settings and wherein the activating the proposed monitoring scheme includes incorporating the modified settings into the proposed monitoring scheme.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein the modified settings for monitoring scheme settings include an additional query schedule, and the sending of the generated query is further based on the additional query schedule.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein the patient account comprises a user tag including a date and wherein the additional query schedule of the modified settings, is generated based on the date of the user tag.

7. The method of claim 2, wherein the user tag includes a contact information of a third party and wherein the method further comprises:

analyzing the response data; and

based on the analysis of the response data and the alert criterion, performing the alert procedure, wherein the alert procedure includes notifying the third party based on the contact information of the third party of the user tag.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the method further comprises:

analyzing the response data; and

based on the analysis of the response data and the alert criterion, performing the alert procedure, wherein performing the alert procedure includes;

notifying the device associated with the administrator account;

causing the device associated with the administrator account to provide options to the user of the device associated with the administrator account, wherein the options include an option to send a set of additional queries to the device associated with the patient account.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein the set of additional queries is a validated query set.

10. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

analyzing the response data; and

based on the analysis of the response data and the alert criterion, loading and sending a set of preconfigured queries to the device associated with the patient.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein the loading of a set of preconfigured queries to the device associated with the patient includes incorporating a value of a user tag into one or more queries of the set of preconfigured queries.

12. The method of claim 1, wherein the value of the user tag is a name of the patient.

13. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

analyzing the response data;

based on the analysis of the response data and the alert criterion, performing the alert procedure; and

loading a set of preconfigured queries corresponding to a result of the analysis of the response data and sending the set of preconfigured queries to the device associated with the patient.

14. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

receiving, from the device associated with the administrator account, a set of monitoring scheme settings; and

sending the set of monitoring scheme settings to the device associated with the patient account, wherein the received proposed monitoring scheme is configured by the patient via the device associated with the patient account based on the set of monitoring scheme settings.

15. The method of claim 1, further comprising sending to the device associated with the patient account at least one query based on an input data received from the device associated with the patient account.

16. A computerized system for monitoring patient health using a patient-managed monitoring scheme, the system being configured to manage a patient account associated with a patient and an administrator account associated with an administrator of the patient, the system comprising:

a memory storing instructions; and

at least one processor configured to execute the stored instructions to perform operations including;

receiving, from the patient via a device associated with the patient account, a proposed monitoring scheme for the patient, the proposed monitoring scheme comprising monitoring scheme settings configured by the patient, the monitoring scheme settings including;

a query schedule for scheduling the transmission of a query to the device associated with the patient account, the query requesting response data; and

an alert criterion and an alert procedure for at least one attribute associated with the query or the response data;

activating the proposed monitoring scheme based on an approval information received from a device associated with the administrator account;

generating the query based on the query schedule of the activated monitoring scheme;

sending the generated query to the patient, via the device associated with the patient account, based on the query schedule;

receiving the response data corresponding to the query from the device associated with the patient account;

analyzing the response data; and

based on the analysis of the response data and the alert criterion, performing the alert procedure.

17. The system of claim 16, the operations further comprising causing a clinical interface to be displayed at the device associated with the administrator account, the clinical interface comprising a table view displaying a collection of response data from the device associated with the patient account.

18. The system of claim 17, wherein the table view includes a value representing a change in the response data over a period of time.

19. The system of claim 17, wherein the table view includes a value representing a cumulative mean of the response data.

20. The system of claim 17, wherein the table view includes a value calculated based on the response data received from devices associated with a plurality of patient accounts.

21. The system of claim 17, the operations further comprising causing the clinical interface to be updated at the device associated with the administrator account when an additional response data is received.

22. A computerized method of monitoring a user using a monitoring scheme, the method being performed by a server configured to manage a user account associated with the user and an administrator account associated with an administrator of the user, the method comprising:

receiving, from the user via a device associated with the user account, a proposed monitoring scheme for the user, the proposed monitoring scheme comprising monitoring scheme settings configured by the user, the monitoring scheme settings including;

a query schedule for scheduling the transmission of a query to the device associated with the user account, the query requesting response data; and

an alert criterion and an alert procedure for at least one attribute associated with the query or the response data;

activating the proposed monitoring scheme based on an approval information received from a device associated with the administrator account;

generating the query based on the query schedule of the activated monitoring scheme;

sending the generated query to the user, via the device associated with the user account, based on the query schedule; and

receiving the response data corresponding to the query from the device associated with the user account.