Creation of a database containing personal health care profiles

• US 20040006488A1
• Filed: 10/01/2001
• Published: 01/08/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 09/29/2000
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: New Health Sciences, Inc.
• Original Assignee: New Health Sciences, Inc.
• Inventors: Davidson, John, Fitall, Simon, Mozayeni, Robert
• Application Number:
  US09/682,644
• Publication Number:
  US 20040006488A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/2
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/02007 Evaluating blood vessel condition, e.g. elasticity, compliance
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/4076 Diagnosing or monitoring particular conditions of the nervous system A61B5/4821, A61B5/4824 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/411 Detecting or monitoring allergy or intolerance reactions to an allergenic agent or substance
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/7264 Classification of physiological signals or data, e.g. using neural networks, statistical classifiers, expert systems or fuzzy systems neural networks per se G06N3/00; expert systems per se G06N5/00
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 8/06 Measuring blood flow measuring volume flow in general G01F, e.g. G01F1/66, G01F1/72; measuring speed of fluids in general G01P5/00
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 8/56 Details of data transmission or power supply
• CPC Class Codes: G01S 15/8915 using a transducer array
• CPC Class Codes: G01S 15/8979 Combined Doppler and pulse-echo imaging systems
• CPC Class Codes: G01S 7/52036 using analysis of echo signal for target characterisation
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 50/20 for computer-aided diagnosis, e.g. based on medical expert systems
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 50/30 for calculating health indices; for individual health risk assessment
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 70/60 relating to pathologies

Abstract

Creation and population of a database of personal health care information using subjective data, health care behavior, and medical records A particular embodiment relates to the combination of data in the form of a personal health profile from the profile subjects and third parties holding such data. Key data is extracted from the clinical medical record of the profile subject to create a first dataset that can be included in a personal health profile. The personal perceptions of clinical interactions of the profile subject with health care practitioners and medical care delivery systems is a second dataset that can be included in a personal health profile. The health care behavior outside of medical care delivery systems of the profile subject is a third dataset that can be included in a personal health profile. In a preferred embodiment, all three datasets are combined. In other embodiments, any two of the three datasets could be combined to create unique personal health profiles. The resultant collection of data is stored as a personal health profile. The datasets can be updated on a periodic basis or upon an event, such as a doctor visit. In a preferred embodiment, an updated profile is generated using the existing personal health care profile and the updated data provided. In some embodiments of the present invention, volunteers, profile subjects, and third party record holders are compensated for their participation.

Claims

1. A system for data collection, the system comprising:

a database configured for storing data; and

a server coupled to the database, the server configured for gathering data over one or more communication links, the data relating to at least two of the following data types;

data from at least one profile subject relating to personal health care for the at least one profile subject;

data from at least one health care provider relating to personal health care for the at least one profile subject;

data from the at least one profile subject relating to personal perceptions of interactions by the at least one profile subject with health care providers;

data from the at least one profile subject relating to health care behavior for the at least one profile subject; and

data from at least one third party relating to the health care behavior of the at least one profile subject.

2. The system of claim 1 wherein each of the communication links is selected from the group consisting of a telephone communication link and a computer communication link.

3. The system of claim 2 further comprising an interactive voice response system configured for gathering data from the at least one profile subjects and providing the responses from the at least one profile subjects to the server.

4. The system of claim 1 wherein the server is further configured for storing the gathered data in the database.

5. The system of claim 1 wherein the server is further configured for:

prompting the at least one profile subject over the communication link with questions directed to the personal health care of the at least one profile subject; and

receiving responses from the at least one profile subject over the communication link in response to the questions.

6. The system of claim 5 wherein the server is further configured for:

prompting the at least one subject for updated data relating to the personal health care for the at least one profile subject; and

receiving responses from the at least one profile subject over the network communication link in response to the questions.

7. The system of claim 1 wherein the server is further configured for:

prompting at least one health care provider for medical records relating to the at least one profile subject over the communication link; and

receiving data from the at least one health care provider over the communication link.

8. The system of claim 7 wherein the server is further configured for:

prompting the at least one profile subject with at least one permission form authorizing a health care provider to provide one or more medical records relating to the at least one profile subject over a communication link; and

providing the at least one permission form authorizing the health care provider to provide the one or more medical records relating to the at least one profile subject.

9. The system of claim 1 wherein the server is further configured for:

prompting the at least one profile subject over the communication link with questions directed to the personal perceptions of interactions by the at least one profile subject with health care providers; and

receiving responses from the at least one profile subject over the communication link in response to the questions.

10. The system of claim 9 wherein the prompted questions relate to the personal perceptions of the profile subject with respect to the quality of the medical care and the satisfaction of the medical care.

11. The system of claim 9 wherein the prompted questions relate to the personal perceptions of the profile subject with respect to the advice, information, and prescribed treatment by one or more health care professionals.

12. The system of claim 9 wherein the server is further configured for:

prompting the at least one subject for updated data relating to the personal perceptions of interactions by the at least one profile subject with health care providers; and

receiving responses from the at least one profile subject over the network communication link in response to the questions.

13. The system of claim 1 wherein the server is further configured for:

14. The system of claim 13 wherein the server is further configured for:

prompting the at least one subject for updated data relating to the health care behavior of the at least one profile subject regarding an existing condition; and

receiving responses from the at least one profile subject over the network communication link in response to the questions.

15. The system of claim 1 wherein the server is further configured for:

prompting at least one third party for records relating to the at least one profile subject of a communication link; and

receiving data from the at least one third party over the communication link.

16. The system of claim 15 wherein the server is further configured for:

prompting the at least one profile subject with at least one permission form authorizing a third party to provide one or more records relating to the at least one profile subject over a communication link; and

providing the at least one permission form authorizing the third party to provide the one or more medical records relating to the at least one profile subject.

17. The system of claim 1 wherein server is further configured for:

prompting the at least one potential profile subject with screening questions over the communication link; and

receiving responses from the at least one potential profile subject over the communication link in response to the screening questions.

18. The system of claim 17 wherein screening the at least one potential profile subject further comprises the server being configured for:

comparing the responses from the at least one potential profile subject with candidate population characteristics; and

eliminating a potential profile subject based on the comparison.

19. The system of claim 17 wherein screening the at least one potential profile subject further comprises the server being configured for:

comparing the responses from the at least one potential profile subject with candidate population characteristics; and

classifying a potential profile subject into one or more studies based on the comparison.

20. The system of claim 17 wherein the screening questions further comprise questions directed to at least one question selected from the group consisting of contact details, demographics, lifestyle, past chronic conditions, current chronic conditions, treatment for current conditions, and current medications.

24. The method of claim 5 further comprising the steps of:

prompting the at least one subject for updated data relating to the personal health care of the at least one profile subject; and

receiving responses from the at least one profile subject in response to the questions.

21. A method for collecting data, the method comprising the steps of gathering data related to at least two of the following types of data types:

data from at least one profile subject relating to personal health care for the at least one profile subject;

data from at least one health care provider relating to personal health care for the at least one profile subject;

data from the at least one profile subject relating to personal perceptions of interactions by the at least one profile subject with health care providers;

data from the at least one profile subject relating to health care behavior for the at least one profile subject; and

data from at least one third party relating to the health care behavior of the at least one profile subject.

22. The method of claim 21 further comprising the step of storing the gathered data.

23. The method of claim 21 wherein the step of gathering data from the at least one profile subject relating to personal health care further comprises the steps of:

prompting the at least one profile subject with questions directed to the personal health care of the at least one profile subject; and

receiving responses from the at least one profile subject in response to the questions.

25. The method of claim 21 wherein the step of gathering data from the at least one health care provider relating to personal health care for the at least one profile subject further comprises the steps of:

prompting at least one health care provider for medical records relating to the at least one profile subject; and

receiving data from the at least one health care provider.

26. The method of claim 25 wherein the step of gathering data from the at least one health care provider relating to personal health care for the at least one profile subject further comprises the steps of:

prompting the at least one profile subject with at least one permission form authorizing a health care provider to provide one or more medical records relating to the at least one profile subject; and

providing the at least one permission form authorizing the health care provider to provide the one or more medical records relating to the at least one profile subject.

27. The method of claim 21 wherein the step of gathering data from the at least one profile subject relating to personal perceptions of interactions by the at least one profile subject with health care providers further comprises the steps of:

prompting the at least one profile subject with questions directed to the personal perceptions of interactions by the at least one profile subject with health care providers; and

receiving responses from the at least one profile subject in response to the questions.

28. The method of claim 27 wherein the prompted questions relate to the personal perceptions of the profile subject with respect to the quality of the medical care and the satisfaction of the medical care.

29. The method of claim 27 wherein the prompted questions relate to the personal perceptions of the profile subject with respect to the advice, information, and prescribed treatment by one or more health care professionals.

30. The method of claim 27 further comprising the steps of:

prompting the at least one subject for updated data relating to the personal perceptions of interactions by the at least one profile subject with health care providers; and

receiving responses from the at least one profile subject in response to the questions.

31. The method of claim 21 wherein the step of gathering data from the at least one profile subject relating to health care behavior further comprises the steps of:

32. The method of claim 31 further comprising the steps of

prompting the at least one subject for updated data relating to the health care behavior of the at least one profile subject;

and

receiving responses from the at least one profile subject in response to the questions.

33. The method of claim 21 wherein the step of gathering data from at least one third party relating to the health care behavior of the at least one profile subject comprises the steps of:

prompting at least one third party for records relating to the at least one profile subject; and

receiving data from the at least one third party.

34. The method of claim 33 wherein the step of gathering data from at least one third party relating to the health care behavior of the at least one profile subject further comprises the steps of:

prompting the at least one profile subject with at least one permission form authorizing a third party to provide one or more records relating to the at least one profile subject; and

providing the at least one permission form authorizing the third party to provide the one or more medical records relating to the at least one profile subject.

35. The method of claim 21 further comprising the steps of:

prompting the at least one potential profile subject with screening questions; and

receiving responses from the at least one potential profile subject in response to the screening questions.

36. The method of claim 35 further comprising the steps of:

comparing the responses from the at least one potential profile subject with candidate population characteristics; and

eliminating a potential profile subject based on the comparison.

37. The method of claim 35 further comprising the steps of:

comparing the responses from the at least one potential profile subject with candidate population characteristics; and

classifying a potential profile subject into one or more studies based on the comparison.

38. The method of claim 35 wherein the screening questions further comprise questions directed to at least one question selected from the group consisting of contact details, demographics, lifestyle, past chronic conditions, current chronic conditions, treatment for current conditions, and current medications.