System for Correlating Physiological and Environmental Conditions

• US 20100318424A1
• Filed: 06/11/2010
• Published: 12/16/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 06/12/2009
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: L2LA, LLC
• Original Assignee: L2LA, LLC
• Inventors: LaValle, Amy E.
• Application Number:
  US12/814,357
• Publication Number:
  US 20100318424A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/14.58
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/109 Time management, e.g. calendars, reminders, meetings or time accounting
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0261 based on user location
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 15/00 ICT specially adapted for medical reports, e.g. generation or transmission thereof
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/67 for remote operation
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 50/70 for mining of medical data, e.g. analysing previous cases of other patients

Abstract

A system comprising a storage device configured to store temporal information, geographical information, physiological information, and environmental information associated with a user, and a server coupled to the storage device and configured to correlate at least some of the physiological information and at least some of the environmental information to obtain relationship information corresponding to a relationship between the physiological information and the environmental information over a time period.

Claims

1. A system comprising:

a storage device configured to store temporal information, geographical information, physiological information, and environmental information associated with a user; and

a server coupled to the storage device and configured to correlate at least some of the physiological information and at least some of the environmental information to obtain relationship information corresponding to a relationship between the physiological information and the environmental information over a time period.

2. The system of claim 1 further comprising an environmental condition database configured to collect environmental information from a remote environmental tracking service.

3. The system of claim 2 further comprising a user interface configured to accept physiological information from the user and provide the relationship information to the user.

4. The system of claim 3, wherein the user interface comprises a website.

5. The system of claim 3, wherein the user interface comprises a mobile application.

6. The system of claim 3, wherein the user interface is configured to display advertisements relevant to the temporal information, the geographical information, the physiological information, the environmental information, or combinations thereof.

7. The system of claim 1, wherein the physiological information comprises symptom information related to a physiological condition.

8. The system of claim 7, wherein the symptom information comprises pain intensity.

9. The system of claim 1, wherein the environmental information comprises temperature, barometric pressure, precipitation, humidity, air quality, pollutant composition, pollutant density, allergen composition, allergen density, or combinations thereof.

10. The system of claim 1, wherein the relationship information comprises pain intensity versus temperature, barometric pressure, precipitation, humidity, air quality, pollutant composition, pollutant density, allergen composition, allergen density, or combinations thereof.

11. A network component comprising:

at least one processor coupled to a memory and configured to;

obtain temporal information, geographical information, and physiological information associated with a user;

obtain environmental information associated with the temporal information and geographical information from an environmental tracking service;

store the physiological information and the environmental information in a database;

correlate the physiological information with environmental information to obtain relationship information corresponding to a relationship between the physiological information and the environmental information over a time period; and

generate a report comprising the relationship information.

12. The network component of claim 11, wherein the physiological information and the environmental information is correlated based on a pre-defined query that is stored in the database.

13. The network component of claim 12, wherein the physiological information and the environmental information are correlated when new information is added to the database according to a schedule, or both.

14. The network component of claim 11, wherein the physiological information and the environmental information is correlated by determining statistically significant patterns in the relationship information.

15. The network component of claim 11, wherein the physiological information is provided using a form on a user interface, and wherein the report is displayed by the user interface in the form of a table or chart.

16. The network component of claim 11, wherein the processor is further configured to:

obtain forecasted environmental information;

predict future physiological information using the forecasted environmental information and the relationship information, and

generate a report comprising the future physiological information.

17. A method of creating an electronic medical research database comprising:

collecting geographical location data and physiological data for a plurality of human subjects over a time period, wherein the physiological data comprises symptom data corresponding to a physiological condition;

collecting environmental data associated with the geographical location data over the time period from an electronic environmental tracking service;

storing the physiological data and the environmental data in a database; and

correlating the physiological data with the environmental data based on criteria defined by the human subjects, a physician, a medical researcher, an administrator, or combinations thereof, to generate relationship information corresponding to a relationship between the physiological information and the environmental information over a time period.

18. The method of claim 17, wherein the human subjects connect with each other and share at least some of the physiological information.

19. The method of claim 17, further comprising obtaining forecasted environmental information;

and

predicting future physiological information using the forecasted environmental information and the relationship information.

20. The method of claim 19, further comprising generating a report comprising the future physiological information.