Method and System for Analyzing Health Related Data of Patients

• US 20110166880A1
• Filed: 09/03/2009
• Published: 07/07/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 09/08/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Healarium, Inc. (Apollo Medical Holdings, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Healarium, Inc. (Apollo Medical Holdings, Inc.)
• Inventors: Keynan, Amnon, Weschler, Arturo, Weinstein, Amir
• Application Number:
  US13/062,730
• Publication Number:
  US 20110166880A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/2
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management
• 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 50/20 for computer-aided diagnosis, e.g. based on medical expert systems

Abstract

System and method for analyzing health related data associated with a patient, comprising: an expert'"'"'s station; a health database comprising health related data of patients; a wizard application, enabling the expert to create a template of commands for analyzing the health related data of the patient according to the expert'"'"'s school of method, using a generic model associated with the expert'"'"'s field of expertise, where the analysis calculates health related profile of the patient; a templates database comprising templates of commands created by experts; a generic models database, enabling the wizard to retrieve and store a generic model associated with the expert'"'"'s field of expertise; and a main server for using the template of commands to analyze the health data of a patient, according to the analysis method of the expert, by operating the commands in the template for calculating health related profile of the patient.

Claims

1. A system for enabling to analyze health related data associated with at least one patient, said system comprising:

at least one expert'"'"'s station, which is a computerized station of a health related expert;

at least one health database comprising health related data of patients;

a wizard software application operatively associated with said at least one expert'"'"'s station, enabling the expert to create at least one template of commands for analyzing the health related data of the patient according to the expert'"'"'s analysis school of method, using at least one generic model associated with the field of expertise of the expert, wherein said analysis calculates health related profile parameters of patients;

at least one templates database, enabling to store templates of commands created by the expert;

at least one generic models database, enabling the wizard to retrieve and store a generic model associated with the expert'"'"'s field of expertise; and

at least one main server, operatively associated with said wizard, said expert'"'"'s station, said health database and said templates database, enabling to retrieve data from and store data in the databases and use the template of commands to analyze the health data of a patient, according to the analysis method of the expert,

wherein the analysis is carried out by operating of the commands in the template, wherein at least one of said commands in the template enables calculating of patients'"'"' health related profile.

2. The system of claim 1 further enables presenting of the analyzed data to said expert.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein said main server comprises an operation application for operating the customized templates of commands for calculating and presenting of patient'"'"'s health related parameters and profile.

4. The system of claim 3, wherein said operation application comprises:

an operation module for retrieving health related data of the patient from the health database, retrieving the expert'"'"'s template of commands and processing the patient'"'"'s health related data according to the template of commands; and

a presentation module for presenting the patient'"'"'s resulting health related parameters and profile.

5. The system of claim 4, wherein the resulting health related parameters and profile of the patient are presented through a presentation sheet enabling to graphically present the results.

6. The system of claim 1, wherein said wizard comprises:

a health interpretation customization module, for enabling the expert to customize a health related generic model to create the template of commands; and

an interface for allowing the expert to input and view data for customizing the generic model there-through,

wherein said interface provides an input platform for presenting the generic model and for allowing the expert to define input parameters, deduced parameters, and parameters'"'"' normal ranges of values for each of the input and deduced parameters, according to which the resulting profile status of patients are calculated and presented.

7. The system of claim 1 further comprising a generic assignment models database operatively associated with said wizard and a care plans database comprising experts care plans, wherein said wizard further enables the expert to assign suitability to health related care plans according to possible health related goals of patients, by providing the generic assignment model for customization thereof to create an assignment template for assigning said suitability of the patient'"'"'s care plan to each possible goal.

8. The system of claim 7, further comprising a suitability assignment templates database operatively associated with said main server, for allowing said wizard to store created assignment templates therein and said server to retrieve templates there from to allow receiving a patient'"'"'s health related goal, calculate most suitable care plans in relation to said received goal, according to a set of rules in the assignment template and present most suitable care plans.

9. The system of claim 8, wherein said main server further comprises:

a plans retrieval application enabling to calculate and retrieve care plans from said care plans database that are most suitable to a patient'"'"'s input goal, according to the assignment template of an expert; and

plans management application for allowing the patient to report progress of following the care plan chosen by the patient according to the suitability presentation and for monitoring the patient'"'"'s implementation of the selected plan.

10. The system of claim 9, wherein said wizard further comprises a suitability assignment customization tool for associating suitability to care plans according to patients possible health related goals.

11. The system of claim 10, wherein said plans management application comprises:

a plan presentation module for presenting a selected care plan to the patient, wherein said plan is selected out of presented most suitable care plans;

a monitoring module for executing the monitoring and alerts commands of a retrieved selected care plan and thereby allow the patient to input parameters and information relating to the patient'"'"'s implementation of the care plan, according to the plan'"'"'s structure and presentation features, and to monitor the patient'"'"'s implementation of the care plan according to the monitoring rules set by the expert; and

a feedback module for enabling the patient to insert feedback content to the care plan, wherein the content of the feedback is automatically transmitted for further analysis.

12. The system of claim 7, further enabling deducing the health related goal of a patient according to health profile of the patient resulting from the analysis carried out by operating the expert'"'"'s template of commands upon the patient'"'"'s health related data.

20. The method of claim 1 further comprising deducing at least one health related goal from the resulting analysis of a patient'"'"'s health related data, according to the expert'"'"'s template of commands.

13. A computer implemented method of enabling to analyze health related data associated with at least one patient, said method comprising:

retrieving a generic model that is associated with the expert'"'"'s field of expertise; and

enabling the expert to create a template of commands, using the retrieved generic model, wherein said template allows analyzing health data of the patient according to the expert'"'"'s analysis school of method;

receiving health related data of a patient; and

analyzing the received health related data according to the expert'"'"'s template of commands by operating the commands of said template using health related data of said patient,

wherein said commands enable calculating health related profile of the patient.

14. The method of claim 13 further comprising storing said template of commands created by the expert.

15. The method of claim 13 further comprising presenting of the analyzed data of each patient to said expert.

16. The method of claim 13 further comprising:

defining input fields of input parameters, wherein an interface platform of the retrieved generic model enables the expert to define the parameters f the health related data that the expert wishes to retrieve process and view by defining parameter types as input fields;

defining conditions to at least some of the input parameters, wherein the conditions are created by defining interrelations between at least some of the defined input fields; and

defining value ranges for each input parameter.

17. The method of claim 16 further comprising:

defining deduced parameters, wherein an interface platform of the retrieved generic model enables the expert to define a mathematical calculation for calculating the deduced parameters from at least one of the input parameters;

defining conditions to at least some of the deduction parameters, wherein the conditions are created by defining interrelations between at least some of the input parameters; and

defining value ranges for each deduced parameter.

18. The method of claim 17 further comprising:

defining profile factors, wherein an interface platform of the retrieved generic model enables the expert to define a calculation for calculating each factor;

defining conditions to at least some of the factors, wherein the conditions are created by defining interrelations between at least some. of the input parameters and the deduced parameters; and

defining value ranges for each factor.

19. The method of claim 18 further comprising defining display features, which include graphical presentation of at least one of the factors, deduced parameter, input parameter and their associated normal values ranges.

21. A computer implemented method of providing at least one suitable health related care plan of an expert to patients'"'"' health related goals, said method comprising:

assigning suitability of the expert'"'"'s care plan to possible patient'"'"'s health related goals by customizing rules of at least one generic model enabling said assignment;

creating a suitability assignment template of the care plan, which includes all the customized rules of the generic model;

receiving at least one health related goal of a patient;

determining the suitability of known care plans in relation to said received goal, according to the suitability assignment template of each of the care plans, wherein the suitability is calculated according to the customized rules of the suitability assignment template in of each care plan in relation to the received goal; and

presenting care plans that are most suitable in relation to said received health related goal.

22. The method of claim 21, wherein said assignment of suitability comprises manually assigning an effectiveness rate to each possible goal.

23. The method of claim 22, wherein said assignment of suitability further comprises defining suitability calculation function, wherein said function enables calculating a suitability factor of the care plan to each goal according to at least some of the health related data of the patient.

24. The method of claim 23, wherein said assignment of suitability further comprises defining exclusion criteria for excluding the care plan in relation to the goal.

25. The method of claim 22, wherein said assignment of suitability further comprises defining an algorithm for calculating a weight value for each possible goal, for enabling to calculate a total level of suitability of the care plan in relation to each goal and the patient'"'"'s health related data.

26. The method of claim 25, wherein said determining the suitability of known care plans includes:

identifying care plans that are not excluded by the exclusion criteria of each of the care plans;

calculating the suitability factor of each of the non-excluded care plans;

identifying the most suitable care plans out of the non-excluded plans according to each non-excluded plan'"'"'s suitability factor; and

calculating the effectiveness rate of each plan of the most suitable plans in relation to the patient'"'"'s received health related goal.

27. The method of claim 26, further comprising retrieving a predefined number of the most suitable health related plans.

28. The method of claim 27, wherein the predefined number of the most suitable care plans are presented according to a descending effectiveness order.

29. The method of claim 21, wherein said presenting of care plans that are most suitable in relation to said received health related goal is carried out by presenting titles and description of the most suitable plans.

30. The method of claim 21, further comprising:

selecting at least one of the displayed plans, wherein the patient carries out said selection;

retrieving the selected care plan details from a care plans database; and

presenting the details of said retrieved care plan to the patient.

31. The method of claim 30, further comprising activating the care plan to allow implementation and monitoring of the patient'"'"'s implementation of said plan.

32. The method of claim 21 further comprising allowing patients to feedback on care plans.

33. The method of claim 21, further comprising storing the created suitability assignment template in a suitability assignment database.