Personalized method and system for storage, communication, analysis, and processing of health-related data

• US 5,542,420 A
• Filed: 04/29/1994
• Issued: 08/06/1996
• Est. Priority Date: 04/30/1993
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: For Life For Health For Spirit Limited, Hever For Life For Health For Spirit Limited
• Original Assignee: Hever For Life For Health For Spirit Limited
• Inventors: Goldman, Arnold J., Greenberg, David L.
• Primary Examiner(s): Sykes, Angela D.
• Assistant Examiner(s): GILBERT, SAMUEL G
• Application Number:
  US08/237,012
• Time in Patent Office: 830 Days
• Field of Search: 128/630, 128/897, 128/898, 128/904, 364/413.01, 364/413.29, 364/413.02, 364/413.03
• US Class Current: 600/301
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 10/60 for patient-specific data, e.g. for electronic patient records
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 20/13 delivered from dispensers
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/67 for remote operation
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 80/00 ICT specially adapted for facilitating communication between medical practitioners or patients, e.g. for collaborative diagnosis, therapy or health monitoring

Abstract

The present invention relates to a health care system for specifying edibles to individual subjects. The personalized method and system for storage, communication, analysis and processing of health-related data comprises a storage containing data relating to health and edibles and is adapted to receive data on the conditions and characteristics of the individual subjects. The health care system further comprises input terminals adapted to be coupled to the storage means for providing data on the conditions and characteristics of the individual subjects, and a health computer for correlating the data relating to health and edibles with the data on the condition and characteristics of an individual subject to provide a personalized prescription of edibles.

Claims

1. A health care system for specifying a personalized and comprehensive prescription of edibles to individual subjects, comprising:

an edible-needs storage means containing health and edible generic needs data relating to said individual subjects, and adapted to receive conditions and characteristics data for said individual subjects;

a plurality of input terminals coupled to said edible-needs storage means for providing said conditions and characteristics data for said individual subjects;

a health computer coupled to any one or more of said plurality of input terminals to receive said conditions and characteristics data for said individual subjects and to identify for each of said individual subjects data indicative of extreme conditions or serious characteristics, said health computer prioritizing said data indicative of extreme conditions or serious characteristics for correlation with said health and edible generic needs data stored in said edible-needs storage means for each of said individual subjects to provide a personalized and comprehensive prescription of edibles.

2. A health care system according to claim 1, wherein said input terminals include telephonic devices for coupling to said edible-needs storage means.

3. A health care system according to claim 2, further including a telephonic interface for prompting said telephonic devices.

4. A health care system according to claim 1, wherein said edible-needs storage means further includes:

first subject data cells for storing personal data representative of an individual subject'"'"'s weight, age and extreme or serious conditions;

second subject data cells for storing consumption data representative of said individual subject'"'"'s record of consumed edibles; and

third subject data cells for storing identification data representative of said individual subject'"'"'s identification.

5. A health care system according to claim 1, wherein said health computer scans the conditions and characteristics data of said individual subjects to prioritize data representative of said individual subjects'"'"' extreme conditions or serious characteristics.

6. A health care system according to claim 5, wherein said health care computer limits access to said first subject data cells on the basis of said identification data stored in said third subject data cells.

7. A health care process for developing a personalized and comprehensive specification of edibles for an individual subject, comprising the steps of:

storing comprehensive treatment data on relationship of health to edibles;

receiving and storing individual data from a plurality of sources on an individual subject relating to characteristics and conditions of said individual subject;

scanning said data on said characteristics and conditions of said individual subject to identify any extreme or serious characteristics; and

correlating said characteristics and conditions of said individual subject with emphasis on identified extreme or serious characteristics to specify a schedule of edibles in accordance with said comprehensive treatment data.

8. A health care process according to claim 7, further including a step of classifying individual subjects in relation to said comprehensive treatment data.

9. A health care process according to claim 7, further including a step of telephonically interfacing said individual subject to receive said individual data for storing.

10. A health care process according to claim 7, further including a step of imposing controlled access by said individual subject to store said individual data.