Apparatus and methods for rendering personal stories to medical patients

• US 8,930,220 B2
• Filed: 04/17/2008
• Issued: 01/06/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 04/18/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Koninklijke Philips N.V.
• Original Assignee: Koninklijke Philips N.V.
• Inventors: Lemke, Gilbert, Lieberman, Debra
• Primary Examiner(s): PAULS, JOHN A
• Application Number:
  US12/596,447
• Publication Number:
  US 20100131297A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,455 Days
• Field of Search: 705/1, 705/3, 434/238, 707/9, 709/231
• US Class Current: 705/3
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 5/06 with both visual and audible presentation of the material to be studied
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 7/12 characterised by modifying the teaching programme in response to a wrong answer, e.g. repeating the question, supplying further information
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 10/20 for electronic clinical trials or questionnaires
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/67 for remote operation

Abstract

A health care apparatus (10) and methods are described for rendering audio visual content to a medical patient in the patient'"'"'s home, in which a content element storage (22) stores a plurality of audio visual content elements (28) to be rendered to the patient in the patient'"'"'s home, including personal story content elements (40) in which an interviewee (42) is shown discussing one or more issues related to the patient'"'"'s medical condition. One or more content elements are selected according to a medical condition of a given patient and presented to the patient via a display device (14) of a user interface (12) located in the patient'"'"'s home. Methods are presented for generating audio visual content for presentation to a medical patient in the patient'"'"'s home in which a set of questions relating to a given medical condition is generated (102) and questions from the set are presented (104) to at least one interviewee, such as an actor or a person having the given medical condition. The interviewee'"'"'s responses to the presented questions are recorded (106) and edited (108) to create a personal story content element which is then stored (110) in a content element storage coupled with a communications network from which content elements are selected for presentation to patients having the given medical condition.

Claims

1. A health care apparatus to render audio visual content to a medical patient, comprising:

a content element storage coupled with a communications network and adapted to store a plurality of audio visual content elements to be rendered to a medical patient, the plurality of audio visual content elements including a plurality of educational content elements and a plurality of personal story elements, each personal story element including an interviewee shown discussing at least one issue related to a medical condition and wherein the educational content elements include different content from the personal story elements;

an itinerary arrangement system operatively coupled with the content element storage and adapted to select one or more content elements from the content element storage including at least one of the plurality of educational content elements and at least one of the plurality of personal story elements to be rendered to the patient in a given viewing session based at least partially on the patient'"'"'s medical condition, wherein the itinerary arrangement system orders the at least one of the plurality of educational content elements for rendering to the medical patient before the at least one of the plurality of personal story elements; and

a user interface operatively coupled with the communications network and with a display device, the user interface being operable by the patient to render the selected content elements to the patient via the display device.

2. The health care apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the content element storage is located in the user interface.

3. The health care apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the itinerary arrangement system is located in the user interface.

4. The health care apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the itinerary arrangement system selects the at least one of the plurality of personal story elements and at least one of the plurality of educational content elements to be rendered to the patient in a given viewing session based at least partially on the patient'"'"'s medical condition, and wherein the itinerary arrangement system arranges the selected content elements into a serially ordered itinerary for presentation to the patient with the personal story element presented to the patient after the educational content element.

5. The health care apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the itinerary arrangement system selects the at least one of the plurality of personal story elements and at least one interactive survey or quiz content element to be rendered to the patient in a given viewing session based at least partially on the patient'"'"'s medical condition, and wherein the itinerary arrangement system arranges the selected content elements into a serially ordered itinerary for presentation to the patient with the personal story element presented to the patient after the interactive survey or quiz content element.

6. The health care apparatus according to claim 5, wherein the itinerary arrangement system selects the at least one personal story element based at least partially on a patient response to the interactive survey or quiz content element in the viewing session.

7. The health care apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the itinerary arrangement system is adapted to obtain information regarding the patient'"'"'s medical condition from the content element storage to select one or more content elements from the content element storage to be rendered to the patient in a given viewing session.

8. A method of rendering health care information to a patient, comprising:

storing, by a server, a plurality of audio visual content elements to be rendered to a medical patient, the plurality of audio visual content elements including a plurality of educational content elements and a plurality of personal story elements, each personal story element including an interviewee shown discussing at least one issue related to a medical condition and wherein the educational content elements include different content from the personal story elements;

selecting, by the server, one or more stored content elements based at least partially on the patient'"'"'s medical condition, the selected content elements including at least one of the plurality educational content elements and at least one of the plurality of personal story elements to be rendered to the patient in a given viewing session; and

rendering, by a display device, a display of the selected content elements to the patient, wherein the rendering includes displaying the at least one of the plurality of educational content elements before the at least one of the plurality of personal story elements.

9. The method according to claim 8, wherein the one or more selected stored content elements are transferred to a patient'"'"'s home for display.

10. The method according to claim 8, wherein selecting one or more content elements includes selecting at least one of the plurality of personal story elements and at least one of the plurality of educational content elements to be rendered to the patient in a given viewing session, and further including arranging the selected content elements into a serially ordered itinerary for presentation to the patient.

11. The method according to claim 8, wherein selecting one or more content elements includes selecting at least one of the plurality of personal story elements and at least one of the plurality of educational content elements or interactive survey or quiz content element to be rendered to the patient in a given viewing session based at least partially on the patient'"'"'s medical condition, and further including arranging the selected content elements into a serially ordered itinerary for presentation to the patient with the personal story element presented to the patient after the educational content element or the interactive survey or quiz content element.

12. The method according to claim 8, wherein selecting one or more content elements includes selecting at least interactive survey content element and selecting at least one personal story element based at least partially on a patient response to the interactive survey content element in the viewing session.

13. The method according to claim 12, wherein selecting one or more content elements includes incorporating at least one personal story content element into a defined care plan.

14. The method according to claim 13, further including arranging the selected content elements into a serially ordered itinerary with the at least one personal story content element arranged to correspond to a chronology of the defined care plan.

15. The method according to claim 8, further comprising obtaining information regarding the patient'"'"'s medical condition prior to selecting the one or more content elements.

16. The method according to claim 8, further comprising:

generating a set of questions relating to a given medical condition;

presenting questions from the set to at least one interviewee;

recording the interviewee'"'"'s responses to the presented questions;

editing the interviewee'"'"'s responses to create a personal story content element; and

storing the personal story content element.

17. The method according to claim 16, comprising:

gathering a plurality of interviewees in a group session;

presenting questions from the set to two or more of the interviewees;

recording responses by two or more of the interviewees; and

editing the responses to create at least one personal story content element.

18. The method according to claim 8, wherein selecting one or more content elements includes allowing the patient to select from a list of interviewees and selecting a personal story content element showing the selected interviewee discussing at least one issue related to the patient'"'"'s medical condition.

19. The method according to claim 8, further comprising determining an availability of one or more personal story content elements based on personal information other than the patient'"'"'s medical condition.

20. A non-transitory computer readable medium or processor programmed to implement a method of rendering health care information to a patient, the method comprising:

storing a plurality of audio visual content elements to be rendered to a medical patient, the plurality of audio visual content elements including a plurality of educational content elements and a plurality of personal story elements, each personal story element including an interviewee shown discussing at least one issue related to a medical condition and wherein the educational content elements include different content from the personal story elements;

selecting one or more stored content elements based at least partially on the patient'"'"'s medical condition, the selected content elements including at least one of the educational content elements and at least one of the plurality of personal story elements to be rendered to the patient in a given viewing session; and

rendering a display of the selected content elements to the patient, wherein the rendering includes displaying the at least one of the plurality of educational content elements before the at least one of the plurality of personal story elements.

21. A method of rendering health care information to a patient, comprising:

recording, by a recording device, at least one interviewee'"'"'s responses to at least one question related to a given medical condition;

editing the interviewee'"'"'s responses to create a personal story content element showing the interviewee discussing the given medical condition;

storing, by a server, an audio visual content element to be rendered to a medical patient, the audio visual content element including an educational content element and the personal story content element, the personal story content element including the interviewee shown discussing at least one issue related to the given medical condition and wherein the educational content element includes different content from the personal story content element;

selecting, by the server, the audio visual content element including the educational content element and the personal story content element to be rendered to the patient in a given viewing session based at least partially on the patient'"'"'s medical condition; and

rendering, by a display device, a display of the selected audio visual content element to the patient, wherein the rendering includes displaying the educational content element before the personal story element.

22. The method according to claim 21, wherein selecting the audio visual content element includes incorporating the personal story content element into a defined care plan.

23. The method according to claim 22, further including arranging the selected audio visual content element into a serially ordered itinerary with the personal story content element arranged to correspond to a chronology of the defined care plan.

24. The method according to claim 21, further comprising allowing the patient to select from a list of interviewees including the at least one interviewee, and selecting the personal story content element showing the at least one interviewee discussing the at least one issue related to the patient'"'"'s medical condition.