Patents by Inventor Matt Whalen

Matt Whalen has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for facilitating co-morbid care management
    Patent number: 8527297
    Abstract: Methods, apparatuses, and computer program products are provided for facilitating co-morbid care management. A method may include determining a plurality of medical conditions affecting a member enrolled in a care management plan. The method may further include activating, based at least in part upon the determined medical conditions, a plurality of member assessment modules. Each activated member assessment module may be associated with a respective determined medical condition and may comprise a set of assessment questions targeted to the medical condition with which the member assessment module is associated. The method may additionally include generating a blended co-morbid assessment question set based at least in part on the assessment question sets of the activated member assessment modules by blending the assessment question sets of the activated member assessment modules into a blended co-morbid assessment question set. Corresponding apparatuses and computer program products are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2013
    Assignee: McKesson Financial Holdings
    Inventors: Matt Whalen, Carolee Strom, Domingo Polican
  • METHODS, APPARATUSES, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCTS FOR FACILITATING CO-MORBID CARE MANAGEMENT
    Publication number: 20110077955
    Abstract: Methods, apparatuses, and computer program products are provided for facilitating co-morbid care management. A method may include determining a plurality of medical conditions affecting a member enrolled in a care management plan. The method may further include activating, based at least in part upon the determined medical conditions, a plurality of member assessment modules. Each activated member assessment module may be associated with a respective determined medical condition and may comprise a set of assessment questions targeted to the medical condition with which the member assessment module is associated. The method may additionally include generating a blended co-morbid assessment question set based at least in part on the assessment question sets of the activated member assessment modules by blending the assessment question sets of the activated member assessment modules into a blended co-morbid assessment question set. Corresponding apparatuses and computer program products are also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2009
    Publication date: March 31, 2011
    Inventors: Matt Whalen, Carolee Strom, Domingo Polican