Interactive patient communication development system for reporting on patient healthcare management
A modular interactive system and method for customizing health education to an individual at a remote terminal to induce a modification in a health-related behavior of the individual. The automated system includes a questionnaire generator for questioning the individual to determine his or her motivational drivers and comprehension capacity. The questionnaire generator is a graphical user interface that allows a clinician to graphically attach questions to answer to action. A processor then generates a script program based on what the clinician has attached together. A profile generator receives answers entered by the individual from the remote terminal and generates a motivational driver profile and a comprehension capacity profile of the individual. A translator receives clinical data relating to a current health condition of the individual and translates the clinical data, the motivational driver profile, and the comprehension capacity profile into a profile code. An educational fulfillment bank matches the profile code to matching educational materials and transfers the matched educational materials to the remote terminal. An evaluation program evaluates educational responses of the individual and provides profile updates for targeting subsequent educational material to the individual based on the educational responses.
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This is a continuation of co-pending application Ser. No. 09/810,334, filed Mar. 14, 2001, which is herein incorporated by reference.
FIELD OF THE INVENTIONThe present invention relates generally to a modular interactive development system and method for reporting on patient management, and in particular to an automated content delivery program able to connect remote users across independent platforms to a central database of libraries whereby a patient's health can be scored dynamically.
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTIONThis invention relates to the field of health management, particularly to an automated interactive system and method for reducing the risk associated with a monitored client.
For example, the know art includes a number of health-management systems for providing outpatient services to patients with chronic health conditions such as asthma and diabetes. However, these systems are incapable of administering a treatment protocol responsive to the patient's current profile and of updating the profile in response to the administered protocol.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTIONThis invention presents a flexible and scalable system in content development for patient management healthcare. Due to the modular object oriented-structure, individual content modules (“dialogs”) can be mixed into an unlimited number of undatable customized programs, addressing individual as well as co-existing disease states (“co-morbid”) in any combinations, and with automated content variation for improved patient compliance. A dialog is the smallest content object in the FlexCube content structure. Its content addresses issues related to a unique set of symptoms, behaviors or knowledge related to a specific aspect of managing a certain disease referred to as an aspect of care.
In its basic format, each dialog contains questions related to signs and symptoms, behaviors and knowledge with answers categorized as high, medium or low risk answers. For each answer there is a relevant follow up, which can be a teaching statement, an acknowledgment, a motivational statement or a new question that will explore the patient's condition in more depth. While the logical branching within a dialog is driven by patient answers, no dependency exists between individual dialogs.
Dialogs are located in a common pool organized by library. From this library each individual dialog is referenced for participation (appearance) in programs and daily sessions. A dialog's behavior in a program (schedule, position, reporting) is defined at the time of the dialog creation or it is custom defined during the program content selection process. In this way dialogs maintain their integrity while being used and re-used in several client programs. They combine freely with other dialogs in user defined program selections, allowing an unlimited combination of aspects of care and co-existing diseases. Finally, they are easily accessible for revisions and updates.
The present invention provides an object-oriented dialog and modular toolkit structure that enhances quality control options. Also included are the centrally located content objects that offer overview and tracking of the currently active content, global error correction and global update of content to current standards of care. Because the present invention splits up interfaces for content creation and content selection into separate modules, the present invention exercises control over customer's access to content development in compliance with current and future Federal Drug Administration labeling. Finally the system's structure limits logical branching errors to within a dialog, thereby offering a more robust and less error prone system overall.
Since the content of a dialog and the output of a dialog is related and mapped to a specific aspect of care, the user will have the power and flexibility to model risk evaluation and outcomes reporting around custom selected aspects of care.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGSThe foregoing aspects and many of the attendant advantages of this invention will become more readily appreciated as the same becomes better understood by reference to the following detailed description, when taken in conjunction with the accompanying drawings, wherein:
The present invention includes an object-oriented content structure in which the smallest content object, a care specific dialog, is located in a central library from where its characteristics (operators) are composed and referenced by a modular set of tools located at a client computer.
Compositional elements of the system 10 reference either one or both of the two remaining components of the system depicted in
The structure of the system is developed from the integration of the four compositional components as referenced above with the two referenced components and begins with the creation of dialogs in the Dialog Composer 20 as depicted
While the logical branching within a dialog depends on output variables, no dependency exists between individual dialogs. Dependencies for dialogs exist outside the dialog structure in related operators.
The user interface is easy to use due to the simplicity of program structure in which the user is able to interface with the program and dialog composition aspects of the system. Simply using drag and drop content selection procedures based on a medical decision creates a process familiar to the user. The user decides what aspects of care are relevant for a given program or for an individual patient and in most cases simply selects existing content based on that decision. In all steps of dialog composition, certain steps are taken to make available the dialog in a content library.
The user who has access to create new content does so using a simple dialog composer as embodied in
Once dialogs are named, created and assigned to an aspect of care and the risk output is assigned to the appropriate dialog, a user of the system can then use the Program Composer 30 to create the program that eventually is assigned to a patient.
The last step in the creation of a system program is the creation of a Reporter User Interface (“Reporter UI”) which creates patient reports specific to patient results that in turn can initiate program actions based on those results.
While this invention has been described in terms of several preferred embodiments, there are alterations, permutations, and equivalents that fall within the scope of this invention. It is therefore intended that the following appended claims be interpreted as including all such alterations, permutations, and equivalents as fall within the true spirit and scope of the present invention.
Claims
1. A method for managing a condition of an individual, comprising the steps of:
- (A) selecting a plurality of dialogs from one or more libraries;
- (B) assembling said dialogs; and
- (C) defining a delivery schedule for said dialogs as assembled to one or more of said individuals.
2. The method according to claim 1, wherein said dialogs comprise a plurality of content objects.
3. The method according to claim 1, further comprising the step of:
- generating a prioritization for said dialogs.
4. The method according to claim 3, wherein said prioritization comprises an option to include said dialogs in said delivery schedule.
5. The method according to claim 3, wherein said prioritization comprises an option to include one or more filler types of said dialogs in said delivery schedule.
6. The method according to claim 1, wherein said delivery schedule comprises (i) a daily schedule, (ii) a weekly schedule or (iii) a custom schedule.
7. The method according to claim 1, further comprising the step of:
- generating a presentation defined by said dialogs as assembled.
8. The method according to claim 1, further comprising the steps of:
- generating one or more management programs for said dialogs related to said condition;
- marking a particular individual among a plurality of said individuals for an assignment; and
- linking said particular individual with said management programs per said assignment.
9. The method according to claim 1, further comprising the steps of:
- identifying a particular individual among a plurality of said individuals by filtering said individuals using at least one of a plurality of factors for said condition;
- generating a profile for said particular individual based on a plurality of responses received from said particular individual responding to a plurality of questions sent to said particular individual; and
- generating a report for said profile.
10. The method according to claim 1, wherein said management of said condition comprises a disease management, said one or more libraries comprise one or more of (i) a disease specific library and (ii) a non-disease specific library and said dialogs concern a plurality of aspects of health care.
11. The method according to claim 1, further comprising a storage medium storing a computer program comprising the steps of claim 1.
12. A method for managing a condition, comprising the steps of:
- (A) generating one or more management programs for a plurality of dialogs related to said condition;
- (B) marking a particular individual among a plurality of individuals for an assignment; and
- (C) linking said particular individual with said management programs per said assignment.
13. The method according to claim 12, further comprising the step of:
- generating a time frame in which said management programs will run for said particular individual.
14. The method according to claim 12, further comprising the step of:
- identifying said particular individual by filtering a plurality of names of said individuals.
15. The method according to claim 12, wherein said management of said condition comprises a disease management and said management programs concern a plurality of aspects of health care.
16. The method according to claim 12, further comprising a storage medium storing a computer program comprising the steps of claim 12.
17. A method for managing a condition, comprising the steps of:
- (A) identifying a particular individual among a plurality of individuals by filtering said individuals using at least one of a plurality of factors for said condition;
- (B) generating a profile for said particular individual based on a plurality of responses received from said particular individual responding to a plurality of questions sent to said particular individual; and
- (C) generating a report for said profile.
18. The method according to claim 17 wherein said report comprises said responses and is readable by a human.
19. The method according to claim 17, wherein said factors comprise at least one among (i) a plurality of factors related to a level at risk (ii) a plurality of factors related to an aspect of care and (iii) a plurality of factors related to an expression of risk.
20. The method according to claim 19, wherein said factors related to said expression of risk comprises at least one among (i) a plurality of symptom factors reportable by said individuals, (ii) a plurality of behavior factors of said individuals and (iii) a plurality of knowledge factors of said individuals.
21. The method according to claim 17, further comprising the step of:
- assigning said particular individual to a healthcare program based on said report, wherein said management of said condition comprises a disease management.
22. The method according to claim 17, further comprising a storage medium storing a computer program comprising the steps of claim 17.
Type: Application
Filed: Sep 28, 2006
Publication Date: Jan 25, 2007
Applicant:
Inventor: Stephen Brown (Woodside, CA)
Application Number: 11/528,737
International Classification: G06F 19/00 (20060101);