“Medical And Healthcare Service Platforms And Uses Thereof” in Patent Application Approval Process (USPTO 20230360802): Rutgers University

2023 NOV 23 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Insurance Daily News -- A patent application by the inventors Chen, Anjiang (Piscataway, NJ, US); Ge, Yi (Piscataway, NJ, US); Jin, Jing (Basking Ridge, NJ, US); Shi, Wenzhao (Beijing, CN); Xu, Juan (Beijing, CN); Xu, Zheng (Beijing, CN), filed on May 4, 2023, was made available online on November 9, 2023, according to news reporting originating from Washington, D.C., by NewsRx correspondents.

This patent application is assigned to Rutgers University (New Brunswick, New Jersey, United States).

The following quote was obtained by the news editors from the background information supplied by the inventors: “With the development and progress of medical science and technology, there is an improved understanding of harms of illness to the body in real time and the impacts of various diseases on the body. As a result, people pay more attention to physical health. To better assist medical staff in the treatment of patients and promote the early recovery of patients, it is necessary to develop an efficient, convenient, and accurate medical service platform.”

In addition to the background information obtained for this patent application, NewsRx journalists also obtained the inventors’ summary information for this patent application: “This disclosure provides a medical and healthcare service platform that is supported by a digital data currency system and provides medical and healthcare data processing, analyzing, and predicting based on a digital human system by integrating participating parties comprising individual persons, researchers, healthcare providers, and regulatory and public sectors.

“In some embodiments, the medical and healthcare service platform comprises: (i) a digital human replica system that constructs a digital human replica to provide virtual representation, modeling, and visualization services based on present and past medical and health data of physical persons; (ii) a digital human simuli system that constructs a digital human simuli to provide virtual simulation and modeling of future health and physiological evolution of a physical person based on the present and past medical and health data; (iii) a digital human agent system that represents virtual medical and health service professionals with specialties and functions, wherein the virtual medical and healthcare service professionals are formed based on professional knowledge and capabilities, specialties, and experiences of physical medical and healthcare professionals and characteristics and specialties of non-medical and healthcare professionals or practitioners; (iv) a digital human data acquisition system that collects biometric identification and medical related data, and (v) a digital data currency system that awards data sharing and contributions in a full ecosystem of data generation comprising data processing, data cleaning and denoising, data encryption and anonymization, data labeling and calibration, and data analytics, data contributions related to medical and healthcare services; and services provided by medical and healthcare professionals from clinical practices, drug companies from laboratories or clinical trial data, and academic researchers from research work.

“In some embodiments, the digital human replica system receives input data from the human data acquisition system for both a target physical person and other persons with similar biomedical, social-demographical, occupational, and lifestyle characteristics for building, calibrating, and customizing the digital human simuli system for the target physical person to simulate the growing and aging, disease events, injury events, and their reactions to medicines and treatment plans.

“In some embodiments, the digital human agent system creates a special digital human replica of actions, treatment plans, and decision makings of medical and healthcare professionals. In some embodiments, the digital human agent system is configured to execute simulated medical, care, and health services as an intervention based on simulation in a digital human simuli model of the digital human simuli system,

“In some embodiments, the digital human stimuli and the digital human agent system are integrated to perform model optimization to select and determine an optimal treatment or support plan to achieve an optimal health and medical outcome.

“In some embodiments, the digital human digital data currency system awards digital currency for data contribution by the participating parties who interface with the digital human data acquisition system and wherein the data contribution results in improvement of performance of the digital human simuli system and the digital human agent system.

“In some embodiments, the digital human replica system provides a representation of physical human bodies, and wherein the representation comprises one or more of: 3D contour body model, multi-dimensional anatomical model, multi-dimensional data feature tensor, and spatiotemporal transformation of health and disease state.

“In some embodiments, the representation further comprises one or more of medical diagnosis and treatment; pharmaceutical use state quantity; diet, living and healthcare habits state quantity; environmental impact state quantity; virtual detection monitoring and observation modeling; and a process of psychophysiological changes for a full life cycle.

“In some embodiments, the digital human replica system comprises a full retrospective system generated based on spatiotemporal data. In some embodiments, the spatiotemporal data comprises: retrospective of life cycle, retrospective of life course and event process, or retrospective of disease and psychophysiological social environment impact events.

“In some embodiments, the digital human replica system provides virtual representation, modeling, and visualization service for both participant users and non-participant users of the medical and healthcare service platform. In some embodiments, the non-participant users have similar biomedical, social-demographical, occupational, and lifestyle characteristics to the participant users, and wherein the digital human replica system uses the characteristics of the non-participant users to infer and interpolate missing data of the participant users.

“In some embodiments, the digital human replica system is configured to: identify the participant users using customizable identity and biometric information, or receive feedback on physical human health or medical processes.

“In some embodiments, the non-participant users are identified by de-identified information created by: age groups, gender, or biometric group characteristics.

“In some embodiments, the digital human simuli system comprises an organ or part simulation subsystem that simulates a change process by using organs or parts of a constructed digital human replica.

“In some embodiments, the digital human simuli system comprises a simulation process dynamic visualization subsystem for dynamically visualizing changed data.

“In some embodiments, the digital human agent system, through one or more deep neural network models, performs training and learning based on input data comprising: real-world doctors’ treatment and prescription strategies, nursing and service strategies for nurses, therapists, research, experimentation, or development strategies for researchers, regulations and services for government agencies, wherein the digital human agent system generates digital human simuli models based on the input data, and wherein the digital human simuli models interact with a baseline digital human replica model.

“In some embodiments, the digital human agent system creates deep neural network models of:

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“(a) doctors, nurses, or therapists to treat the digital human simuli and provide virtual instructions and services to physical persons on their healthcare and disease treatment process;

“(b) researchers and experimental groups to conduct virtual tests and surveys on the digital human replica and the digital human simuli to conduct research and development of new medical devices, drugs, treatment plans, or general health and behavioral studies;

“© health insurance providers that interact with the digital human replica about coverage and billing costs, insurance claims for ongoing treatments and services, and different treatment plans and insurance coverage and billing options;

“(d) governing bodies, regulators, and digital security agencies to oversee, monitor and enforce critical health, medical, privacy protection, data security policy and regulations, freedom of information and disinformation suppression in virtual worlds;

“(e) public health workers and platform users to provide related government services comprising medical material distribution, medical forms, and insurance claims; or

“(f) professionals who supervise scientific research and production services, and self-diagnosis services and volunteers who provide health diagnosis and treatment services to family members and family communities, wherein the digital human agent system undertakes medical treatment and care services, virtual simulation and modeling application.

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“In some embodiments, the present and past medical and health data comprises: real time data, events data, and historical data and paper records.

“In some embodiments, the data acquisition system comprises an interface interacting with users and contributors of the medical and healthcare service platform to facilitate biomedical, healthcare, data inputs and labeling, and wherein the interface comprises one or more of: an interface for regular individual participants, an interface for doctors and hospitals, an interface for companies and R&D groups, or an interface to interact with datasets and data feeds provided by public agencies.

“In some embodiments, the interface comprises: a wearable body health sensor interface, a digital human body multimodal data interface, or a digital human body medical record conversion interface.

“In some embodiments, the medical and health data are acquired from: wearable sensors, medical records, or lab tests.

“In some embodiments, the data acquisition system is configured to: clean collected data; perform desensitization processing on collected data; perform data privacy protection processing on the collected data; or visualize the collected data.

“In some embodiments, the medical and healthcare service platform constructs a spatial-temporal virtual world that simulates external factors related to human health, disease, conditions, and wherein the external factors comprise one or more of: social activity, travel behavior, family environment, hospital, occupation, workplace, transportation, community, and city.

“In some embodiments, the medical and healthcare service platform further comprises an auxiliary and interactive system interfacing between the virtual world of digital humans and real-world personal healthcare and government public health management to perform one or more of: auxiliary diagnosis and treatment, health care, nursing care, public health management, and smart device and robot interaction.”

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The claims supplied by the inventors are:

“1. A medical and healthcare service platform, wherein the medical and healthcare service platform is supported by a digital data currency system and provides medical and healthcare data processing, analyzing, and predicting based on a digital human system by integrating participating parties comprising individual persons, researchers, healthcare providers, and regulatory and public sectors, the medical and healthcare service platform comprising: a digital human replica system that constructs a digital human replica to provide virtual representation, modeling, and visualization services based on present and past medical and health data of physical persons; a digital human simuli system that constructs a digital human simuli to provide virtual simulation and modeling of future health and physiological evolution of a physical person based on the present and past medical and health data; a digital human agent system that represents virtual medical and health service professionals with specialties and functions, wherein the virtual medical and healthcare service professionals are formed based on professional knowledge and capabilities, specialties, and experiences of physical medical and healthcare professionals and characteristics and specialties of non-medical and healthcare professionals or practitioners; and a digital human data acquisition system that collects biometric identification and medical-related data, wherein the digital data currency system awards data sharing and contributions in a full ecosystem of data generation comprising data processing, data cleaning and denoising, data encryption and anonymization, data labeling and calibration, and data analytics, data contributions related to medical and healthcare services; and services provided by medical and healthcare professionals from clinical practices, drug companies from laboratories or clinical trial data, and academic researchers from research work, wherein the digital human replica system receives input data from the human data acquisition system for both a target physical person and other persons with similar biomedical, social-demographical, occupational, and lifestyle characteristics for building, calibrating, and customizing the digital human simuli system for the target physical person to simulate the growing and aging, disease events, injury events, and their reactions to medicines and treatment plans, wherein the digital human agent system creates a special digital human replica of actions, treatment plans, and decision makings of medical and healthcare professionals, the digital human agent system configured to execute simulated medical, care, and health services as an intervention based on simulation in a digital human simuli model of the digital human simuli system, wherein the digital human stimuli and the digital human agent system are integrated to perform model optimization to select and determine an optimal treatment or support plan to achieve an optimal health and medical outcome, and wherein the digital human digital data currency system awards digital currency for data contribution by the participating parties who interface with the digital human data acquisition system and wherein the data contribution results in improvement of performance of the digital human simuli system and the digital human agent system.

“2. The medical and healthcare service platform of claim 1, wherein the digital human replica system provides a representation of physical human bodies, and wherein the representation comprises one or more of: 3D contour body model, multi-dimensional anatomical model, multi-dimensional data feature tensor, and spatiotemporal transformation of health and disease state.

“3. The medical and healthcare service platform of claim 2, wherein the representation further comprises one or more of medical diagnosis and treatment; pharmaceutical use state quantity; diet, living and healthcare habits state quantity; environmental impact state quantity; virtual detection monitoring and observation modeling; and a process of psychophysiological changes for a full life cycle.

“4. The medical and healthcare service platform of claim 1, wherein the digital human replica system comprises a full retrospective system generated based on spatiotemporal data, and wherein the spatiotemporal data comprises: retrospective of life cycle, retrospective of life course and event process, or retrospective of disease and psychophysiological social environment impact events.

“5. The medical and healthcare service platform of claim 1, wherein the digital human replica system provides virtual representation, modeling, and visualization service for both participant users and non-participant users of the medical and healthcare service platform, wherein the non-participant users have similar biomedical, social-demographical, occupational, and lifestyle characteristics to the participant users, and wherein the digital human replica system uses the characteristics of the non-participant users to infer and interpolate missing data of the participant users.

“6. The medical and healthcare service platform of claim 5, wherein the digital human replica system is configured to: identify the participant users using customizable identity and biometric information, or receive feedback on physical human health or medical processes.

“7. The medical and healthcare service platform of claim 5, wherein the non-participant users are identified by de-identified information created by: age groups, gender, or biometric group characteristics.

“8. The medical and healthcare service platform of claim 1, wherein the digital human simuli system comprises an organ or part simulation subsystem that simulates a change process by using organs or parts of a constructed digital human replica.

“9. The medical and healthcare service platform of claim 1, wherein the digital human simuli system comprises a simulation process dynamic visualization subsystem for dynamically visualizing changed data.

“10. The medical and healthcare service platform of claim 1, wherein the digital human agent system, through one or more deep neural network models, performs training and learning based on input data comprising: real-world doctors’ treatment and prescription strategies, nursing and service strategies for nurses, therapists, research, experimentation, or development strategies for researchers, regulations and services for government agencies, wherein the digital human agent system generates digital human simuli models based on the input data, and wherein the digital human simuli models interact with a baseline digital human replica model.

“11. The medical and healthcare service platform of claim 10, wherein the digital human agent system creates deep neural network models of: (a) doctors, nurses, or therapists to treat the digital human simuli and provide virtual instructions and services to physical persons on their healthcare and disease treatment process; (b) researchers and experimental groups to conduct virtual tests and surveys on the digital human replica and the digital human simuli to conduct research and development of new medical devices, drugs, treatment plans, or general health and behavioral studies; © health insurance providers that interact with the digital human replica about coverage and billing costs, insurance claims for ongoing treatments and services, and different treatment plans and insurance coverage and billing options; (d) governing bodies, regulators, and digital security agencies to oversee, monitor and enforce critical health, medical, privacy protection, data security policy and regulations, freedom of information and disinformation suppression in virtual worlds; (e) public health workers and platform users to provide related government services comprising medical material distribution, medical forms, and insurance claims; or (f) professionals who supervise scientific research and production services, and self-diagnosis services and volunteers who provide health diagnosis and treatment services to family members and family communities, wherein the digital human agent system undertakes medical treatment and care services, virtual simulation and modeling application.

“12. The medical and healthcare service platform of claim 1, wherein the present and past medical and health data comprises: real time data, events data, and historical data and paper records.

“13. The medical and healthcare service platform of claim 1, wherein the data acquisition system comprises an interface interacting with users and contributors of the medical and healthcare service platform to facilitate biomedical, healthcare, data inputs and labeling, and wherein the interface comprises one or more of: an interface for regular individual participants, an interface for doctors and hospitals, an interface for companies and R&D groups, and an interface to interact with datasets and data feeds provided by public agencies.

“14. The medical and healthcare service platform of claim 13, wherein the interface comprises: a wearable body health sensor interface, a digital human body multimodal data interface, or a digital human body medical record conversion interface.

“15. The medical and healthcare service platform of claim 14, wherein the medical and health data are acquired from: wearable sensors, medical records, or lab tests.

“16. The medical and healthcare service platform of claim 1, wherein the data acquisition system is configured to: clean collected data; perform desensitization processing on collected data; perform data privacy protection processing on the collected data; or visualize the collected data.”

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URL and more information on this patent application, see: Chen, Anjiang; Ge, Yi; Jin, Jing; Shi, Wenzhao; Xu, Juan; Xu, Zheng. Medical And Healthcare Service Platforms And Uses Thereof. U.S. Patent Application Number 20230360802, filed May 4, 2023 and posted November 9, 2023. Patent URL (for desktop use only): https://ppubs.uspto.gov/pubwebapp/external.html?q=(20230360802)&db=US-PGPUB&type=ids

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