Patent Application Titled “Health Management System” Published Online (USPTO 20240038350): F&F Inc.

2024 FEB 19 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Insurance Daily News -- According to news reporting originating from Washington, D.C., by NewsRx journalists, a patent application by the inventor FUJIKAWA, Yoshihiro (Tochigi, Japan), filed on June 22, 2021, was made available online on February 1, 2024.

The assignee for this patent application is F&F Inc. (Tochigi, Japan).

Reporters obtained the following quote from the background information supplied by the inventors: “In the related art, as a method of grasping and guiding a health condition of an individual, a system is developed in which contents of individual advice and advice as a whole are notified from a value and an index of each measurement device. In addition, a method of setting points as a result of a measurement device to sort which advice is to be guided based on a total value is also executed.

“However, even if a numerical value of the total value is the same, there is a person who needs advice on a blood vessel age, and there is also a person who needs advice on AGEs. Depending on an attribute of the individual, a measurement item that is not important is present, and an item that has little influence on health of the individual is also present. When advice including these items is given, advice contents may be complicated and difficult to understand. Therefore, a system that advises on an item having high importance and high necessity for advice for each individual is required.

“In order to solve such a problem, various techniques are proposed in the related art. For example, a system is described in which a health condition of an individual is captured by a sensor or the like, input to a controller, and managed for each individual (see Patent Literature 1). In addition, a healthcare apparatus for acquiring health-related information of a user and a system that provides menus and advice according to the user by linking a server that creates an exercise menu for the user to do exercise and advice for healthcare are described (see Patent Literature 2).

“However, the technical proposals described in any of the above documents do not consider importance and necessity of individual inspection items and do not solve the present problem.”

In addition to obtaining background information on this patent application, NewsRx editors also obtained the inventor’s summary information for this patent application: “SUMMARY:

“Technical Problem

“In view of the problem that advice contents relating to health are complicated and difficult to understand, an object of the present invention is to provide a healthcare system that advises on an item having high importance and high necessity for each individual.

“Solution to Problem

“In order to solve the problem, a healthcare system according to the present invention is a healthcare system that determines and notifies advice contents according to importance of an item. The system measures each item related to health; calculates an evaluation value from the measured measurement value, the evaluation value being classified into evaluation classifications of a standard evaluation, a positive evaluation, and a negative evaluation; sets the importance of an inspection result for each measurement item; selects a predetermined number of items in descending order of a weight of the importance and in which the classification is the negative evaluation; generates an inspection result from contents of the evaluation classification of the selected item, and determines and notifies the advice contents according to the inspection result, the notification being performed on a printed matter or a screen of a mobile terminal.

“In the present invention, a pattern is determined according to the inspection result, advice contents according to the pattern are determined and notified, and one pattern is determined for at least two evaluation results of different contents.

“In the present invention, the weight of the importance is changed according to gender, age, and a pre-existing disease of the user.

“In the present invention, a site, a URL of a video, or a matrix-type two-dimensional code according to the advice contents is added.

“In the present invention, the weight of the importance is changed according to a history and change contents of a past inspection result.

“In the present invention, an individual is identified by performing individual authentication of the user, and the measurement value and the evaluation value are collected and stored for each individual.

“In the present invention, when the number of the items in descending order of weight of the importance and in which the classification is the negative evaluation does not reach the predetermined number, the inspection result including the items of the evaluation classifications of the standard evaluation and the positive evaluation is generated, and the advice contents are determined according to the inspection result.

“Advantageous Effects of Invention

“According to the healthcare system of the present invention, regardless of the number of measurement items, advice can be notified with respect to items having high importance and high necessity for each individual, and thus it is possible to provide accurate advice suitable for individual needs and to provide efficient and effective medical guidance.”

The claims supplied by the inventors are:

“1. A healthcare system configured to determine and notify advice contents according to importance of an item, comprising: a database; a controller; an output interface; and a measurement device, wherein the measurement device is configured to: measure data related to health of a user for each inspection item; and transmit the measured measurement value to the controller, the controller is configured to: transmit and store the measurement value to the database; calculate an evaluation value from the measured measurement value by using a table in the database; classify the evaluation value into evaluation classifications of a standard evaluation, a positive evaluation, and a negative evaluation; set an importance of an inspection result for each measurement item; select a predetermined number of items in descending order of a weight of the importance and in which the classification is the negative evaluation; generate an inspection result from contents of the evaluation classification of the selected item; and determine the advice contents according to the inspection result, the output interface is configured to: print the advice contents on a paper, or transmit the advice contents to a mobile terminal via an internet.

“2. The healthcare system according to claim 1, wherein the controller is configured to: determine a pattern according to the inspection result; determine and notify advice contents according to the pattern; and determine one pattern for at least two evaluation results of different contents.

“3. The healthcare system according to claim 1, wherein the controller is configured to change the weight of the importance according to gender, age, and a pre-existing disease of the user.

“4. The healthcare system according to claim 1, wherein the controller is configured to add a site, a URL of a video, or a matrix-type two-dimensional code according to the advice contents.

“5. The healthcare system according to claim 1, wherein the controller is configured to change the weight of the importance according to a history and change contents of a past inspection result.

“6. The healthcare system according to claim 1, wherein the controller is configured to identify an individual by performing individual authentication of the user, and the measurement value and the evaluation value are collected and stored for each individual.

“7. The healthcare system according to claim 1, wherein when the number of the items in descending order of weight of the importance and in which the classification is the negative evaluation does not reach the predetermined number, the controller is configured to: generate the inspection result including the items of the evaluation classifications of the standard evaluation and the positive evaluation; and determine the advice contents according to the inspection result.”

For more information, see this patent application: FUJIKAWA, Yoshihiro. Health Management System. U.S. Patent Application Number 20240038350, filed June 22, 2021 and posted February 1, 2024. Patent URL (for desktop use only): https://ppubs.uspto.gov/pubwebapp/external.html?q=(20240038350)&db=US-PGPUB&type=ids

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