Patent Application Titled “Systems And Methods For Facilitating Healthcare” Published Online (USPTO 20220319680): Patent Application

2022 OCT 21 (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 RYAN, Symone (Sydney, AU), filed on June 17, 2020, was made available online on October 6, 2022.

No assignee for this patent application has been made.

Reporters obtained the following quote from the background information supplied by the inventors: “Healthcare is an issue of fundamental and critical importance. Improving access to healthcare provides benefits to both individuals and society as a whole.

“n the majority of situations-particularly with respect to preventative healthcare-individual initiative and action is required in order to access healthcare services. The initiative and action required differ depending on the care in question. For example, an individual may need to arrange and attend a pathology clinic, doctor or other healthcare professional, fill a pharmaceutical script, engage in/commit to a health program (e.g. exercise program), or simply improve their knowledge of things to do/not to do to improve or maintain their health.

“Given the obvious benefits of staying healthy, taking the initiative and performing actions to improve (or at least maintain) health should be a fundamental priority for a given person. Unfortunately, however, this is often not the case. In many cases, people lead busy lives with numerous time pressures, and taking care of oneself does not assume the priority it should. For many individuals even something as simple as organizing and attending a doctor’s appointment is the type of thing that is put off until it becomes essential-i.e. the individual is unable to function at what they consider an acceptable level. At this point, however, what may have been a simple issue to deal with had it been addressed early on may have evolved into a far more significant issue, requiring greater time and more resources to correct (if, in fact, correction is still possible at the later stage).

“Given this, there is significant value in reducing the friction associated both with educating individuals (which can lead to healthcare taking a higher priority) and in providing healthcare services to individuals.

“Various technology tools are available that assist-to a certain extent-in simplifying access to healthcare. For example, some medical centres/doctors surgeries provide either web-based or app-based booking system in an attempt to make booking an appointment simpler. Similarly, obtaining healthcare products has, arguably, become simpler with the rise of ecommerce systems and online ordering. These solutions, however, still rely on the individual taking the initiative to make an appointment.”

In addition to obtaining background information on this patent application, NewsRx editors also obtained the inventor’s summary information for this patent application: “In one aspect, the present invention provides a computer implemented method including: receiving, by a health management system, patient health data in respect of a patient; analysing, by the health management system, the patient health data to determine that engagement with a particular type of healthcare professional is required; determining, by the health management system, a specific healthcare professional of the particular type; causing, by the health management system, a healthcare professional engagement interface to be generated, the healthcare professional engagement interface including information indicating that engagement with the particular type of healthcare professional is required and a do not contact control; in response to determining that the do not contact control is not activated, causing a patient contact reminder to be generated for the specific healthcare professional, the patient contact reminder being a reminder for the specific healthcare professional to call the patient.

“In a second aspect, the present invention provides a computer implemented method including: receiving, by a health management system, patient health data in respect of a patient; analysing, by the health management system, the patient health data to determine that a healthcare product is required; determining, by the health management system, a specific provider for the healthcare product; causing, by the health management system, a healthcare product order interface to be generated, the healthcare product order interface including information regarding the healthcare product and a do not order control; in response to determining that the do not order control is not activated, generating a product order and communicating the product order to a provider system of the specific provider.”

The claims supplied by the inventors are:

“1. A computer implemented method including: receiving, by a health management system, patient health data in respect of a patient; analysing, by the health management system, the patient health data to determine that engagement with a particular type of healthcare professional is required; determining, by the health management system, a specific healthcare professional of the particular type; causing, by the health management system, a healthcare professional engagement interface to be generated, the healthcare professional engagement interface including information indicating that engagement with the particular type of healthcare professional is required and a do not contact control; in response to determining that the do not contact control is not activated, causing a patient contact reminder to be generated for the specific healthcare professional, the patient contact reminder being a reminder for the specific healthcare professional to contact the patient.

“2. The computer implemented method of claim 1, wherein in response to determining that the do not contact control is activated, the health management system is configured to forego causing a patient contact reminder to be generated.

“3. The computer implemented method of claim 1, wherein in response to determining that the do not contact control is activated, the method further includes: determining, by the health care management system, if a patient contact reminder has already been caused to be generated; and in response to determining that a patient contact reminder has already been caused to be generated, generating by the health care management system a cancel patient contact message and communicate the cancel patient contact message to the healthcare professional system.

“4. The computer implemented method of claim 1, wherein in response to determining that the do not contact control is activated, the method further includes generating, by the health care management system, a patient reminder and communicating the patient reminder to the patient at a predetermined time.

“5. (canceled)

“6. The computer implemented method of claim 1 wherein the healthcare professional engagement interface further includes a change healthcare professional control, and wherein on detecting activation of the change healthcare professional control the method further includes: determining, by the health care management system, an alternative healthcare professional suitable for the engagement; and in response to determining that the do not contact control is not activated, causing a patient contact reminder to be generated for the alternative healthcare professional.

“7. The computer implemented method of claim 6, wherein determining an alternative healthcare professional includes receiving, by the health care management system, information in respect of an alternative healthcare professional selected by the patient.

“8. The computer implemented method of claim 1 wherein causing a patient contact reminder to be generated includes causing a patient call item to be added to a call queue maintained by or on behalf of the healthcare professional.

“9. The computer implemented method of claim 1 wherein causing a patient contact reminder to be generated includes sending, by the health care management system, a calendar invitation to the healthcare professional.

“10. The computer implemented method of claim 1, wherein causing a patient contact reminder to be generated includes adding, by the health care management system, a calendar event directly into a calendar of the healthcare professional.

“11. A computer implemented method including: determining, by a health management system, that a patient requires a healthcare product; determining, by the health management system, a specific provider for the healthcare product; causing, by the health management system, a healthcare product order interface to be generated, the healthcare product order interface including information regarding the healthcare product and a do not order control; in response to determining that the do not order control is not activated, generating a product order and communicating the product order to a provider system of the specific provider.

“12. The computer implemented method of claim 11, where determining that the patient requires a healthcare product includes: receiving, by the health management system, patient health data in respect of a patient; and analysing, by the health management system, the patient health data to determine that the patient requires the healthcare product.

“13. The computer implemented method of claim 11, where determining that the patient requires a healthcare product includes receiving, by the health management system, a communication from a healthcare professional system indicating that the patient requires the healthcare product.

“14. The computer implemented method of claim 11, wherein in response to determining that the do not order control is activated, the health management system is configured to forego generation of a product order and communication of the product order to the provider system.

“15. The computer implemented method of claim 11 wherein in response to determining that the do not order control is activated, the method further includes: determining if a product order has already been generated and communicated to the provider system; and in response to determining that a product has already been generated and communicated to the provider system, generating a cancel order message and communicating the cancel order message to the provider system.

“16. The computer implemented method of claim 11 wherein prior to generating and communicating the product order the method further includes: determining if confirmation is required prior to ordering the healthcare product for the patient; and in response to determining that confirmation is required, foregoing generation of the product order unless confirmation is obtained.

“17. The computer implemented method of claim 16, wherein the healthcare product order interface further includes a change provider control, and wherein on detecting activation of the change provider control the method further includes: determining an alternative provider; and in response to determining that the do not order control is not activated, generating a product order and communicating the product order to a provider system of the alternative provider.

“18. (canceled)

“19. A computer implemented method including: receiving, by a health management system, patient health data in respect of a patient; analysing, by the health management system, the patient health data to determine that engagement with a particular type of healthcare professional is required; determining, by the health management system, a specific healthcare professional of the particular type; causing, by the health management system, a healthcare professional engagement interface to be generated, the healthcare professional engagement interface including information indicating that engagement with the particular type of healthcare professional is required and one or approve contact controls; in response to determining that none of the one or more approve contact controls is activated, generating, by the health care management system, a first patient reminder and communicating the first patient reminder to the patient at a first predetermined time.

“20. The computer implemented method of claim 19, wherein the method further comprises: determining, at a second predetermined time, that the patient has not contacted a healthcare professional and, in response, generating a second patient reminder and communicating the second patient reminder to the patient.

“21. The computer implemented method of claim 20, wherein the first and second patient reminders are sent through multiple communication channels.

“22. The computer implemented method of claim 19, wherein: The one or more approve contact controls include one or more of: a queue patient call control, a contact now control; and a make appointment control.

“23. A system including: one or more processors; one or more non-transitory computer-readable storage media storing sequences of instructions which, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to: receiving, by a health management system, patient health data in respect of a patient; analyse, by the health management system, the patient health data to determine that engagement with a particular type of healthcare professional is required; determine, by the health management system, a specific healthcare professional of the particular type; cause, by the health management system, a healthcare professional engagement interface to be generated, the healthcare professional engagement interface including information indicating that engagement with the particular type of healthcare professional is required and a do not contact control; and in response to determining that the do not contact control is not activated, cause a patient contact reminder to be generated for the specific healthcare professional, the patient contact reminder being a reminder for the specific healthcare professional to contact the patient.

“24. (canceled)”

For more information, see this patent application: RYAN, Symone. Systems And Methods For Facilitating Healthcare. Filed June 17, 2020 and posted October 6, 2022. Patent URL: https://appft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PG01&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=%2220220319680%22.PGNR.&OS=DN/20220319680&RS=DN/20220319680

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