Researchers Submit Patent Application, “Consumer-Oriented Biometrics Data Management and Analysis System”, for Approval (USPTO 20230110443): Patent Application
2023 APR 27 (NewsRx) -- By a
No assignee for this patent application has been made.
News editors obtained the following quote from the background information supplied by the inventors: “Personal health is a growing market with revenues that can be measured in the hundreds of billions of dollars. Now more than ever, individuals want access to information about, as well as privacy and control over, their personal health. In the traditional health provider model, an individual would visit a health care professional, such as a doctor, and this professional might order tests. The individual would then go to a laboratory to have the tests conducted, and the test results would be provided to the professional. Thus, raw test results and interpretation of these results would be mediated by the professional, rather than being under control of the individual. Further, these results may never make it to the individual at all due to laboratory error, administration error, or human error. Yet further, these results might not be viewed in the context of the individual’s overall health.”
As a supplement to the background information on this patent application, NewsRx correspondents also obtained the inventor’s summary information for this patent application: “Individuals may obtain more control over management of their personal health through the use of an online aggregated health information system. This system, which may include one or more computing devices arranged to communicate over the Internet and/or other networks, may store health information regarding one or more individual users. This information may include biographical information, biometric information, health history, medicines and/or drugs used by the users, tests ordered and test results for the users, nutrition and diet information regarding the users, exercise information regarding the users, the users’ answers to various health questionnaires, as well as other types of health-related data.
“With these types of information in one centralized location, a user may be able to better manage his or her own health care, rather than rely on various doctors, hospitals, laboratories, web sites, and so on that may not effectively communicate with one another. Further, with the advent of wearable health-tracking devices, such as digital pedometers, heart-rate monitors, blood sugar monitors, and so on, the user may be able to automatically measure a wealth of information regarding his or her body. These measurements may also be integrated into the health information system.
“With access to a broad range of personalized data, the health information system may be able to perform analyses on the data to detect correlations and trends that might not be otherwise apparent. Further, the health information system may also be able to serve as an ecommerce portal through which users can browse and order test kits. Results from these tests may be integrated into the user’s data in the health information system. Moreover, the health information system may also aggregate health-related information that may be of interest to the user, such as articles, papers, links to web sites, and so on. As a result, the health information system may be tailored to the needs of consumers, and not dependent on particular access devices, information upload devices, health tracking and monitoring devices, medical/health/lifestyle professionals, health or medical tests, laboratories or pharmacies.
“Accordingly, in a first example embodiment, a set of information including manually-entered health-related data for a user, automatically collected health-related data for the user, and test results for the user may be received. In response to receiving the set of information, the manually entered health-related data for the user, the automatically collected health-related data for the user, and the test results for the user may be integrated into a comprehensive health profile for the user. Upon a request made on behalf of the user, at least part of the comprehensive health profile may be provided to the user.
“A second example embodiment may include a non-transitory, computer-readable storage medium, having stored thereon program instructions that, upon execution by a computing device, cause the computing device to perform operations in accordance with the first example embodiment.
“A third example embodiment may include a computing device containing at least a processor and data storage. The data storage may include program instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the computing device to perform operations in accordance with the first example embodiment.
“These as well as other embodiments, aspects, advantages, and alternatives will become apparent to those of ordinary skill in the art by reading the following detailed description, with reference where appropriate to the accompanying drawings. Further, it should be understood that this summary and other descriptions and figures provided herein are intended to illustrate embodiments by way of example only and, as such, that numerous variations are possible. For instance, structural elements and process steps can be rearranged, combined, distributed, eliminated, or otherwise changed, while remaining within the scope of the embodiments as claimed.”
The claims supplied by the inventors are:
“1. A method comprising: transmitting and receiving, by a server device, qualitative and quantitative information including one or more data points related to consumer biometrics, health, medicine, or lifestyle for an individual or a user; in response to transmitting or receiving the qualitative and quantitative information, integrating, by the server device, the one or more data points related to consumer biometrics, health, medicine, or lifestyle for the individual or user, previously collected biometric-related and health-related data for the individual or user, and medical laboratory test results for the individual or user into a personalized comprehensive health profile for the individual or user, wherein the medical laboratory test results for the individual or user are based on a first medical laboratory test and a second medical laboratory test, wherein the first medical laboratory test was performed by a first medical laboratory and the second medical laboratory test was performed by a second medical laboratory, wherein the first medical laboratory and the second medical laboratory are separate from one another, and wherein the individual or user corroborates results of the first medical laboratory test and the second medical laboratory test; and in response to a request made on behalf of the individual or user, providing, by the server device, at least part of the personalized comprehensive health profile.
“2. The method of claim 1, wherein medical laboratory test results for the individual or user were manually entered or automatically entered.
“3. The method of claim 1, wherein receiving the medical laboratory test results for the individual or user comprises: transmitting or receiving, by the server device, a first request for the first medical laboratory test for the individual or user; causing, by the server device, shipment of a first medical laboratory test kit for the first medical laboratory test to the individual or user, with test-specific instructions of how the individual or user can use the first medical laboratory test kit and to provide a first medical laboratory specimen or sample for the first medical laboratory test to the first medical laboratory; and receiving, by the server device, first medical laboratory test results of the first medical laboratory test from the first medical laboratory.
“4. The method of claim 3, wherein receiving the medical laboratory test results for the individual or user comprises: receiving, by the server device, a second request for the second medical laboratory test for the individual or user; causing, by the server device, shipment of a second medical laboratory test kit for the second medical laboratory test to the individual or user, with test-specific instructions of how the individual or user can use the second medical laboratory test kit and to provide a second medical laboratory specimen or sample for the second medical laboratory test to the second medical laboratory; and receiving, by the server device, second medical laboratory test results of the second medical laboratory test from the second medical laboratory.
“5. The method of claim 1, wherein integrating the one or more data points related to consumer biometrics, health, medicine, or lifestyle for the individual or user, the previously collected biometric-related and health-related data for the individual or user, and the medical laboratory test results for the individual or user into the personalized comprehensive health profile for the individual or user comprises: using regression analysis or goodness-of-fit tests, determining one or more health-related correlations between any two of the data points related to consumer biometrics, health, medicine, or lifestyle for the individual or user, the previously collected biometric-related and health-related data for the individual or user, and the medical laboratory test results for the individual or user; and adding an indication of the one or more health-related correlations to the personalized comprehensive health profile for the individual or user.
“6. The method of claim 1, wherein integrating the one or more data points related to consumer biometrics, health, medicine, or lifestyle for the individual or user, the previously collected biometric-related and health-related data for the individual or user, and the medical laboratory test results for the individual or user into the personalized comprehensive health profile for the individual or user comprises: determining one or more longitudinal trends regarding one or more of the data points related to consumer biometrics, health, medicine, or lifestyle for the individual or user, the previously collected biometric-related and health-related data for the individual or user, and the medical laboratory test results for the individual or user; and adding an indication of the one or more longitudinal trends to the personalized comprehensive health profile for the individual or user.
“7. The method of claim 1, wherein the one or more data points related to consumer biometrics, health, medicine, or lifestyle for the individual or user involve fitness, physical activity, exercise, diet, or eating habits of the individual or user.
“8. The method of claim 1, wherein the one or more data points related to consumer biometrics, health, medicine, or lifestyle for the individual or user include medical questionnaire answers from the individual or user.
“9. The method of claim 1, further comprising: transmitting or receiving, by the server device, authorization from the individual or user to allow a second individual or user to access at least part of the personalized comprehensive health profile for the individual or user; modifying, by the server device, the personalized comprehensive health profile for the individual or user to allow the second individual or user to access at least part of the personalized comprehensive health profile for the individual or user; receiving, by the server device, a request from the second individual or user to access the at least part of the personalized comprehensive health profile for the individual or user; and transmitting, by the server device, a representation of the at least part of the personalized comprehensive health profile for the individual or user to the second individual or user.
“10. The method of claim 1, wherein the personalized comprehensive health profile for the individual or user includes personalized recommendations and insights on fitness, diet, medications, possible future medications, current or historical health status, allergies, current or historical symptoms, family, children, pregnancy & fertility, work, health products and services, health, lifestyle and medical content, articles, academic papers, case studies or personal stories, ratings, health products and services, medical laboratory tests, products and services, pharmacy products and services, health insurance and other insurance products and services, telemedicine, advice from experts, or links to web sites.
“11. The method of claim 1, wherein the personalized comprehensive health profile for the individual or user includes historical data including personal health history, medical history, health and medical conditions history, pregnancy and fertility history, children’s health history, family history, fitness, diet, stress history, work health history, sexual health and sexual activity history, historical telemedicine data, historical symptoms or diagnosis data, medications and dosage history, or physician visit history of the individual or user.
“12. The method of claim 1, wherein the first medical laboratory test and the second medical laboratory test are for the same type of sample.
“13. An article of manufacture including a non-transitory computer-readable medium, having stored thereon program instructions that, upon execution by a server device, cause the server device to perform operations comprising: transmitting and receiving qualitative and quantitative information including one or more data points related to consumer biometrics, health, medicine, or lifestyle for an individual or user; in response to transmitting or receiving the qualitative and quantitative information, integrating the one or more data points related to consumer biometrics, health, medicine, or lifestyle for the individual or user, previously collected biometric-related and health-related data for the individual or user, and medical laboratory test results for the individual or user into a personalized comprehensive health profile for the individual or user, wherein the medical laboratory test results for the individual or user are based on a first medical laboratory test and a second medical laboratory test, wherein the first medical laboratory test was performed by a first medical laboratory and the second medical laboratory test was performed by a second medical laboratory, and wherein the first medical laboratory and the second medical laboratory are separate from one another, and wherein the individual or user corroborates results of the first medical laboratory test and the second medical laboratory test; and in response to a request made on behalf of the individual or user, providing at least part of the personalized comprehensive health profile.”
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For additional information on this patent application, see: Moloney-Egnatios, Kate. Consumer-Oriented Biometrics Data Management and Analysis System.
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