“System, Process and Article of Manufacture for Human Health and Longevity Data Analysis” in Patent Application Approval Process
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The following quote was obtained by the news editors from the background information supplied by the inventors: "Informatics as a field of science has been evolving for at least 50 years but at an accelerating pace that roughly tracks the decreasing costs of computation, internet connectable devices (including photography and/or videography and/or medical imagery devices) and searchable data memory storage and known retrieval systems. Significantly lowered data storage and retrieval costs was the precursor of the phenomenon of Big Data sets; including collections of individuals' medical records held by custodians at public and private hospitals, university health facilities, health insurers, government health systems and similar repositories. These existing and expanding health related Big Data sets are increasingly used for research purposes.
"Psychographic, demographic, genetic and life-style preference sub-sets of data are often solicited from selected groups for specific correlations; such as the well-known
"At this time, social media is accumulating massive personal data but with neither a method useful to the science of Informatics; nor a process to search massive heterogeneous data generated randomly by social media participants.
"The demographic phenomenon of social media today has an age bias to teenagers and young adults under 50 years old. Therefore the present time is ideal for a novel teaching as this massive demographic age medium wave curve as the social media universe approaches retirement age of say +65 years of age.
"Books, records and certain digital data exist for searching facts concerning specific historical figures and certain more recently deceased persons. This sort of necrology is the extent of a deceased person's history and biography that can be searched. These data are practically useless for input into any larger collection of similar data on other deceased persons since it is not searchable by field. Currently, necrologies cannot be merged for analysis of resulting data sets of comparable facts since such data is either not collected or not collected in a manner to be easily researched. Instead, much organized data preservation is limited to notable figures. Even then, information encumbered by the form of preservation, as written biographies by 3rd parties, auto-biographies, or a collection of works on a subject, is challenging to codify.
"No collection of biographies can be currently searched per se for use in Informatics. However, the concept of searching into the lives of ancestors is a discernible human activity as shown by the success of genealogy and ancestry record preservation and related search engines. As an extension, individuals in the modern area have used technology to deepen human connectivity by (perhaps unwittingly) releasing a staggering amount of biographical data into a still broadening array of social media networks. In either case (whether input is self-disclosed or referential) the current virtual arenas are unwieldy and present challenges for use in informatics analysis, where the purpose transcends market research and consumer targeting.
"If all internet users on-line at any given moment is considered as a big data set, data mining happens every second of everyday via cookies, market analysis of click-troughs et cetera in order to present shoppers with customized choices. In that sense, big data mining is happening, but for use 'in vivo' to manipulate consumer behavior.
"Thus, there is an established trend demonstrating human amenability (or willingness to accept discernible identity information probing in return for internet access to many sites) to participate in the utility of some limited identity data collection. Recognizing this phenomenon, we teach a business method or process that solicits submitters to divulge and preserve one's imprint (their respective Identity, not just life style preferences) on the world even though they were never a celebrity (or other notable person).
"Our current technological age may be viewed as the tipping point for users motivated to leave a mark on the world or at least make a contribution to science with their Identity as data thereby obtaining a form of Continuity of Identity by the preservation of their Cid-Data. There has never been a place; nor has there been a reason, for preserving non-celebrity or non-professional biographical data inputs until our teaching that provides both a social rationale and a practical facility to submit personal data for memory preservation and for the advancement of human knowledge.
"Certain cemeteries have licensed (or developed) web-based sites and physical kiosks to allow visitor interrogation concerning the location of gravesites of named individuals. These programs are proprietary by copyright or otherwise to their respective developer. These known programs allow for limited data about the deceased individual beyond final resting place location such as year of birth and year of death; and sometimes a photo of the tomb stone.
"Certain of these computerized cemetery kiosks can be remotely web accessed. For example, the links below represent the State of the Art in gravesite identification as part of visitor's on-site or virtual experience. Further, one's interest in visiting a cemetery, viewing a tombstone, or gathering limited necrology data is obtainable at a distance. Despite the usefulness of such kiosk data for ancestry or genealogy research, the format and lack of aggregation make it impossible to apply Informatics.
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"We distinguish our teachings from service offerings that might at first seem vaguely comparable; such as http://www.ancestry.com and affiliates and/or http://www.deceasedonline.com. These services acquire public records for people prepared to pay to view or print information on specific deceased persons, family names or other groups. In such limited, unstandardized, and un-accumulative formats, these services are also useless for Informatics.
"We distinguish our teachings from what has become known as HIT (Health Information Technologies) that has an altogether different purpose affecting the health of living persons or health of individuals by their research into their ancestors' searchable medical records.
"We also recognize, yet clearly distinguish, self-managed archiving of personal data such as random social media inputs. All such systems, by definition are not searchable since each individual saves different data and saves that data differently. Social media networks such as Facebook and LinkedIn are similar to self-managed archiving; and similarly can provide little if any useful searchable data for Informatics."
In addition to the background information obtained for this patent application, VerticalNews journalists also obtained the inventors' summary information for this patent application: "For the purposes of this document, the following terms used in this description are defined as follows:
"'CiD' means 'Continuity of Identity' in the form of data inputs by an individual of Continuity of Identity data or 'CiD Data' defined below by a taught method or process.
"'CiD Data' is unlimited personal and family related historic and current data inputs by way of a submitter's 'Q-Inform' responses even if interrogatory language seems irrelevant and represents some or all of one person's Identity as of the latest edition of one's Cid-Data.
"'CiD Data Set' as used herein means a proprietary large researchable data set compiled from merged CiD Data derived from responses to Q-Inform submissions.
"'Cemetery' as used herein means any place of Post Mortem corporal disposal, interment, cremation or other disposal.
"'Continuity of Identity' is an intellectual construct and as used herein, means the quasi permanent researchable recording of subject-specific biographical and/or physiographical data inputs derived from responses to Q-Inform and if also submitted, other images or memorabilia currently not searchable by technical means related to the specific identify being preserved as data.
"'Cid-Code' is the unique access key to view some or all of a specific individual's Cid-Data where a Cid-Code could be a password or similar access control.
"'Cid-Cloud.TM.' means the accumulated and/or merged but anonymous Cid-Data. Cid-Cloud.TM. may be accessed by use of an assigned Cid-Code for 'memorabilia' and specific Q-Inform submissions stored within such Cid-Cloud.TM. on a CiD-Code controlled manner only by the original submitter or by related or unrelated 3rd parties authorized by the submitter.
"'Informatics', as used herein, means
"'Inter-vivos' means any act done by a person while alive.
"'Pod' or 'Pods' are geographically distinct locations of archives of medical records, typically to be found at hospitals, universities, health maintenance organization, government health agencies or similar institutions.
"'Q-inform' means a proprietary Questionnaire submitted by a submitter that: a) contains some CiD-Data about a deceased person; or b) contains some CiD-Data of the submitter.
"It is an object of this invention to provide a system, process and article of manufacture which will establish a repository for data on individuals that represents their respective CiD-Data which repository remains accessible for the foreseeable future to the submitter or to persons authorized by the submitter including persons using the appropriate and legitimately obtained Cid-Code for access.
"It is a further object of the invention to provide such a system, process and article of manufacture which will establish a Cid-Data Set that can be accessed anonymously for search and research including necrology, biography, ancestry and/or genealogy as well as for Informatics.
"It is another object of the invention to provide such a system, process and article of manufacture which will establish a cross-searchable Big Data set composed of a Cid-Data Set and the corresponding medical records archives of some or all of the persons in the Cid-Data Set that can be accessed anonymously for Informatics search and research and/or for government health policy decision makers, and/or legitimate commercial purposes.
"It is another object of the invention to provide such a system, process and article of manufacture which will establish a cross-searchable or cross-researchable network of more than one Big Data Sets described immediately above composed of geographically separated medical records archives (Pods) that can be accessed anonymously for Informatics and/or for government health policy decision makers, and/or legitimate commercial purposes.
"It is still another object of the invention to provide such a system, process and article of manufacture which will facilitate the foregoing including but not limited to applications on current and future internet connected devices any one or several of which may be used by any submitter of a taught Q-Inform, and in particular, but not by way of limitation, mobility and/or other interactive devices exploiting voice and/or image and/or avatars.
"In accordance with the invention, a system for generating a database of combined user personal identity questionnaire responses and user patient medical history data includes at least one user device configured to administer a user personal identity survey. The user device is coupled to a medical center patient database system to supply results of the personal identity survey to the medical center patient database system. The patient database system is configured to combine the results of the personal identity survey with the user patient medical history data. At least one researcher system is coupled to receive the database of the combined results of the personal identity survey and the user patient medical history data. The researcher system is configured to identify correlations in the database between the combined results of the personal identity survey and the user patient medical history data for a plurality of users.
"Further in accordance with the invention, a process for generating a database of combined user personal identity questionnaire responses and user patient medical history data includes administering a user personal identity survey with a user device. Results of the personal identity survey are combined with the user patient medical history data in a medical center data processing system for a plurality of users. The combined results of the personal identity survey and the user patient medical history for the plurality of users are supplied to a researcher system. Correlations in the combined results of the personal identity survey and the user patient medical history are identified for the plurality of users in the researcher system.
"Still further in accordance with the invention, an article of manufacture for generating a database of combined user personal identity questionnaire responses and user patient medical history data includes at least one non-transitory computer readable storage medium having stored therein a first program segment for administering a user personal identity survey with a user device. A second program segment combines results of the personal identity survey with the user patient medical history data in a medical center data processing system for a plurality of users. A third program segment supplies the combined results of the personal identity survey and the user patient medical history for the plurality of users to a researcher system. A fourth program segment identifies correlations in the combined results of the personal identity survey and the user patient medical history for the plurality of users in the researcher system.
"The attainment of the foregoing and related objects, advantages and features of the invention should be more readily apparent to those skilled in the art after review of the following detailed description of the invention, taken together with the drawings, in which:
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS
"FIG. 1 is a flow diagram to introduce the concept of Continuity of Identity to families having a family member of advanced age; close to death or otherwise recently deceased.
"FIG. 2 is a flow diagram to introduce the teaching of Cid-Clouds to the custodians of 'Pods'.
"FIG. 3 is a selection of Identity defining questions from the Q-Inform interrogation process that may seem to be irrelevant queries: others will concern dietary and drug regimens; locations where the subject spent considerable periods of time; occupations and hobbies and many other sub-sections to develop one's Identity.
"FIG. 4 is a high level block diagram of one example of a system suitable for practicing the process of the invention.
"FIG. 5 is an example of a notice useful with the invention."
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