# US20130304508A1: System And Method For Collaborative Patient Engagement

- Kind: Published application
- Family: Computer-Controlled Physically Distributed Collaborative Asynchronous Digital Transactions (https://www.intellectualfrontiers.com/patents/computer-controlled-physically-distributed-collaborative-asynchronous-digital-transactions)
- USPTO status: Abandoned  --  Failure to Respond to an Office Action (as of 2017-05-15; record read 2026-09-27)
- Application: 13871107
- Filed: 2013-04-26
- Published: 2013-11-14
- Inventor: Shahid N. Shah
- Rights holder: Intellectual Frontiers LLC
- Classifications (CPC): G16H 10/60, G16H 40/67, G16H 70/20, G16H 80/00
- Continued in part by US20170140145A1

## Not offered

The family is abandoned; it is shown as prior art and reference.

## Abstract

A system for facilitating collaborative engagement among a plurality of entities. The system includes a common interactive platform for allowing the various entities to interact collaboratively and with the system. The entities include one or more of a patient, healthcare provider, and the healthcare provider related entities, and a patient related entity, the patient related entity bearing a relationship with the patient as defined by an associated relationship identity number associated with the patient related entity in association with the respective patient. The system further includes or is coupled to a patient information database and a clinical data repository. The system further includes a processing unit to process stored programmed instructions for enabling collaborative engagement among the entities.

## Independent claims

1. A system for facilitating collaborative engagement among a plurality of entities, said system comprising: a common interactive platform to allow said various entities to interact collaboratively and with said system, wherein said entities include one or more of a patient, a healthcare provider, healthcare provider related entities, and a patient related entity, said patient related entity comprising a relationship with said patient as defined by an associated relationship identity number associated with said patient related entity in association with said respective patient; a patient information database to contain information relevant to said patient including demographic information, and health related information for said patient, and information pertinent to a healthcare provider or a healthcare provider related entity associated with said patient in order to develop or manage health plans for said patient; a clinical data repository to store information collated by a plurality of healthcare providers and the healthcare provider related entities as obtained from said patients and said patient related entities, wherein said clinical data repository is coupled to said patient information database and retrieves information partially from said patient related database, wherein said plurality of healthcare providers and said healthcare provider related entities collaboratively engage with one another through said interactive platform to access and maintain said clinical data repository, wherein said clinical data repository further includes guidelines and manual reports prescribed by said healthcare providers and said healthcare provider related entities to said associated patients for health planning and management; a processing unit to process stored programmed instructions for enabling collaborative engagement among said entities, wherein said processing unit includes or is coupled to: a health assessment module configured to assess a health of said patients that are subscribed to a service provided by said system, wherein said health assessment is performed based on records obtained from said associated healthcare providers and said healthcare provider related entities for said patients from one or more of said patient information database and said clinical data repository; a health planning module to recommend medical procedures and guidelines for said patients, said health planning module further defines a baseline for appropriateness of performance to evaluate performance below said recommended guidelines; a tracking module to monitor said patients for performance toward said recommended guidelines in view of an health assessment output as obtained from said health assessment module; an alarm module to raise an alarm in case said tracking module identifies said performance below said baseline; a relationship management module to associate patient related entities with said respective patients and define a nature of association between said patients and said respective patient related entities; and a scoring module coupled to said relationship management module to define a relational score for said patient related entities that considers a cumulative effect of said nature of association with said patient and familiarity of said patient related entity with a problem associated with said patient for which said health planning is sought, wherein said relational score is defined based on input received from said patients, patient related entities, and said health care providers, wherein said system communicates with said patient related entities associated with said respective patients about non-performance of said patients when said performance goes beyond an acceptance range of said baseline, and wherein said related entities are selected based on an association of said related entities with said patients and a relational score associated with said patient related entities.

11. A method for facilitating collaborative engagement among a plurality of entities including health providers, patients and patient related entities, said method comprising: assessing a health of said patients, wherein said health assessment is performed based on records obtained from said associated healthcare providers and said healthcare provider related entities for said patients from one or more of a patient information database and a clinical data repository, wherein said clinical data repository and said patient information database stores information pertinent to said patients including demographic information, and health related information of said patients, and information pertinent to said healthcare providers and said healthcare provider related entities associated with said patients in order to develop or manage health plans for said patients, and information collated by said healthcare providers and said healthcare provider related entities as obtained from said patients and said patient related entities, wherein said clinical data repository is coupled to said patient information database and retrieves information partially from said patient information database, wherein said healthcare providers and said healthcare provider related entities collaboratively engage with one another through an interactive platform to access and maintain said clinical data repository, and wherein said clinical data repository further includes guideline and manual reports prescribed by said healthcare providers and said healthcare provider related entities to said associated patients for health planning and management, said patient related entities and said patients further collaboratively engaging with said healthcare providers and said healthcare provider related entities through said interactive platform; developing a health planning recommendation including medical procedures and guidelines for said patients, said health planning recommendation defines a baseline for appropriateness of performance to evaluate performance beyond said recommended guidelines; monitoring said patients for performance toward said recommended guidelines in view of an health assessment output as obtained from said health assessment module; generating an alarm when said monitored performance is beyond an acceptance range of said baseline; and communicating information about said performance of said patients to said respective patient related entities, wherein said patient related entities are dynamically selected based on an associated relational score and nature of association of said patient related entities with said respective patients, wherein said patient related entities bear a relationship with said respective patients as defined by an associated relationship identity number associated with each of said patient related entities in association with said respective patients.

16. A program storage device readable by computer, and comprising a program of instructions executable by said computer to perform a method for facilitating collaborative engagement among a plurality of entities including health care providers, patients and patient related entities, said method comprising: assessing a health of said patients, wherein said health assessment is performed based on records obtained from said associated healthcare providers and said healthcare provider related entities for said patients from one or more of a patient information database and a clinical data repository, wherein said clinical data repository and said patient information database stores information pertinent to said patients including demographic information, and health related information of said patients, and information pertinent to said healthcare providers and said healthcare provider related entities associated with said patients in order to develop or manage health plans for said patients, and information collated by said healthcare providers and said healthcare provider related entities as obtained from said patients and said patient related entities, wherein said clinical data repository is coupled to said patient information database and retrieves information partially from said patient information database, wherein said healthcare providers and said healthcare provider related entities collaboratively engage with one another through an interactive platform to access and maintain said clinical data repository, and wherein said clinical data repository further includes guideline and manual reports prescribed by said healthcare providers and said healthcare provider related entities to said associated patients for health planning and management, said patient related entities and said patients further collaboratively engaging with said healthcare providers and said healthcare provider related entities through said interactive platform; developing a health planning recommendation including medical procedures and guidelines for said patients, said health planning recommendation defines a baseline for appropriateness of performance to evaluate performance beyond said recommended guidelines; monitoring said patients for performance toward said recommended guidelines in view of an health assessment output as obtained from said health assessment module; generating an alarm when said monitored performance is beyond an acceptance range of said baseline; and communicating information about said performance of said patients to said respective patient related entities, wherein said patient related entities are dynamically selected based on an associated relational score and nature of association of said patient related entities with said respective patients, wherein said patient related entities bear a relationship with said respective patients as defined by an associated relationship identity number associated with each of said patient related entities in association with said respective patients.

Source: https://www.intellectualfrontiers.com/patents/computer-controlled-physically-distributed-collaborative-asynchronous-digital-transactions/us20130304508a1