Managing health metric irregularities when providing health services

Abstract

Providing to a person a health service for a health condition includes receiving, from a health sensor of a mobile health device over an initial period, a plurality of initial values of health metrics of the person associated with performance of the health service, determining, based on the initial values, baseline values of the health metrics for the person, receiving, from the health sensor at a time after the initial period, an additional value corresponding to at least one of the health metrics, and determining whether the additional value represents an irregularity with respect to the baseline values for the person. Providing to a person a health service for a health condition may also include, if it is determined that the additional value represents an irregularity with respect to the baseline values, communicating the irregularity to a provider of the health service.

Description

CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS[0001]This application claims priority to U.S. provisional patent application No. 62 / 858,759 filed on Jun. 7, 2019, titled “A NETWORK CONNECTED MEDICAL MONITORING DEVICE WITH TEXT, AUDIO AND VIDEO COMMUNICATIONS,” and U.S. provisional patent application No. 62 / 865,411 filed on Jun. 24, 2019, titled “A SYSTEM FOR SELECTING AND DELIVERING HEALTH INTERVENTIONS,” both of which are incorporated by reference herein.TECHNICAL FIELD[0002]This application is directed to the field of health services, and more particularly to remotely providing health services to a recipient using a mobile device, including autonomously selecting and communicating health information to a recipient as part of providing health services to the recipient, including, for example, specifying actions to perform.BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION[0003]The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimate that six out of ten adults in the US have a chronic disease, while four out of te...

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Benefits of technology

The system described herein is a mobile health device that can monitor a person's health metrics and is affected by temperature. The device has an internal temperature sensor to measure its own temperature and uses a thermal control component to adjust the temperature of the device based on the internal sensor. The device can also have multiple processing cores, with the thermal control component reducing the number of cores that actively execute instructions or the frequency of instruction execution. Additionally, the device can have an external temperature sensor to measure the external temperature and compensation logic to modify the health metric values based on the difference between the internal and external temperatures. The device also has a thermal buffer to insulate the health sensor from other components that generate heat during operation. The technical effects of this patent, therefore, are an improved accuracy and accuracy of monitoring health metrics, improved thermal control of the device, and improved insulation of the health sensor from other components.

Problems solved by technology

There are instances where the home measurements may indicate a benefit of a moderate correction / adjustment (e.g., a blood glucose measurement indicating that a patient should eat a piece of fruit), but most patients, unless they have had significant training, are probably unable to accurately determine if an adjustment / correction would be useful or what the adjustment / correction would be.

Although a patent obtaining periodic measurements at home could contact a medical professional for guidance after each measurement, this is usually not practical for a number of reasons, including cost.

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