Determining interventions for remote health services

Abstract

Remote health services may be provided, for example, in real time, based on values of health metrics monitored remotely, and in some embodiments, continuously, for a recipient. The system may include a mobile health device configured to continually monitor or intermittently detect values of one or more health metrics. A mobile health device may be locally coupled to a recipient, and may include a health sensor that detects values of one or more health metrics of the recipient. Servers may be remotely coupled to the mobile health device and provide one or more health services based at least in part on health metric values detected by the health device. Providing the services may include determining health communication characteristics, and sending health communications from one or more servers to the mobile health device according to determined health communication characteristics.

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 patent describes a mobile health device that uses sensors to monitor a person's health, but those sensors can be impacted by temperature. The device has an internal temperature sensor that measures the temperature inside the device, and a thermal control component that adjusts the device's temperature based on that sensor. The device also has processing cores that execute instructions, and the thermal control component can reduce the output of those cores to help prevent overheating. The device can also have an external temperature sensor to measure the temperature outside the device, and that sensor can be used to adjust the device's temperature based on the external temperature. The device has a thermal buffer to insulate the health sensor from other components that may generate heat. Overall, the device can help regulate its own temperature and provide accurate health information.

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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