59 results about "Health behavior" patented technology

Embodiments of the invention provide apparatuses, computer media, and methods for supporting lifestyle-reward health games, in which execution is altered based on health behavior of the participant. Input data indicative of the health behavior is obtained and converted into a gaming parameter. The gaming parameter is applied to the lifestyle-reward health game in order to alter the execution of the lifestyle-reward health game. A reward parameter for the participant may be determined based on a utility function, and the reward parameter is invoked when the participant is playing the life-reward health game. Feedback to the participant may be incorporated during the execution of the lifestyle-reward health game, where the feedback is indicative of the participant's health behavior. An avatar may be depicted during execution of the lifestyle-reward health game to illustrate a predicted health condition, in which the depiction is altered by changing the timeframe of the predicted health condition.

The invention discloses a health protection robot system and a data processing method thereof, and relates to the field of medical care, in particular to an intelligent health protection system which is used for integrating fragmented health data so as to realize scientific user health behavior intervention. The invention aims to provide a health protection system which has the advantages of being simple in structure, low in cost and convenient in operation, integrates the fragmented health data, carries out intelligent analysis and carries out intervention on the user health behavior by the system. The health protection robot system comprises an acquisition module, a server and a terminal, wherein the acquisition module is used for collecting the health and medical care data of a user; the server carries out comparison, analysis and model operation through the uploaded health and medical care data, generates a health data summarization and evaluation report and a health intervention scheme, and provides control and support for the operation of a virtual robot; and the terminal is used for a registered user to carry out login, causes the registered user to receive the health data in the acquisition module and is provided with a display module used for displaying the health data and system functions.

A system and method for generating and sending reward messages to users accomplishing goals related to a personalized health behavior plan. Rewards may be issued for reasons such as achieving an ultimate goal, reaching an intermediate goal, or completing a suggested activity such as eating a suggested meal or performing a suggested physical activity. A reward may be a coupon for use at an establishment such as a restaurant, a clothing store, or a fitness center. Rewards may also be checks sent through postal mail or coupons for printing on a personal printer. Reward messages are generated by an expert system based on a user's personalized diet, exercise, or other health plan, goals associated with the plan, and specified preferences. Reward messages are sent to user's portable devices. Current location information may be used to send a user a reward for use at a nearby establishment.

The current invention is directed to methods for reducing the cost of healthcare by improving the standard of care and by encouraging healthy behavior. Additionally, the methods of the current invention are designed to help improve clinical and economic outcomes through the principles of empowerment and accountability. The methods of the current invention provide financial incentives to both the patient and the medical practitioner in an interactive, web-based incentive system that creates appropriate and powerful checks and balances that motivate medical practitioners and patients to participate and to be adherent to beneficial performance standards. The methods of the current invention achieves the objectives of improved healthiness and better and more affordable healthcare by aligning the interests of medical providers, patients / consumers, and healthcare purchasers / payers in a win-win-win proposition. In the invention, purchasers / payers achieve lower healthcare consumption and costs by compensating medical providers and patients to declare compliance to beneficial performance standards on an intermediary's Internet application, and then having both parties confirm each other's compliance. The methods of the current invention incorporates evidence-based medicine treatment guidelines and content and other performance standards, and dispenses information therapy and other similar types of content through an Internet application or by other means to improve the standard of healthcare treatment and promote healthy behavior, which leads to better clinical outcomes and a reduction in the overall cost of healthcare.

The current invention is directed to methods for reducing the cost of healthcare by improving the standard of care and by encouraging healthy behavior. Additionally, the methods of the current invention are designed to help improve clinical and economic outcomes through the principles of empowerment and accountability. The methods of the current invention provide financial incentives to both the patient and the medical practitioner in an interactive, web-based incentive system that creates appropriate and powerful checks and balances that motivate medical practitioners and patients to participate and to be adherent to beneficial performance standards. The methods of the current invention achieves the objectives of improved healthiness and better and more affordable healthcare by aligning the interests of medical providers, patients / consumers, and healthcare purchasers / payers in a win-win-win proposition. In the invention, purchasers / payers achieve lower healthcare consumption and costs by compensating medical providers and patients to declare compliance to beneficial performance standards on an intermediary's Internet application, and then having both parties confirm each other's compliance. The methods of the current invention incorporates evidence-based medicine treatment guidelines and content and other performance standards, and dispenses information therapy and other similar types of content through an Internet application or by other means to improve the standard of healthcare treatment and promote healthy behavior, which leads to better clinical outcomes and a reduction in the overall cost of healthcare.

System and method for reducing healthcare costs by improving care and encouraging healthy behaviors. A web-based or telephonic program using health plan sponsor funded financial incentives, offered to patients and providers for declaring or demonstrating adherence or providing a reason for non-adherence to performance standards. Financial incentives are contingent upon patient's and provider's agreement to allow the other to confirm or acknowledge the other's declaration or demonstration of adherence or non-adherence reason. Combining financial incentives with a set of checks and balances motivates participation in the program and adherence to the performance standards. Performance standards include evidence-based treatment guidelines, information therapy, wellness and prevention solutions, care management, and other methods proven to control costs by improving behaviors and healthcare. The system and method achieves improved health and more affordable healthcare by aligning the interests of providers, patients / consumers, and health plan sponsors in a win-win-win arrangement.

An embodiment of an analyte detection system includes a fluid transport network having a patient end configured to provide fluid communication with a body fluid in a patient and a body fluid analyzer accessible via the fluid transport network. The body fluid analyzer is configured to measure a level of an analyte of interest in the body fluid. A pump unit is coupled to the fluid transport network. The pump unit has a sample input mode and an infusion mode. In the sample input mode, the pump unit is operable to transport a sample of the body fluid from the patient end and toward the body fluid analyzer. In the infusion mode, the pump unit is operable to transport an infusion fluid toward and out the patient end. The analyte detection system also includes a user interface for communication with the body fluid analyzer. The user interface includes an input element configured to accept user input corresponding to a patient health event. In some embodiments, the patient health event includes a patient health action or information relevant to clinical interpretation of data pertaining to measured analyte levels.

A system and method for assisting with the maintenance of healthy lifestyle habits by generating tailored strategy messages within an expert system and then pushing those messages to the corresponding individual users of the cellular phones or other portable devices. The system and method allows diet and exercise plans to be tailored to individual users based on their preferences and provides consistent and appropriate strategy messages designed to encourage and motivate users toward successfully maintaining healthy lifestyle habits. Users complete initial assessments which detail individual food and physical activity preferences. The system uses the assessments to generate individualized messages that are pushed to user devices through a system incorporating cellular technologies. Tailored messages are pushed from the computer based expert system to user devices at predetermined times each day.

A method and a system for teaching and guiding an individual and changing the lifestyle and in building up a health or healthier behaviour includes the step of making a basic assessment of the individual and of defining at least one program to which the individual should attend on the basis of this assessment. The program includes at least teaching, guiding and actively involving the individual and individually gathering personal objective information represented by at least one health indicator. The individual is taught in accordance with a specific learning program in view of understanding a relationship between the objective information and a phenomenon or symptom caused by pathology or functional deficiency. The individual is further taught and guided to understand the effect of specific behaviour and lifestyle on the pathology or functional deficiency. Finally, actions are identified to be taken for changing the lifestyle and for building up a healthier behaviour in view of reducing health problems or health risks.

The invention discloses a processing system of human body health data and a method thereof. The processing system comprises an acquisition unit, a first processing unit, a second processing unit, a computing unit and an output unit. The acquisition unit is used for obtaining physical sign data of healthy state of an individual through an APP application; the first processing unit is used for carrying out healthy features construction on the physical sign data by using a vector space modal; the second processing unit is used for extracting features, constructing a data set, and detecting denoising and reconstitution of the data through the features; the computing unit is used for digging and determining healthy impact factors which impact the corresponding individual; the output unit is used for generating a healthy analysis result of the corresponding individual as well as information about guidance and suggestions. The processing system of human body health data and the method thereof have the advantages that through techniques such as data automatic detection, mobile computing, information extraction, association digging, neutral network and machine learning, determining individual health state and developmental tendency from individual health data, conducting continuously trailing and real-time warning, analyzing healthy impact factor, promoting individual health level, carrying out prevention before disease onset, preventing disease from exacerbating and guiding the individual to adopt a most appropriate health behavior. The processing system of human body health data and method thereof are very convenient to realize.

A health care system and method are provided to promote and to support maintenance of changes in health risk related behaviors. The method includes offering an individual a screening examination for a health risk related behavior, where the offering is performed using an offer communication technology. If the individual accepts the offer, a screening examination is conducted. Information from the screening examination is recorded in an electronic database. If a health risk related behavior is identified during the screening examination, an intervention with the individual is performed. Various communication technologies can be used to conduct the operations of the method. These communication technologies may be short messaging service text messaging, multimedia messaging service text messaging, instant messaging, e-mail, telephone, Internet, interactive voice response system, or mail. The electronic database may store the communications between preventive health care providers and the individual, and these communications may be accessible by preventive health care providers during later contacts.

A system and method for generating and sending reward messages to users accomplishing goals related to a personalized health behavior plan. Rewards may be issued for reasons such as achieving an ultimate goal, reaching an intermediate goal, or completing a suggested activity such as eating a suggested meal or performing a suggested physical activity. A reward may be a coupon for use at an establishment such as a restaurant, a clothing store, or a fitness center. Rewards may also be checks sent through postal mail or coupons for printing on a personal printer. Reward messages are generated by an expert system based on a user's personalized diet, exercise, or other health plan, goals associated with the plan, and specified preferences. Reward messages are sent to user's portable devices. Current location information may be used to send a user a reward for use at a nearby establishment.

A wellness program is set up for employees of an employer and participation in the program by at least a first one of the employees of the employer is tracked to determine if the at least first one of the employees has earned a reward by virtue of the participation. In response to determining that the reward has been earned, it is determined whether this is the employee's initial earned reward. If such is the case, a reward payment card is created for the employee; an amount associated with the reward payment card is initialized; and the card is provided to the employee. Subsequently-made purchases by the employee with the card are detected. In some cases, based on purchase level data associated with the subsequently-made purchases, it is determined if the employee is eligible for a supplemental award; if this is the case, supplemental award value is associated to the reward payment card. In other instances, purchase-level data associated with at least those of the subsequently-made purchases which are qualified purchases is reported to the employer.

Disclosed is an improved automated system and corresponding computer method of promoting and maintaining health, wellness, and fitness. Multiple sponsors per member participant are enabled. Each sponsor defines respective qualifying healthy behavior (activities, purchases, other) and reward rate for each such activity and purchase. A rewards engine operates on member accounts adding units per member completion of qualifying healthy activities or purchases, thereby encouraging members to adopt healthy habits. This, in turn, leads to better health, wellness, and fitness for the subject members. The combination of different and multiple sponsors having different qualifying activities / purchases provides increased member incentive.

A computerized system and method for estimating levels of obesity in an insured population using claims data. The model uses health risk assessment data comprising age, height, and weight information as well as information about health conditions and health behaviors for a member population. Claims data is used to train a two-stage model on the member population. The first stage comprises a support vector machine, a rule-based module, and a generalized linear model that estimates the probability of obesity. The second stage comprises a regression neural network that operates on the output of the first stage and a subset of the input feature vector. Cost and utilizations in these areas, along with overall health measures as well as demographics and social factors, are inputs to a set of pattern recognition engines that perform regression. The output is the estimated body mass index of the member.

A portable data-management system based on an analyte testing device which communicates wirelessly with a mobile device. The mobile device runs an application to manage and analyze data obtained by the analyte testing device. The mobile device may assist the user in displaying testing data, identifying patterns to assist healthy behavior or issue warnings based on the collected data. The mobile device may be connected to a network to store user health data for use by other parties.

An apparatus is provided including a personal care display device having connection ports and a remote central server device arrangement. The personal care display device is configured to transmit user healthcare communications personalized to the user and receive user healthcare communications personalized to the user from the remote central server device arrangement, for the user to freely substitute selected and different hardware personal care modules in the plurality of connection ports, and to maintain an interactive diary for the user. One hardware personal care module includes a healthcare personal care module used with the personal care display device to assess user healthcare needs and provide healthcare information and recommendations specifically for the user. The remote central server device arrangement provides disease points to users for use in exchange for goods and services and health points (HPs) for quantified healthy behavior that a user can redeem with available providers.

A computerized health behavior reward system and method is disclosed. Engagement of rewards program members is based on rewards for participation in a variety of health activities. Health activities are recommended to members based on demographic and health profile information and include general health activities such as participation in fitness programs as well as disease management and clinical programs, educational campaigns, online, interactive, and social networking activities, and community based activities. Each activity may relate to a particular participation event so that members are rewarded for enrolling in a program as well as for ongoing participation. Members earn points for each health activity in which they participate. The points are accumulated in a rewards account accessible from a web site portal and can be redeemed. The computerized system and method provides flexibility to allow a reward program sponsor to respond to different needs of the rewards program population at the consumer level.

Disclosed is an improved automated system and corresponding computer method of promoting and maintaining health, wellness, and fitness. Multiple sponsors per member participant are enabled. Each sponsor defines respective qualifying healthy behavior (activities, purchases, other) and reward rate for each such activity and purchase. A rewards engine operates on member accounts adding units per member completion of qualifying healthy activities or purchases, thereby encouraging members to adopt healthy habits. This, in turn, leads to better health, wellness, and fitness for the subject members. The combination of different and multiple sponsors having different qualifying activities / purchases provides increased member incentive.

The current invention is directed to improve methods for providing health care and for reducing the cost of health care. Additionally, the methods of the current invention are designed to improve the clinical outcome for the patient. The methods of the current invention provide financial incentives to both the patient and the medical service provider in an integrated manner that create appropriate checks and balances which encourages patient empowerment as well as patient and medical practitioner accountability. The method of the current invention incorporates evidence-based medicine treatment guidelines and content, and dispenses information therapy and other similar types of content through an Internet application or by other means to improve the standard of health care treatment which leads to better clinical outcomes, healthier behavior, and a reduction in the overall cost of health care.

The invention relates to a health plan generation method and device, computer equipment and a storage medium. The method includes the steps of receiving a user identifier and user health behavior datasent by a user terminal; searching for treatment data corresponding to the user identifier; extracting user health characteristics from the user health behavior data and the treatment data; generating a first health record according to the user health characteristics, adding the first health record into a health file corresponding to the user identifier, and updating the health file; performing abnormal characteristic detection on the updated health file to obtain abnormal health characteristics; searching for health plan details corresponding to the abnormal health characteristics, performing detail conflict verification on the health plan details according to the abnormal health characteristics, and generating a user health plan based on the health plan details and the detail conflict verification result. By adopting the method, the health plan making efficiency can be improved.

Provided is a mobile health and wellness motivational system in which users specify times and / or locations where they know they will need help with lifestyle challenges. Using the smartphone's clock and geo-fencing technologies, a motivational message arrives at the specified time and / or location. Highly personalized, this system provides motivation in the form of text, photo, video, music or launched text or call; using inspiration, deterrent, tips or distraction at the specified time and / or location that the motivation is needed.

A model of patient / client / individual communication, health information and health behavior counseling can include a specific twelve step, twenty dimensions construct as part of a verbal and non-verbal communication skills set and interview process. The model of the present invention can be delivered to the user via a computer platform, thus saving the user from attending a formal, time-specific classroom setting. The computer platform can be, for example, an online platform. The online platform can include printable course materials, recorded classroom presentations, webinars, and the like. An exemplary embodiment provides a method of communication by health care professionals with patients that may be based in neurological, psychological and biochemically predictive responses to behavior change prompts.

Systems and methods for incentivizing healthy behaviors and behavioral choices, and monitoring health behaviors, are provided. The present invention requests information for a user, evaluating the user's current health, and requiring the user to choose behaviors to modify through incentives. The behaviors are incentivized by implementing proven token economy concepts to reward desired behavioral choices and reward avoidance of undesired behavioral choices. The present invention provides suitable positive health choices. The rewards provided are tangible real-world rewards with monetary value. The systems and methods reinforce continued use by a user and lead to positive behavioral change.

System and method for reducing healthcare costs by improving care and encouraging healthy behaviors. A web-based or telephonic program using health plan sponsor funded financial incentives, offered to patients and providers for declaring or demonstrating adherence or providing a reason for non-adherence to performance standards. Financial incentives are contingent upon patient's and provider's agreement to allow the other to confirm or acknowledge the other's declaration or demonstration of adherence or non-adherence reason. Combining financial incentives with a set of checks and balances motivates participation in the program and adherence to the performance standards. Performance standards include evidence-based treatment guidelines, information therapy, wellness and prevention solutions, care management, and other methods proven to control costs by improving behaviors and healthcare. The system and method achieves improved health and more affordable healthcare by aligning the interests of providers, patients / consumers, and health plan sponsors in a win-win-win arrangement.

The invention discloses a carry-on health behavior guiding system which comprises a monitoring terminal, an early warning center and an early warning terminal. The monitoring terminal monitors physiological and biochemical signal data, transmits the monitored data to the early warning center, and shows the monitored result to a user. The early warning center conducts early warning grading analysis on the physiological and biochemical signal data, generates early warning information for guiding behaviors of the user, and then transmits the early warning information to the early warning terminal. The early warning terminal informs the user of the early warning classification result through a display device so that the user can change the behaviors according to early warning grading display hints in the early warning classification result. The invention further discloses a carry-on heart monitoring medical device comprising the carry-on health behavior guiding system. According to the carry-on health behavior guiding system and the carry-on heart monitoring medical device, abnormality can be found in time and intervention is carried out with the low cost, the death rate is reduced, and the survival expectation, the life quality and the like of a patient are improved.

An online game that promotes healthy behavior by engaging computer users and by providing educational information about health and nutrition. User participation is measured in relation to an avatar of a belly that gains and loses weight according to game play. Users are assigned an avatar according to answers to profile questions. Users earn points by correctly answering health and nutrition questions. When a user answers a question correctly, the player can help him- or herself or “sabotage” a friend. Users also have options to help a friend. The game has consequences for incorrect answers. Updates to a leader board and a message board allow users to see how friends are doing. Social networking aspects of the game keep users engaged and entertained, and therefore, more likely to participate. Participation helps users to increase their knowledge of health and nutrition facts and therefore, their knowledge regarding healthy behaviors.

The invention discloses a health behavior guiding system which comprises a monitoring terminal, an early-warning center and an early-waning terminal. The monitoring terminal conducts monitoring on physiological and biochemical signal data, transmits the monitored data to the early-warning center and displays a monitoring result for a user; the early-warning center conducts early-warning grading analysis on the physiological and biochemical signal data, generates early-warning information used for guiding user behaviors and transmits the early-warning information to the early-warning terminal; the early-warning terminal informs an early-warning classification result to the user through a display device, and the user can change the behaviors according to an early-warning grading display prompt in the early-warning classification result. The invention discloses carry-on heart monitoring medical equipment of the carry-on health behavior guiding system. According to the health behavior guiding system and equipment, the cost is low, abnormalities can be found and interfered in time, the death rate can be decreased, and the survival hope and life quality of a patient an be improved.

The current invention is directed to improved methods for providing health care and for reducing the cost of health care. Additionally, the methods of the current invention are designed to improve the clinical outcome for the patient. The methods of the current invention provide financial incentives to both the patient and the medical service provider in an integrated manner that create appropriate checks and balances which encourages patient empowerment as well as patient and medical practitioner accountability. The method of the current invention incorporates evidence-based medicine treatment guidelines and content, and dispenses information therapy and other similar types of content through an Internet application or by other means to improve the standard of health care treatment which leads to better clinical outcomes, healthier behavior, and a reduction in the overall cost of health care.