US 11,600,392 B2Granted

Health data aggregation and outbreak modeling

AssigneesThe Broad Institute, Inc., President and Fellows of Harvard College

InventorsPardis Sabeti, Andres Colubri, Todd Brown

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Abstract

The technology uses aggregated health data and outbreak models to conduct differential diagnosis and provide risk assessments that indicate a likelihood of contracting COVID-19. A healthcare organization server provides COVID-19 diagnostic kits and health applications to participating computing devices that log user health data and registers contacts with other participating users via wireless interactions. The organization compares received data with data received from computing devices from a plurality of other users and identifies common occurrences. The server creates an outbreak model of a geographic region based on the data. The server communicates a determined likelihood of contracting COVID-19 of the user to the user computing device. The server provides the outbreak model to the user, healthcare workers, or others for use in responding to the outbreak.

Claims30

Dependent claims

A computer-implemented method to use aggregated data to provide a population informed assessment of infection, comprising:

receiving, by one or more computing systems and from a user computing device associated with a user, a communication comprising user data;
identifying, by the one or more computing systems, a sub-set of users from a plurality of other users having a connectivity score above a threshold connectivity score and based in part on comparing user data with aggregated data from the plurality of other users;
identifying, by the one or more computing systems, common attributes from the user data from the sub-set of other users;
receiving, by the user computing device, a broadcast wireless communication from a proximate second user computing device of a second user;
broadcasting, by the user computing device, a second broadcast wireless communication to the proximate second user computing device of the second user;
determining, by the user computing device, a length of time of the contact of the user computing device to the proximate second user computing device and a distance between the user computing device and the proximate second user computing device during the contact;
registering, by the user computing device, contact of the user computing device to the proximate second user computing device based on the length of time of the contact of the user computing device to the proximate second user computing device and the distance between the user computing device and the proximate second user computing device;
communicating, by the user computing device, the registered contact to the one or more computing systems;
determining, by the one or more computing systems, a population informed risk of infection of the user based at least in part on the registered contact, the connectivity score, the common attributes, and from a population model of a disease event;
and
communicating, by the one or more computing systems and to the user computing device, recommendations for further diagnostics and/or treatment based on the population informed risk of infection of the user and instructions to display the recommendations on a user interface of the user computing device.

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A system to use aggregated health data and outbreak models to provide risk assessments to user computing devices, the system comprising:

a diagnostic kit, comprising:
components sufficient to allow a user to be tested to determine if the user has contracted an infectious disease;
a storage device;
and
a processor communicatively coupled to the storage device, wherein the processor executes application code instructions that are stored in the storage device to cause the system to:
receive, from a user computing device, a communication comprising user data, the user data comprising a registered contact with a broadcast wireless communication from a second user computing device, the registered contact being based on a length of time of the contact of the user computing device to the proximate second user computing device and a distance between the user computing device and the proximate second user computing device during the contact;
identify a sub-set of users from a plurality of other users having a connectivity score above a threshold connectivity score and based in part on the registered contact and based on comparing user data with aggregated data from the plurality of other users;
identify common attributes from the user data from the sub-set of other users;
determine a population informed risk of infection of the user based at least in part on the connectivity score and common attributes and from a population model of a disease event;
and
communicating, to the user computing device, recommendations for further diagnostics and/or treatment based on the population informed risk of infection of the user and instructions to display the recommendations on a user interface of the user computing device.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 17/102,901Filed 24 Nov 2020 · continuation
Priority: 23 Jul 2019
Published: US 2021/0050116 A120 May 2021
Granted: 7 Mar 2023
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification15 codes

G06Q 10/40
Administration; Management: business processes related to social networking or social networking services
G06N 7/01
Computing arrangements based on specific mathematical models: probabilistic graphical models, e.g. probabilistic networks
G06Q 10/42
Business processes related to social networking or social networking services: determination of affinities or common interests between users
G16H 50/50
ICT specially adapted for medical diagnosis, medical simulation or medical data mining; ICT specially adapted for detecting, monitoring or…: for…

Family

Application62/877,754Us provisional application · filed 23 Jul 2019
Application62/877,773Us provisional application · filed 23 Jul 2019
Application16/936,278Parent of this continuation · filed 22 Jul 2020
US 2021/0151198 A1Pre-grant publication · published 20 May 2021
US 12,308,128 B2Related patent
US 2021/0050116 A1Published application
US 11,600,392 B2This patent

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