US 2009/0265186 A1 · System and Method for Communicating Environmentally-Based Medical Advice

Abstract

A method and system for delivering advice to patients suffering from respiratory conditions based on changes in environment, such as weather or air quality changes. This system includes a patient specific model which uses input environmental data to predict changes in the patient's condition. The model is developed from an analysis of patient's responses to a variety of environmental triggers, and can be refined with time. The model can include only those specific triggers appropriate to a patient, can include the delay between the change in environment and change in condition of the patient, and can be run with data which is geographically localized to the patient's location. Conveniently the models can be run on personal devices held by the patients, such as mobile telephones, which are in communication with a server and/or a provider of environmental data.

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Dependent claims

A communications system for providing support to patients suffering from respiratory conditions, the system comprising:

a plurality of patient-based data storage, processing and communications devices,
a server having a data store storing patient data, a processor for receiving, processing and outputting data and a communications interface in communication with the plurality of patient-based data storage, processing and communications devices and with a provider of environmental data,
the system further storing a predictive model for each patient for predicting changes in their respiratory condition from said environmental data,
and the system being adapted to retrieve regularly said environmental data from said provider, to run said predictive model with said retrieved environmental data, and to cause said patient-based data storage, processing and communications devices to display advice to the patient based on predicted changes in their respiratory condition.

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