Group posture health risk management
AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorsJames R. KOZLOSKI, Timothy M. LYNAR, Suraj PANDEY, John M. WAGNER
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Abstract
The seated posture of a subject person and a group of subject persons over a long term is analyzed to determine long-term health risk factors. Responses to the determined long-term health risk factors include posture improvement messages and group activity recommendations to reduce the long-term health risk factors as well as adjustments to reserves and premiums insuring costs associated with the long-term risks.
Claims20
A method comprising:
- receiving a seated signal from a device monitoring a posture of a subject person;
- accumulating the seated signal over a duration;
- and
- generating a health risk factor based upon the accumulating, wherein at least one of the receiving, the accumulating and the generating above is performed by a computer.
A system comprising:
- a plurality of posture monitors adapted to analyze a posture of each of a plurality of subject persons and generate a plurality of seated signals based on the analysis;
- a plurality of posture accumulators adapted to accumulate the plurality of seated signals;
- a plurality of individual characteristic databases including individual characteristic information on each of the plurality of subject persons;
- an actuarial database having information relating each of the plurality of posture accumulators to of each of the individual characteristic databases and adapted to be used in generating a plurality of health risk factors;
- and
- a long-term health risk factor generator coupled to the actuarial database, the plurality of individual characteristic databases and the plurality of posture accumulators, the long-term health risk factor generator adapted to calculate the plurality of health risk factors and generate a group health risk factor signal.
A non-transitory computer program comprising a computer readable storage medium having computer readable program code embodied therewith, the computer readable program code configured to:
- receiving a seated signal from a device monitoring a posture of a subject person;
- accumulating the seated signal over a duration;
- and
- generating a health risk factor based upon the accumulating.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.