Information management system for personal health digitizers

A method of operating an interactive information management system for the collection and analysis of proprietary consumer specific data that is generated by a plurality of consumers located at remote sites using personal health digitizers, and for regulating user's access to the collected proprietary consumer specific data and results of the analysis by class of user, comprising the steps of:

• establishing a data communication connection with a consumer's terminal equipment to input data from said consumers personal health digitizer to said information management system;
• storing data received from said consumer's personal health digitizer in a database;
• processing said received data to identify patterns in said received data;
• providing access to said received and processed data to an accessing user as a function of an identity of a one of a plurality of classes of users of which said accessing user is a member comprising:
• enabling a user to input a query relating to consumer specific data input to said information management system by said consumer, and
• blocking, in response to said input query, intrusive access to said consumer specific data by said user inputting said query.

An interactive information management system for the collection and analysis of proprietary consumer specific data that is generated by a plurality of consumers located at remote sites using personal health digitizers, and for regulating user's access to the collected proprietary consumer specific data and results of the analysis by class of user, comprising:

• means for storing data received from said consumers'personal health digitizers in a database;
• means for processing said received data to identify patterns in said received data;
• and
• means for providing access to said received and processed data to an accessing user as a function of an identity of a one of a plurality of classes of users of which said accessing user is a member comprising:
• means for enabling a consumer to authorize at least one user to access consumer specific data input to said information management system by said consumer;
• and
• means for blocking intrusive access to said consumer specific data by said user.

A method of operating an interactive information management system for the collection and analysis of proprietary consumer specific data that is generated by a plurality of consumers located at remote sites using personal health digitizers, and for regulating user's access to the collected proprietary consumer specific data and results of the analysis by class of user, comprising:

• storing data received from said consumers' personal health digitizers in a database;
• processing said received data to identify patterns in said received data;
• providing access to said received and processed data to an accessing user as a function of an identity of a one of a plurality of classes of users of which said accessing user is a member comprising:
• enabling a consumer to authorize at least one user to access consumer specific data input to said information management system by said consumer, and
• blocking intrusive access to said consumer specific data by said user.