Interactive reward devices and methods
AssigneeGuidance Interactive Technologies, Inc.
InventorPaul Wessel
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Abstract
A patient is rewarded for performing a medical test or for maintaining medical test results within desired levels. Medical test data is generated and transferred for use by reward firmware in a cartridge, for example. Reward information is provided to the patient to motivate or encourage the patient to conduct medical tests and/or to maintain medical test results within certain levels. The cartridge can be inserted into an electronic controller, e.g. a handheld video-game controller, cellular telephone, or other device. Transmission of data and/or encouragement to and from a remote location provides additional advantages.
Claims20
A medical monitoring system comprising:
- a hand held computing device comprising an input device, an operating system, a power supply, and a physical interface connection for loading of different software programs;
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- a module comprising:
- a medical testing device for performing a medical test;
- medical diagnostic circuitry, operably coupled with the medical testing device, for performing medical analysis;
- video game circuitry for motivating or rewarding a user of the system, the medical diagnostic circuitry being adapted to send medical testing results data to the video game circuitry, the video game circuitry being adapted to store medical testing results data for determination of reward data to motivate the user, the video game circuitry further being adapted to receive electrical input from the hand held computing device;
- a housing for both the medical diagnostic circuitry and the video game circuitry;
- a display on the housing for displaying medical testing results;
- an interface that provides a physical connection between the module and the physical interface connection of the hand held computing device to send reward data to the hand held computing device;
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- a module power supply within the medical diagnostic circuitry;
- wherein the module comprises a stand-alone medical testing cartridge adapted for insertion into the hand held computing device.
The system of wherein the medical testing results data is selected from the group consisting of:
- HbAlc test data, blood-pressure test data, lipids test data, cholesterol test data, peak-flow test data, oxygen-saturation test data, spirometer test data, exercise-based test data, heart-rate test data, body-fat test data, prescription-adherence test data, medical-laboratory test data, body-weight test data, chemotherapy-based test data, temperature-based test data, kidney-dialysis test data, and neuropathy test data.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.