Adaptive interactive preceptored teaching system

A system for providing remote health education to a patient under the supervision of a health care provider and preceptor as part of an educational program comprising:

• (a) a remotely-accessible collection of educational materials transmittable through the Internet that are collectively relevant to a health condition, wherein each item in the collection is relevant to one or more aspects of the health condition,
• (b) data collection and recording means that obtains a profile for a patient, receives information from the patient, and records and updates the profile and information in a secure Internet-accessible database,
• (c) item selection means for selecting an item in the collection of educational materials for transmission to the patient based upon the patient's profile, and
• (d) interface display means that selectively transmits a first, second, or third interactive interface to a computer through the Internet upon entry of login information provided by or to the patient, preceptor, or healthcare provider,
• wherein
• (I) the first interface (i) displays a selected item to the patient, (ii) selectively transmits assessment questions related to the item to the patient, (iii) allows the patient to submit responses thereto for transmission to the preceptor, and (iv) permits the patient to transmit messages to and receive messages from the preceptor,
• (II) the second interface (i) permits the preceptor to examine the patient's responses to the assessment questions, (ii) allows the preceptor to receive messages from and transmit messages to the patient, and (iii) permits the preceptor to transmit messages to and receive messages from the health care provider, and
• (III) the third interface (i) provides means for checking patient performance in the educational program and (ii) permits the health care provider to receive secure messages from and transmit secure messages to the preceptor.