US 8,712,792 B2Granted

Personalized health communication system

AssigneeWebMD, LLC

InventorsBradley R Bowman, Philip D. Marshall

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Abstract

Personalization of access to health-related information on a computer network is provided based upon a health history of a user. In one implementation, personal health-related information about the user is obtaining from the user operating a client computer. The health-related information includes one or more health-related terms that each corresponds to a health-related concept. The health related terms provided by the user are correlated with a health terminology thesaurus that is stored on a computer-readable medium, such as at a server remote from the user client. Each of the health-related terms is associated with a single concept unique identifier that uniquely identifies a corresponding health-related concept. Health-related works or content is made accessible over the computer network by correlating the concept unique identifiers for the user's health information with corresponding concept unique identifiers that are associated with the health-related content.

Claims20

Dependent claims

A computer-implemented communication method comprising:

from each of a plurality of receiving users, receiving by a computer system corresponding personal health message receiving criteria for determining messages to be received by that receiving user via at least one of e-mail and a personal homepage, the corresponding personal health message receiving criteria for each user including at least one of a personal characteristic, a predefined health condition, and a receiving user-defined health condition that is relevant to that receiving user;
from a transmitting user, receiving a plurality of messages intended for at least one of the receiving users, wherein each message includes i) personal health message transmitting criteria selected by the transmitting user for directing each received message to other users, the personal health message transmitting criteria including at least one of a personal characteristic, a predefined health condition, and a transmitting user-defined health condition that is relevant to at least one of each received message and the transmitting user, and ii) a communication for at least one of the receiving users, wherein each of the plurality of messages is generated by the transmitting user from a transmitting user interface displayed on a display that includes at least one field allowing the transmitting user to select the personal health message transmitting criteria and at least one field to compose the communication;
comparing, by the computer system, the transmitting criteria in each of the plurality of received messages to the personal health message receiving criteria for each of the plurality of receiving users to identify matches;
and
transmitting each of the plurality of received messages to identified receiving users comprising at least one of the receiving users via at least one of an e-mail and the personal homepage without identifying the identified receiving users to the transmitting user, the transmitting being based on a match between the transmitting criteria and the receiving criteria.

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A non-transitory computer-readable medium comprising computer executable instructions that, when executed by a computer, cause the computer to:

receive from each of a plurality of receiving users corresponding personal health message receiving criteria for determining messages to be received by that receiving user via at least one of e-mail and a personal homepage, the corresponding personal health message receiving criteria for each user including at least one of a personal characteristic, a predefined health condition, and a receiving user-defined health condition that is relevant to that receiving user;
receive from a transmitting user a plurality of messages intended for at least one of the receiving users, wherein each message includes i) personal health message transmitting criteria selected by the transmitting user for directing each received message to other users, the personal health message transmitting criteria including at least one of a personal characteristic, a predefined health condition, and a transmitting user-defined health condition that is relevant to at least one of each received message and the transmitting user, and ii) a communication for at least one of the receiving users, wherein each of the plurality of messages is generated by the transmitting user from a transmitting user interface displayed on a display that includes at least one field allowing the transmitting user to select the personal health message transmitting criteria and at least one field to compose the communication;
compare the transmitting criteria in each of the plurality of received messages to the personal health message receiving criteria for each of the plurality of receiving users to identify matches;
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transmit each of the plurality of received messages to identified receiving users comprising at least one of the receiving users via at least one of an e-mail and the personal homepage without identifying the identified receiving users to the transmitting user, the transmitting being based on a match between the transmitting criteria and the receiving criteria.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 10/624,098Filed 21 Jul 2003 · continuation
Priority: 24 Feb 2000
Published: US 2004/0019505 A129 Jan 2004
Granted: 29 Apr 2014
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification6 codes

G06Q 10/10
Administration; Management: office automation; Time management
G16H 40/67
For the operation of medical equipment or devices: for remote operation
Y02A 90/10
Technologies having an indirect contribution to adaptation to climate change: information and communication technologies [ICT] supporting…
G06Q
Information and communication technology [ict] specially adapted for administrative, commercial, financial, managerial