Systems and processes for interactive data collection and assessment

#Effective and organized data collection has long been an important component of businesses with respect to the development and management of successful client relations. Successful businesses are able to evaluate their clients individually, identify each individual client's needs, determine if there are any existing or potential problems that require attention, and intelligently interact with each client to optimize client relations. Additionally, effective client education relating to the services or products offered by a company and/or the need for such services is also a key component to business growth and maintaining client satisfaction. Each of these client-service objectives is heavily dependent upon having access to relevant information and storing such information in an easily accessible format.

#Conventional data collection systems gather and store a broad array of client information, much of which may be irrelevant to a business' and/or a client's objectives. Such a broad approach to data collection and storage not only increases the risk that a client will become inundated with and disinterested in the data collection process, but also does not ensure that the appropriate information is collected. In addition, such broad data collection methods make it difficult to provide a client with educational materials that are relevant to that particular client's needs. Accordingly, there is a need for an automated system having a dynamic user interface that not only collects client information, but also is capable of identifying what additional content is needed based on a client's previous responses and thereafter pointedly tailors its inquiries on a real-time basis to ensure such information is collected. Moreover, it is desirable that the system can store the collected data in an intelligent format such that it is easily accessible and can link to different types of data from disparate locations and various formats in order to provide a comprehensive comparison and assessment of the collected data relative to other resources.

#Systems and processes for providing interactive data collection and assessment. Embodiments of the system described herein comprise at least one application comprising a core application logic and at least one module, a server network and at least one network accessible device. Each of the at least one modules defines two or more steps and at least one of the steps is configured to collect data from a user. Further, the core application logic is adapted to evaluate the collected data, derive one or more result values therefrom, and execute the steps of each module in a customized sequence pursuant to the one or more result values. The server network of the system is adapted to execute the at least one application and comprises at least one database accessible by the at least one application. The at least one network accessible device of the system is adapted to interface with the server network and configured to display one or more graphic user interfaces associated with the at least one module of the application. In at least one embodiment, the at least one graphic user interface may comprise an audio and video component. For example and without limitation, the first step of the module may comprise an audio and video component comprising a first content, a second step of the module may comprise an audio and video component comprising a second content, and the core application logic may be adapted to select between executing the first step and the second step based on the result value.

#FIG. 1 shows a schematic view of at least one embodiment of a data collection and assessment system.

#FIG. 2 shows a schematic view of the data collection and assessment system of FIG. 1.

#FIG. 3A shows one example of a data collection-type step.

#Reference will now be made to the embodiments illustrated in the drawings and specific language will be used to describe the same. It will nevertheless be understood that no limitation of scope is intended by the description of these embodiments.

#FIG. 1 shows a schematic view of at least one embodiment of a data collection and assessment system 10. The data collection and assessment system 10 is an expert system that is capable of delivering a personalized experience to a user by gathering information from a user through a dynamic interface, performing detailed analyses based on the data collected and providing relevant feedback and analyses based on the most probable user-specific outcome. In addition, the data collection and assessment system 10 comprehensively tracks and stores user data, thereby enabling the highest levels of user status supervision, client relations and efficiency.

#For example, in at least one embodiment, the data collection and assessment system 10 may be used in the health care field to collect measured health parameters and lifestyle-related data from patients, identify applicable risk factors associated with that particular patient based on the data collected, and provide information to the patient on the specific conditions associated with the identified risk factors. Furthermore, in this at least one embodiment, the data collection and assessment system 10 can also provide the patient with contact information for health care specialists in the medical field(s) that treat the conditions associated with the patient's identified risk factors. While specific embodiments of the data collection and assessment system 10 described herein may pertain to the use of the data collection and assessment system 10 in the health care area, it will be appreciated that the application of the data collection and customized assessment system 10 is not so limited and may be applied to any industry where the dynamic collection and assessment of end-user data may be beneficial.