Patient permission-based mobile health-linked information collection and exchange systems and methods

A method for use with a medical mobile communications device adapted for obtaining medical measurement data from an individual diagnosed with a neurological disease, the method comprising:

• processing the medical measurement data by a programmed computer processor of the medical mobile communications device,
• computing objective measurement data by the programmed computer processor of the medical mobile communications device from the processed medical measurement data, and
• transmitting the computed objective measurement data of the individual diagnosed with the neurological disease for storage in a remote medical health record database, the method for use with a medical mobile communications device further comprising:
• determining and periodically storing in a memory of the programmed computer processor and transmitting by a communications interface of the medical mobile communications device for storage at the remote medical record database a universal time of day and date of receipt of the computed objective measurement data of the individual diagnosed with the neurological disease associated with location data of the medical mobile communications device;
• communicating by the communications interface of the medical mobile communications device with the remote medical health record database for storing the computed objective measurement data, the objective measurement data obtainable from the medical measurement data input to the programmed computer processor from a sensor adapted for sensing extremity movement data from a pronation/supination protocol adapted to be performed by the individual diagnosed with the neurological disease for storage in memory of the medical mobile communications device and for communication to the remote medical health record database;
• collecting the extremity movement data of the pronation/supination protocol from the sensor comprising one of a gyroscope and an accelerometer of the medical mobile communications device, the extremity movement data adapted to be obtained from the of angular and linear acceleration measurements calculated with respect to at least three axes of a distinguished coordinate system adapted for the pronation/supination protocol and universal time and date, the medical mobile communications device adapted to be coupled to a human body extremity of the individual diagnosed with the neurological disease;
• receiving individual identity data input for storage in memory of the medical mobile communications device;
• storing the one of collected angular and linear acceleration measurement data of the individual diagnosed with the neurological disease in memory of the medical mobile communications device with the stored individual identity data;
• determining a direction of maximum motion of the extremity of the individual diagnosed with the neurological disease by the programmed computer processor of the medical mobile communications device adapted to be coupled to the extremity of the individual from at least a subset of the collected extremity movement data and using the determined direction to compute the objective measurement data;
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• communicating the computed objective measurement data via the communications interface of the medical mobile communications device, said computed objective measurement data comprising an estimate of a variation present in the collected objective measurement data and the universal time of day and date, to the remote medical health record database,
• the programmed computer processor of the medical mobile communications device actuating a display of the medical mobile communications device adapted for displaying the computed objective measurement data of the individual diagnosed with the neurological disease responsive to the computing.

A method for use with a medical mobile communications device adapted for use by an individual diagnosed with a neurological disease and having an associated, activatable deep brain stimulator adapted to be implanted in the individual diagnosed with the neurological disease, the medical mobile communications device comprising one of a gyroscope and an accelerometer, a communications interface, and a programmed computer processor of the medical mobile communications device, wherein the programmed computer processor executes software for:

• computing a distinguished coordinate system, a distinguished coordinate of the distinguished coordinate system adapted to value a greatest motion of the individual diagnosed with the disease and using the distinguished coordinate system adapted to determine forearm extremity motion data comprising a value of one of maximum rate of angular acceleration, of degrees traveled per oscillation of a forearm extremity, peak angular velocity and of hesitation over time, data for computing the forearm extremity motion data adapted to be sensed by one of an accelerometer and a gyroscope for input to the programmed computer processor, the forearm extremity motion data adapted to be collected responsive to forearm extremity pronation/supination movements by the individual diagnosed with the neurological disease and stored in memory associated with the programmed computer processor;
• the programmed computer processor calculating and the memory storing the forearm extremity motion data during pronation/supination and adapted for storing the forearm extremity motion data in accordance with the distinguished coordinate system, the forearm extremity motion data correlating with a clinical rating scale for the diagnosed neurological disease, the forearm extremity motion data responsive to deep brain stimulation activation and deactivation via the communications interface of the medical mobile communications device;
• receiving, via the communications interface of the medical mobile communications device, aggregate forearm extremity motion data of a cohort of similar selected individuals diagnosed with the neurological disease according to gender, age and one of presence or absence of surgical implants comprising one of a deep brain stimulator and a drug delivery system relative to the individual diagnosed with the disease, the aggregate data calculated according to a clinical rating scale for the diagnosed disease;
• calculating clinical rating score data of the individual diagnosed with the disease;
• comparing the forearm extremity motion data of the individual diagnosed with the disease to the cohort according to the clinical rating scale for the diagnosed neurological disease;
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• displaying relative values of the forearm extremity motion data calculated according to the clinical rating scale for the diagnosed neurological disease for display by a display of the medical mobile communications device.