Systems and methods for a comprehensive online health care platform
Inventors
Thorpe, Alexander • Cathcart, Nicole • Karbowicz, Sean
Assignees
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Publication Number
US-10691774-B2
Publication Date
2020-06-23
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Abstract
Systems and methods for a comprehensive online healthcare platform are provided that increase the efficiency of the medication selection process. In one embodiment, a method comprises responsive to a query from the user via the user device, receiving a list of one or more medications identified from a storage device and receiving medication information about each identified medication in the list of the one or more medications from the storage device. The method further includes, calculating a user personalized grade for each of the identified medications based on the medication information and the user information, transmitting the user personalized grade and medication information to the user device and displaying simultaneously on the user device, the user personalized grade, cost factor, prescription experience data, and secondary technical effects of each identified medication.
Core Innovation
The invention provides an online healthcare platform that receives user information including one or more characteristics of the user and retrieves, responsive to a query, a list of medications and medication information about each medication. The medication information includes an indication of clinical effectiveness, prescription experience data characterizing experiences of patients, cost factor, insurance coverage, and technical secondary effects. The platform correlates the user information with the medication information and calculates a user personalized grade for each medication based on the correlated user information and medication information.
The invention transmits the user personalized grade and the medication information to a remote user device and displays a compare selection presenting a compare display screen. The compare display screen presents a first selection of a subset of medications and displays display information including the cost factor simultaneously with each of the user personalized grade, the prescription experience data, and the technical secondary effects. The display information for each identified medication is arranged so that adjacent medication information is directly adjacent or presented in a matrix with horizontally aligned elements.
The invention further integrates health care provider input by transmitting the user information and the medication information to one or more health care providers and receiving one or more health risk notifications from the health care providers. The platform determines whether a selected medication poses more than a threshold amount of risk to the user based on one of the received health risk notifications. When the selected medication presents more than the threshold amount of risk, the platform prevents purchasing the selected medication by not fulfilling the purchase request and displays an intervention program and/or an automatically generated alert, and in system embodiments displays one or more alternative medications determined to present a lower health risk.
Claims Coverage
The provided material contains three independent claims: clm-00001, clm-00014, and clm-00018. Across these independent claims, the main inventive features number four and center on user-profile-based correlation of medication information, personalized grading, matrix-style side-by-side comparison display, and threshold-based health-risk notification leading to purchase prevention and intervention or alternative medication presentation.
Networked personalized medication grade using user and medication databases
responsive to a query from the user via the remote user device, the server queries a first database for user information and a second database for a list of medications and medication information about each medication, retrieves the queried user information and medication information, correlates the user information with the medication information, calculates a user personalized grade for each medication based on the correlated information, and transmits the user personalized grade and the medication information to the remote user device over the network
Side-by-side compare display with cost and personalized grade
display to the user, on a display of the remote user device, a compare selection that presents a compare display screen, the compare display screen displaying a first selection of a subset of medications from the list of medications, and further displaying display information including the cost factor simultaneously with each of the user personalized grade, the prescription experience data, and the technical secondary effects for each identified medication, where the display information for each identified medication is directly adjacent to the display information for at least one other identified medication and where the user personalized grade is displayed in a larger font size than a font size of other displayed text
Health care provider health risk notifications driving threshold blocking and intervention
transmitting the user information and the medication information to the one or more health care providers, receiving one or more health risk notifications from the one or more health care providers, determining whether the selected medication poses more than a threshold amount of risk to the user based on one of the received health risk notifications, and responsive to the selected medication posing more than the threshold amount of risk: immediately displaying an intervention program based on the one of the received health risk notifications and preventing the user from purchasing the selected medication by not fulfilling the purchase request
System display of medication options with matrix arrangement
display, on a display of the remote device, a compare selection that generates a compare display screen, the compare display screen displaying a first selection of a subset of medications from the list of medications, and further display first display information including the cost information simultaneously with each of the user personalized grade, the prescription experience data, and the technical secondary effects for each identified medication in the list of medications, where the first display information for each identified medication is arranged in one or more rows and two or more columns of a matrix
Alternative lower-risk medications in response to threshold health risk
determine whether the selected medication presents a potential health risk to the user based on one of the received health risk notifications and, responsive to the selected medication presenting the potential health risk to the user: display a list of one or more alternative medications, wherein each alternative medication has been determined to present a lower health risk to the user than the selected medication, and prevent the user from purchasing the selected medication presenting the potential health risk by not fulfilling the purchase request
Insurance-claims-derived cost factor and risk-based alert blocking
retrieve a list of a plurality of medications and medication information for each medication from a non-transitory storage device communicably coupled to a second network where the non-transitory storage device stores insurance claims data, calculate a cost factor calculated from the insurance claims data, correlate the user information with the medication information, calculate a user personalized letter grade for each medication, determine whether the selected medication presents more than a threshold amount of risk to the user based on the user information, responsive to the selected medication presenting more than the threshold amount of risk: immediately display an automatically generated alert and prevent the user from purchasing the selected medication presenting more than the threshold amount of risk by not fulfilling the purchase request
Across the independent claims, the core claim coverage centers on retrieving user information and medication information from remote storage, correlating that information and calculating a personalized grade or letter grade, displaying the cost factor and grade together in a compare selection or compare display screen with adjacent or matrix-style alignment, and using health care provider health risk notifications or user-information-based thresholding to trigger intervention, alerts, and purchase prevention for selected medications that exceed a threshold risk, including alternative lower-risk medications in the system embodiment.
Stated Advantages
Improves medication selection by computing a user personalized grade and displaying medication information for compare selection.
Prevents purchasing a selected medication presenting more than a threshold amount of risk to the user by not fulfilling the purchase request.
Displays an intervention program and/or automatically generated alert for a selected medication presenting more than the threshold amount of risk to the user.
Displays one or more alternative medications determined to present a lower health risk to the user than the selected medication.
Displays cost factor simultaneously with personalized grade, prescription experience data, and technical secondary effects in a compare display.
Documented Applications
An online healthcare platform providing remote access to users and health care providers for medication selection using user profile data, medication information, personalized grades, and health-risk notifications.
A compare selection interface for presenting a subset of medications for selection, comparison, and purchase request handling with threshold-based risk blocking and intervention or alternative medication display.
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