Koninklijke Philips Corporation N.v.

Gilbert C Lemke

John Ryan

Tadashi Egami

Debra Lieberman

In an environment where it is beneficial for chronic health care patients to receive individualized attention on a daily basis, a health care network () is provided. Each patient receives a user interface device () such as a set top box for accessing the network (). Based on the patient's health care history, a nurse or other health care professional interfaces with a server () and constructs a care plan specific to that patient by filling out appropriate sections of a care plan template. An itinerary arrangement processor () organizes content gleaned from the patient's care plan and constructs a serially arranged itinerary for the patient to experience each day. The patient logs on to the network () and is immediately presented with the day's itinerary, without having to navigate any menus. Resultantly, the patient will have an easier experience, and will not miss any material.

Patient health care network guided encounter

A health care apparatus () and methods are described for rendering audio visual content to a medical patient in the patient's home, in which a content element storage () stores a plurality of audio visual content elements () to be rendered to the patient in the patient's home, including personal story content elements () in which an interviewee () is shown discussing one or more issues related to the patient's medical condition. One or more content elements are selected according to a medical condition of a given patient and presented to the patient via a display device () of a user interface () located in the patient's home. Methods are presented for generating audio visual content for presentation to a medical patient in the patient's home in which a set of questions relating to a given medical condition is generated () and questions from the set are presented () to at least one interviewee, such as an actor or a person having the given medical condition. The interviewee's responses to the presented questions are recorded () and edited () to create a personal story content element which is then stored () in a content element storage coupled with a communications network from which content elements are selected for presentation to patients having the given medical condition.

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Gilbert C Lemke