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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 07, 2017
Filed:
Oct. 14, 2008
James Heywood, Newton, MA (US);
Benjamin Heywood, Cambridge, MA (US);
James Heywood, Newton, MA (US);
Benjamin Heywood, Cambridge, MA (US);
PATIENTSLIKEME, INC., Cambridge, MA (US);
Abstract
The invention is directed, in part, to method of using self-reported health data in online communities to predict significant health events in life-changing illnesses to improve the lives of individuals and to improve patient self-management. The invention provides a method for providing real-time personalized medical predictions for an individual patient. The method includes: providing a database containing patient information for a plurality of other patients including one or more attributes for each patient in the database; constructing a model of a disease based on disease progressions for the plurality of patients; receiving a request from the individual patient, the patient associated with one or more attributes; and making a real-time prediction for the individual patient based on the mode and the individual patient's attributes.