US20140156774A1 - Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for context-linked importation of user information - Google Patents
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- the invention relates to systems and methods for context-linked importation of user information.
- Embodiments of invention are particularly applicable to interactive environments such as message boards.
- web sites exist to serve a particular group of people who share common goals or attributes. Such web sites often include message boards in which users can communicate with each other regarding various topics of interest.
- One aspect of the invention provides a method for context-linked importation of user information.
- the method includes: providing an interactive environment that allows posting of content by a plurality of pre-identified users; receiving content for the interactive environment from a pre-identified user; selecting relevant data about the pre-identified user from a database, the relevant data selected based on information contained in the content; and displaying the relevant data along with the content on the interactive environment.
- the method can include updating the database with information contained in the content.
- the database can be a topic-related database.
- the topic can relate to health.
- the relevant data can include at least one medical condition metric.
- the medical condition metric can be a quantitative representation of a medical condition.
- the medical condition metric can be one selected from the group consisting of: a direct measure of pathology, a user-reported measure of functional impairment, a user-reported outcome of health-related quality of life, and a user-reported progression of a medical condition.
- the medical condition can be one selected from the group consisting of: movement disorders including parkinsonism, Huntington's chorea, and Tourette's syndrome; pain disorders including back pain; rheumatologic disorders including arthritis, osteoarthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, psoriatic arthritis, Lyme's disease, and gout; seizure disorders including epilepsy; neurodegenerative diseases including amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, multiple sclerosis, Creutzfeld-Jakob disease, and Alzheimer's disease; pulmonary diseases including asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, and cystic fibrosis; sexual disorders including erectile dysfunction and vaginismus; mood disorders including depression and anxiety; addiction including nicotine addiction and alcoholism; migraines; fibromyalgia; fatigue disorders; dementia; eating disorders; hypercholesterolemia; hyperlipidemia; hyperlipoproteinemia; hypertriglyceridemia; vasculatitis, diabetes; obesity; gastroesophogeal reflux disorder; dyspepsi
- the relevant data can include intervention data.
- the intervention data can include at least one selected from the group consisting of: intervention dosage, intervention frequency, and intervention adherence.
- the intervention data can be data about an intervention selected from the group consisting of: administration of a medication, administration of a remedy, administration of a nutritional supplement, administration of a vitamin, exercise, physical therapy, massage, stretching, consumption of food, rest, and sleep.
- the method can further include providing an interface for the user to submit new data about an intervention or medical condition metric.
- the new data can be displayed along with the post on the interactive environment.
- the relevant data can be displayed in a graphical element.
- the graphical element can be a chart.
- the chart can be a line chart. Time can be depicted on an x-axis of the chart.
- the method can be a computer-implemented method.
- the method can include the steps of: receiving a response from a second pre-identified user; selecting relevant data about the second pre-identified user from a database, the relevant data about the second pre-identified user selected based on information contained in the response; and displaying the relevant data about the second pre-identified user along with the response on the interactive environment.
- the method can include providing an interface for the user to submit new data about an intervention or medical condition metric.
- the method can include displaying the new data along with the post on the content board.
- the method can include displaying hyperlinks to additional information about a subject of the content along with the content.
- Another aspect of the invention provides a computer-readable medium whose contents cause a computer to perform a method for context-linked importation of user information.
- the method includes: providing an interactive environment that allows posting of content by a plurality of pre-identified users; receiving content for the interactive environment from a pre-identified user; selecting relevant data about the pre-identified user from a database, the relevant data selected based on information contained in the content; and displaying the relevant data along with the content on the interactive environment.
- the computer-readable medium can be non-transitory and tangible.
- the system includes: a database; and a server in communication with the database.
- the server is configured to provide an interactive environment that allows posting of content by a plurality of pre-identified users, receive content for the interactive environment from a pre-identified use, select relevant data about the pre-identified user from a database, and display the relevant data along with the content on the interactive environment. The relevant data is selected based on information contained in the content.
- the system includes a messaging module and a data importation module.
- the messaging module is configured to provide an interactive environment that allows posting of content by a plurality of pre-identified users, receive content for the interactive environment from a pre-identified user, and display relevant data along with the content on the interactive environment.
- the data importation module is configured to select relevant data about the pre-identified user from a database based on information contained in the content.
- the system can include an authentication module configured to authenticate the pre-identified user.
- Another aspect of invention provides a method for context-linked importation of user information.
- the method includes providing an messaging system that allows transmission of content between a plurality of users, wherein at least one of the users is pre-identified, receiving content from a first, pre-identified user to a second user, selecting relevant data about the pre-identified user from a database, the relevant data selected based on information contained in the content; and presenting the relevant data along with the content to the second user.
- FIG. 1 depicts an exemplary network topology according to the invention.
- FIGS. 2A and 2B depict the operation of an interactive environment according to embodiments of the invention.
- FIG. 3 depicts a method for context-linked importation of user information according to one embodiment of the invention.
- FIG. 4 depicts an embodiment of the invention in a computer software and/or hardware system.
- FIG. 5 depicts an exemplary user interface for data entry according to one embodiment of the invention.
- FIGS. 6A-6D depict an embodiment of a user interface for data entry according to one embodiment of the invention.
- FIG. 7 depicts an embodiment of a self-updating forum according to one embodiment of the invention.
- FIG. 8 depicts a blog incorporating an embodiment of the invention.
- disease refers to an abnormal condition of an organism that impairs bodily functions.
- the term disease includes a variety of physical ailments including, but not limited to, neurological diseases (e.g., Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS), Multiple Sclerosis (MS), Parkinson's Disease), Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV), Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS), cancers (e.g., bladder cancer, blood cancer, breast cancer, colorectal cancer, endometrial cancer, leukemia, lung cancer, lymphoma, ovarian cancer, pancreatic cancer, prostate cancer, and skin cancer), diabetes, digestive disorders (e.g., irritable bower syndrome, gastro esophageal reflux disease, and Crohn's Disease), cardiovascular diseases, osteoporosis, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), arthritis, allergies, geriatric diseases, and autoimmune diseases (e.g., lupus).
- the term disease also include mental ailments including, but not limited to, depression, anxiety disorders,
- ALS Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis
- dysphagia impaired swallowing
- intervention refers any event that has a positive, negative, or neutral effect on one or more medical conditions.
- intervention includes a variety of activities including, but not limited to, administration of a medication, administration of a remedy, administration of a nutritional supplement, administration of a vitamin, exercise, physical therapy, massage, stretching, consumption of food, rest, and sleep.
- read refers to a chain of messages, postings, or the like, which follows one or more chosen topics.
- interactive environment refers to any construct in which a plurality of users can interact.
- exemplary interactive environments include, but are not limited to, thread-based forums such as message boards, answer-based forums, wikis, web logs (also known as “blogs”), micro-blogs (e.g., TWITTER®, available from Twitter, Inc. of San Francisco, Calif.), social networking sites (e.g., FACEBOOK®, available from Facebook, Inc. of Palo Alto, Calif., LINKEDIN®, available from LinkedIn, Ltd. of Mountain View, Calif., and the like), and private messages (e.g., electronic mail).
- thread-based forums such as message boards, answer-based forums, wikis, web logs (also known as “blogs”), micro-blogs (e.g., TWITTER®, available from Twitter, Inc. of San Francisco, Calif.), social networking sites (e.g., FACEBOOK®, available from Facebook, Inc. of Palo Alto, Calif., LINKEDIN®, available from LinkedIn
- aspects of the invention described herein provide systems and methods for context-linked importation of user information. Aspects of the invention are particularly applicable to interactive environments such as message boards (also known as Internet forums, online discussion sites, bulletin boards, and the like). Aspects of the invention are also applicable to other varieties of Internet applications.
- aspects of the invention integrate aspects of a user's background and/or history and associate relevant data from the user's background and/history with a posting by the user.
- an exemplary network topology 100 for an interactive environment (e.g., a message board) is depicted.
- the message board is hosted on server 102 , which is in communication with clients 104 a - c via network 106 .
- client and server are used to reflect a client-server relationship between elements 102 and 104 a - 104 c .
- Suitable devices for server element 102 include, but are not limited to general-purpose computers, including, but not limited to computers with higher processing power colloquially known as “servers.”
- suitable devices for client elements 104 a - 104 c include, but are not limited to general-purpose computers, including, but not limited to desktop computers, laptop computers, tablet computers, personal digital assistants, cellular telephones, smartphones, video game systems, digital video recorders (DVRs), and the like.
- DVRs digital video recorders
- Clients 104 can interact with one or more peripheral devices (not depicted). Such peripherals can include conventional peripherals such as cameras, microphones, and the like as well as medical device such as insulin pumps, pacemakers, and the like. Client 104 can interact with peripherals using a variety of wired or wireless standards.
- Suitable wired standards include Universal Serial Bus (USB), USB 2.0, IEEE 1394, Peripheral Component Interconnect (PCI), Ethernet, Gigabit Ethernet, and the like.
- USB and USB 2.0 standards are described in publications such as Andrew S. Tanenbaum, Structured Computer Organization ⁇ 3.6.4 (5th ed. 2006); and Andrew S. Tanenbaum, Modern Operating Systems 32 (2d ed. 2001).
- the IEEE 1394 standard is described in Andrew S. Tanenbaum, Modern Operating Systems 32 (2d ed. 2001).
- the PCI standard is described in Andrew S. Tanenbaum, Modern Operating Systems 31 (2d ed. 2001); Andrew S. Tanenbaum, Structured Computer Organization 91, 183-89 (4th ed. 1999).
- the Ethernet and Gigabit Ethernet standards are discussed in Andrew S. Tanenbaum, Computer Networks 17, 65-68, 271-92 (4th ed. 2003).
- Suitable wireless standards include Bluetooth, IEEE 802.11, IEEE 802.15.4, and the like.
- the Bluetooth standard is discussed in Andrew S. Tanenbaum, Computer Networks 21, 310-17 (4th ed. 2003).
- the IEEE 802.11 standard is discussed in Andrew S. Tanenbaum, Computer Networks 292-302 (4th ed. 2003).
- the IEEE 802.15.4 standard is described in Yu-Kai Huang & Ai-Chan Pang, “A Comprehensive Study of Low-Power Operation in IEEE 802.15.4 ,” in MSWiM' 07 405-08 (2007).
- Network 106 can be any network capable of transmitting data between clients 104 a - 104 c and server 102 , for example, an intranet or the Internet.
- the server can be in communication with a database 108 .
- Database 108 can be operated through a database management system (DBMS).
- DBMS database management system
- a DBMS is imposed upon data to form a logical and structured organization of the data.
- a DBMS lies between the physical storage of data and the users and handles the interaction between the two.
- Examples of DBMSes include DB2® and INFORMIX® both available from IBM Corp. of Armonk, N.Y.; MICROSOFT JET® and MICROSOFT SQL SERVER® both available from the Microsoft Corp. of Redmond, Wash.; MYSQL® available from the MySQL Ltd. Co. of Sweden; ORACLE® Database, available from Oracle Int'l Corp of Redwood City, Calif.; and SYBASE® available from Sybase, Inc. of Dublin, Calif.
- a user interface 200 a is provided to one or more users.
- the user interface 200 a can be provided via an Internet browser such as INTERNET EXPLORER®, available from Microsoft Corporation of Redmond, Wash.; FIREFOX®, available from the Mozilla Foundation of Mountain View, Calif.; OPERA®, available from Opera Software AS of Oslo, Norway; or CHROMETM, available from Google Inc. of Menlo Park, Calif.
- the user interface 200 a can be provided via specially-programmed software, such as an application installed on clients 104 a - 104 c.
- the user interface 200 a includes one or more postings 202 a - 202 c . These postings 202 a - 202 c were previously transmitted to the server by users. Each posting 202 a - 202 c can include information about the author of the posting 202 a - 202 c . For example, the postings 202 a - 202 c can display user name 204 a - 204 c and/or a picture, icon, or avatar 206 a - 206 c associated with the author of the posting 202 a 202 c . Each posting 202 a - 202 c can also display other information about the author such as age, gender, disease, remedies, and the like.
- Such information can be represented graphically in a mosaic 208 a - 208 c as depicted in FIG. 2 a .
- the posting can also display information 210 a - 210 c about the author's posting history such as the number of posts and number of postings by the author that were designated “helpful” by other users.
- Postings 202 a - 202 c can also contain user-posted content 212 a - 212 c .
- user “BernieB” inquires about other users' experience with PROZAC® (fluoxetine hydrochloride).
- User-posted content 212 a - 212 c can include any combination of media including text, audio, video, graphics, emoticons, and the like.
- the postings 202 a - 202 c can include a time-stamp 214 a - 214 c indicating when the posting was submitted.
- One or more users can respond to posting 202 a by a user by entering content in field 215 and pressing the “Post Reply” button 217 .
- This reply is added to the message board one or more users to view.
- users “MASarah” and “Enrique” provide commentary on their experiences and the experiences of others with PROZAC®.
- the invention herein allows for the context-linked importation of user information into a message board.
- the message board is associated with one or more databases containing information about a plurality of users.
- the stored information can include one or more medical condition metric.
- a medical condition metric can be a qualitative or quantitative metric related to a medical condition.
- a medical condition metric can be a qualitative measure of an Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) patient's feeling of well-being at a particular time of day. The patient may feel great, good, fair, poor, or out at a particular time of day due to the symptoms and treatments for ALS, and daily activities such as eating and exercising that interact with and affect his condition.
- ALS Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis
- the metric can be quantitative in nature, such as blood pressure (e.g., for a patient with heart disease), blood test values (e.g., sodium, potassium, chloride, bicarbonate, blood urea nitrogen, magnesium, creatinine, glucose, calcium, cholesterol, carbon dioxide, oxygen, hematocrit), pulse, temperature, T-cell count, and the like.
- blood pressure e.g., for a patient with heart disease
- blood test values e.g., sodium, potassium, chloride, bicarbonate, blood urea nitrogen, magnesium, creatinine, glucose, calcium, cholesterol, carbon dioxide, oxygen, hematocrit
- pulse temperature, T-cell count, and the like.
- Rating scales exist to measure medical conditions. In addition to discrete scales such as asking whether the patient feels great/good/fair/poor/awful, numerical scales can be used which ask the patient to quantify one or aspects of their medical condition, for example, on a 1-10 numerical scale.
- the metric can be a composite metric that produces a numerical representation of the condition based on a series of measurements. Rating scales for measuring depression include the Beck Depression Inventory, the Hamilton Depression Ration Scale, and the Montgomery- ⁇ sberg Depression Rating Scale. Rating scales for assessing ALS patients include the Appel ALS rating scale and the ALS Functional Rating Scale (ALSFRS). Rating scales for Parkinson's Disease include the Unified Parkinson's Disease Rating Scale (UPDRS).
- UPDS Unified Parkinson's Disease Rating Scale
- the medical condition metrics for a given user can be associated with a particular time. For example, a user may report that the severity of her depression is a ‘7’ on a scale from 1-10 at 9:00 AM on Jan. 1, 2009.
- a plurality of associated medical condition metrics and time data can be utilized to produce a chart 216 a - 216 c (e.g., a line chart) as depicted in FIG. 2 .
- charts 216 a - 216 c can include information 218 a , 218 b about one or more interventions.
- Such information can include dosing information for a medication (e.g., time and date and quantity) and/or pharmacokinetic data regarding the concentration of a medication within the user over time.
- the specific medical condition metric(s), intervention(s), and/or time frame can be selected to compliment a particular user's posting.
- posting 202 a user “BernieB” inquires about PROZAC®.
- Server 102 detects that the posting concerns PROZAC®, and includes information about the user's dosage history for PROZAC®.
- Server 102 can also infer that user's posting relates to depression. This inference can be drawn based on a number of factors. For example, the user can be posting in a forum relating to depression.
- server 102 consults a resource such as the Physicians' Desk Reference or the EPOCRATES® database (available from Epocrates, Inc.
- server 102 mines existing user information to detect “off-label” uses of various medications by other patients.
- posting 202 d the user-posted content 212 d for user “Katerina” states that she has the D90A mutation.
- Chart 216 d is a schematic showing the location of the D90A mutation on the SOD1 gene.
- Chart 216 e is a line chart depicting the user's work history. Various color-coded bars and symbols denote periods where the user was enrolled in an educational program, held a full-time job, and held a part-time job.
- Chart 216 f is a line chart displaying the user's relationship status. Color-coded bars of various thicknesses and symbols denote periods where the user was single, in a relationship, married, and when the user's children where born.
- chart 216 may be a line chart representing the user's deployment history. Relevant information can include rank, unit, combat status, and the like.
- relevant publications or portions of the user's curriculum vitae can be imported into the posting 202 based on the user-posted content 212 .
- articles or portions of articles can be imported from variety of sources (e.g., PUBMED®, available from The National Library of Medicine of Bethesda, Md.; or THE NEW YORK TIMES®, available from The New York Times Company of New York, N.Y.) and displayed in the thread.
- sources e.g., PUBMED®, available from The National Library of Medicine of Bethesda, Md.; or THE NEW YORK TIMES®, available from The New York Times Company of New York, N.Y.
- Other media such as blogs, micro-blogs (e.g., TWITTER®, available from Twitter, Inc. of San Francisco, Calif.), annotations, status updates (e.g., on a social networking site such as FACEBOOK®, available from Facebook, Inc. of Palo Alto, Calif.), and the like can also be imported and displayed in the thread.
- the invention can also display one or one or more charts 216 displaying a variety of data relevant to posting.
- a chart 218 can be produced containing information about the user's environmental exposure (e.g., employment in a plant containing asbestos), the user's family history (e.g., in a family tree including information about cancer in user's ancestors), and the user's genetic profile.
- Other environmental factors can include weather information such as temperature, barometric pressure, precipitation, sunlight, and the like.
- Other external data can be included such as the user's location, financial data (e.g., the performance of financial markets as reflected in indexes such as the S&P 500® index available from Standard & Poor's Corporation of New York, N.Y.), and the like.
- Such external data can be particularly tailored to an individual user. For example, a user can make available information about her portfolio so that individualized financial data or an abstraction thereof can be presented along with information on the user's condition.
- the system can include privacy settings that allow a user to control how private information (e.g., medical history, financial history, and the like) is utilized. Users can restrict all or certain information from being utilized in various manners. For example, a user can allow all of their data to be used to compute aggregate data, but restrict the viewing of certain data in the context of the particular user.
- private information e.g., medical history, financial history, and the like
- Users can restrict all or certain information from being utilized in various manners. For example, a user can allow all of their data to be used to compute aggregate data, but restrict the viewing of certain data in the context of the particular user.
- a chart 216 By viewing a chart 216 with relevant user information, other users have additional context for viewing the user's posting 202 . For example, users can observe that BernieB's depression has not improved since commencing PROZAC®. Moreover, other users can observe the duration and dosing level for user “BernieB” and provide commentary based on their dosing experiences. For example, if a patient commented that PROZAC® was not improving his depression, another user might observe from the chart that the user has only taken PROZAC® for two weeks, which can be an insufficient time to achieve a stable concentration in the user's body and comment accordingly.
- the incorporation of relevant user information can counter any memory bias by the poster.
- users will have minimal, if any, motivation to exaggerate medical condition metrics as they experience them. Therefore, this data can serve to verify whether the user's recollection in a posting 202 is accurate, thereby enhancing the credibility of accurate postings 202 and calling into question inaccurate postings 202 .
- chart 216 b in posting 202 b confirms the poster's increased dosage of PROZAC®, which is represented by a thicker line along the bottom of chart 216 b , and the corresponding improvement in the user's depression, which is represented by the downward slope of the line graph.
- a message board can include links to information about depression and/or PROZAC® from sources such as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, WebMD® services, the Physicians' Desk Reference , the EPOCRATES® database, and the like.
- the charts 216 can be interactive. For example, a user can modify the visible time range of the chart 216 . Likewise, the user can hide one or more charts 216 or chart components. A user can also “drill down” to view additional chart components or the underlying data for chart 216 , for example by clicking on chart 216 .
- the visible time range can initially be calculated based on information in the message thread and/or the user viewing the thread. For example, if the postings in the thread refer to the user's change in depressive symptoms during the winter, each chart 216 can be configured to display a medical condition metric during the winter months. In another alternative, the user asks about other users' experiences with PROZAC®. The charts 216 can be configured to display medical condition metrics for the period after each user began taking PROZAC®.
- User interactions with charts 218 can be stored and mined to rank the posting 202 and/or refine the chart. For example, frequent clicks on chart 218 may indicate that chart is interesting to many users, which can result in the prominent display of the posting 202 . Likewise, if a user views a chart 218 for a significant period of time, the posting may be interesting to many users. In contrast, if many users hide the chart 218 or spend little time viewing the chart 218 , the posting 202 may be less interesting, resulting in a less prominent display.
- Users can also indicate the helpfulness of a posting 202 and/or chart through or more buttons and/or other GUI elements in interface 200 .
- An aggregate chart can be displayed for a message thread.
- the aggregate chart can include a plurality of sets and or average data for all users that made postings 202 in a thread. Such an aggregate chart can provide valuable context about the nature of the user's medical condition vis-à-vis other users in the thread.
- Relevant user information can be selected for importation in a variety of ways such as tagging or natural language processing. Relevant user information can be identified automatically (i.e. without the necessity of human involvement).
- one or more users can identify one or more relevant terms in the user-posted content 212 . This can occur in several ways. For example, user can select one or more terms in the user interface 200 and press a button to tag the one or more terms as “relevant.” Additionally or alternatively, one or more administrators and/or moderators can tag relevant terms. Terms can be tagged as relevant by the author of the posting 202 or another user. More than one term can be tagged in each posting 202 .
- FIG. 3 depicts a method for context-linked importation of user information through natural language processing. Such a method can be implemented, for example, on server 102 as described herein.
- an interactive environment e.g., a message board
- a message e.g., a posting
- Users can be pre-identified through a variety of means known to those of skill in the art. For example, users can enter a username and password when accessing the interactive environment.
- a persistent object such as a cookie in conventional Internet architectures and/or Local Stored Objects (LSOs) in FLASH® or AIR® platforms is stored on clients 104 a - 104 c and act as an identifier. Cookies are described in H. M. Deitel et al., Internet & World Wide Web: How to Program 1060-68 (2000).
- LSOs Local Stored Objects
- the FLASH® or AIR® software platforms are available from Adobe Systems Incorporated of San Jose, Calif.
- step S 306 relevant data about the pre-identified user is selected.
- relevant data is selected based on contextual information mined from the message using preprocessing steps 306 a - 306 c .
- Preprocessing maps a report onto a list of tokens that have linguistic meaning, i.e., words. Preprocessing can include one or more of the following steps: tokenization (S 306 a ), stop word removal (S 306 b ), and lemmatization (S 306 c ).
- Tokenization (S 306 a ) separates punctuation from words.
- Stop words are common words that appear in too many messages and therefore do not have discriminative power. That is, stopwords cannot be used to capture the essence of a message such that one can differentiate one message from another.
- Standard lists of stop words are provided in software programs such as the SMART Information Retrieval System, available from Cornell University of Ithaca, N.Y. The SMART stop word list is available at ftp://ftp.cs.cornell.edu/pub/smart/english.stop.
- a collection of stopwords for a particular set of documents can be created by selecting the words that occur in more than 80% of existing messages. See R. Baeza-Yates & B. Ribeiro-Neto, Modern Information Retrieval ⁇ 7.2 (1999).
- Lemmatization maps each morphological variation of a word to its base form. For example, the words, “go”, “going”, “went”, and “gone” are lemmatized to “go”, their root or base form.
- Suitable lemmatizers include the WORDNET® system, available from Princeton University of Princeton, N.J. Other lemmatizers can be used, including the MORPHATM software described in G. Minnen et al., “Applied morphological processing of English,” 7(3) Natural Language Engineering 207-23 (2001) and available at http://www.informatics.susx.ac.uk/research/groups/nlp/carroll/morph.html.
- relevant data can be selected based on the contextual information identified. For example, if “blood pressure” was identified as contextual data, data about the user's blood pressure history (e.g., a chart) can be selected.
- step S 308 relevant data about the user is displayed along with the message.
- step S 310 the database is updated with data from the message.
- the user might state in the message that they achieved an FRS score of 25 today. This information can be extracted and added to the database in the same manner as if the user had entered the information directly.
- step S 312 a response is received from another pre-identified user.
- steps S 314 -S 318 relevant data is extracted from the response. This relevant data can be used to (i) identify the author of the response, (ii) identify the subject(s) of the response, and/or (iii) retrieve relevant information from a database to be displayed and/or posted to the database in the same or similar manner as discussed above.
- System 400 may contain one or more modules such as a messaging module 402 , a data importation module 404 , and/or an authentication module 406 .
- Messaging module 402 implements an interactive environment such as a message board. Accordingly, messaging module 402 can provide an interactive environment as described herein, receive messages for the interactive environment, and display relevant data along with the message on the interactive environment.
- messaging module 402 can communicate with data importation module 404 .
- Data importation module 404 selects relevant data about a pre-identified user from the database based on information contained in the message as discussed herein, for example in FIG. 3 and associated text.
- Messaging module 402 can also communicate with authentication module 406 to authenticate a pre-identified user. For example, messaging module 402 can pass a user name and/or password to authentication module 406 , which then authenticates the user. Alternatively, authentication module 406 may maintain a persistent authentication of the user and confirm such authentication when requested by messaging module 402 .
- modules 402 , 404 , 406 described herein can be implemented as components, i.e., functional or logical components with well-defined interfaces used for communication across components.
- a system can be assembled by selecting a messaging component from several components (e.g., components that implement various approaches to message boards) and combining this component with a data importation component (e.g., a data importation module designed for a specific type of data and/or database) and an authentication component (e.g., an authentication component designed for a specific type of authentication).
- a data importation component e.g., a data importation module designed for a specific type of data and/or database
- an authentication component e.g., an authentication component designed for a specific type of authentication
- modules 402 , 404 , 406 described herein can be implemented using hardware, software, or a combination of hardware and software.
- one or more modules can be implemented on one or more general purposes computer containing appropriate software to implement the invention as described herein.
- the interactive environment can include an interface that allows a user to enter data such as intervention data or medical condition metric data.
- This interface can be contained on the same page as a message board or can be accessible by a link or as a pop-up window.
- user interface 500 for data entry is provided.
- user interface 500 is illustrated as customized for a patient suffering from Parkinson's disease, the principles explained and depicted herein are equally applicable to any disease.
- User interface 500 includes a medical condition metric portion 502 , which allows the patient to input a medical condition metric (in this example, the patient's functional ability).
- the user can place multiple data points 504 in the medical condition metric chart, which includes a time scale. Data points 504 can be adjusted with respect to time and/or magnitude. For example, if the patient is indicating how she feels now or at a designated time, the patient can be limited to moving data point 504 up or down. Alternatively, the patient can input data for a time by dragging the data point to the left or right. The patient can be restricted from setting a data point in the future and/or the past.
- Intervention portion 508 allows the patient to record one or more interventions such as administration of a medication, administration of a remedy, administration of a nutritional supplement, administration of a vitamin, exercise, physical therapy, massage, stretching, consumption of food, rest, and sleep.
- interventions such as administration of a medication, administration of a remedy, administration of a nutritional supplement, administration of a vitamin, exercise, physical therapy, massage, stretching, consumption of food, rest, and sleep.
- the patient can designate when meals are eaten by adjusting bars 510 a , 510 b , 510 c to indicate the beginning and ending of the meal.
- the patient can indicate when one or more drugs 514 a - 514 e are administered by placing markers 512 (which may depict pills) on a time scale.
- the patient can be prescribed to take MADOPARTM (levodopa; benserazide hydrochl) at 6:00 AM.
- MADOPARTM levodopa; benserazide hydrochl
- user interface 500 can display a medication schedule.
- the patient can modify this schedule to reflect the actual administration by dragging marker 512 a .
- the patient can indicate that the drug was consumed by clicking on the marker 512 a . Clicking on the marker can change the appearance of the marker 512 a (e.g., its color) and thus can be used by patients, particularly patients with memory problems, to more faithfully follow a medication program.
- User interface 500 can also include pharmacokinetic data, such a pharmacokinetic curve 516 that depicts the concentration of a medication within the patient over time. Multiple pharmacokinetic curves 516 can be depicted in various colors or patterns to reflect varying pharmacokinetic properties of various medications. The pharmacokinetic curves can be generated using existing using formulas known to those of ordinary skill in the art.
- a user interface for data entry is provided.
- a medical condition metric portion 602 is provided.
- the first medical condition metric is recorded for a day.
- the patient either indicates that she wishes to record a metric from 6:00 AM or accesses the user interface at 6:00 AM, at which point the user interface can default to 6:00 AM.
- the patient manipulates slider bar 604 to input a medical condition metric. For example, if the patient wishes to indicate that ‘2’ is the medical metric (e.g., a measurement of pain on a scale from 0-4), the user drags handle 606 of the slider bar 604 to the ‘2’ position as depicted in FIG. 6A .
- the medical metric e.g., a measurement of pain on a scale from 0-4
- Data point 608 a can move up and down along vertical line 610 a as the handle 606 is moved or data point 608 a may not appear until the medical condition metric is finalized.
- a metric can be “finalized” in a number of ways, including by clicking the handle 606 to lock the handle 606 . Additionally or alternatively, the metric can be finalized by a period of inactivity, for example, about fifteen seconds, about thirty seconds, and about one minute. In another alternative, data point 608 a can also be moved left or right to modify the time associated with the data point.
- the patient can indicate that he wishes to record metrics from 6:00 AM or can access the user interface at 6:00 AM at which point the user interface can default to 6:00 AM.
- the patient can leave the user interface open for a period of time and the patient can continue to access the user interface and manipulate the slider bar.
- a new data point can be set for the time that the slider bar 604 is manipulated.
- the patient enters a second medical condition metric.
- the patient again moves the handle 606 of the slider bar 604 .
- line segment 612 a also moves.
- the patient can readily see whether he is indicating that a medical condition metric is improving or deteriorating and verify that such a change truly reflects their experience.
- the patient again manipulates the slider bar 604 to enter a third data point 608 c and form a new line segment 612 b.
- the patient indicates that the medical condition remains a ‘3’ at 3:00 PM.
- the slider bar handle 606 remains at the ‘3’ position from the 12:00 PM data entry.
- the patient can indicate that the metric remains a ‘3’ by clicking on the handle 606 to lock the slider bar 604 .
- line segment 612 c can grow horizontally from data point 608 c as time progresses from 12:00 PM. Otherwise, the slider bar handle 606 can disappear after data point 608 c is set. Handle 606 reappears when the patient clicks or moves the mouse over the slider bar 604 .
- user information can be selectively imported based on user-generated content other than postings to an interactive environment.
- users send private messages to each other.
- Such private messages can be sent in real-time (analogous to instant messages) or can be sent and received asynchronously (analogous to email).
- User information e.g., information about the sender or recipient
- a patient can communicate with their physician to request and/or refill a prescription.
- User information is selected based on the information in the request (e.g., the name of the prescription) and is presented to the physician along with the request.
- the invention provides a self-updating forum 700 .
- posting 702 a user “Robert” indicated that his doctor prescribed CYMBALTA® (duloxetine) for his depression.
- Posting 702 a includes a chart 716 a .
- Chart 716 a can be configured to display one or more metrics as discussed herein along an x-axis spanning between the date of the posting 702 a and the current date (Mar. 1, 2009 in the example depicted in FIG. 7 ).
- any viewer can assess how the poster's condition has developed without the need for (i) the poster returns to the forum to add a further posting or (ii) the reader to locate any subsequent posting(s).
- a user interface 800 of a blog can include a post 802 and one or more comments 804 .
- the author discusses her recent kidney transplant and discusses her BUN (blood urea nitrogen) and creatinine levels.
- Software mines the blog post for terms of interest such as BUN and creatinine queries a database or other data source for relevant data, and generates one or more graphical elements 806 a , 806 b pertaining to the terms of interest in a similar manner to the methods described herein (e.g., method 300 ).
- graphs of the author's BUN and creatinine levels are depicted.
- Comments 804 can be mined for terms of interest in the same or similar manner as the blog post 802 and one or more graphical elements 808 a , 808 b can be associated with the comments 804 .
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- This application is a continuation of International Application No. PCT/US10/29208, filed on Mar. 30, 2010. This application also claims priority to U.S. Provisional Patent Application Ser. No. 61/165,463, filed on Mar. 31, 2009. This entire contents of these applications are hereby incorporated by reference herein.
- The invention relates to systems and methods for context-linked importation of user information. Embodiments of invention are particularly applicable to interactive environments such as message boards.
- The advent of the World Wide Web offers new opportunities for people to share information, opinions, and experiences on virtually any topic. With the support of web-based systems and methodologies, people with common goals and interests can interact and communicate instantaneously from anywhere on the globe.
- Many web sites exist to serve a particular group of people who share common goals or attributes. Such web sites often include message boards in which users can communicate with each other regarding various topics of interest.
- Conventional message boards suffer from several deficiencies. For example, users have difficulty assessing the credibility and/or accuracy of other posts Likewise, without face-to-face communication, users may lack context for a posting, particularly if the user joins in the middle of conversation.
- Accordingly, there is a need for systems and methods for context-linked importation of user information.
- Various aspects of the invention described herein provide systems and methods for context-linked importation of user information.
- One aspect of the invention provides a method for context-linked importation of user information. The method includes: providing an interactive environment that allows posting of content by a plurality of pre-identified users; receiving content for the interactive environment from a pre-identified user; selecting relevant data about the pre-identified user from a database, the relevant data selected based on information contained in the content; and displaying the relevant data along with the content on the interactive environment.
- This aspect of the invention can have a variety of embodiments. The method can include updating the database with information contained in the content. The database can be a topic-related database. The topic can relate to health.
- The relevant data can include at least one medical condition metric. The medical condition metric can be a quantitative representation of a medical condition. The medical condition metric can be one selected from the group consisting of: a direct measure of pathology, a user-reported measure of functional impairment, a user-reported outcome of health-related quality of life, and a user-reported progression of a medical condition.
- The medical condition can be one selected from the group consisting of: movement disorders including parkinsonism, Huntington's chorea, and Tourette's syndrome; pain disorders including back pain; rheumatologic disorders including arthritis, osteoarthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, psoriatic arthritis, Lyme's disease, and gout; seizure disorders including epilepsy; neurodegenerative diseases including amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, multiple sclerosis, Creutzfeld-Jakob disease, and Alzheimer's disease; pulmonary diseases including asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, and cystic fibrosis; sexual disorders including erectile dysfunction and vaginismus; mood disorders including depression and anxiety; addiction including nicotine addiction and alcoholism; migraines; fibromyalgia; fatigue disorders; dementia; eating disorders; hypercholesterolemia; hyperlipidemia; hyperlipoproteinemia; hypertriglyceridemia; vasculatitis, diabetes; obesity; gastroesophogeal reflux disorder; dyspepsia; anemia; cancer; hypertension; renal failure; lupus; pregnancy; and post-operative conditions.
- The relevant data can include intervention data. The intervention data can include at least one selected from the group consisting of: intervention dosage, intervention frequency, and intervention adherence. The intervention data can be data about an intervention selected from the group consisting of: administration of a medication, administration of a remedy, administration of a nutritional supplement, administration of a vitamin, exercise, physical therapy, massage, stretching, consumption of food, rest, and sleep.
- The method can further include providing an interface for the user to submit new data about an intervention or medical condition metric. The new data can be displayed along with the post on the interactive environment.
- The relevant data can be displayed in a graphical element. The graphical element can be a chart. The chart can be a line chart. Time can be depicted on an x-axis of the chart. The method can be a computer-implemented method.
- The method can include the steps of: receiving a response from a second pre-identified user; selecting relevant data about the second pre-identified user from a database, the relevant data about the second pre-identified user selected based on information contained in the response; and displaying the relevant data about the second pre-identified user along with the response on the interactive environment.
- The method can include providing an interface for the user to submit new data about an intervention or medical condition metric. The method can include displaying the new data along with the post on the content board. The method can include displaying hyperlinks to additional information about a subject of the content along with the content.
- Another aspect of the invention provides a computer-readable medium whose contents cause a computer to perform a method for context-linked importation of user information. The method includes: providing an interactive environment that allows posting of content by a plurality of pre-identified users; receiving content for the interactive environment from a pre-identified user; selecting relevant data about the pre-identified user from a database, the relevant data selected based on information contained in the content; and displaying the relevant data along with the content on the interactive environment. The computer-readable medium can be non-transitory and tangible.
- Another aspect of the invention provides a system for the context-linked importation of user information. The system includes: a database; and a server in communication with the database. The server is configured to provide an interactive environment that allows posting of content by a plurality of pre-identified users, receive content for the interactive environment from a pre-identified use, select relevant data about the pre-identified user from a database, and display the relevant data along with the content on the interactive environment. The relevant data is selected based on information contained in the content.
- Another aspect of the invention provides a system for the context-linked importation of user information. The system includes a messaging module and a data importation module. The messaging module is configured to provide an interactive environment that allows posting of content by a plurality of pre-identified users, receive content for the interactive environment from a pre-identified user, and display relevant data along with the content on the interactive environment. The data importation module is configured to select relevant data about the pre-identified user from a database based on information contained in the content. The system can include an authentication module configured to authenticate the pre-identified user.
- Another aspect of invention provides a method for context-linked importation of user information. The method includes providing an messaging system that allows transmission of content between a plurality of users, wherein at least one of the users is pre-identified, receiving content from a first, pre-identified user to a second user, selecting relevant data about the pre-identified user from a database, the relevant data selected based on information contained in the content; and presenting the relevant data along with the content to the second user.
- For a fuller understanding of the nature and desired objects of the present invention, reference is made to the following detailed description taken in conjunction with the accompanying drawing figures wherein like reference characters denote corresponding parts throughout the several views and wherein:
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FIG. 1 depicts an exemplary network topology according to the invention. -
FIGS. 2A and 2B depict the operation of an interactive environment according to embodiments of the invention. -
FIG. 3 depicts a method for context-linked importation of user information according to one embodiment of the invention. -
FIG. 4 depicts an embodiment of the invention in a computer software and/or hardware system. -
FIG. 5 depicts an exemplary user interface for data entry according to one embodiment of the invention. -
FIGS. 6A-6D depict an embodiment of a user interface for data entry according to one embodiment of the invention. -
FIG. 7 depicts an embodiment of a self-updating forum according to one embodiment of the invention. -
FIG. 8 depicts a blog incorporating an embodiment of the invention. - The instant invention is most clearly understood with reference to the following definitions:
- As used in the specification and claims, the singular form “a,” “an,” and “the” include plural references unless the context clearly dictates otherwise.
- The term “disease” refers to an abnormal condition of an organism that impairs bodily functions. The term disease includes a variety of physical ailments including, but not limited to, neurological diseases (e.g., Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS), Multiple Sclerosis (MS), Parkinson's Disease), Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV), Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS), cancers (e.g., bladder cancer, blood cancer, breast cancer, colorectal cancer, endometrial cancer, leukemia, lung cancer, lymphoma, ovarian cancer, pancreatic cancer, prostate cancer, and skin cancer), diabetes, digestive disorders (e.g., irritable bower syndrome, gastro esophageal reflux disease, and Crohn's Disease), cardiovascular diseases, osteoporosis, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), arthritis, allergies, geriatric diseases, and autoimmune diseases (e.g., lupus). The term disease also include mental ailments including, but not limited to, depression, anxiety disorders, post traumatic stress disorder, mood disorders, psychotic disorders, personality disorders, and eating disorders.
- The term “medical condition” refers to a manifestation of a disease such as a symptom. For example, if a patient suffers from Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS), the patient may experience one or more medical conditions such as dysphagia (impaired swallowing).
- The term “intervention” refers any event that has a positive, negative, or neutral effect on one or more medical conditions. The term intervention includes a variety of activities including, but not limited to, administration of a medication, administration of a remedy, administration of a nutritional supplement, administration of a vitamin, exercise, physical therapy, massage, stretching, consumption of food, rest, and sleep.
- The term “thread” refers to a chain of messages, postings, or the like, which follows one or more chosen topics.
- The term “interactive environment” refers to any construct in which a plurality of users can interact. Exemplary interactive environments include, but are not limited to, thread-based forums such as message boards, answer-based forums, wikis, web logs (also known as “blogs”), micro-blogs (e.g., TWITTER®, available from Twitter, Inc. of San Francisco, Calif.), social networking sites (e.g., FACEBOOK®, available from Facebook, Inc. of Palo Alto, Calif., LINKEDIN®, available from LinkedIn, Ltd. of Mountain View, Calif., and the like), and private messages (e.g., electronic mail).
- Various aspects of the invention described herein provide systems and methods for context-linked importation of user information. Aspects of the invention are particularly applicable to interactive environments such as message boards (also known as Internet forums, online discussion sites, bulletin boards, and the like). Aspects of the invention are also applicable to other varieties of Internet applications.
- In general, aspects of the invention integrate aspects of a user's background and/or history and associate relevant data from the user's background and/history with a posting by the user.
- Referring to
FIG. 1 , anexemplary network topology 100 for an interactive environment (e.g., a message board) is depicted. The message board is hosted onserver 102, which is in communication with clients 104 a-c vianetwork 106. - The terms “client” and “server” are used to reflect a client-server relationship between
elements 102 and 104 a-104 c. Suitable devices forserver element 102 include, but are not limited to general-purpose computers, including, but not limited to computers with higher processing power colloquially known as “servers.” Likewise, suitable devices for client elements 104 a-104 c include, but are not limited to general-purpose computers, including, but not limited to desktop computers, laptop computers, tablet computers, personal digital assistants, cellular telephones, smartphones, video game systems, digital video recorders (DVRs), and the like. - Clients 104 can interact with one or more peripheral devices (not depicted). Such peripherals can include conventional peripherals such as cameras, microphones, and the like as well as medical device such as insulin pumps, pacemakers, and the like. Client 104 can interact with peripherals using a variety of wired or wireless standards.
- Suitable wired standards include Universal Serial Bus (USB), USB 2.0, IEEE 1394, Peripheral Component Interconnect (PCI), Ethernet, Gigabit Ethernet, and the like. The USB and USB 2.0 standards are described in publications such as Andrew S. Tanenbaum, Structured Computer Organization §3.6.4 (5th ed. 2006); and Andrew S. Tanenbaum, Modern Operating Systems 32 (2d ed. 2001). The IEEE 1394 standard is described in Andrew S. Tanenbaum, Modern Operating Systems 32 (2d ed. 2001). The PCI standard is described in Andrew S. Tanenbaum, Modern Operating Systems 31 (2d ed. 2001); Andrew S. Tanenbaum, Structured Computer Organization 91, 183-89 (4th ed. 1999). The Ethernet and Gigabit Ethernet standards are discussed in Andrew S. Tanenbaum, Computer Networks 17, 65-68, 271-92 (4th ed. 2003).
- Suitable wireless standards include Bluetooth, IEEE 802.11, IEEE 802.15.4, and the like. The Bluetooth standard is discussed in Andrew S. Tanenbaum,
Computer Networks 21, 310-17 (4th ed. 2003). The IEEE 802.11 standard is discussed in Andrew S. Tanenbaum, Computer Networks 292-302 (4th ed. 2003). The IEEE 802.15.4 standard is described in Yu-Kai Huang & Ai-Chan Pang, “A Comprehensive Study of Low-Power Operation in IEEE 802.15.4,” in MSWiM'07 405-08 (2007). -
Network 106 can be any network capable of transmitting data between clients 104 a-104 c andserver 102, for example, an intranet or the Internet. - The server can be in communication with a
database 108.Database 108 can be operated through a database management system (DBMS). A DBMS is imposed upon data to form a logical and structured organization of the data. A DBMS lies between the physical storage of data and the users and handles the interaction between the two. Examples of DBMSes include DB2® and INFORMIX® both available from IBM Corp. of Armonk, N.Y.; MICROSOFT JET® and MICROSOFT SQL SERVER® both available from the Microsoft Corp. of Redmond, Wash.; MYSQL® available from the MySQL Ltd. Co. of Stockholm, Sweden; ORACLE® Database, available from Oracle Int'l Corp of Redwood City, Calif.; and SYBASE® available from Sybase, Inc. of Dublin, Calif. - Referring to
FIG. 2A , the operation of an interactive environment (e.g., a message board) is depicted. Auser interface 200 a is provided to one or more users. Theuser interface 200 a can be provided via an Internet browser such as INTERNET EXPLORER®, available from Microsoft Corporation of Redmond, Wash.; FIREFOX®, available from the Mozilla Foundation of Mountain View, Calif.; OPERA®, available from Opera Software AS of Oslo, Norway; or CHROME™, available from Google Inc. of Menlo Park, Calif. Alternatively, theuser interface 200 a can be provided via specially-programmed software, such as an application installed on clients 104 a-104 c. - The
user interface 200 a includes one or more postings 202 a-202 c. These postings 202 a-202 c were previously transmitted to the server by users. Each posting 202 a-202 c can include information about the author of the posting 202 a-202 c. For example, the postings 202 a-202 c can display user name 204 a-204 c and/or a picture, icon, or avatar 206 a-206 c associated with the author of the posting 202 a 202 c. Each posting 202 a-202 c can also display other information about the author such as age, gender, disease, remedies, and the like. Such information can be represented graphically in a mosaic 208 a-208 c as depicted inFIG. 2 a. The posting can also display information 210 a-210 c about the author's posting history such as the number of posts and number of postings by the author that were designated “helpful” by other users. - Postings 202 a-202 c can also contain user-posted content 212 a-212 c. For example, in posting 202 a in
FIG. 2 , user “BernieB” inquires about other users' experience with PROZAC® (fluoxetine hydrochloride). User-posted content 212 a-212 c can include any combination of media including text, audio, video, graphics, emoticons, and the like. The postings 202 a-202 c can include a time-stamp 214 a-214 c indicating when the posting was submitted. - One or more users can respond to posting 202 a by a user by entering content in
field 215 and pressing the “Post Reply”button 217. This reply is added to the message board one or more users to view. For example, as depicted inpostings FIG. 2 , users “MASarah” and “Enrique” provide commentary on their experiences and the experiences of others with PROZAC®. - The invention herein allows for the context-linked importation of user information into a message board. The message board is associated with one or more databases containing information about a plurality of users.
- The stored information can include one or more medical condition metric. A medical condition metric can be a qualitative or quantitative metric related to a medical condition. For example, a medical condition metric can be a qualitative measure of an Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) patient's feeling of well-being at a particular time of day. The patient may feel great, good, fair, poor, or awful at a particular time of day due to the symptoms and treatments for ALS, and daily activities such as eating and exercising that interact with and affect his condition. Alternatively, the metric can be quantitative in nature, such as blood pressure (e.g., for a patient with heart disease), blood test values (e.g., sodium, potassium, chloride, bicarbonate, blood urea nitrogen, magnesium, creatinine, glucose, calcium, cholesterol, carbon dioxide, oxygen, hematocrit), pulse, temperature, T-cell count, and the like.
- Various rating scales exist to measure medical conditions. In addition to discrete scales such as asking whether the patient feels great/good/fair/poor/awful, numerical scales can be used which ask the patient to quantify one or aspects of their medical condition, for example, on a 1-10 numerical scale. The metric can be a composite metric that produces a numerical representation of the condition based on a series of measurements. Rating scales for measuring depression include the Beck Depression Inventory, the Hamilton Depression Ration Scale, and the Montgomery-Åsberg Depression Rating Scale. Rating scales for assessing ALS patients include the Appel ALS rating scale and the ALS Functional Rating Scale (ALSFRS). Rating scales for Parkinson's Disease include the Unified Parkinson's Disease Rating Scale (UPDRS).
- The medical condition metrics for a given user can be associated with a particular time. For example, a user may report that the severity of her depression is a ‘7’ on a scale from 1-10 at 9:00 AM on Jan. 1, 2009. A plurality of associated medical condition metrics and time data can be utilized to produce a chart 216 a-216 c (e.g., a line chart) as depicted in
FIG. 2 . - Still referring to
FIG. 2 , charts 216 a-216 c can includeinformation - The specific medical condition metric(s), intervention(s), and/or time frame can be selected to compliment a particular user's posting. For example, in posting 202 a, user “BernieB” inquires about PROZAC®.
Server 102 detects that the posting concerns PROZAC®, and includes information about the user's dosage history for PROZAC®.Server 102 can also infer that user's posting relates to depression. This inference can be drawn based on a number of factors. For example, the user can be posting in a forum relating to depression. In another example,server 102 consults a resource such as the Physicians' Desk Reference or the EPOCRATES® database (available from Epocrates, Inc. of San Mateo, Calif.) to determine prescribing information for PROZAC® (i.e., what indications PROZAC® is approved for). In yet another example,server 102 mines existing user information to detect “off-label” uses of various medications by other patients. - Referring now to
FIG. 2B , a variety of other information can be displayed along with postings 202. For example, in posting 202 d, the user-postedcontent 212 d for user “Katerina” states that she has the D90A mutation. Chart 216 d is a schematic showing the location of the D90A mutation on the SOD1 gene. - In posting 202 e, the user-posted
content 212 e for user “Katerina” states that that she recently quit her part-time job. Chart 216 e is a line chart depicting the user's work history. Various color-coded bars and symbols denote periods where the user was enrolled in an educational program, held a full-time job, and held a part-time job. - In posting 202 f, the user-posted
content 212 f for user “Phil” states that he has received support from his family. Chart 216 f is a line chart displaying the user's relationship status. Color-coded bars of various thicknesses and symbols denote periods where the user was single, in a relationship, married, and when the user's children where born. - A variety of other information can be imported and displayed based on the user-posted content 212 in a posting 202. For example, if the user-posted content 212 discusses the user's deployment as part of Operation Enduring Freedom—Afghanistan, chart 216 may be a line chart representing the user's deployment history. Relevant information can include rank, unit, combat status, and the like. In another example, if the message board is of an academic nature, relevant publications or portions of the user's curriculum vitae can be imported into the posting 202 based on the user-posted content 212. Additionally, articles or portions of articles (e.g., an abstract) can be imported from variety of sources (e.g., PUBMED®, available from The National Library of Medicine of Bethesda, Md.; or THE NEW YORK TIMES®, available from The New York Times Company of New York, N.Y.) and displayed in the thread. Other media such as blogs, micro-blogs (e.g., TWITTER®, available from Twitter, Inc. of San Francisco, Calif.), annotations, status updates (e.g., on a social networking site such as FACEBOOK®, available from Facebook, Inc. of Palo Alto, Calif.), and the like can also be imported and displayed in the thread.
- The invention can also display one or one or more charts 216 displaying a variety of data relevant to posting. For example, if the user-posted content 212 discusses lung cancer, a chart 218 can be produced containing information about the user's environmental exposure (e.g., employment in a plant containing asbestos), the user's family history (e.g., in a family tree including information about cancer in user's ancestors), and the user's genetic profile. Other environmental factors can include weather information such as temperature, barometric pressure, precipitation, sunlight, and the like. Other external data can be included such as the user's location, financial data (e.g., the performance of financial markets as reflected in indexes such as the
S&P 500® index available from Standard & Poor's Corporation of New York, N.Y.), and the like. Such external data can be particularly tailored to an individual user. For example, a user can make available information about her portfolio so that individualized financial data or an abstraction thereof can be presented along with information on the user's condition. - The system can include privacy settings that allow a user to control how private information (e.g., medical history, financial history, and the like) is utilized. Users can restrict all or certain information from being utilized in various manners. For example, a user can allow all of their data to be used to compute aggregate data, but restrict the viewing of certain data in the context of the particular user.
- By viewing a chart 216 with relevant user information, other users have additional context for viewing the user's posting 202. For example, users can observe that BernieB's depression has not improved since commencing PROZAC®. Moreover, other users can observe the duration and dosing level for user “BernieB” and provide commentary based on their dosing experiences. For example, if a patient commented that PROZAC® was not improving his depression, another user might observe from the chart that the user has only taken PROZAC® for two weeks, which can be an insufficient time to achieve a stable concentration in the user's body and comment accordingly.
- Additionally, the incorporation of relevant user information can counter any memory bias by the poster. Presumably, users will have minimal, if any, motivation to exaggerate medical condition metrics as they experience them. Therefore, this data can serve to verify whether the user's recollection in a posting 202 is accurate, thereby enhancing the credibility of accurate postings 202 and calling into question inaccurate postings 202.
- Referring again to
FIG. 2A , chart 216 b in posting 202 b confirms the poster's increased dosage of PROZAC®, which is represented by a thicker line along the bottom ofchart 216 b, and the corresponding improvement in the user's depression, which is represented by the downward slope of the line graph. - Additionally or alternatively, the interactive environment can display information about the medical condition and/or intervention along with the posting. For example, a message board can include links to information about depression and/or PROZAC® from sources such as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, WebMD® services, the Physicians' Desk Reference, the EPOCRATES® database, and the like.
- The charts 216 can be interactive. For example, a user can modify the visible time range of the chart 216. Likewise, the user can hide one or more charts 216 or chart components. A user can also “drill down” to view additional chart components or the underlying data for chart 216, for example by clicking on chart 216.
- The visible time range can initially be calculated based on information in the message thread and/or the user viewing the thread. For example, if the postings in the thread refer to the user's change in depressive symptoms during the winter, each chart 216 can be configured to display a medical condition metric during the winter months. In another alternative, the user asks about other users' experiences with PROZAC®. The charts 216 can be configured to display medical condition metrics for the period after each user began taking PROZAC®.
- User interactions with charts 218 can be stored and mined to rank the posting 202 and/or refine the chart. For example, frequent clicks on chart 218 may indicate that chart is interesting to many users, which can result in the prominent display of the posting 202. Likewise, if a user views a chart 218 for a significant period of time, the posting may be interesting to many users. In contrast, if many users hide the chart 218 or spend little time viewing the chart 218, the posting 202 may be less interesting, resulting in a less prominent display.
- Users can also indicate the helpfulness of a posting 202 and/or chart through or more buttons and/or other GUI elements in interface 200.
- An aggregate chart can be displayed for a message thread. The aggregate chart can include a plurality of sets and or average data for all users that made postings 202 in a thread. Such an aggregate chart can provide valuable context about the nature of the user's medical condition vis-à-vis other users in the thread.
- Relevant user information can be selected for importation in a variety of ways such as tagging or natural language processing. Relevant user information can be identified automatically (i.e. without the necessity of human involvement).
- In a tagging method, one or more users can identify one or more relevant terms in the user-posted content 212. This can occur in several ways. For example, user can select one or more terms in the user interface 200 and press a button to tag the one or more terms as “relevant.” Additionally or alternatively, one or more administrators and/or moderators can tag relevant terms. Terms can be tagged as relevant by the author of the posting 202 or another user. More than one term can be tagged in each posting 202.
- In contrast,
FIG. 3 depicts a method for context-linked importation of user information through natural language processing. Such a method can be implemented, for example, onserver 102 as described herein. In step S302, an interactive environment (e.g., a message board) is provided. In step S304, a message (e.g., a posting) is received from a pre-identified user. - Users can be pre-identified through a variety of means known to those of skill in the art. For example, users can enter a username and password when accessing the interactive environment. In another example, a persistent object such as a cookie in conventional Internet architectures and/or Local Stored Objects (LSOs) in FLASH® or AIR® platforms is stored on clients 104 a-104 c and act as an identifier. Cookies are described in H. M. Deitel et al., Internet & World Wide Web: How to Program 1060-68 (2000). The FLASH® or AIR® software platforms are available from Adobe Systems Incorporated of San Jose, Calif.
- In step S306, relevant data about the pre-identified user is selected. In some embodiments, relevant data is selected based on contextual information mined from the message using preprocessing steps 306 a-306 c. Preprocessing maps a report onto a list of tokens that have linguistic meaning, i.e., words. Preprocessing can include one or more of the following steps: tokenization (S306 a), stop word removal (S306 b), and lemmatization (S306 c).
- Tokenization (S306 a) separates punctuation from words.
- Stop words (also called “stopwords” or “noise words”) are common words that appear in too many messages and therefore do not have discriminative power. That is, stopwords cannot be used to capture the essence of a message such that one can differentiate one message from another. Standard lists of stop words are provided in software programs such as the SMART Information Retrieval System, available from Cornell University of Ithaca, N.Y. The SMART stop word list is available at ftp://ftp.cs.cornell.edu/pub/smart/english.stop. A collection of stopwords for a particular set of documents can be created by selecting the words that occur in more than 80% of existing messages. See R. Baeza-Yates & B. Ribeiro-Neto, Modern Information Retrieval §7.2 (1999).
- Lemmatization (S306 b) maps each morphological variation of a word to its base form. For example, the words, “go”, “going”, “went”, and “gone” are lemmatized to “go”, their root or base form. Suitable lemmatizers include the WORDNET® system, available from Princeton University of Princeton, N.J. Other lemmatizers can be used, including the MORPHA™ software described in G. Minnen et al., “Applied morphological processing of English,” 7(3) Natural Language Engineering 207-23 (2001) and available at http://www.informatics.susx.ac.uk/research/groups/nlp/carroll/morph.html.
- Once the message is preprocessed, relevant data can be selected based on the contextual information identified. For example, if “blood pressure” was identified as contextual data, data about the user's blood pressure history (e.g., a chart) can be selected.
- In step S308, relevant data about the user is displayed along with the message.
- In step S310, the database is updated with data from the message. For example, the user might state in the message that they achieved an FRS score of 25 today. This information can be extracted and added to the database in the same manner as if the user had entered the information directly.
- In step S312, a response is received from another pre-identified user. In steps S314-S318, relevant data is extracted from the response. This relevant data can be used to (i) identify the author of the response, (ii) identify the subject(s) of the response, and/or (iii) retrieve relevant information from a database to be displayed and/or posted to the database in the same or similar manner as discussed above.
- Referring now to
FIG. 4 , the invention herein can be embodied in a computer software and/orhardware system 400.System 400 may contain one or more modules such as amessaging module 402, adata importation module 404, and/or anauthentication module 406. -
Messaging module 402 implements an interactive environment such as a message board. Accordingly,messaging module 402 can provide an interactive environment as described herein, receive messages for the interactive environment, and display relevant data along with the message on the interactive environment. - In order to enhance the flexibility and adaptability of
system 400,messaging module 402 can communicate withdata importation module 404.Data importation module 404 selects relevant data about a pre-identified user from the database based on information contained in the message as discussed herein, for example inFIG. 3 and associated text. -
Messaging module 402 can also communicate withauthentication module 406 to authenticate a pre-identified user. For example,messaging module 402 can pass a user name and/or password toauthentication module 406, which then authenticates the user. Alternatively,authentication module 406 may maintain a persistent authentication of the user and confirm such authentication when requested bymessaging module 402. - As will be appreciated by one of ordinary skill in the art, the
modules - Moreover, one of ordinary skill in the art will appreciate that the
modules - Exemplary Data Entry User Interface
- The interactive environment can include an interface that allows a user to enter data such as intervention data or medical condition metric data. This interface can be contained on the same page as a message board or can be accessible by a link or as a pop-up window.
- Referring now to
FIG. 5 , anexemplary user interface 500 for data entry is provided. Althoughuser interface 500 is illustrated as customized for a patient suffering from Parkinson's disease, the principles explained and depicted herein are equally applicable to any disease. -
User interface 500 includes a medical conditionmetric portion 502, which allows the patient to input a medical condition metric (in this example, the patient's functional ability). The user can place multiple data points 504 in the medical condition metric chart, which includes a time scale. Data points 504 can be adjusted with respect to time and/or magnitude. For example, if the patient is indicating how she feels now or at a designated time, the patient can be limited to moving data point 504 up or down. Alternatively, the patient can input data for a time by dragging the data point to the left or right. The patient can be restricted from setting a data point in the future and/or the past. -
User interface 500 also includes anintervention portion 508.Intervention portion 508 allows the patient to record one or more interventions such as administration of a medication, administration of a remedy, administration of a nutritional supplement, administration of a vitamin, exercise, physical therapy, massage, stretching, consumption of food, rest, and sleep. For example, the patient can designate when meals are eaten by adjustingbars - Various types of remedies can be scheduled for specific times. For example, the patient can be prescribed to take MADOPAR™ (levodopa; benserazide hydrochl) at 6:00 AM. In this situation,
user interface 500 can display a medication schedule. The patient can modify this schedule to reflect the actual administration by draggingmarker 512 a. Likewise, the patient can indicate that the drug was consumed by clicking on themarker 512 a. Clicking on the marker can change the appearance of themarker 512 a (e.g., its color) and thus can be used by patients, particularly patients with memory problems, to more faithfully follow a medication program. -
User interface 500 can also include pharmacokinetic data, such apharmacokinetic curve 516 that depicts the concentration of a medication within the patient over time. Multiplepharmacokinetic curves 516 can be depicted in various colors or patterns to reflect varying pharmacokinetic properties of various medications. The pharmacokinetic curves can be generated using existing using formulas known to those of ordinary skill in the art. - Referring to
FIGS. 6A-6D , a user interface for data entry is provided. As inFIG. 5 , a medical conditionmetric portion 602 is provided. InFIG. 6A , the first medical condition metric is recorded for a day. The patient either indicates that she wishes to record a metric from 6:00 AM or accesses the user interface at 6:00 AM, at which point the user interface can default to 6:00 AM. The patient manipulatesslider bar 604 to input a medical condition metric. For example, if the patient wishes to indicate that ‘2’ is the medical metric (e.g., a measurement of pain on a scale from 0-4), the user drags handle 606 of theslider bar 604 to the ‘2’ position as depicted inFIG. 6A . - Data point 608 a can move up and down along
vertical line 610 a as thehandle 606 is moved ordata point 608 a may not appear until the medical condition metric is finalized. A metric can be “finalized” in a number of ways, including by clicking thehandle 606 to lock thehandle 606. Additionally or alternatively, the metric can be finalized by a period of inactivity, for example, about fifteen seconds, about thirty seconds, and about one minute. In another alternative,data point 608 a can also be moved left or right to modify the time associated with the data point. - As discussed in the context of
FIG. 6A , the patient can indicate that he wishes to record metrics from 6:00 AM or can access the user interface at 6:00 AM at which point the user interface can default to 6:00 AM. The patient can leave the user interface open for a period of time and the patient can continue to access the user interface and manipulate the slider bar. Each time the user manipulates theslider bar 604, a new data point can be set for the time that theslider bar 604 is manipulated. - Referring now to
FIG. 6B , the patient enters a second medical condition metric. The patient again moves thehandle 606 of theslider bar 604. If the system is configured so that thedata point 608 b moves with thehandle 606,line segment 612 a also moves. Thus, the patient can readily see whether he is indicating that a medical condition metric is improving or deteriorating and verify that such a change truly reflects their experience. - Referring to
FIG. 6C , the patient again manipulates theslider bar 604 to enter athird data point 608 c and form anew line segment 612 b. - Referring to
FIG. 6D , the patient indicates that the medical condition remains a ‘3’ at 3:00 PM. The slider bar handle 606 remains at the ‘3’ position from the 12:00 PM data entry. The patient can indicate that the metric remains a ‘3’ by clicking on thehandle 606 to lock theslider bar 604. During this,line segment 612 c can grow horizontally fromdata point 608 c as time progresses from 12:00 PM. Otherwise, the slider bar handle 606 can disappear afterdata point 608 c is set. Handle 606 reappears when the patient clicks or moves the mouse over theslider bar 604. - Although described in the context of an interactive environment, the invention is applicable to a variety of other applications. Specifically, user information can be selectively imported based on user-generated content other than postings to an interactive environment.
- In one example, users send private messages to each other. Such private messages can be sent in real-time (analogous to instant messages) or can be sent and received asynchronously (analogous to email). User information (e.g., information about the sender or recipient) can be presented to the recipient along with the message.
- In another example, a patient can communicate with their physician to request and/or refill a prescription. User information is selected based on the information in the request (e.g., the name of the prescription) and is presented to the physician along with the request.
- Referring now to
FIG. 7 , the invention provides a self-updatingforum 700. In posting 702 a, user “Robert” indicated that his doctor prescribed CYMBALTA® (duloxetine) for his depression. - Posting 702 a includes a
chart 716 a. Chart 716 a can be configured to display one or more metrics as discussed herein along an x-axis spanning between the date of the posting 702 a and the current date (Mar. 1, 2009 in the example depicted inFIG. 7 ). Thus, any viewer can assess how the poster's condition has developed without the need for (i) the poster returns to the forum to add a further posting or (ii) the reader to locate any subsequent posting(s). - The ability of other users to view current information regarding the poster is reflected in posting 702 b from user “Juanita” on Feb. 1, 2009. User “Juanita” viewed
chart 716 a (spanning from Jun. 1, 2008 to Feb. 1, 2009 at the time) and could visually appreciate that user Robert's condition had improved, as reflected in herposting 702 b. Juanita's posting 702 b also includes achart 716 b depicting her steady condition. - Referring now to
FIG. 8 , embodiment of the invention can be applied to web logs (commonly referred to as “blogs”). Auser interface 800 of a blog can include apost 802 and one ormore comments 804. - In the
blog post 802, the author discusses her recent kidney transplant and discusses her BUN (blood urea nitrogen) and creatinine levels. Software mines the blog post for terms of interest such as BUN and creatinine, queries a database or other data source for relevant data, and generates one or moregraphical elements FIG. 8 , graphs of the author's BUN and creatinine levels are depicted. - One or more readers can post
comments 804 to theblog 800.Comments 804 can be mined for terms of interest in the same or similar manner as theblog post 802 and one or moregraphical elements 808 a, 808 b can be associated with thecomments 804. - All patents, published patent applications, and other references disclosed herein are hereby expressly incorporated by reference in their entireties by reference.
- Those skilled in the art will recognize, or be able to ascertain using no more than routine experimentation, many equivalents of the specific embodiments of the invention described herein. Specifically, although this application periodically discusses the application of the invention to “diseases”, the invention is equally applicable to other medical events such as aging, fertility, and the like. Moreover, the invention is not limited to medical events and conditions, but is applicable to other topics such as athletic training, weight loss, academic performance, financial management, and the like. Such equivalents are intended to be encompassed by the following claims.
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