Facilitating health management of subjects

摘要

A peer system of subjects with health-related issues is formed based on an association of subjects and a particular type of electronic device or devices which provides information related to a specific health-related issue or issues obtained from particular subjects. By means of such associations, subjects can transmit to and receive messages from other subjects associated with the same type of electronic device. One way to associate subjects with health-related issues is through an association of a subject with a type or types of sensors. For example, each monitoring device may be associated with a subject, and the type or types of sensor or sensors may be associated with the subject and/or monitoring device. Devices, systems, methods and computer program products may be provided leveraging this association for various applications, e.g., management of the health care of subjects, peering among subjects with a common heath-related issue or issues, advertising, research and other applications involving such subjects.

主权项

1. A heath care management system comprising:
a computer system including at least one computer, at least one database, accessible by the at least one computer, in which is stored health-related information of a group of persons including information identifying at least one subgroup of the persons based at least on at least one type of health monitoring device of a plurality of types of health monitoring devices associated with respective persons, wherein each person in a respective subgroup is associated with a same type of health monitoring device indicative of a common health-related issue, a messaging component within or in communication with the at least one computer, and a computer readable medium storing computer code which when executed by the computer system causes the computer system to perform operations including: receive messages from the monitoring devices; determine the type of monitoring device from which a message was received based at least on information stored in the database; and route messages between persons in a respective subgroup based on (a) information stored in the at least one database which identifies persons in a subgroup and (b) the type of monitoring device determined in the determine operation.