Patent ID: 8463623
Filing Date: 2013-06-11
Classification: G06Q,G16H

Abstract:
1. A method of assessing the health status of a patient, comprising the steps of: generating, by a processing device, a customized test, based on the patient's characteristics and one or more health domains, the test having a plurality of questions for the patient selected in accordance with the one or more health domains, in which the health domains are selected by: estimating, by the processing device, a score for the patient based on a survey of other patients with similar characteristics; administering, through a user interface, the test by providing one question at a time to the patient; after each question, evaluating, by the processing device, answers provided by the patient to administered questions to adjust the estimated score and to calculate a confidence level in the accuracy of the estimated score; varying, by the processing device, a threshold, after each question, as a function of the estimated score during administration of the test to the patient; and dynamically modifying the test being administered to the patient, with the processing device, based on an answer provided to a prior question, the estimated confidence level, and the threshold.