Patent ID: 6278999
Filing Date: 2001-08-21
Classification: A61B,G16H,Y10S

Abstract:
An interactive information management system for the collection and analysis of proprietary consumer specific data that is generated by a plurality of consumers located at remote sites using personal health digitizers, and for regulating user's access to the collected proprietary consumer specific data and results of the analysis by class of user, comprising:means for establishing a data communication connection with a consumer's terminal equipment to input data from said consumer's personal health digitizer to said information management system;means for storing data received from said consumer's personal health digitizer in a database;means for processing said received data to identify patterns in said received data;means for providing access to said received and processed data to an accessing user as a function of an identity of a one of a plurality of classes of users of which said accessing user is a member, comprising:means for enabling a user to input a query relating to consumer specific data input to said information management system by said consumer, andmeans, responsive to said input query, for blocking intrusive access to said consumer specific data by said user inputting said query.