Patent ID: 8756072
Filing Date: 2014-06-17
Classification: G06Q,G16H,G16Z

Abstract:
1. A computer-implemented method comprises: transmitting, to a device used by a physician, information for a graphical user interface for enabling the physician to define custom medical assessment questions for a customized medical study instrument of the physician, wherein rendering of the graphical user interface on the device used by the physician displays: a first portion for the physician to select a type of question to be added to the medical study instrument; and a second portion for the physician to enter text associated with the question; receiving, from the device used by the physician in response to transmittal of the information for the graphical user interface, request messages including data indicative of custom questions to be included in the medical study instrument of the physician; generating, based on the request messages, the customized medical study instrument of the physician; associating a particular custom medical assessment question with an alert feature for causing the physician to be notified of an answer to the particular custom medical assessment questions; receiving, from device used by the physician, an answer threshold value for the particular custom medical assessment question, with the answer threshold value specifying a range of values that causes the one or more computer systems to execute the alert feature; receiving from a patient, through one or more computer systems, one or more responses to one or more instrument selection questions; assigning the customized medical study instrument of the physician to the patient, with assigning based on the one or more responses of the patient to the one or more instrument selection questions; receiving, from the patient, answers to the custom medical assessment questions for the customized medical study instrument of the physician; detecting that a value in the answer to the particular custom medical assessment question associated with the alert feature exceeds the answer threshold value; generating, in response to detecting based on the alert feature, a notification message to alert the physician that the patient has answered the particular custom medical assessment question with the value that exceeds the answer threshold value, wherein the notification message differs from the alert feature; and sending, to the device used by the physician, the notification message for display in a dashboard graphical user interface for providing the physician with a view of the particular custom medical assessment question and the value that exceeds the answer threshold value.