Patent ID: 7672857
Filing Date: 2010-03-02
Classification: G06Q,G16H

Abstract:
1. A health-care system comprising: a computerized assembly and computer processor with database and associated memory administered by a providing entity organizationally structured to implement a healthcare program to provide healthcare services to an unlimited number of individual healthcare program subscribers in exchange for payment and having equity ownership interests in itself made available for issuance to each said individual healthcare program subscriber, said computerized assembly further comprising input and output means for communicating with one or more healthcare providers, said healthcare providers interacting personally with said individual healthcare program subscribers to provide healthcare services to said individual healthcare program subscribers, wherein each said individual healthcare program subscriber has his or her own individual personal health characteristics, and wherein said input and output means are used to receive from and provide to said one or more healthcare providers data pertaining to said individual personal health characteristics pertaining to each said individual healthcare program subscriber, said database storing said individual personal health characteristics data of each of said individual healthcare program subscribers, one or more predetermined healthcare profiles and one or more treatment regimens being established based upon to said one or more predetermined healthcare profiles, said one or more treatment regimens being assigned to a said individual healthcare program subscriber upon subscribing to said healthcare program based upon categorization of said individual healthcare program subscriber into one or more of said healthcare profiles based upon said individual healthcare program subscriber's individual personal health characteristics, said one or more treatment regimens comprising a sequence of activities to be performed by said individual healthcare program subscriber and individualized to said individual healthcare program subscriber, and being administered and actively monitored by said one or more healthcare providers contemporaneously as said activities are performed, said sequence of activities being designed to cure, prevent, minimize or treat an existing medical condition or prevent or minimize a future medical condition of said individual healthcare program subscriber, said healthcare system further comprising one or more software applications stored in said associated memory of said computerized assembly and run by said computer processor for categorizing each said individual healthcare program subscribers into one or more of said predetermined healthcare profiles based on said individual healthcare program subscriber's personal health characteristics data, and one or more software applications stored in said associated memory of said computerized assembly and run by said computer processor for establishing and assigning to said individual healthcare program subscriber one or more of said treatment regimens based upon one or more of said predetermined healthcare profiles which correspond to said individual healthcare program subscriber's individual personal health characteristics data, and for receiving from healthcare providers administering said assigned treatment regimen and actively monitoring said individual healthcare program subscriber's performance of said activities comprising said sequence of activities of said assigned treatment regimen data pertaining to said individual healthcare program subscriber's adherence to said assigned treatment regimen, said data pertaining to adherence to said assigned treatment regimen being obtained and provided by said healthcare providers concurrently as said activities comprising said sequence of activities of said treatment regimen are performed, said assignment of said one or more treatment regimens to said individual healthcare program subscriber being made without requiring said individual healthcare program subscriber to have a specific ailment requiring healthcare services, said health care system including an incentive system comprising one or more software applications stored in said associated memory of said computerized assembly and run by said computer processor for assigning credits to each said individual healthcare program subscriber dependent on said subscriber's degree of compliance with said assigned one or more treatment regimens, assigning penalties to each said individual healthcare program subscriber dependent on said subscriber's degree of noncompliance with said assigned one or more treatment regimens and for issuance of awards to each said individual healthcare program subscriber based on said individual healthcare program subscriber's balance of said credits and penalties, wherein said awards comprise an equity interest in said providing entity, thereby providing a financial motivation and reward to each said individual healthcare program subscriber to comply with said one or more treatment regimens, said compliance resulting in reduced costs incurred by said providing entity in providing said healthcare program to said individual healthcare program subscribers, and said reduced costs thereby increasing the value of said equity interests in said providing entity issued to each said individual healthcare program subscriber, said combination of results thereby providing health and financial benefits to said individual healthcare system subscribers and reduced healthcare costs.