Patent Publication Number: US-10325070-B2

Title: Treatment intelligence and interactive presence portal for telehealth

Description:
REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS 
     This application claims an invention which was disclosed in Provisional Application No. 62/266,949, filed Dec. 14, 2015, entitled “DYNAMIC AND INTERACTIVE VIEWING PORTAL FOR TELEMEDICINE, TELEHEALTH AND TELEPSYCHOLOGY”. The benefit under 35 USC § 119(e) of the United States provisional application is hereby claimed, and the aforementioned application is hereby incorporated herein by reference. 
    
    
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     BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 
     Field of the Invention 
     The invention pertains to the field of healthcare services. More particularly, the invention pertains to a computerized system for and method of providing precision healthcare services related to the AI-optimized assessment, diagnosis, and treatment of mental and emotional health and distress at a distance. 
     Description of Related Art 
     A mental health disorder, also commonly referred to as a mental illness, is a pattern of mood, cognition, behavior, or personality that occurs in a person and is thought to cause distress or disability that is not a normal part of development or culture. Mental health disorders are quite common. In the United States, the American Psychiatric Association estimates that over 68 million Americans will meet diagnostic criteria for a psychiatric or substance use disorder in a given year. The costs associated with treated, undertreated, and untreated mental illnesses are high with The World Economic Forum estimating worldwide costs were $2.5 trillion for 2010. 
     Access to adequate assessment and care for mental health disorders is lacking in many parts of the United States. The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) estimates that fewer than 50% of adults meeting diagnostic criteria for a mental health disorder receive any treatment for that disorder. There are also an estimated 90 million Americans presently living in identified Mental Health Provider Shortage Areas according the United States Department of Health and Human Services. The combination of stigma, low provider density areas, and inadequate treatment resources presently complicates the practice of mental healthcare. 
     One commonly employed treatment for mental health disorders is psychotherapy. Psychotherapy has been shown to be effective for treating many different specific diagnoses as well as for treating patients suffering from multiple comorbid diagnoses. Existing studies strongly suggest that psychotherapy is generally effective with an effect size greater than that of antidepressant medications. The literature suggests that the general effect size for psychotherapy is moderate to large (Cohen&#39;s d&gt;0.5). There is currently debate in the literature about which specific interventions might be most advantageous for which specific disorders or which specific interventions might be most advantageous for which specific types of clients. 
     Recent advances in artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning have rapidly accelerated the pace at which computer systems can match or surpass basic human expertise in tasks as diverse as playing chess, recommending products, answering trivia questions, suggesting cancer treatments, and driving cars. Applying these advanced AI systems to preliminary patient matching with treatment modality and subsequent treatment plan optimization, can improve outcomes in mental health treatment. 
     SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION 
     The present invention advantageously provides systems and methods to securely provide precision psychotherapy and other professional mental health interventions that are customized to the patient served at a distance. When patients initially interact with the system, they will bring with them a wealth of data derived from numerous sources. This data includes information such as demographic, genetic, assessment, diagnosis, treatment, history, outcome, wearable, mobile device, augmented reality device, social network, and totem data. When this data is vectorized, normalized, and coupled with patient input symptom description and healthcare professional input assessment and diagnostic information that has also been vectorized and normalized and the resulting vectors analyzed by AI methods, the system can suggest in-session interventions and prescribed homework assignments tailored to optimize patient satisfaction and outcome. The present invention is advantageous in that it allows healthcare professionals to more rapidly gain a picture of the patient&#39;s actual behaviors, something patients seeking mental health services may be less willing or able to accurately report on in the initial stages of treatment. 
     The system is continually learning in a recursive manner such that the output of one set of patient experiences are used to train the AI system to further refine future patient recommendations with regard to such treatment variables as individual healthcare professional, professional theoretical orientation, professional efficacy rating, professional discipline, professional technical expertise, professional demographic data, in-session interventions, prescribed homework assignments, frequency of contact, potential need for additional services, and prognosis at the termination of services. 
     The system will allow one or more patients and one or more healthcare professionals to connect with each other so that they can securely meet via encrypted, mutual, real-time image and audio presence. This system will allow professionals to provide professional consultation, education, assessment, diagnosis, intervention, or treatment at a distance. The system will support the healthcare professional&#39;s decision process with real-time data displays about the patient&#39;s mood derived from real-time analysis of the patient&#39;s speech (tone analysis) and facial expressions (microexpressions) during session as well as a display of pertinent AI-informed data from the patient&#39;s history. The system will also display feedback about the patient&#39;s present circumstances and adherence to prescribed homework regimes. 
     The system will continually monitor patient follow up with prescribed homework activities via a system of patient reminders and prompts. Depending on the devices available to the patient and permissions given by the patient, the system will be able to send reminders to the patient about prescribed homework activities. The patient will be able to mark the given activity as completed, incomplete, or choose to snooze the activity such that the system will prompt them again later. Each such action on the part of the client will be logged by the system and included as a part of the patient&#39;s treatment record and also logged and vectorized and normalized to allow for AI training and optimization, allowing both the healthcare professional and patient a much more accurate view of in-vivo adherence to recommended interventions and allowing the system to improve treatment recommendations and outcomes. 
     The overall system will give patients better chances for positive experiences and positive outcomes. The system will assist in finding the best fit between patient and healthcare professional variables. The system will help the healthcare professional and client make more honest and accurate determinations about the effectiveness of interventions during the course of the treatment rather than only after the fact (if at all). In short, the system will assist the healthcare professional and patient by generating predictive and prescriptive analytics rather than merely (post hoc) descriptive analytics. The system will assist the users in transcending the distances between patient need and effective professional assistance. 
     The present invention is not intended to be limiting in the nature of the entity that is the healthcare provider nor the nature of the entity that is the patient. It is expected that the present invention will be used by a diverse range of healthcare professionals and patients. 
    
    
     
       BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS 
       Further advantageous features of the present invention will become more apparent when the following detailed description is taken along with reference to the accompanying drawings in which: 
         FIG. 1  shows a functional block diagram of hardware, software, or a combinational instance thereof that may be implemented in one or more computer systems or processing systems, whether local or cloud based, to carry out the functionality of the system as a whole, in accordance with one embodiment of the present invention. 
         FIG. 2  shows an example of the patient assessment screen graphical user interface according to one embodiment of the present invention. 
         FIG. 3  shows an example of the patient in-session encrypted real-time image and audio presence view according to one embodiment of the present invention. 
         FIG. 4  shows an example of the healthcare professional in-session encrypted real-time image and audio presence view with accompanying client data drawn from real-time interaction as well as previously available data according to one embodiment of the present invention. 
         FIG. 5  shows an example of the healthcare professional not-in-session encrypted portal for reviewing patient assessments, diagnoses, treatment, and progress to date as well as other aspects of the patient&#39;s record according to one embodiment of the present invention. 
         FIG. 6  shows how AI processes recursively use vectorized outcome data and other vectorized data to inform future patient and healthcare provider suggestions regarding treatment according to one embodiment of the present invention. 
     
    
    
     DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION 
     As discussed above, the present invention relates to a computerized system for and method of providing precision healthcare services related to the AI-optimized assessment, diagnosis, and treatment of mental and emotional health and distress at a distance. Several aspects of the present invention provide novel advances in the provision of telemedicine and telepsychology (sometimes also referred to as: “telehealth,” “telemental health,” “telepsychiatry,” and “telebehavioral health”) and the system as a whole provides a novel integrated platform for the provision of healthcare interventions, especially psychotherapeutic interventions, at a distance. The present invention combines clinical processes, communications software, and vectorized AI processes into a novel platform that offers clinical insights and improved outcomes that would not be possible with any of the components alone and thus represents an improvement upon the art of psychotherapy and makes possible precision psychotherapy. 
     Embodiments of the present invention will accelerate the interactive dialogue between healthcare practice, interventions, and outcomes. The present system allows for iteration and recursive learning to occur in real time or near real time so that patients and healthcare professionals can make treatment decisions informed by outcome information during, rather than after, the course of treatment. The system as a whole could eventually be informed by many thousands of years of professional experience and many thousands of lived years of patient experience. Using the wisdom and information about distress and the amelioration of distress that is both explicitly and tacitly contained within these users, the system will begin to recognize previously unknown patterns in real time so as to suggest additional treatment options for consideration. This will allow for unprecedented treatment matching both at the level of general interventions for general disorders and at the level of the individual patient and their unique presentation. 
       FIG. 1  illustrates a functional block diagram of an example computing system  100  in accordance with one embodiment of the present invention. The example computing system  100  shows how a patient  101  can receive professional services from a healthcare professional  105  at a distance that are informed by patient data derived from a diversity of sources. The example computer system could be comprised of hardware, software, or a combinational instance thereof that may be implemented in one or more computer systems or processing systems, whether local or cloud based, to carry out the functionality of the system as a whole. 
     In this system  100 , a patient  101  will contribute data to the system through a range of means. The patient  101  will directly enter relevant demographic information about themselves through a patient demographics screen  102 . The patient  101  will also answer questions designed to elicit aspects of their personality, strengths, weaknesses, and present symptomology through one or more assessment instruments presented to them through the patient assessment screen  103 . The patient  101  will also give permissions to a range of external devices or third-party databases of information via existing APIs or APIs to be developed specifically for this purpose. These permissions could include data from wearable devices  108 , data from the patient&#39;s smartphone or augmented reality interface device  109 , data from objects that are a part of a smart environment or the internet of things  110 , and the patient&#39;s genome or genetic profile  111 . 
     In this system  100 , the patient demographics screen  102  serves as a graphic interface for the patient  101  to enter relevant demographic information including (but not limited to): legal name, nickname, date of birth, sex, gender, race, ethnicity, marital status, educational attainment, parent educational attainment, socioeconomic status, veteran status, parental status, religion or religious preferences, known drug allergies, and emergency contact person. The information from the patient demographics screen  102  is transmitted to the processor  112  and stored in a HIPAA-compliant database  113  in one embodiment of this system  100 . 
     In this system  100 , the patient assessment screen  103  serves as a graphic interface for the patient  101  to take assessments or enter data designed to offer a portrait of relevant aspects of their personality, strengths, weaknesses, past symptomology, present symptomology, and current level of risk. This interface  103  may present a single, comprehensive, assessment instrument or several different assessment instruments to the patient. In one embodiment of this system, the patient will be presented with a series of questions that are followed by movable sliders for the patient to indicate their relative score on a given item. The information from the patient assessment screen  103  is transmitted to the processor  112  vectorized, and stored in a HIPAA-compliant database  113  in one embodiment of this system  100 . Additional information about this particular screen is given in  FIG. 2 . 
     Once a patient  101  has completed sufficient information with the system  100 , they will be able to meet with a healthcare professional  105 . This is accomplished by means of a patient session screen  104 . The physical screen this session screen  104  appears on could be one of a range of interfaces including (but not limited to): a computer screen, a smartphone screen, a tablet screen, or an augmented reality screen or similar interface where a physical screen is lacking. While interacting with the patient session screen  104 , the patient will have encrypted real-time access to the image and audio presence of a healthcare professional  105  available for consultation, education, assessment, diagnosis, intervention, or treatment. The patient session screen  104  will also log any data from in-session patient  101  behavior such as emotional content as evidenced by tone or microexpressions to the processor  112  where it will be vectorized and stored in the HIPAA-compliant database  113 . Additional information about this particular screen is given in  FIG. 3 . 
     In this system  100 , a healthcare professional  105  will contribute data to the system through a range of means. Through both the in-session screen  106  and the not-in-session screen  107 , the professional  105  will be able to select and identify in-session interventions as well as homework assignments. The professional  105  will also enter assessments, diagnoses, and prognoses into the system. They will also be able to meet with a patient  101  via encrypted real-time image and audio presence to provide professional consultation, education, assessment, diagnosis, intervention, or treatment. The professional  105  will also receive feedback about the patient&#39;s adherence to prescribed treatments, receive suggestions about optimized treatment interventions derived from AI-output predictions informed by training on a range of vectorized and normalized data, and receive additional data about the patient&#39;s psychological state and recent behaviors derived from AI-output assessments, patient report, standard clinical instruments taken, and emotional state as suggested by vocal tone and microexpressions. 
     The professional  105  will primarily interact with the patient  101  through the professional in-session screen  106  where the professional will be presented with an encrypted real-time image and audio presence of the patient  101 . The professional  105  will also receive real-time data about the patient&#39;s mood via tone analysis and microexpression analysis. Via this screen  106 , one or more professionals  105  will be able to provide professional consultation, education, assessment, diagnosis, intervention, or treatment to one or more patients  101 . This display  106  will also show the professional a summary of key portions of the patient&#39;s recent treatment history. This screen will have output data sent to it from the processor  112  and the HIPAA-compliant database  113 . It will also log any changes made by the professional  105  to the processor  112  and the HIPAA-compliant database  113 . Additional information about this particular screen is given in  FIG. 4 . 
     The professional  105  will also interact with the not-in-session screen  107 . Through this screen  107 , the professional  105  will be able to verify content of the sessions conducted over the in-session screen  106  including session time, in-session interventions, and changes to homework assignments. This screen  107  will populate with information drawn from the HIPAA-compliant database  113  and will be an up-to-date summary of the treatment for the patient  101 . Additional information about this particular screen is given in  FIG. 5 . 
     One of the distinguishing features of this system  100  will be the ways in which it draws on external data from devices in the life of the patient  101 . The system  100  will take in data from wearable devices  108  that the patient  101  carries with them throughout their day. These devices  108  will convey a range of health and activity data about the patient  101  that will serve to augment the total picture of their emotional and behavioral health. This data will be vectorized and stored in the HIPAA-compliant database  113 . This vectorized data will be normalized and serve as the raw material for the CPU and associated systems  112  to analyze using AI methods for emerging trends in the patient&#39;s treatment. Data from these devices, once vectorized and combined with vectorized data about other aspects of the patient&#39;s life and treatment, will support deeper insights into the patient&#39;s level of function, prognosis, and ideal psychotherapeutic interventions. 
     The smartphone, augmented reality device, or other primary interface device  109  will serve as an important node within the system  100 . Depending on the devices available to the patient  101  and the permissions that they have given, this device  109  could serve to offer data about their behavioral and emotional state, serve as a display for the patient session screen  104 , serve as a prompt to follow-up with assigned homework activities, or serve as an important node with connections to wearable devices  108  or the internet of things  110 . The device  109  will likely communicate with several aspects of the system and serve as the primary interface for many patients  101 . This system  100  could make use of such devices  109  via a range of different embodiments including both existing APIs and novel, downloadable, applications. 
     Environments are increasingly becoming smart environments where consumer products and devices are increasingly capable of transmitting information about their state, the state of the environment around them, and the state of their owners. The present system  100  will draw from a range of devices related to the internet of things  110  in order to augment the holistic picture of the patient  101  served. These devices  110  may communicate directly to the CPU and associated subsystems  112  or indirectly via relay through a smartphone or similar device  109 . The data so derived, will be vectorized and will allow the AI aspects of the system  100  to detect emerging trends before humans might be aware of them. 
     This system  100  will also take input from the patient  101  in the form of accessing existing genetic profiles or the patient&#39;s entire genome if available  111 . This data may serve to better optimize the system  100  to the unique needs of each patient  101 . 
     This system  100  relies on a CPU and associated subsystems  112  to perform computation, execution of functions, and the reading and writing of information to the HIPAA-compliant database  113 . This could be implemented in any number of ways with variations in software and hardware configurations (including CPUs, GPUs, TPUs, etc). In one embodiment of this system  100 , the CPU and associated subsystems  112  are remotely based and implemented via servers and connections across the internet. In this embodiment, it is primarily a combination of software and cloud storage that facilitate the functioning of the system  100 , with other portions feeding in information from external devices or databases ( 108 ,  109 ,  110 ,  111 ) and the CPU  112  receiving this information and writing it to the HIPAA-compliant database  113  (often in a vectorized and normalized form that is amenable to AI training) and sending out commands or information as appropriate ( 104 ,  106 ,  107 ,  109 ,  110 ). Additional detail about the ways in which the CPU and associated subsystems  112 , the HIPAA-compliant database  113 , and the content of the database  114  function together to make the system an artificially intelligent tool for treatment optimization can be found  FIG. 6 . 
       FIG. 2  illustrates one example of the patient assessment screen  103  previously described in  FIG. 1 . In this example, the person interacting with the graphical interface will be presented with dichotomous statements or polarities  201  about general personality, health habits, and present symptomology. They will move the indicator  202  in the middle of the line to the place on the line that they believe best represents what is true for them. These sliding assessments will generate a larger, granular, range of numerical values that can contribute to the system&#39;s overall understanding of the patient and allow the system to make novel predictions about the patient&#39;s health status, diagnosis, optimal psychotherapy interventions, and prognosis. 
       FIG. 3  illustrates one example of the patient in-session screen  104  previously described in  FIG. 1 . In one embodiment of the present invention, this screen features the name of the healthcare professional providing services  301 . This screen also features a clock  302  indicating how long the current session has been underway. Most importantly, this screen displays the encrypted, real-time, audio and video presence of a healthcare professional  303  so that interactive professional services can be received at a distance. 
       FIG. 4  illustrates the professional in-session screen  106  previously introduced in  FIG. 1  in much greater detail. In one embodiment of the present invention, the name of the patient being seen is prominently displayed  401 . The patient&#39;s encrypted, real-time, audio and visual presence is also displayed  402  facilitating the interactive offering of professional services. This screen also features a clock  403  indicating how long the current session has been underway. The screen displays real-time feedback from mere systems designed to offer insight into the patient&#39;s current emotional state via AI analysis of vocal tone and facial microexpressions  404 . The display shows aspects of the patient&#39;s history that may be relevant to the current session such as past and present diagnoses and current areas of focus  405 . In one embodiment of the present invention, the professional will be able to switch between tabs and review other aspects of the patient&#39;s file while in session with that patient  406 . 
       FIG. 5  illustrates the professional not-in-session screen  107  previously introduced in  FIG. 1  in much greater detail. In one embodiment of the present invention, the name of the patient appears on this screen  501 . In one embodiment of the present invention the screen informs the professional of important information about the patient&#39;s case including: diagnosis  502 , patient identification number  503 , patient history  504 , and any medication currently prescribed  505 . These fields can be edited and updated by the professional. The screen also summarizes important information about the last session with the patient including: date  506 , service or procedure provided  507 , start time  508 , stop time  509 , duration  510 , currently prescribed homework  511 , changes in treatment  512 , and any additional notations that the professional might wish to make  513 . In one embodiment of the present invention, the professional can press a submission button to make the session note a permanent part of the patient&#39;s record  514 . Most of the aforementioned fields are auto-populating fields that are filled in with data the system has previously recorded. The professional can edit them, but it is likely that this feature will shorten the duration of time that the professional will need to spend on paperwork. 
       FIG. 6  describes the process flow for the artificial intelligence (AI) portion of the presently described invention  600 . A large part of what makes the system as a whole  100  advantageous to professionals and patients alike, is the introduction of AI methods to optimize treatment selection and to provide recursive feedback to the system as a whole about the relationships between various professional variables, client variables, treatment variables, and outcomes. 
     The system starts with input from the patient in the form of patient demographics  601  and initial or formative assessments  602 . The AI system  603  using methods such as (but not limited to): vectorization and skip thought vectors then suggests professionals based on a range of variables including but not limited to: interventions typically employed, prognoses, homework assignments given, theoretical orientation, efficacy rating, discipline, and professional demographic data. In one embodiment of the present invention, the system will present two clearly labeled lists indicating that one is a random selection of professionals in the patient&#39;s geographical vicinity and that the other is a selection of professionals in the patient&#39;s geographical vicinity likely to be a good fit for persons such as the patient. This second list has been generated by the AI component of the system after analyzing the patient input in the form of patient demographics  601  (broadly considered to include basic demographics as well as patient profile with regard to available device information for which the patient has given access/permission) and patient initial assessment results  602 . The AI component of the system takes the available patient information (transformed into a vectorized format) and makes predictions about professionals that are likely to be a best fit (based on the AI system that is has been trained on similar vectorized information paired with outcomes labels about previous patients). It is likely that this second list will provide the patient with a better recommendation in terms of likelihood of positive outcome than other existing methods would, whether generated by human judgment or algorithmic sorting (i.e. random assignment, simple specialty matching, professional referral, simple satisfaction ratings, simple linear correlation, etc.). 
     Whether the patient acts on the AI recommendations for a professional or not, they will need to select professional in order to proceed  604 . The patient&#39;s choice of professional is logged by the AI system  603  and it uses the combination of patient and professional variables to suggest optimal treatment options to the professional for inclusion within the initial plan of service  605 . More specifically, the patient variables that have been collected via patient input or device input as described in  FIG. 1  and that have been vectorized and normalized are used by the AI system to make predictions about the treatment interventions (both in-session and between-session interventions) that are likely to be the most advantageously employed in the psychotherapeutic relationship between the particular patient and the particular professional selected by the patient. The patient&#39;s choice of professional is logged by the system and the professional&#39;s characteristics and demographics are also logged by the system in a vectorized format for later training and updating of the AI system once an outcome or discharge label has been entered. Thus, the data so collected here serves both to assist the particular patient and professional in their psychotherapeutic engagement and to assist future patients and professionals through the recursive training of the AI system. 
     Unlike other treatment algorithms where all patients with a given diagnosis are offered a single treatment assumed to be best (often based on information from small-number clinical trials in contexts that differ from typical day-to-day professional practice or based on low-variance/high-bias statistical models), the AI system  603 , informed by high volume and high dimensionality data, in one embodiment of the present system will offer the professional four distinct sets of “top 5” interventions for the patient&#39;s identified focus or diagnosis. It will offer a list of the professional&#39;s own 5 most commonly utilized interventions by simple frequency. It will offer a list of the 5 most commonly utilized interventions by the professional&#39;s particular profession (psychologist, social worker, nurse, psychiatrist, etc.). It will offer a list of the 5 most commonly utilized interventions by the professional&#39;s theoretical orientation (cognitive, behavioral, psychodynamic, humanistic, family systems, etc.). It will also offer a suggested list of optimized interventions based on the total available data within the AI-informed system. This is where the system advantageously differentiates itself from other typical practices or existing systems. The optimized interventions that the AI system will offer are based on vectorized data drawn from myriad dimensions of the patient&#39;s life including: self-report data (demographics, assessment answers, etc.), objective device-report data (distance walked, activity, etc.), social network behaviors (including likes, activity, etc.), and professional assessment (diagnosis, prognosis, etc.). Given the wide range of types of data and categories of sources of data contribution, the present system will be able to make suggestions that go well beyond even expect clinical intuition. The professional will be free to use or not use any of the given recommendations as the system, in one embodiment of the present invention, will defer to the professional&#39;s judgment. In any case, the professional will create an initial plan of service  605  and the composition of this plan will be recorded by the AI system  603  in a vectorized format for later training and updating of the AI system once an outcome or discharge label has been entered. Thus, the data so collected here serves both to assist the particular patient and professional in their psychotherapeutic engagement and to assist future patients and professionals through the recursive training of the AI system. 
     The initial plan of service  605  will contain a range of interventions  606  that may consist of some combination of in-session interventions and prescribed homework. Homework interventions will be coded as such in the initial plan of service  605  and the AI system  603  will send out queries or reminders around those interventions. For example, in one embodiment of the present invention, the professional may prescribe “exercise as tolerated 3 times per week” to the patient. The AI system  603  will send out notifications to one or more of the patient&#39;s devices  607  to remind the patient to do the activity and/or to inquire as to whether the patient has completed the activity. If the patient reports “yes,” the system  603  will record this. If the patient reports “no,” the system  603  will record this. If the patient “snoozes” the reminder and/or reports “not yet,” the system  603  will prompt the patient again at a later time. This adherence data  608 , taken as a whole, will be recorded and vectorized by the AI system  603  and used to make additional predictions and/or recommendations about the particular patient and their particular course of treatment as well as stored in a vectorized format for later training and updating of the AI system once an outcome or discharge label has been entered. Thus, the data so collected here serves both to assist the particular patient and professional in their psychotherapeutic engagement and to assist future patients and professionals through the recursive training of the AI system with regard to homework adherence and efficacy for particular kinds of patients with particular kinds of mental and emotional distress. 
     After some period of time, the AI system  603  will analyze feedback from patient devices  607 , patient adherence to prescribed homework  608 , and any changes in symptoms  609  and use this information to suggest advantageous revisions to the initial plan of service  605 , in the form of a revised treatment plan  610 . The AI system will do this by comparing one or more vectors comprised of vectorized patient data with predictions based on the AI system&#39;s learning from previous training on vectorized information from past patients using the system. The professional, in consultation with the patient, is free to accept or reject any of these proposed changes or to make other non-proposed changes. In any event, the next iteration of the treatment plan begins  610  and the new interventions  611  are pursued in much the same manner as the original ones. This process will likely have numerous iterations with each iteration contributing to additional learning of the AI system and benefiting from the additional learning that the AI system has done in the interim, but for the sake of brevity, only a single iteration will be described here. 
     At the end of treatment, the final outcomes  612  are vectorized, logged to the AI system  603 , and stored as outcome labels that will be used to inform the system as a whole about how to further optimize for patient satisfaction and positive outcome. As the system grows in size, it will accumulate vectorized data generated by many clinicians of differing professional training, experience levels, and theoretical orientations and use this novel information to assist the professionals in offering their best possible services to the patients served. This system will represent a truly novel addition to the field of healthcare in general and psychotherapy in particular. It avoids a simplistic model of a single treatment for a single (assumed to be homogenous) diagnosis, in favor of a complex, high dimensionality, model offering the promise of delivering precision psychotherapy interventions to patients in need. These precision psychotherapy interventions will be based on a 360-degree view of the patient that includes their understanding of themselves, their patterns of interaction within their social networks, their behavioral patterns as recorded by objective devices, their condition as assessed by competent professional expertise, and the specific profile of each of these as analyzed by an AI system that takes in this high volume and high variety data and constructs a high dimensionality picture of the patient being served in order to suggest more accurate diagnostic formulations and more advantageous interventions than would likely be within the ability of either human clinicians or typical statistical frameworks employed in psychotherapy outcomes research. 
     Various user interfaces and embodiments were described above in some detail with reference to the drawings, wherein like reference numerals represented like parts and assemblies throughout the several views. Any of the preceding references to the various embodiments does not limit the scope of the claims attached hereto. Additionally, any examples set forth in this specification are not intended to be limiting and merely set forth some of the many possible embodiments for the appended claims. It is understood that various omissions and substitutions of equivalents are contemplated as circumstances may suggest or render expedient, but these are intended to cover applications or embodiments without departing from the spirit or scope of the claims attached hereto. Also, it is to be understood that any of the phraseology and terminology that were used herein were for the purpose of description and should not be regarded as limiting. 
     Any of the devices/servers/CPUs in the above-described systems may include a bus or other communication mechanism for communicating information, which interconnects subsystems and devices, such as processor, system memory (e.g., RAM), static storage device (e.g., ROM), disk drive (e.g., magnetic or optical), communication interface (e.g., modem or Ethernet card), display (e.g., CRT or LCD), input device (e.g., keyboard, touchscreen). The system component performs specific operations by the processor executing one or more sequences of one or more instructions contained in system memory. Such instructions may be read into system memory from another computer readable/usable medium, such as static storage device or disk drive. In alternative embodiments, hard-wired circuitry may be used in place of or in combination with software instructions to implement the invention. Thus, embodiments of the invention are not limited to any specific combination of hardware circuitry and/or software. 
     Any use of the word “screen” above should be taken to mean a range of interfaces including but not limited to: a computer screen, a smartphone screen, a tablet screen, or an augmented reality screen or similar interface where a physical screen is lacking. Any references to a screen anywhere above are for the sake of brevity and should not be construed as a limitation on the types of devices or interfaces that can be utilized in various embodiments of this invention. 
     In an embodiment of the invention, execution of the sequences of instructions to practice the invention is performed by a single computing system. According to other embodiments of the invention, two or more computing systems coupled by a communication link (e.g., LAN, PTSN, or wireless network) may perform the sequence of instructions required to practice the invention in coordination with one another. The system component may transmit and receive messages, data, and instructions, including program, i.e., application code, through communication link and communication interface. Received program code may be executed by the processor as it is received, and/or stored in disk drive, or other non-volatile storage for later execution. 
     Various exemplary embodiments of the invention are described herein. Reference is made to these examples in a non-limiting sense. They are provided to illustrate more broadly applicable aspects of the invention. Various changes may be made to the invention described and equivalents may be substituted without departing from the true spirit and scope of the invention. In addition, many modifications may be made to adapt a particular situation, process, process act(s) or step(s) to the objective(s), spirit or scope of the present invention. Further, as will be appreciated by those with skill in the art that each of the individual variations described and illustrated herein has discrete components and features which may be readily separated from or combined with the features of any of the other several embodiments without departing from the scope or spirit of the present inventions. All such modifications are intended to be within the scope of claims associated with this disclosure. 
     Methods recited herein may be carried out in any order of the recited events which is logically possible, as well as in the recited order of events. 
     In addition, though the invention has been described in reference to several examples optionally incorporating various features, the invention is not to be limited to that which is described or indicated as contemplated with respect to each variation of the invention. Various changes may be made to the invention described and equivalents (whether recited herein or not included for the sake of some brevity) may be substituted without departing from the true spirit and scope of the invention. In addition, where a range of values is provided, it is understood that every intervening value, between the upper and lower limit of that range and any other stated or intervening value in that stated range, is encompassed within the invention. 
     Without the use of such exclusive terminology, the term “comprising” in claims associated with this disclosure shall allow for the inclusion of any additional element—irrespective of whether a given number of elements are enumerated in such claims, or the addition of a feature could be regarded as transforming the nature of an element set forth in such claims. Except as specifically defined herein, all technical and scientific terms used herein are to be given as broad a commonly understood meaning as possible while maintaining claim validity. 
     Accordingly, it is to be understood that the embodiments of the invention herein described are merely illustrative of the application of the principles of the invention. The breadth of the present invention is not to be limited to the examples provided, illustrated embodiments and/or the subject specification, but rather only by the scope of claim language associated with this disclosure. 
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