Patent ID: 8160901

Claim:
A method of facilitating a user-initiated clinical study to determine the efficacy of an intervention, the method comprising: receiving a request from one or more of the patients to initiate the clinical study to determine the efficacy of the intervention; providing a graphical user interface on a client computer, the graphical user interface allowing one or more patients to input information on the client computer regarding their diseases and symptoms; collecting information regarding diseases and symptoms on a server computer from the one or more patients via the graphical user interface on the client computer before each of the patients employs the intervention to treat a disease; collecting information on the server computer from the graphical user interface about the intervention employed by the one or more patients; collecting information on the server computer from the plurality of patients regarding experienced symptoms via the graphical user interface after a subset of the patients employs the intervention to treat the disease; and analyzing the collected information regarding diseases, symptoms, and intervention to determine the efficacy of the intervention in treating the disease on the server computer; wherein the intervention is selected from the group consisting of: administration of a medication, administration of a remedy, administration of a nutritional supplement, administration of a vitamin, exercise, physical therapy, massage, stretching, consumption of food, rest, sleep, and a modification of any of the foregoing.