Patent ID: 7436311

Claim:
A follow-up scheduling and monitoring mechanism for automatically assisting a care-concerned person in scheduling and persistently following up with one or more health or medical care follow up actions following a first care-related situation constituted by at least one of the following situations: (0.1) completion of a first examination where an initial assessment of patient condition was made and one or more follow up medical tests were ordered; (0.2) incompletion of a care-related communication delivery-attempt where said incompletion of the delivery-attempt calls for relatively prompt attention thereto; (0.3) incompletion of a care-related task where said incompletion of the care-related task calls for relatively prompt attention thereto; and (0.4) an unexpected change or a lack of expected change in a medical condition of a given patient where said unexpected change or lack of expected change calls for relatively prompt attention thereto; where said follow-up scheduling and monitoring mechanism comprises: (a) adaptive scheduling means for automatically and adaptively scheduling one or more attention-giving, follow up actions that are to be provided in an adaptively persistent manner following the first care-related situation; and (b) patient attribute defining means for defining one or more health-related attributes of the under-care patient which can affect the adaptively persistent carrying out of said, one or more attention-giving, follow up actions that are to be provided.