Patent ID: 8727979

Claim:
A computerized method for determining if a patient has a severe symptom requiring automated notification and intervention by a human healthcare provider while performing a health assessment for a disease being managed, the method comprising: receiving, at a computing device, information related to a significant symptom from a patient via a direct interactive dialogue between a patient and the computing device, the direct interactive dialogue including a patient input of at least one of: a patient-measured objective measurement and a subjective severity of the significant symptom; storing the information related to the significant symptom in a data storage; determining, via the computing device, whether the significant symptom is related to at least one of: a disease being managed and a side effect of treatment for the patient; establishing, via the computing device, a severity of the significant symptom based on answers received from the patient to one or more symptom severity questions; adjusting, via the computing device, the subjective severity of the significant symptom based on a sensitivity factor set, the sensitivity factor set a level of a patient sensitivity, the sensitivity factor set further based on the patient sensitivity; offering, via the computing device, medical advice to the patient regarding at least one of administering treatment or handling symptom flare-ups, the medical advice to the patient based on the adjusted subjective severity, the patient-measured objective measurement, and the information related to a significant symptom; and outputting, via the computing device, the established severity of the significant symptom to a human healthcare provider if the established severity exceeds a threshold, the threshold dynamically modified by the sensitivity factor set.