Patent ID: 8533007

Claim:
A health management system comprising: a server configured to store (i) a plurality of goal modules, each goal module including one or more content sessions cooperatively directed toward achieving a health management goal, the health management goals of the goal modules being selected from a group consisting of: reducing weight, stopping smoking, learning to self-administer a medical intervention, learning to follow a dietary restriction, learning to follow a dietary requirement, and performing a physical exercise, the content sessions including content selected from a group consisting of: pre-recorded audio/video content, textual content, interactive survey content, and pre-recorded step-by-step interactive audio/video content, and (ii) a plurality of patient profiles, each patient profile indicating at least which goal module or goal modules are assigned to a patient profiled by the patient profile and patient-specific flow rules for that patient; a plurality of user interfaces configured to be used by a plurality of different patients, each patient being profiled by a corresponding patient profile, each user interface including a television and a television remote, each user interface configured to present content sessions on the television and to receive at least one input via the television remote that is indicative of a user response to a content session presented by the user interface; and a content flow engine embodied by a computer and configured to control an order of presentation of content sessions based on the at least one input and on content flow rules; wherein the content flow engine is further configured to control, for each patient, an order of presentation of goal modules assigned to the patient by the patient profile of that patient based on content flow rules including the patient-specific flow rules of the patient profile, the order of presentation of two different goal modules assigned to the patient by the patient profile being controlled by the content flow engine to be presented as one of (i) an ordered sequence or (ii) concurrently by interleaving presentation of content sessions of the two different goal modules.