Patent ID: 8527206

Claim:
A method comprising: (a) allowing one or more human subjects to manipulate an input device to provide one or more answers as data in response to one or more questions presented on a presentation screen, wherein said questions concern one or more of a physical well being, a mental well being, one or more symptoms, or one or more other psychological conditions of the one or more human subjects in accordance with a medical research protocol; (b) collecting data from said one or more human subjects according to said medical research protocol; (c) sending data collected from said input device to a server device relatively remote from said input device via a communication link; (d) performing a data manipulation technique on data associated with more than one of said subjects; (e) presenting a result of said data manipulation technique at a presentation device relatively remote from said server device; and (f) modifying said medical research protocol in response to said result, wherein the collection of data is altered for at least some performances thereof, and step (e) occurs in conjunction with repeatedly performing step (b).