Patent ID: 7330818

Claim:
A computer system for monitoring or managing life expectancy of a patient comprising: a computer memory storing (i) health profile data comprising medical history data describing said patient, and (ii) a patient-specific life expectancy potential (LEP) model determined in dependence on said patient's stored health profile data and comprising life expectancies for said patient and life expectancy importance factors assigned to specific health profile data elements; and at least one computer processor operatively coupled to said memory with prediction modeling logic for performing steps comprising: creating initially said patient-specific LEP model by correlative analysis of said patient's stored health profile data and a medical information bank, said medical information bank is at least one selected from the group consisting of: demographic, geographic, medical, and lifestyle information describing members of a population of a community of which said patient is a member; querying said patient-specific LEP model to determine a life expectancy for said patient should a selected future event occur in said patient's life; and updating said patient-specific LEP model upon addition of information to said patient's stored health profile data, to said information bank or to a combination thereof, said updating comprising further correlative analysis of said patient's stored health profile data and said information bank, wherein each of said life expectancy importance factors represents the percentage contribution to said life expectancy potential made by said specific health profile data element; and wherein each of said life expectancy importance factors is initially assigned a value based on statistical data, and wherein said value of each of said life expectancy importance factors changes according to the further correlative analysis of said patient's stored health profile data with said information bank.