Patent ID: 8543428

Claim:
A computerized method for estimating obesity in an insured population comprising: (a) identifying in a computer a plurality of obesity factors for said insured population; (b) identifying in said computer a plurality of members for which height and weight data is not available; (c) creating in said computer a feature vector comprising for each of said members for which height and weight data is not available: (1) an age; (2) a gender; (3) claim data for each of said plurality of obesity factors; (4) a total number of claims in each of said plurality of obesity factors; (5) a total number of claims for all of said obesity factors; (6) a co-morbidity score; (7) a plurality of chronic condition metrics; and (8) a plurality of census metrics; (d) presenting said feature vector to a trained obesity inference model in said computer, said model trained according to: (1) a body mass index for each member of a subset of said insured population for which height and weight data is available, said body mass index calculated from said height and weight data for each member of said subset; (2) feature vector data for each member of said subset of said insured population; (e) receiving for output at said computer from said trained obesity inference model an estimated body mass index for said member of said insured population.