Patent ID: 7406453

Claim:
A system that facilitates large-scale reporting of health-related data, comprising: a data collection component to collect health-related data on a large-scale relating to a non-selected population wherein at least some of the health-related data is collected by prompting a user with a first question; a database to store at least some of the health-related data; and an aggregation component to facilitate automatically ascertaining at least one pattern from the health-related data, the aggregation component automatically ascertaining the at least one pattern from the health-related data at least in part by applying one or more of a statistical technique, a data mining technique or a machine-learning technique to the database, the aggregation component with the data collection component ascertains the at least one pattern by further determining a follow-up question based on of the user's answer to the first question and at least one pattern detected from responses given by other users to the first question.