Catherine Hartman

US Patent:

20120221345, Aug 30, 2012

Filed:

Feb 24, 2011

Appl. No.:

13/033642

Inventors:

Douglas J. McClure - Framingham MA, US
Frederick C. Lee - Annandale VA, US
Mary Beth Chalk - Austin TX, US
Catherine A. Hartman - Hingham MA, US
Arnold J. Greenfield - Chestnut Hill MA, US
Elizabeth M. Barbeau - Needham MA, US
Martin D. Adler - Wayland MA, US
Christopher Pilkington - Wayland MA, US
Jason J. Sroka - Lunenburg MA, US
Robert A. MacWilliams - Auburndale MA, US

International Classification:

G06Q 50/00

US Classification:

705 2

Abstract:

Among other things, a method includes, on successive occasions over a period of time, gathering measured data and self-reported data that represent a health state of a particular participant in a health goal system, using the gathered data in a machine learning engine to select, for a current occasion, a current intervention to be self-applied by the particular participant, the machine learning engine having learned from data gathered from a group of participants on successive occasions, the effectiveness of sequences of self-applied interventions in improving the health states of participants who belong to respective groups that share similar characteristics, the current intervention being expected to affect, for the particular participant (i) a behavior, (ii) the health state, or (iii) a health awareness, and providing the particular participant, electronically through a user interface, information that will encourage the particular participant to engage in the selected self-applied current intervention.