Patent US10964415

Automated systems and methods for obtaining, storing, processing and utilizing immunologic information of an individual or population for various uses
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US10964415

1. A method of optimizing the management of health care for an individual in a population, comprising: (1) (8)

examining the individual's immune status;

identifying diseases that the insured may be susceptible to;

calculating the risk of contraction for each disease;

identifying all prophylactic therapies that could prevent each identified disease;

calculating, for all possible combinations of diseases and prophylactic therapies,

expected costs of treatment and costs of associated prophylactic therapies; and

requiring prophylactic therapies optimized for overall cost,

wherein at least one of said examining immune status and identifying diseases that the individual may be susceptible to includes: (a) establishing a database comprising a plurality of records of information each representative of the immune status of an individual in the population, to one or more vaccine-preventable diseases, each of said records including (1) current information from one or more assays to determine the immunity of said individual to one or more vaccine-preventable diseases, and

(2) patient-specific information comprising one or more of said patient's medical history, said patient's doctors observations and/or demographic information relating to said patient;

(b) processing the information in said database to find trends or patterns relating to the immune status of individuals in said patient population; and

wherein said processing the information in said database includes:

generating a list of correlations between variables or fields in the database;

for each correlation in the list: generating a set of hypotheses that may explain said correlation; and

as to each hypothesis in the set, automatically refuting, supporting or stating that there is insufficient data to analyze said hypothesis by further processing of the database.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising assessing, as a condition of continued coverage, an additional premium charge if the overall cost places the insured into a higher risk bin. (1) (0)

4. A computer program product comprising a computer usable medium having computer readable program code means embodied therein, the computer readable program code means in said computer program product comprising means for causing a computer to: (0) (8)

examine the individual's immune status;

identify diseases that the insured may be susceptible to;

calculate the risk of contraction for each disease;

identify all prophylactic therapies that could prevent each identified disease;

calculate, for all possible combinations of diseases and prophylactic therapies,

expected costs of treatment and costs of associated prophylactic therapies; and

require prophylactic therapies optimized for overall cost,

wherein at least one of said examine immune status and identify diseases that the individual may be susceptible to includes: (a) establishing a database comprising a plurality of records of information each representative of the immune status of an individual in the population, to one or more vaccine-preventable diseases, each of said records including (1) current information from one or more assays to determine the immunity of said individual to one or more vaccine-preventable diseases, and