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Patent US10216905

Issued 2019-02-26

Health State Trends For A Consistent Patient Situation

This document describes techniques and apparatuses enabling determination of health state trends for a consistent patient situation. Various noninvasive health monitors can be used to sense a patient's situation and health states, including disease progression, at those states. These noninvasive health monitors may also act passively and in a patient's normal course of life, which enhances many patient's desire to submit to monitoring, as well as increase consistency of use, as in many cases the patient does little or nothing to cause his or her health monitoring and health-trend determination. With health states determined for a consistent patient situation, more accurate and more robust health trends can be determined.

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1. A computer-implemented method comprising: detecting, using one or more sensing devices of a sensing milieu contained in a bedroom, an automobile, a bathroom, an office, or a workplace, a first instance of an activity of a patient that is within a normal course of life of the patient, wherein said detecting is passive in that no explicit patient interaction with any of said one or more sensing devices is required, wherein said sensing devices are part of a color-sensing mirror, a pressure and electrical sensing mat, an ultrasonic bathtub, or an automobile rear-view minor and sense in a first modality, wherein said detecting is non-invasive, and wherein said activity that is within the normal course of life of the patient is walking, eating, working, exercising, driving, or talking; responsive to said detecting said first instance of the activity, monitoring, using a radar-based monitoring device that senses in a second modality that is other than the first modality, said patient to detect a first health state of the patient associated with said activity, wherein said monitoring is carried out in temporal proximity to said first instance of the activity, wherein said monitoring is non-invasive, and wherein said monitoring is passive in that no explicit patient interaction with said radar-based monitoring device is required; subsequently detecting, using said one or more sensing devices, multiple subsequent instances of said activity of the patient that is within said normal course of life of the patient, said subsequently detecting being passive and non-invasive; subsequently monitoring, for each of said detected subsequent instances of said activity, said patient using said radar-based monitoring device to detect subsequent respective health states of the patient associated with said activity, wherein said subsequent monitoring is carried out in temporal proximity to said subsequent instances of the activity, respectively, and wherein said subsequent monitoring is non-invasive and passive; processing said first and subsequent health states of the patient to determine a health state trend of the patient for said activity; and providing the health state trend for said activity.
7. A computing device comprising: one or more computer processors; and one or more computer-readable media having instructions stored thereon that, responsive to execution by the one or more computer processors, implements a health manager configured to: detect, using one or more sensing devices of a sensing milieu contained in a bedroom, an automobile, a bathroom, an office, or a workplace, a first instance of an activity of a patient that is within a normal course of life of the patient, wherein said detecting is passive in that no explicit patient interaction with any of said one or more sensing devices is required, wherein said sensing devices are part of a color-sensing mirror, a pressure and electrical sensing mat, an ultrasonic bathtub, or an automobile rear-view mirror and sense in a first modality, wherein said detecting is non-invasive, and wherein said activity that is within the normal course of life of the patient is walking, eating, working, exercising, driving, or talking; responsive to said detecting of said first instance of the activity, monitor, using a radar-based monitoring device that senses in a second modality that is other than the first modality, said patient to detect a first health state of the patient associated with said activity, wherein said monitoring is carried out in temporal proximity to said first instance of the activity, wherein said monitoring is non-invasive, and wherein said monitoring is passive in that no explicit patient interaction with said radar-based monitoring device is required; subsequently detect, using said one or more sensing devices, multiple subsequent instances of said activity of the patient that is within said normal course of life of the patient, said subsequent detection being passive and non-invasive; subsequently monitor, for each of said detected subsequent instances of said activity, said patient using said radar-based monitoring device to detect subsequent respective health states of the patient associated with said activity, wherein said subsequent monitoring is carried out in temporal proximity to said subsequent instances of the activity, respectively, and wherein said subsequent monitoring is non-invasive and passive; process said first and subsequent health states of the patient to determine a health state trend of the patient for said activity; and provide the health state trend for said activity.
11. A noninvasive health-monitoring system comprising: a milieu of radar-based health monitoring sensors, the milieu of radar-based health monitoring sensors part of a radar lamp or a color-sensing mirror; one or more computer processors; and one or more computer-readable media having instructions stored thereon that, responsive to execution by the one or more computer processors, implements a sensor manager configured to: cause each of the milieu of radar-based health-monitoring sensors to repeatedly provide, through the radar-emitting element, radar fields; repeatedly determine activities of a patient based on a patient's human-tissue reflection in the respective radar fields, the activities within the normal course of life and determined to be walking, eating, or talking; repeatedly associate health states to the determined activities based on the patient's human-tissue reflection or another human-tissue reflection in the respective radar fields; and provide the determined activities and the associated health states.