Healthcare Big Data Analytics Insights from Patents

Alex G. Lee (alexglee@techipm.com)

https://www.linkedin.com/today/author/2853055

Healthcare organizations collect and analyze large amounts of data in order to measure the performance of

affiliated healthcare providers, and thus, to track the quality of healthcare being delivered to patients. Collecting

and analyzing data in order to track healthcare quality are difficult for a healthcare organization, particularly for a

large organization having many providers. For example, a healthcare organization can include several hospitals.

Within each hospital, patients visit a number of different doctors, or providers. Moreover, the patients visit multiple

hospitals. Additionally, different providers or hospitals collect and store data in different formats. Thus, large

amounts of healthcare data can be diverse and scattered across many different systems throughout the healthcare

organization. US20140032240 illustrates the big data analytics system for measuring healthcare quality effectively

and efficiently from large amounts of heterogeneous healthcare data.

One of the challenges facing in the healthcare industry is the number of sources of information, the great amount of

information from each source, and consolidation of such information in order to provide meaningful and useful

insights to those in the field. For example, when a patient sees various medical professionals over the years, there is

©2015 TechIPm, LLC All Rights Reserved http://www.techipm.com/1

no method for universally tracking recommendations, thoughts, prescriptions, referrals, or diagnosis.

US20140304003 illustrates the big data analytics system to consolidate the medical information and analyze the

patient data in a medical network for the purpose of optimizing referral practices. The big data analytics system can

generate models that assist insurers and healthcare providers to track referral practices.

US20150187036 illustrates the big data analytics system for analyzing healthcare-related entity performance.

The healthcare-related entities include hospitals, pharmacies, and health insurance payers. The healthcare-related

entities can interact with members such as an individual person seeking medical services. The big data analytics

system collects, processes, and analyzes data from the healthcare-related entities (e.g., medical claim data,

prescription medicine data, pharmacy claim data, and clinical data). Then, the big data analytics system provides

many useful insights associated with healthcare-related entities. For example, these insights can be detecting any

irregularities such as fraud associated with medical claims or prescription claims; analyzing and comparing a

specific medical provider entity’s performance with other medical provider entities in a given region; providing a

summary of the kinds of medical services being offered by medical provider entities; and providing a performance

comparison between different locations of the same medical provider entity.

US20150179079 illustrates a system for real time monitoring of a patient's cognitive response to a stimulus. The

big data analysis of massive data obtained by the sensing devices can provide many value-added healthcare

services. The real time monitoring system includes a mobile or tablet device, a user interface disposed on the ©2015 TechIPm, LLC All Rights Reserved http://www.techipm.com/

2

mobile device, sensors monitoring user interaction with the mobile device and capturing kinesthetic and cognitive

data. The real time monitoring system also includes a processor for comparing the kinesthetic and cognitive data

and comparing the data to a baseline, and identifying relative improvement and impairment of cognition skills from

the comparison exploiting big data analytics.

©2015 TechIPm, LLC All Rights Reserved http://www.techipm.com/3

Internet of Things (IoT) Strategic Patent Development & Monetization for New Business Creation

Goldman Sachs defines the IoT as the third wave of internet revolution: By connecting billions of devices to the

internet, the IoT can open up a host of new business opportunities and challenges. Even though the IoT is getting a

huge attention recently the concept of interconnected billions of devices is not new and has been under

development for over 10 years. Thus, there are a large number of related patented technologies that can be

exploited for developing new products/services, and thus, new business for the emerging IoT market.

TechIPm has developed an insightful new patent development and monetization methodology for the emerging IoT

market.

Many patent applications and newly issued patents can be further developed for creating new values by amending

and creating claims and generating follow-on patents to encompass emerging technology and products/services

trends, market demands, and strategic exploitation goals. TechIPm provides consulting for improving existing

patents to obtain maximum ROI. TechIPm also provides consulting on developing new patents that can lead to new

IoT product/service development exploiting the strategic patent preparation & prosecution, white space analysis,

and scenario analysis.

©2015 TechIPm, LLC All Rights Reserved http://www.techipm.com/4

A strategically packaged patent portfolio is the collection of patents that the integrated value propositions of each

patent of the portfolio target specific value propositions that are provided by emerging new products/services.

Techipm develops the strategically packaged patent portfolio in alignment with a client’s specific IoT business

interests (e.g., smart home automation). TechIPm’s methodology for developing the strategically packaged patent

portfolio is based on a deep understating of the IoT technologies, extensive experiences in patent analysis and

development, and insights into the emerging IoT market. The strategically packaged patent portfolio can be used

for monetization through patent sale, patent licensing, commercialization, spin-off, patent banking, and patent-

backed financing. TechIPm also can provide consulting on developing monetization program for exploiting the IoT

strategically packaged patent portfolio.

For detailed information, please visit

http://www.slideshare.net/alexglee/best-practices-of-ip-patent-strategy-iot-internet-of-things-case-study

©2015 TechIPm, LLC All Rights Reserved http://www.techipm.com/5