System and method for determining and providing personalized pap therapy recommendations for a patient

Abstract

A method of providing personalized PAP therapy recommendations to a patient includes: receiving in a controller patient information obtained from one or more electronic devices associated with the patient; analyzing the patient information with the controller; determining in the controller from the analyzing of the patient information personalized PAP therapy recommendations for the patient; and providing the personalized PAP therapy recommendations to the patient.

What is claimed is: 
     
         1 . A method of providing personalized PAP therapy recommendations to a patient, the method comprising:
 receiving in a controller patient information obtained from one or more electronic devices associated with the patient;   analyzing the patient information with the controller;   determining in the controller from the analyzing of the patient information personalized PAP therapy recommendations for the patient; and   providing the personalized PAP therapy recommendations to the patient.   
     
     
         2 . The method of  claim 1 , wherein the controller is structured and configured to implement a predictive AI system, and wherein the analyzing and determining is performed by the predictive AI system. 
     
     
         3 . The method of  claim 2 , wherein the predictive AI system is an artificial neural network trained using one or more of: previous patient information about the patient and/or patient information about a number of other patients. 
     
     
         4 . The method of  claim 1 , wherein the one or more electronic devices associated with the patient comprise a wearable smart device. 
     
     
         5 . The method of  4 , wherein the wearable smart device comprises a smartwatch. 
     
     
         6 . The method of  claim 1 , wherein the one or more electronic devices associated with the patient comprises a smartphone. 
     
     
         7 . The method of  claim 1 , wherein the patient information comprises subjective information provided by the patient. 
     
     
         8 . The method of  claim 7 , wherein the subjective information comprises information regarding alcohol intake by the patient. 
     
     
         9 . The method of  claim 7 , wherein the subjective information comprises planned bed time and wake time provided by the patient. 
     
     
         10 . The method of  claim 1 , wherein the patient information comprises objective information gathered passively by sensors in close proximity to the patient. 
     
     
         11 . The method of  claim 1 , further comprising receiving additional patient information actively from the patient. 
     
     
         12 . The method of  claim 1 , wherein the personalized PAP therapy recommendations comprise a recommended start and duration time for the PAP therapy. 
     
     
         13 . The method of  claim 1 , wherein the personalized PAP therapy recommendations comprise an indication of an actual benefit that a prior PAP therapy treatment had on the patient's sleep. 
     
     
         14 . A system for determining personalized PAP therapy treatment recommendations for a patient and providing such recommendations to the patient, the system comprising:
 a number of electronic devices, each structured to passively capture patient information from the patient;   a controller in communication with the number of electronic devices and structured to carry out an analysis of the patient information and determine from the analysis of the patient information personalized PAP therapy recommendations for the patient; and   a user interface structured to convey the personalized PAP therapy recommendations to the patient.   
     
     
         15 . A predictive artificial intelligence system trained to:
 receive patient information obtained passively from one or more electronic devices associated with a patient;   analyze the patient information; and   determine from analyzing the patient information a personalized PAP therapy recommendation.