Personalized management and comparison of medical condition and outcome based on profiles of community patients

1. A method of facilitating a user-initiated clinical study to determine the efficacy of an intervention, the method comprising:

receiving a request from one or more of the patients to initiate the clinical study to determine the efficacy of the intervention;

providing a graphical user interface on a client computer, the graphical user interface allowing one or more patients to input information on the client computer regarding their diseases and symptoms;

collecting information regarding diseases and symptoms on a server computer from the one or more patients via the graphical user interface on the client computer before each of the patients employs the intervention to treat a disease;

collecting information on the server computer from the graphical user interface about the intervention employed by the one or more patients;

collecting information on the server computer from the plurality of patients regarding experienced symptoms via the graphical user interface after a subset of the patients employs the intervention to treat the disease; and

analyzing the collected information regarding diseases, symptoms, and intervention to determine the efficacy of the intervention in treating the disease on the server computer; wherein the intervention is selected from the group consisting of: administration of a medication, administration of a remedy, administration of a nutritional supplement, administration of a vitamin, exercise, physical therapy, massage, stretching, consumption of food, rest, sleep, and a modification of any of the foregoing.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the analyzing step includes,

comparing the efficacy of the intervention with data from one or more control patients on the server computer.

3. The method of claim 1 , wherein the analyzing step includes, comparing the pre-remedy information with post-intervention information.

4. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:

conducting a multivariate pattern matching search of data related to the other patients.

5. A method of identification of a possible personalized intervention for a patient experiencing at least one side effect associated with a present intervention, the method comprising:

providing a database communicatively coupled with a server computer, the database containing patient information for a plurality of patients including one or more attributes for each patient in the database;

providing a graphical user interface on a client computer, the graphical user interface allowing a patient to formulate a request specifying one or more attributes of the patient including:

one or more diseases currently affecting the patient;

one or more interventions currently employed by patient; and

one or more side effects currently experienced by the patient;

searching the database of patient information for a set of other patients that previoulsy experienced at least one of the specified side effects when employing at least one of the specified interventions;

for each of the other patients in the set of other patients that previously experienced at least one of the specified side effects when employing the at least one of the specified interventions, identifying an alternative intervention that was employed most-recently by that other patient; and

returning a set of the one or more alternative interventions that were most-commonly employed most-recently by the set of other patients that experienced the one or more specified side effects when employing the one or more specified interventions; wherein the intervention is selected from the group consisting of: administration of a medication, administration of a remedy, administration of a nutritional supplement, administration of a vitamin, exercise, physical therapy, message, stretching, consumuption of food, rest, sleep, and a modification of any of the foregoing.

6. The method of claim 5 , wherein the one or more attributes includes at least one selected from the group consisting of: age, race, ethnicity, gender, height, weight, body mass index (BMI), body volume index (BVI), genotype, phenotype, disease, disease severity, disease progression rate, measures of functional ability, quality of life, interventions, and remedies.

7. The method of claim 5 , wherein the disease includes at least one selected from the group consisting of: neurological diseases, Amytrophric Lateral Sclerosis (ALS), Multiple Sclerosis (MS), Parkinson's Disease, Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV), Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS), depression, mood disorders, cancer, blood cancer, fibromyalgia, epilepsy, post traumatic stress disorder, traumatic brain injury, cardiovascular disease, osteoporosis, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, arthritis, allergies, autoimmune diseases, and lupus.

8. The method of claim 7 , wherein the one or more diseases includes depression.

9. The method of claim 8 , wherein the one or more interventions is an antidepressant.

10. The method of claim 5 , wherein the one or more alternative interventions are ranked based on the proportion of other patients that most-recently employed the one or more alternative interventions.

11. The method of claim 5 , wherein the patient information is stored in a state model.

12. The method of claim 11 , wherein each intervention is stored as a different state within the state model.

13. The method of claim 5 , wherein the one or more interventions and the one or more alternative interventions are selected from the group consisting of: administration of a medication, administration of a remedy, administration of a nutritional supplement, and administration of a vitamin.

14. The method of claim 5 , wherein the one or more interventions and the one or more alternative interventions are selected from the group consisting of: exercise, physical therapy, massage, stretching, consumption of food, rest, and sleep.

15. The method of claim 5 , wherein the one or more alternative interventions are ranked.

16. The method of claim 15 , wherein the one or more alternative interventions are ranked based on the average duration of use for the one or more alternative interventions.

17. The method of claim 15 , wherein the one or more alternative interventions are ranked from most-commonly-employed to least-commonly-employed.