System of and method for collecting and transmitting advance care planning and directives documentation

• US 10,296,716 B1
• Filed: 11/29/2016
• Issued: 05/21/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 11/06/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: MLP Technology Incorporated
• Original Assignee: MLP Technology Incorporated
• Inventors: Skocic, Ruth E.
• Primary Examiner(s): Hoang, Son T
• Application Number:
  US15/364,028
• Time in Patent Office: 903 Days
• Field of Search: None
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/13 File access structures, e.g. distributed indices arrangements of input from, or output to, record carriers G06F3/06
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/32 using biometric data, e.g. fingerprints, iris scans or voiceprints
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/6245 Protecting personal data, e.g. for financial or medical purposes
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 10/60 for patient-specific data, e.g. for electronic patient records
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 50/30 for calculating health indices; for individual health risk assessment
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/08 for authentication of entities cryptographic mechanisms or cryptographic arrangements for entity authentication H04L9/32
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/0876 based on the identity of the terminal or configuration, e.g. MAC address, hardware or software configuration or device fingerprint

Abstract

Advanced Care Planning and life planning data management system is provided that work in conjunction with biometric identify validation to compare an individual'"'"'s biometric data with data on file at a central repository until a match is found, upon which that person'"'"'s advanced care plan and life planning data is forwarded to and displayed at the station for the provider'"'"'s contemporaneous utilization.

Claims

1. A method for creating and using advance health plans and directives of clients, the method comprising:

creating documented future client specific instructions as part of an interactive explanation and discussion between a qualified professional and the client, the client'"'"'s family member or the client'"'"'s surrogate;

validating the instructions;

storing the validated instructions in a retrievable electronic format at a computer server and through a communication network;

obtaining authentication criteria data of the client;

storing the authentication criteria data in the retrievable electronic format at the computer server and through the communication network;

associating the validated instructions with the authentication criteria data;

providing the validated instruction in a Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) compliant retrievable electronic format from the computer server and through the communication network to an authenticated requester; and

billing a third party for the interactive explanation and discussion with the qualified professional, wherein the billing the third party comprises;

providing a billing code required by the third party; and

maintaining an audit trail for verification by the third party upon request, the audit trail comprising verification of;

voluntary completion of the instructions;

time spent during face-to-face consultation;

documentation indicating explanation of the instructions; and

documentation of those present during the face-to-face consultation.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the documented future client specific instructions are selected from a group comprising:

a healthcare power of attorney document;

a Do Not Resuscitate order document or Do Not Resuscitate Comfort Care order document;

an organ or tissue donation document;

a disclosure document;

an emergency contact list;

any medical form;

probate document;

advanced directives information relating to a person'"'"'s own wishes for care;

medical history;

end of life planning;

wills or will substitutes;

medical team planning;

family planning;

funeral planning;

estate planning; and

an advance care plan for use by hospitals, long term care facilities, nursing homes, rehabilitation centers, substance abuse treatment facilities, insurance companies, donor registries, and all other parties having an interest in a user'"'"'s health care or end of life care.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the instructions are created from a previously prepared form of a standardized format capable of being uniquely modified for the client.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the authentication criteria data is selected from a group comprising:

sensing of minutia points;

pulse rates;

bone structures;

DNA;

iris scans;

facial images;

finger prints;

card scans;

passwords; and

user identification.

5. An Advanced Care Planning and life planning data management system comprising a server device including a hardware processor and at least one computer storage medium, the at least one computer storage medium storing a database and database instructions, wherein the database instructions are executable by the hardware processor to:

register a user with the server device by receiving user data including a first biometric identifier of the user through a web interface;

store the user data and the first biometric identifier of the user in the database;

receive health care or life planning information pertaining to the user and store the health care or life planning information in the user data;

assign the first biometric identifier to the user data, the server device and the database being configured to operate remote from the user or any user;

receive, from an individual exigency event requestor, a request including a second biometric identifier of the requestor;

search the database with the server device to identify the first biometric identifier assigned to the health care or life planning information as a match to the second biometric identifier;

transmit at least part of the user data associated with the first biometric identifier to the individual exigency event requestor in response to the request;

update a status of the user in the user data of the database to indicate that the user is in an exigent circumstance and to share such health care or life planning information to a care team or care facility;

receive login information from a life planning computing device at the care team or care facility associated with the exigency event;

conduct a search of the user data in the database to identify patient life planning, advance care planning records indicating that the user is in end of life term, emergency medical event or in transit to the medical care facility during end of life duration; and

transmit web page data to a computing device of the care team or care facility during the exigent event indicating of end of life transition, medical event at a caregiver residence, hospice, home care, or medical care facility to generate and display a life planning and care plans having a total number of medical and life decisions from the user and a list identifying, for each identified care plan record;

name of the user that is in end of life transition, an estimated time that the user has spent in care planning time, and a notes field identifying current medical status of the user.

6. The Advanced Care Planning and life planning data management system of claim 5, wherein the server device further comprises a web server, and wherein transmitting at least part of the user data is performed by sending data defining a web page.

7. The Advanced Care Planning and life planning data management system of claim 5, wherein the computing device of the care team or care facility is communicatively coupled to a biometric reader and configured to communicate with the server device across the data communication network, wherein the computing device of the care team or care facility reads the second biometric identifier from the requestor and sends the request including the second biometric identifier to the server device.

8. The Advanced Care Planning and life planning data management system of claim 7, wherein the computing device of the care team or care facility is a mobile computing device used by a caregiver, a police officer, an emergency responder, or a military unit.

9. The Advanced Care Planning and life planning data management system of claim 5, further comprising a patient computing device configured to communicate with the server device across the data communication network, wherein the instructions are further executable by the hardware processor to:

receive a request from the patient computing device requesting at least part of the user data;

send to the patient computing device the at least part of the user data;

receive updated user data from the patient computing device; and

store the updated user data in place of the user data.

10. The Advanced Care Planning and life planning data management system of claim 5, wherein receiving health care or life planning information pertaining to the user comprises receiving health care information from the computing system of the care team or care facility.

11. The Advanced Care Planning and life planning data management system of claim 5, wherein the user data includes at least some of the following:

physician notes, electronic medical records, immunization records, surgical history, medication records, medical treatment records, identification of medical allergies, obstetric history, habit history, family medical history, mental health history, employment history, travel history, family history, common activities, advance directive, living will, and power of attorney for health care.

12. The Advanced Care Planning and life planning data management system of claim 5, wherein the instructions executable to receive from the care team or care facility the request including the second biometric identifier are further executable to:

receive a scanned fingerprint of a registered user from a fingerprint scanner to generate the second biometric identifier at the emergency vehicle computing system; and

send the request including the second biometric identifier from the emergency vehicle computing system to the server device.

13. A system for creating, storing and using advance health plans and advanced directives of clients, the system comprising:

a computer server comprising a hardware processor for processing documented future client specific instructions created and validated as part of an interactive explanation and discussion between a qualified professional and a client, the client'"'"'s family member or the client'"'"'s surrogate, wherein upon the creation and validation of the documented future client specific instructions, a request for payment for the interactive explanation and discussion between the qualified professional and the client is transmitted to a third party, wherein the request for payment comprises;

providing a billing code required by the third party; and

maintaining an audit trail for verification by the third party upon request, the audit trail comprising verification of;

voluntary completion of the instructions;

time spent during face-to-face consultation;

documentation indicating explanation of the instructions; and

documentation of those present during the consultation; and

an electronic database for storage of the validated instructions in a retrievable electronic format at the computer server and through a communication network;

wherein upon matching of authentication criteria data of a requester with authentication criteria data of the client stored in a computer-readable medium encoded at the computer server, retrieving the validated instructions in a Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) compliant electronic format from the computer server through the communication network for use by the requester.

14. The system of claim 13, wherein the documented future client specific instructions are selected from the group comprising:

a healthcare power of attorney document;

a Do Not Resuscitate order document or Do Not Resuscitate Comfort Care order document;

an organ or tissue donation document;

a disclosure document;

an emergency contact list;

any medical form;

probate document;

advanced directives information relating to the person'"'"'s own wishes for care;

medical history;

end of life planning;

wills or will substitutes;

medical team planning;

family planning;

funeral planning;

estate planning; and

an advance care plan for use by hospitals, long term care facilities, nursing homes, rehabilitation centers, substance abuse treatment facilities, insurance companies, donor registries, and all other parties having an interest in a user'"'"'s health care or end of life care.

15. The system of claim 14, wherein the qualified professional is selected from the group comprising:

a physician;

a qualified health care professional;

a third party consultant functioning as an agent of a physician;

a third party consultant functioning as an agent of a qualified health care professional.