Contextual assessment of current conditions

• US 10,311,701 B1
• Filed: 02/22/2018
• Issued: 06/04/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 12/22/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: C-HCA, Inc.
• Original Assignee: HCA Holdings Incorporated (HCA Healthcare, Inc.)
• Inventors: Krayer, Christian, Gregg, William Michael, Doyle, Thomas Andrew, Brient, Paul, Wobensmith, Christopher, Jirjis, Jim Najib, Weaver, Victoria, Perlin, Jonathan, Paslick, Paul Martin, Jackson, Edmund, Buta, Sarah Hume, Jospe, Erin S., Phirke, Umesh P.
• Primary Examiner(s): Casillashernandez, Omar
• Application Number:
  US15/902,897
• Time in Patent Office: 467 Days
• Field of Search: 3405731
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/3027 where the computing system component is a bus
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 21/182 Level alarms, e.g. alarms responsive to variables exceeding a threshold
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 10/20 for electronic clinical trials or questionnaires
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 10/60 for patient-specific data, e.g. for electronic patient records
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/20 for the management or administration of healthcare resources or facilities, e.g. managing hospital staff or surgery rooms
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/67 for remote operation
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 50/20 for computer-aided diagnosis, e.g. based on medical expert systems
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 50/30 for calculating health indices; for individual health risk assessment
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 80/00 ICT specially adapted for facilitating communication between medical practitioners or patients, e.g. for collaborative diagnosis, therapy or health monitoring

Abstract

In some examples, systems, methods, and devices are described that generate contextual suggestions for patients. Generation of the contextual suggestions is triggered by certain events performed by a medical professional with respect to a patient (e.g., updating a patient record). The contextual suggestions are related to addressing health conditions of the patient and represent tasks or considerations which the medical professional should be made aware. The contextual suggestions are generated in a way that is considerate of patient context, medical professional context, and contexts of similar patients. The contextual suggestions can be presented to the medical professional for selection and execution.

Claims

1. A system for generating notifications based on events, the system comprising:

a memory comprising computer-executable instructions; and

a processor configured to access the memory and execute the computer-executable instructions to at least;

receive an event detection request identifying a user, the event detection request requesting;

monitoring of data corresponding to the user; and

sending of one or more notifications corresponding to the user based on the monitoring;

select a notification event from a set of notification events based on the event detection request, the notification event associated with one or more triggering rules, and the one or more triggering rules used at least to determine whether to generate a notification corresponding to the notification event;

access first data from a first element of a network, at least a portion of the first data corresponding to the user and comprising one or more objective values corresponding to the user;

evaluate the portion of the first data to determine whether the portion of the first data fulfills at least one triggering rule corresponding to the notification event;

access second data from a second element of the network, at least a portion of the second data corresponding to the user and comprising one or more subjective observations corresponding to the user;

evaluate a portion of the second data to determine whether the portion of the second data fulfills the at least one triggering rule corresponding to the notification event;

detect an occurrence of the notification event when a threshold number of the one or more triggering rules corresponding to the notification event is fulfilled;

in response to detecting the occurrence of the notification event, generate the notification that at least identifies the user and the notification event;

access a recipient data structure, based on the notification, to identify a recipient to receive the notification, the recipient data structure comprising a listing of possible recipients organized according to an escalation data structure;

determine a sending method for sending the notification to the recipient based on the escalation data structure; and

provide the notification to the recipient in accordance with the determined sending method.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein receiving the event detection request comprises receiving the event detection request from a user device operated by the user or by an authorized user, the authorized user authorized to attend to the user.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the notification event comprises a change in a record associated with the user.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein generating the notification comprises generating the notification based at least in part on one or more attributes of the notification event.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein the processor is further configured to access the memory and execute additional computer-executable instructions to at least:

determine, based on at least one of the first data or the second data, a medical task to be performed with respect to providing medical treatment to the user, the medical task associated with the notification; and

populate fields of a medical form based on the medical task, the medical form required for fulfillment of the medical task.

6. The system of claim 1, wherein the sending method comprises at least one of sending to a first computing device executing a user attention management application associated with the recipient, sending to a mobile device executing a mobile user attention management application associated with the recipient, or sending to a second computing device executing a user population management application associated with the recipient.

7. The system of claim 1, wherein:

the recipient is a first recipient and the sending method is a first sending method;

accessing the recipient data structure comprises accessing the recipient data structure, based on the notification, to identify a second recipient to receive the notification; and

the processor is further configured to access the memory and execute additional computer-executable instructions to at least;

determine a second sending method for sending the notification to the second recipient based on the escalation data structure; and

provide the notification to the second recipient in accordance with the determined second sending method.

8. A computer-implemented method for generating notifications based on events, the method comprising:

receiving an event detection request identifying a user, the event detection request requesting;

monitoring of data corresponding to the user; and

sending of one or more notifications corresponding to the user based on the monitoring;

selecting a notification event from a set of notification events based on the event detection request, the notification event associated with one or more triggering rules, and the one or more triggering rules used at least to determine whether to generate a notification corresponding to the notification event;

accessing first data from a first element of a network, at least a portion of the first data corresponding to the user and comprising one or more objective values corresponding to the user;

evaluating the portion of the first data to determine whether the portion of the first data fulfills at least one triggering rule corresponding to the notification event;

accessing second data from a second element of the network, at least a portion of the second data corresponding to the user and comprising one or more subjective observations corresponding to the user;

evaluating the portion of the second data to determine whether the portion of the second data fulfills the at least one triggering rule corresponding to the notification event;

detecting an occurrence of the notification event when a threshold number of the one or more triggering rules corresponding to the notification event is fulfilled;

in response to detecting the occurrence of the notification event, generating the notification that at least identifies the user and the notification event;

accessing a recipient data structure, based on the notification, to identify a recipient to receive the notification, the recipient data structure comprising a listing of possible recipients organized according to an escalation data structure;

determining a sending method for sending the notification to the recipient based on the escalation data structure; and

providing the notification to the recipient in accordance with the determined sending method.

9. The computer-implemented method of claim 8, further comprising:

determining, based on at least one of the first data or the second data, a medical task to be performed with respect to providing medical treatment to the user, the medical task associated with the notification; and

populating fields of a medical form based on the medical task, the medical form required for fulfillment of the medical task.

10. The computer-implemented method of claim 9, wherein the notification comprises the medical form or a different notification comprises the medical form.

11. The computer-implemented method of claim 9, wherein the notification comprises a suggestion for consideration by the recipient as part of responding to the notification event.

12. The computer-implemented method of claim 9, wherein at last one of accessing the first data or accessing the second data occurs in about real-time as the first data or the second data is respectively processed by the first element or the second element.

13. The computer-implemented method of claim 9, wherein the first element and the second element each comprise at least one of an electronic record system that stores user records and enables authorized users to edit the user records, an integrated record system that enables sharing of the user records, an active enterprise data warehouse comprising multiple different types of data, a diagnostic device, a diagnostic machine capable of performing one or more tests on the user, another user device, or a sensor device capable of sensing conditions relating to the user.

14. The computer-implemented method of claim 9, wherein the notification event comprises a change in a record associated with the user.

15. The computer-implemented method of claim 9, wherein the sending method comprises at least one of sending to a first computing device executing a user attention management application associated with the recipient, sending to a mobile device executing a mobile user attention management application associated with the recipient, or sending to a second computing device executing a user population management application associated with the recipient.

16. The computer-implemented method of claim 9, wherein:

the recipient is a first recipient and the sending method is a first sending method; and

the method further comprises;

accessing the recipient data structure, based on the notification, to identify a second recipient to receive the notification;

determining a second sending method for sending the notification to the second recipient based on the escalation data structure; and

providing the notification to the second recipient in accordance with the determined second sending method.

17. One or more computer-readable storage devices for storing computer-executable instructions that, when executed by one or more computer systems, configure the one or more computer systems to perform operations for generating notifications based on events, the operations comprising:

receiving an event detection request identifying a user, the event detection request requesting;

monitoring of data corresponding to the user; and

sending of one or more notifications corresponding to the user based on the monitoring;

selecting a notification event from a set of notification events based on the event detection request, the notification event associated with one or more triggering rules, and the one or more triggering rules used at least to determine whether to generate a notification corresponding to the notification event;

accessing first data from a first element of a network, at least a portion of the first data corresponding to the user and comprising one or more objective values corresponding to the user;

evaluating the portion of the first data to determine whether the portion of the first data fulfills at least one triggering rule corresponding to the notification event;

accessing second data from a second element of the network, at least a portion of the second data corresponding to the user and comprising one or more subjective observations corresponding to the user;

evaluating the portion of the second data to determine whether the portion of the second data fulfills the at least one triggering rule corresponding to the notification event;

detecting an occurrence of the notification event when a threshold number of the one or more triggering rules corresponding to the notification event is fulfilled;

in response to detecting the occurrence of the notification event, generating the notification that at least identifies the user and the notification event;

accessing a recipient data structure, based on the notification, to identify a recipient to receive the notification, the recipient data structure comprising a listing of possible recipients organized according to an escalation data structure;

determining a sending method for sending the notification to the recipient based on the escalation data structure; and

providing the notification to the recipient in accordance with the determined sending method.

18. The one or more computer-readable storage devices of claim 17, wherein receiving the event detection request comprises receiving the event detection request from a user device operated by the user or by an authorized user, the authorized user authorized to attend to the user.

19. The one or more computer-readable storage devices of claim 17, wherein generating the notification is based at least in part on one or more attributes of the notification event.

20. The one or more computer-readable storage devices of claim 17, wherein the notification comprises a suggestion for consideration by the recipient as part of responding to the notification event.