System for assisting wound treatment management

• US 20010049609A1
• Filed: 03/09/2001
• Published: 12/06/2001
• Est. Priority Date: 03/09/2000
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: David G. Kessler, Kathleen Thimsen, Michael Girouard, Michael Wells
• Original Assignee: David G. Kessler, Kathleen Thimsen, Michael Girouard, Michael Wells
• Inventors: Wells, Michael, Thimsen, Kathleen, Girouard, Michael, Kessler, David G.
• Application Number:
  US09/803,569
• Publication Number:
  US 20010049609A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/3
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 15/00 ICT specially adapted for medical reports, e.g. generation or transmission thereof
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/63 for local 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 70/20 relating to practices or guidelines

Abstract

A system for improving wound treatment data management has been developed. The system evaluates relevant wound and patient characteristics to generate a proposed treatment routine. The system also evaluates the ongoing treatment of the wound and may generate alarm output, suggestions to health care providers, or proposed modifications to the treatment routine. In addition, the invention may also generated automated orders for such items as consumable treatment components. The system may also be used to evaluate financial considerations and implications of both initial and modified treatment routines.

Claims

1. An automated data processing system comprising the steps of:

comparing patient characteristics with a patient data set and obtaining a result therefrom;

comparing wound characteristics with a wound characteristics data set and obtaining a result therefrom; and

comparing said patient characteristic result and said wound characteristic result with indicia connected to a library of treatment routines to generate a proposed treatment routine.

2. A system according to

claim 1

comprising also establishing intermediate treatment goals for a selected treatment routine for said wounds of said patient.

3. A system according to

claim 2

also comprising comparing wound characteristics subsequent to the commencement of said treatment routine to said intermediate treatment goals.

4. A system according to

claim 3

comprising also establishing alarm limits relating to said intermediate treatment goals.

5. A system according to

claim 4

wherein said alarm limits are set at medically meaningful levels.

6. A system according to

claim 4

wherein the activation of an alarm limit generates a desired data output.

7. A system according to

claim 1

wherein the selection of a treatment routine generates a desired data output.

8. An automated data processing system comprising the steps of:

comparing patient characteristics with a patient data set and obtaining a result therefrom;

comparing wound characteristics with a wound characteristics data set and obtaining a result therefrom;

comparing said patient characteristic result and said wound characteristic result with indicia connected to a library of treatment routines to generate a selection of proposed treatment routines;

evaluating the selected proposed treatment routines in relation to selected criteria;

and generating output wherein said proposed treatment routines are ranked in relation to said criteria

9. A system according to

claim 8

wherein said criteria may be adjusted

10. A system according to

claim 8

wherein said criteria may be given different weightings

11. A system according to

claim 10

wherein said weightings may be selectively adjusted.

12. A system according to

claim 9

wherein said criteria may be given different weightings

13. A system according to

claim 12

wherein said weightings may be selectively adjusted.

14. A system according to

claim 12

wherein an intermediate treatment goal for a selected treatment routine for said wounds of said patient is created.

15. A system according to

claim 14

wherein wound characteristics obtained after start of said treatment routine are compared to said intermediate treatment goal.

16. A system according to

claim 15

wherein an alarm limit relating to said intermediate treatment goals is established.

17. A system according to

claim 16

wherein the activation of an alarm limit generates a desired data output

18. A system according to

claim 9

wherein financial criteria may also be input and financial output may be generated.

19. An automated data processing system comprising the steps of:

comparing patient characteristics with a patient data set and obtaining a result therefrom;

comparing wound characteristics with a wound characteristics data set and obtaining a result therefrom;

updating said data sets with more recent data as desired thereby creating current data sets;

determining the most current data set for data;

updating the patient data result using the most current patient data set;

updating the wound characteristic result using the most current wound data set;

comparing said patient characteristic result and said wound characteristic result with indicia connected to a library of treatment routines to generate a selection of proposed treatment routines;

evaluating the selected proposed treatment routines in relation to selected criteria;

generating output wherein said proposed treatment routines are ranked in relation to said criteria.

20. A system according to

claim 19

wherein

an intermediate treatment goal for a selected treatment routine for said wound of said patient;

and

comparing wound characteristics subsequent to the commencement of said treatment routine to said intermediate treatment goal; and

generating output if said intermediate treatment goal is not met.