Bio-surveillance system and method
First Claim
1. A method of detecting a bio-emergency, the method comprising:
- receiving patient health information at a plurality of health care facilities; and
transmitting, simultaneously with said receiving step, the patient health information to a bio-surveillance network; and
compiling the patient health information to create compiled health data.
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Abstract
A method and apparatus of detecting a bio-emergency, including receiving patient health information at a plurality of health care facilities. The patient health information, preferably triage data, is transmitted simultaneously with the receiving step to a bio-surveillance network for pooling and further analysis. In particular, the patient health information is then compiled to create, for example, volumetric health data. The information preferably is transmitted over a multi-level network including a number of local health care facilities such as hospital emergency rooms, a number of regional repositories such as regional health departments, and a centralized recipient such as the CDC. The local health care facilities communicate vertically with the regional repositories that, in turn, communicate vertically with the centralized recipient and possibly horizontally with other regional repositories. The centralized recipient can then transmit related information such as a health warning to the other members of the network and/or to other authorities.
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26 Claims
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1. A method of detecting a bio-emergency, the method comprising:
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receiving patient health information at a plurality of health care facilities; and
transmitting, simultaneously with said receiving step, the patient health information to a bio-surveillance network; and
compiling the patient health information to create compiled health data. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20)
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21. A method of detecting a bio-emergency, the method comprising:
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receiving individual triage patient health information at a plurality of health care facilities from each of a plurality of patients;
on a patient-by-patient basis, electronically recording triage data for that patient in a computer of the associated health care facility, the triage data for each patient containing at least some of the received health information for that patient;
upon recording the triage data for each patient, transmitting at least a portion of the recorded triage data to a computer for one of a plurality of regional repositories automatically and in at least near real-time, the computer for each of the regional repositories receiving triage data from a computer for each of a plurality of the health care facilities;
transmitting triage data to a computer for a centralized recipient from the computers for regional repositories automatically and in at least near real time with its receipt from the computers for the health care facilities;
analyzing the triage data and determining, based on the analysis, whether a possible bio-emergency exists;
communicating, from the centralized recipient, information regarding the possible bio-emergency to at least one or more of the regional repositories, one or more health care facilities, and other institutions having an interest in responding to a possible bio-emergency. - View Dependent Claims (22, 23)
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24. A method of compiling medical information;
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receiving individual patient health information at a plurality of health care facilities from each of a plurality of patients;
on a patient-by-patient basis, electronically recording data for that patient in a computer for the associated health care facility, the data for each patient containing at least some of the received health information for that patient;
upon recording the data for each patient, transmitting at least a portion of the recorded data to a computer for one of a plurality of regional repositories automatically in at least near real-time, the computer for each of the regional repositories receiving triage data from a plurality of the health care facilities; and
transmitting data to a computer for a centralized recipient from the computers for the regional repositories, the data being derived from or comprising the data received from computers for the health care facilities and being transmitted automatically and in at least near real-time with its receipt from the health care facilities. - View Dependent Claims (25, 26)
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