Process and system for enhancing medical patient care

• US 20040143462A1
• Filed: 01/17/2003
• Published: 07/22/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 01/17/2003
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Providence Medical Group
• Original Assignee: Providence Medical Group
• Inventors: Hunt, Jacquelyn Suzanne, Siemienczuk, Joseph
• Granted Patent: US 7,523,042 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/3
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/00 Information retrieval; Database structures therefor; File system structures therefor
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0201 Market modelling; Market analysis; Collecting market data
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 40/08 Insurance
• 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 50/70 for mining of medical data, e.g. analysing previous cases of other patients
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 50/80 for detecting, monitoring or modelling epidemics or pandemics, e.g. flu
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 70/20 relating to practices or guidelines
• CPC Class Codes: G16Z 99/00 Subject matter not provided for in other main groups of this subclass

Abstract

A process and/or system that extracts selected information from e.g. traditional electronics medical records to enable analysis of a determined medical condition shared by multiple patients. A data warehouse receives the extracted information and reformats that information to enable rapid analysis by a health care provider of that provider'"'"'s patient population having that medical condition. It further collects the selective data of the selected patients for multiple health care providers and enables comparisons of health care providers'"'"' success for such patients to promote upgrading of the treatment by less successful providers.

Claims

1. A process for enhancing the health care of patients which comprises:

accumulating and storing patient information in an electronic patient data record;

developing criteria that identifies a selected existing or threatened health related condition;

querying the patient data record for patients identified by said criteria and retrieving selected information from the data as determined to assist a health care provider in the treatment of such patients;

formatting said information of said patients to enable analysis of the selected existing or threatened health care condition of said patients;

providing electronic accessibility of said formatted information to the health care provider to enable said health care provider to utilize the information to improve patient outcome.

2. A process as defined in claim 1 which further comprises at least daily repetitive querying of said electronic data record for updating the information.

3. A process as defined in claim 2 which further comprises said formatting and said information enabling analysis of patients'"'"' progress resulting from treatment provided by said health care provider.

4. A process as defined in claim 3 which further comprises enabling comparison of treatments and progress of patients.

5. A process as defined in claim 4 which further comprises enabling comparisons of patient outcomes of different health care providers.

6. A process as defined in claim 1 which further comprises providing updated reference materials related to said health care condition and enabling the provider access to said reference materials.

7. A process as defined in claim 5 which further comprises applying benchmarking methodology to said formatted information.

8. A process as defined in claim 1 wherein patient information is initially recorded in an electronic medical record and which further includes transferring selected information from said electronic medical record to a data warehouse where the information is formatted as defined in claim 1.