Method for monitoring telemedicine healthcare services

• US 20040153340A1
• Filed: 12/12/2003
• Published: 08/05/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 06/13/2001
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Siemens AG
• Original Assignee: Siemens AG
• Inventors: Schull, Hans-Dieter, Schneider, Siegfreid, Zahlmann, Gudrun, Schmidt, Volker, Striebel, Werner, Prihoda, Heinz, Christ, Tilo
• Application Number:
  US10/480,439
• Publication Number:
  US 20040153340A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/2
• 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

Abstract

The invention relates to a method for automated monitoring of the service quality of at least one person (P1-P8), recording and/or evaluating medical data sets as part of a telemedicine healthcare service. The invention also relates to a method for automated monitoring of the service quality of the person (P1-P8) recording and/or evaluating the medical data sets. The number of medical data sets received and/or evaluated by the person (P1-P8) per time unit or data characterizing the quality of the recordings and/or evaluation of the medical data sets are determined. The number of medical data sets received and/or evaluated by the person P1-P8) and/or the data characterizing the quality of the recordings and/or evaluation is/are compared with predetermined data and the service quantity and/or service quality of person (P1-P8) receiving and/or evaluating the data is calculated.

Claims

1. A method for automated monitoring of the quality with which at least one person (P1 to P8), associated with a service facility (A, B) for providing telemedical health services, records and/or evaluates medical data records as part of a telemedical health service and/or for automated monitoring of the performance quantity for the person (P1 to P4) recording the medical data records and/or for the person (P5 to P8) evaluating the medical data records by means of a data processing facility (9), having the following method steps:

a) the number of medical data records recorded per unit time by the person (P1 to P4) recording medical data records and/or the number of medical data records evaluated per unit time by the person (P5 to P8) evaluating medical data records is/are ascertained, and/or data characterizing the quality of the recordings and/or of the evaluation of the medical data records are ascertained,

b) the number of medical data records recorded by the person (P1 to P4) recording medical data records and/or the number of medical data records evaluated by the person (P5 to P8) evaluating medical data records and/or the data characterizing the quality of the recordings and/or of the evaluation is/are compared with stipulations, and

c) the performance quantity and/or the performance quality for the person (P1 to P4) recording medical data records and/or for the person (P5 to P8) evaluating medical data records is/are rated.

2. The method as claimed in claim 1, in which a graphic is produced for visualizing the rating of the performance quantity and/or performance quality for the person (P1 to P4) recording medical data records and/or for the person (P5 to P8) evaluating medical data records.

3. The method as claimed in claim 1 or 2, in which the rating of the performance quantity and/or of the performance quality for the person (P1 to P4) recording medical data records and/or for the person (P5 to P8) evaluating medical data records is taken as a basis for deriving at least one consequence or for proposing a measure.

4. The method as claimed in claim 3, in which the essence of a consequence is that a person (P1 to P4) recording medical data records is assigned no more patients for recording the medical data records.

5. The method as claimed in claim 3 or 4, in which the essence of a consequence is that a person (P5 to P8) evaluating medical data records is allocated no more medical data records.

6. The method as claimed in one of claims 1 to 5, in which the person (P1 to P4) recording medical data records is associated with a first service facility (A) and the person (P5 to P8) evaluating medical data records is associated with a second service facilities (B), which service facilities (A, B) form a health service chain.

7. The method as claimed in one of claims 1 to 6, in which the stipulations for comparing the performance quantity and/or performance quality for the person (P1 to P4) recording medical data records and/or for the person (P5 to P8) evaluating medical data records are adaptive.

8. The method as claimed in one of claims 6 or 7, in which at least some of the service facilities (A, B) in the health service chain are arranged at different locations, with the data which are produced in the service facilities (A, B) and are stored in computers (1 to 8) in the service facilities (A, B) being compiled in a central data processing facility (9).

9. The method as claimed in claim 8, in which the computers (1 to 8) in the service facilities (A, B) are networked to one another and to the central data processing facility (9).

10. The method as claimed in one of claims 1 to 9, in which the average processing time for a data record from a person (P1 to P4) recording medical data records and/or from a person (P5 to P8) evaluating medical data records is ascertained.

11. The method as claimed in one of claims 1 to 10, in which the quality of the evaluation of medical data records by the person (P5 to P8) evaluating medical data records is ascertained on the basis of the following method steps:

a) known medical data records which relate to telemedical health services and whose evaluation is known are added purposefully to medical data records awaiting evaluation,

b) the present evaluations of the purposefully added known medical data records are registered,

c) the present evaluations of the known medical data records are compared with the known evaluation of the known medical data records, and

d) the number of present evaluations which differ significantly from the known evaluations of the known medical data records is ascertained.

12. The method as claimed in claim 11, in which the known evaluations of the known medical data records come from the person (P5 to P8) evaluating the medical data records himself.

13. The method as claimed in claim 11 or 12, in which the known evaluations of the known medical data records from the person (P5 to P8) evaluating medical data records are presented for the first time.

14. The method as claimed in one of claims 11 to 13, in which the known medical data records are used to check how many known medical data records which explicitly indicate an illness or abnormality are recognized as such by the person (P5 to P5) evaluating medical data records.

15. The method as claimed in one of claims 11 to 14, in which the known medical data records are used to check how many known medical data records which explicitly do not indicate an illness or abnormality are recognized as such by the person (P5 to P8).

16. The method as claimed in one of claims 1 to 15, in which it is checked how long a medical appliances (11 to 14) used by a service facility (A, B) is licensed for telemedical health services before its operation needs to be checked.

17. The method as claimed in claim 16, in which the status is signalled in relation to the checking of the appliance (11 to 14).

18. The method as claimed in claim 16 or 17, in which the medical appliance (11 to 14) is disabled when the time for the operating licence of the appliance (11 to 14) has been exceeded.

19. The method as claimed in one of claims 1 to 18, in which the medical data records are image data.

20. The method as claimed in claim 19, in which the image data are ophthalmological image data, mammographical image data, pathological image data or dermatological image data.

21. The method as claimed in one of claims 1 to 20, in which the availability of the person (P1 to P4) recording medical data records and/or of the person (P5 to P8) evaluating medical data records is registered.

22. The method as claimed in one of claims 1 to 21, in which the utilization level of the person (P1 to P4) recording medical data records and/or of the person (P5 to P8) evaluating medical data records and/or of the appliances (1 to 8, 11 to 14) used by the persons (P1 to P8) is registered.

23. The method as claimed in one of claims 1 to 22, in which the number of health services processed per unit time is registered.

24. The method as claimed in one of claims 1 to 23, in which the number of health services processed which provided no findings is registered.

25. The method as claimed in one of claims 1 to 24, in which the number of health services processed in which medical complications arose is registered.