System and process for facilitating the provision of health care
First Claim
1. A process executed by a computer system for facilitating the provision of health care to a patient, including the steps of:
- receiving patient data relating to the health of a patient;
processing said patient data to determine a risk status providing an indication of risk to the patient'"'"'s health;
selecting a health care provider to attend said patient on the basis of said risk status; and
transmitting a direction to said health care provider to attend the patient.
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Abstract
A system for facilitating the provision of health care to patients, including computerised means (135) for logging patient data relating to health of the patients, and an administration system (105) in communication with the computerised means and configured to determine a risk status of each patient based on the patient data The administration system is also configured to, for each patient: transmit a first direction to a first health care provider to attend the patient, depending on the risk status of the patient; determine whether the first health care provider has confirmed attendance at the patient within a first time period; and transmit a second direction to a second health care provider to attend the patient within a second time period if attendance by the first health care provider was not confirmed.
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66 Claims
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1. A process executed by a computer system for facilitating the provision of health care to a patient, including the steps of:
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receiving patient data relating to the health of a patient;
processing said patient data to determine a risk status providing an indication of risk to the patient'"'"'s health;
selecting a health care provider to attend said patient on the basis of said risk status; and
transmitting a direction to said health care provider to attend the patient. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 44, 45)
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34. A process executed by a computer system for facilitating the provision of health care to a patient, including the steps of:
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receiving patient data relating to the health, of said patient;
determining a risk status of said patient based on said patient data;
transmitting a first direction to a first health care provider to attend the patient, the first direction including the risk status of the patient;
determining whether the first health care provider confirms attendance at the patient; and
transmitting a second direction to a second health care provider to attend the patient if attendance by the first health care provider was not confirmed. - View Dependent Claims (35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42)
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43. A patient care process executed by a computer system, including the steps of:
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determining a risk level of a patient; and
repeatedly requesting one or more medical or health care providers to attend the patient if the risk level is above a predetermined level and the patient is unattended by said health care providers.
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46. A system for facilitating the provision of health care to one or more patients, including:
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computerised means for logging patient data relating to health of said one or more patients;
an administration system in communication with said computerised means and configured to determine a risk status of each of said one or more patients based on the patient data, said administration system being further configured to, for each patient;
transmit a first direction to a first health care provider to attend the patient, depending on the risk status of the patient;
determine whether the first health care provider has confirmed attendance at the patient within a first time period; and
transmit a second direction to a second health care provider to attend the patient within a second time period if attendance by the first health care provider was not confirmed. - View Dependent Claims (47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64)
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65. A patient care system including:
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at least one electronic device for recording patient data relating to the health of one or more patients;
a central server in communication with the at least one electronic device and configured to repeatedly contact one or more health care providers to request attendance at least one of the one or more patients if the patient data indicates that the health of the at least one patient is above a predetermined risk level and the at least one patient is unattended.
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66. A patient care system, comprising:
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means for determining a risk level of a patient; and
means for repeatedly contacting one or more medical or health care personnel to attend the patient if the risk level is above a predetermined level and the patient is unattended.
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