Method and system for providing clinical care
First Claim
1. A method, operative within a clinical environment in which real-time locations of personnel and resources are tracked, comprising:
- in association with entry of a patient into the clinical environment, identifying a care guideline;
using the care guideline, a set of one or more process rules, and information associated with at least one encounter to generate a patient-specific care protocol having a set of steps through which the patient is expected to proceed while in the clinical environment, wherein an encounter occurs when two or more of the following objects are in a given physical proximity for a given time period at determined by the at least one process rule;
the patient, clinical personnel, and a clinical resource;
monitoring at least one event that occurs during at least a first step of the patient-specific care protocol and using information generated by the monitoring step and at least one process rule to determine whether the patient moves to a next step in the patient-specific care protocol.
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Abstract
The present invention describes a method that is operative within a clinical environment in which real-time locations of personnel and resources are tracked. The method begins in association with entry of a patient into the clinical environment, such as when a patient is in transit, or has been admitted, to an emergency room or to a hospital. In response, a given care guideline is identified. Using the care guideline, a set of one or more process rules, and information associated with at least one “encounter,” the system generates a patient-specific care protocol; the protocol includes a set of steps through which the patient is expected to proceed while in the clinical environment. An encounter occurs when two or more of objects (e.g., the patient, clinical personnel, and a clinical resource) are in a given physical proximity for a given time period at determined by the at least one process rule. According to the method, at least one event that occurs during at least a first step of the patient-specific care protocol is then monitored. Using information generated by the monitoring step and at least one process rule, the system then determines whether the patient moves to a next step in the patient-specific care protocol.
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20 Claims
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1. A method, operative within a clinical environment in which real-time locations of personnel and resources are tracked, comprising:
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in association with entry of a patient into the clinical environment, identifying a care guideline; using the care guideline, a set of one or more process rules, and information associated with at least one encounter to generate a patient-specific care protocol having a set of steps through which the patient is expected to proceed while in the clinical environment, wherein an encounter occurs when two or more of the following objects are in a given physical proximity for a given time period at determined by the at least one process rule;
the patient, clinical personnel, and a clinical resource;monitoring at least one event that occurs during at least a first step of the patient-specific care protocol and using information generated by the monitoring step and at least one process rule to determine whether the patient moves to a next step in the patient-specific care protocol. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11)
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12. A method, operative within a health care facility in which real-time locations of personnel and resources are tracked and resource availability is known, comprising:
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using a care guideline, a set of one or more process rules, resource availability data, and information associated with at least one encounter to generate a care protocol having at least first and second steps through which a patient is expected to proceed while in the clinical environment, wherein an encounter occurs when two or more of the following objects are in a given physical proximity for a given time period at determined by the at least one process rule;
the patient, clinical personnel, and a clinical resource;evaluating a context during the first step of the care protocol to determine whether the patient moves to the second step in the care protocol. - View Dependent Claims (13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18)
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19. A method, operative within a health care facility, comprising:
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tracking real-time locations of personnel and resources to generate real-time encounter data, wherein the encounter data defines one or more encounters, and wherein an encounter occurs when two or more of the following objects are in a given physical proximity for a given time period;
a patient, clinical personnel, and a clinical resource;evaluating the encounter data against given context data; and modifying a given system behavior as a result of the evaluation. - View Dependent Claims (20)
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