METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MONITORING AND SYSTEMATIZING REHABILITATION DATA

• US 20090063194A1
• Filed: 08/11/2008
• Published: 03/05/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 08/27/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Summa Health System
• Original Assignee: Summa Health System
• Inventors: NOE, DONALD, ROSNECK, JAMES
• Granted Patent: US 8,751,254 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/3
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 10/60 for patient-specific data, e.g. for electronic patient records
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 15/00 ICT specially adapted for medical reports, e.g. generation or transmission thereof
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 20/30 relating to physical therapies or activities, e.g. physiotherapy, acupressure or exercising
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/63 for local operation

Abstract

A method for tracking an associated patient'"'"'s progression through rehabilitation includes providing a database, providing a graphic user interface, establishing a functional work capacity for the associated patient, determining a workload based on the functional work capacity, acquiring data from the associated patients'"'"' rehabilitation exercises, entering the data into the database, creating a graphical representation of the data, and comparing the data with the workload.

Claims

1. A method for tracking an associated patient'"'"'s progression through rehabilitation, the method comprising the steps of:

providing a database;

providing a graphic user interface;

establishing a functional work capacity for the associated patient;

determining a workload based on the functional work capacity;

acquiring data from the associated patients'"'"' rehabilitation exercises;

entering the data into the database;

creating a graphical representation of the data; and

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comparing the data with the workload.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein data comparison is displayed in real time.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the graphic user interface comprises at least an X-axis and a Y-axis, wherein the X-axis is a time scale and the Y-axis measures the functional work capacity.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein the functional work capacity is placed into an associated category, wherein the category is determined by a governing body.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein the functional work capacity is displayed and measured in units of mean metabolic equivalents (METs) per session.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the method further comprises the step of:

establishing an exercise conditioning goal for the associated patient based upon the functional work capacity.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein the method further comprises the steps of:

creating an electronic record of the comparison of the data with the work load;

creating an a electronic record of the graphical representation of the goal and the data.

8. The method of claim 7, wherein the method further comprises the step of:

creating an initial exercise prescription for the associated patient by using the electronic record of the real-time comparison between

i) the patient'"'"'s real-time functional work capacity, and

ii) at least one corresponding goal.

9. The method of claim 5, wherein the method further comprises the step of:

establishing an exercise conditioning goal for the associated patient based upon the functional work capacity.

10. The method of claim 9, wherein the method further comprises the steps of:

creating an electronic record of the comparison of the data with the work load;

creating an a electronic record of the graphical representation of the goal and the data.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein the method further comprises the step of:

creating an initial exercise prescription for the associated patient by using the electronic record of the real-time comparison between

i) the patient'"'"'s real-time functional work capacity, and

ii) at least one corresponding goal.

12. The method of claim 1, wherein the method further comprises:

providing graphical representation of the patient'"'"'s physiologic data, wherein the data is chosen from the group comprising maximum heart rate, maximum blood pressure, and peak METs; and

,

providing graphical representation of modality settings, wherein the modality setting is chosen from associated exercise equipment.

13. A computer readable medium comprising instructions for carrying out the following:

providing a database;

providing a graphic user interface;

establishing a functional work capacity for the associated patient;

determining a workload based on the functional work capacity;

acquiring data from the associated patients'"'"' rehabilitation exercises;

entering the data into the database;

creating a graphical representation of the data; and

,

comparing the data with the workload.

14. The computer readable medium of claim 13, wherein data comparison is displayed in real time.

15. The computer readable medium of claim 14, wherein the graphic user interface comprises at least an X-axis and a Y-axis, wherein the X-axis is a time scale and the Y-axis measures the functional work capacity.

16. The computer readable medium of claim 15, wherein the functional work capacity is placed into an associated category, wherein the category is determined by a governing body.

17. The computer readable medium of claim 16, wherein the functional work capacity is displayed and measured in units of mean metabolic equivalents (METs) per session.

18. The computer readable medium of claim 13, wherein the method further comprises the step of:

establishing an exercise conditioning goal for the associated patient based upon the functional work capacity.