System and method for providing a health score for a patient

• US 20090105550A1
• Filed: 10/15/2007
• Published: 04/23/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 10/13/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Spacelabs Healthcare LLC (OSI Systems Incorporated)
• Original Assignee: Michael Rothman & Associates, LLC
• Inventors: Rothman, Steven I., Rothman, Daniel B., Rothman, Michael J.
• Granted Patent: US 8,100,829 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 600/300
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 15/00 ICT specially adapted for medical reports, e.g. generation or transmission thereof
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/63 for local operation
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 50/20 for computer-aided diagnosis, e.g. based on medical expert systems
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 50/30 for calculating health indices; for individual health risk assessment
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 50/70 for mining of medical data, e.g. analysing previous cases of other patients

Abstract

A system and method for providing an indicator of a patient'"'"'s health. The system may include a data module receiving data relating to a patient'"'"'s health, the data including subjective data, a conversion module generating an output from the data, the output representing the patient'"'"'s health, and a display module displaying the output and a standard output for a user to compare with the output. A method of providing a customizable system for generating an indicator of a patient'"'"'s health, the method including providing a system including a data module, a conversion module generating an output via a first algorithm, and a display module displaying the output and a standard output generated by a second algorithm, and customizing at least one of the first and second algorithms according to preferences of a user.

Claims

1. A system for generating an indicator of a patient'"'"'s health, the system comprising:

a data module receiving data relating to a patient'"'"'s health, the data including subjective data;

a conversion module generating an output from the data, the output representing the patient'"'"'s health; and

a display module displaying the output for a user to analyze.

2. The system according to claim 1, wherein the data module receives first data at a first time and second data at a second time, the conversion module generates a first output representing the patient'"'"'s health at the first time and a second output representing the patient'"'"'s health at a second time, and the display module plots the first and second outputs with respect to time as a patient'"'"'s health graph.

3. The system according to claim 2, wherein the display module compares the patient'"'"'s health graph with a standard health graph and alerts a user if the patient'"'"'s health graph differs from the standard health graph by a predetermined amount.

4. The system according to claim 1, wherein the data module receives first data at a first time, second data at a second time, and third data at a third time, the conversion module generates a first output representing the patient'"'"'s health at the first time, a second output representing the patient'"'"'s health at a second time and a third output representing the patient'"'"'s health at the third time, and the display module plots the first, second and third outputs with respect to time as a patient'"'"'s health graph.

5. The system according to claim 4, wherein the display module compares a change in slope of the patient'"'"'s health graph with a change in slope of the a standard health graph and alerts a user if the change in slope of the patient'"'"'s health graph differs from the change in slope of the standard health graph by a predetermined amount.

6. The system according to claim 1, wherein the subjective data includes at least one factor from a nursing assessment.

7. The system according to claim 6, wherein the at least one factor is a pass/fail test, an outcome of the pass/fail test is determined by a user evaluating at least two conditions of a patient.

8. The system according to claim 1, wherein the output is a number ranging from zero to 100.

9. The system according to claim 1, wherein the display module displays a plurality of outputs representing the patient'"'"'s health during at least a majority of a patient'"'"'s stay in a health care facility.

10. The system according to claim 1, wherein the display module is designed to display a plurality of outputs representing the patient'"'"'s health for at least a 24 hour period.

11. The system according to claim 1, wherein the display module is designed to display a plurality of outputs representing the patient'"'"'s health during a patient'"'"'s stay in a health care facility.

12. A method of providing a customizable system for generating an indicator of a patient'"'"'s health, the method comprising:

providing a system including a data module receiving data relating to a patient'"'"'s health, a conversion module generating an output determined using the data inputted into a first algorithm, the output representing the patient'"'"'s health, and a display module displaying the output for a user to analyze; and

customizing at least one of the first and a standard algorithms according to preferences of a user.

13. The method according to claim 12, wherein the customizing step includes customizing both the first and the standard algorithms according to preferences of the user.

14. The method according to claim 12, wherein the user is a health care facility.

15. The method according to claim 12, wherein the data includes subjective data and the customizing step includes customizing the first algorithm according to the preferences of the user.

16. A method of generating indicators of a patient'"'"'s health, the method comprising:

(a) receiving data relating to a patient'"'"'s health;

(b) generating an output from the data, the output representing the patient'"'"'s health;

(c) displaying the output on a display module; and

(d) making a healthcare decision based on the output.

17. The method according to claim 16, wherein the healthcare decision includes determining how urgently the patient requires attention from a healthcare provider.

18. The method according to claim 16, wherein the healthcare decision includes a prediction of the patient'"'"'s expected length of stay.

19. The method according to claim 16, wherein the healthcare decision includes determining whether to omit a routine procedure.

20. The method according to claim 16, further comprising repeating steps a-c to generate a second output representing at least one additional patient'"'"'s health, and wherein the healthcare decision includes determining which patients are assigned to which healthcare providers.