MEDICAL FAILURE PATTERN SEARCH ENGINE
First Claim
1. A hospital monitoring system comprising:
- a database comprising an electronic medical record repository of data wherein the electronic medical record repository of data contains the data of a plurality of patients in at least one hospital; and
a processor programmed with instructions for;
searching the database for at least one complex cascade pattern within the data of the plurality of patients and to identify one or more patients generating the at least one complex cascade pattern.
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Abstract
A patient safety search engine and alarm processor is programmed to repetitively search the electronic medical records of all patients in a hospital system to automatically provide early detection of patients with evolving pathophysiologic cascades, and in particular the cascades of evolving death, such as cascades of septic shock. The search engine also searches for a wide range of evolving pathophysiologic failures which are commonly fatal if detected too late. An alarm processor is provided which is programmed to provide an alarm upon the detection of a cascade or failure. The processor is further be programmed to provide an image of the cascade, and to determine, the severity of the cascade, and the time of onset of the cascade in relation to the timing and type of procedures and treatment and the increased cost associated with the cascade. Discretionary real-time system-wide searches for a wide range of clinical failure patterns or images within the hospital system may be performed using the disclosed patient safety search engine.
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20 Claims
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1. A hospital monitoring system comprising:
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a database comprising an electronic medical record repository of data wherein the electronic medical record repository of data contains the data of a plurality of patients in at least one hospital; and a processor programmed with instructions for; searching the database for at least one complex cascade pattern within the data of the plurality of patients and to identify one or more patients generating the at least one complex cascade pattern. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12)
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13. A patient data processing system comprising a processor programmed to:
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convert the electronic medical records of at least one hospital into sequential and timed trends comprised of at least positive trends and negative trends of both the physiologic parameters and the laboratory data, detect relational trends comprised of a combination of positive and/or negative trends, detect complex cascade patterns comprised of a plurality of combinations of relational trends, automatically output a display of the image of the detected complex cascade, automatically output a warning indicating the detection of the complex cascade and the identification of the patient generating the complex cascade, track the growth or decline of the complex cascade and output an indication indicative of growth or decline. - View Dependent Claims (14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19)
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20. A patient data processing system for processing electronic medical records of a hospital, comprising a processor programmed to:
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generate a time-series of data of at least a portion of a plurality of patients in the hospital, including at least data relating to the physiologic state and/or care of each patient; convert the datasets, including at least the monitored datasets and laboratory datasets into parallel and overlapping time series; identify occurrences comprising inflammatory occurrences, metabolic occurrences, volumetric occurrences, hemodynamic occurrences, therapy occurrences, hematologic occurrences, or respiratory occurrences; identify the timing of the occurrences; identify at least one relational pattern of occurrences along a plurality of time series that is indicative of failure cascade of at least one of a sepsis cascade, a pulmonary embolism cascade, a metabolic cascade, or a microcirculatory failure cascade; and output an alarm when the failure cascade is detected.
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