IDENTIFICATION OF HEALTH CARE ASSOCIATED INFECTIONS

• US 20100169122A1
• Filed: 12/31/2008
• Published: 07/01/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 12/31/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Cerner Innovation, Inc. (Oracle Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Cerner Innovation, Inc. (Oracle Corporation)
• Inventors: TARKKA, SUSAN, SCHMITT, MICHAEL DEAN, RUOFF, CHAD BARRETT
• Application Number:
  US12/347,575
• Publication Number:
  US 20100169122A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/3
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 50/20 for computer-aided diagnosis, e.g. based on medical expert systems
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 70/60 relating to pathologies

Abstract

Described herein are embodiments directed to displaying presumptive health care infections (HAIs) that may be affecting a patients in health care facilities. Patient data is stored in a database. Software-encoded health care rules for detecting HAIs infections are applied to the patient data and used to classify a patient as having an HAI or community-acquired illness. If an HAI infection is detected, an indication of the HAI is communicated to a remote computer for display in a graphical user interface (GUI) to a clinician. Lists of patients at a given health care facility are communicated to the clinician and organized into groups of patients with HAIs and community-acquired infections.

Claims

1. One or more computer-storage media having computer-executable instructions embedded thereon for performing steps to determine and store notification of health care associated infections (HAIs) associated with a patient, comprising:

applying one or more rules to patient data, wherein the one or more rules are configured to analyze patient-specific data and determine whether the patient has an HAI;

determining the patient has an HAI; and

storing an indication that the patient has the HAI.

2. The media of claim 1, further comprising creating a document that lists a plurality of patients at a health care facility, wherein the list includes information about the patient and identifies the patient as having the HAI.

3. The media of claim 2, wherein the list includes patient identifications that comprise at least one of the of the patient'"'"'s bed, nurse unit, admit date, and length of stay.

4. The media of claim 3, wherein the patient identification comprise an indication of an isolation status associated with the patient.

5. The media of claim 2, further comprising:

querying a server to determine whether each of the plurality of patients has additional HAIs;

presenting, in the document, indications of additional HAIs affecting the plurality of patients; and

identifying groups of the plurality of patients that have HAIs and groups of the plurality of patients that have community-acquired illnesses.

6. The media of claim 2, wherein the document is an HTML document.

7. The media of claim 2, wherein the document is an XML document.

8. The media of claim 1, further comprising:

creating a document that lists a plurality of patients receiving treatment at a health care facility;

identifying which of the patients have been identified as having HAIs;

identifying which of the patients have been identified as having community-acquired illnesses; and

providing hyperlinks on entries associated with the patients, wherein the hyperlinks, when selected, initiate GUIs that present one or more risk factors used to determine whether a particular patient has a particular HAI.

9. The media of claim 1, wherein the patient data includes patient-specific data.

10. The media of claim 1, wherein the patient data includes at least one of patient-location data and treating-clinician data.

11. The media of claim 1, wherein the patient data includes treating-clinician data.

12. A method for determining and displaying notification of health care associated infections (HAIs) associated with a patient, comprising:

receiving patient data about the patient;

applying software-based rules to the patient data to determine whether the patient is affected by an HAI or a community-acquired infection;

storing an indication that the user has an HAI; and

transmitting a document to a remote computing device, wherein the document identifies the patient as having the HAI.

13. The method of claim 12, wherein the document lists a plurality of patients being treated at a health care facility.

14. The method of claim 13, wherein entries for each of the plurality of patients are hyperlinked to additional documents that explain the reasons the patient was identified as having the HAI.

15. The method of claim 14, wherein each of the additional documents lists patient criteria and risk factors specific to specific patients.

16. The method of claim 12, wherein the document comprises at least one of an HTML or XML document.

17. A system for determining and displaying notification of health care associated infections (HAIs) associated with a patient, comprising:

one or more remote computers configured to transmit patient data and submit a query about the patient, wherein the query requests an identification of whether the patient has an HAI or a community-acquired illness; and

one or more servers configured to;

(1) receive the query,

(2) determine whether the patient has likely been affected by at least one HAI, and

(3) transmit a document to the one or more remote computers that identifies the patient as having the HAI.

18. The system of claim 17, wherein the document lists a plurality of patients and whether each patient has HAIs.

19. The system of claim 18, wherein the document identifies which of the plurality of patients have HAIs and which have community-acquired infections.

20. The system of claim 18, wherein the document provides hyperlinks for each of the plurality of patients, wherein each hyperlink, when selected, submits a request to the server for an additional document that details the reasons a given patient has been diagnosed with an HAI.