Presentation of Critical Patient Data

• US 20100198622A1
• Filed: 02/01/2010
• Published: 08/05/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 01/31/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Mayo Foundation For Medical Education And Research (Mayo Clinic)
• Original Assignee: Mayo Foundation For Medical Education And Research (Mayo Clinic)
• Inventors: Pickering, Brian W., Gajic, Ognjen, Herasevich, Vitaly
• Granted Patent: US 10,460,408 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 40/63 for local operation

Abstract

A computer-implemented patient information presentation method is disclosed. The method includes extracting, from records maintained for a patient under care in a healthcare facility, a subset of data points for that patient that are determined to represent data points of highest relevance to a subset of potential caregivers for the patient. The method also includes grouping the subset of data points into a plurality of groups based on a determined relatedness among data points in each of the plurality of groups, and generating a display for presentation to a caregiver that shows at least some of the subset of data points arranged in the groups.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented patient information presentation method, comprising:

extracting, from records maintained for a patient under care in a healthcare facility, a subset of data points for that patient that are determined to represent data points of highest relevance to a subset of potential caregivers for the patient;

grouping the subset of data points into a plurality of groups based on a determined relatedness among data points in each of the plurality of groups;

generating a display for presentation to a caregiver that shows at least some of the subset of data points arranged in the groups.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising identifying a plurality of subset groups of the data points, where each of the plurality of subset groups is directed to a particular caregiver level that differs from others of the plurality of subset groups.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the subset groups are directed to different job titles of caregivers.

4. The method of claim 2, further comprising detecting the presence of an electronic caregiver beacon in proximity to a patient monitor, determining a caregiver level corresponding to a caregiver associated with the beacon, and displaying a subset of data points directed to the determined caregiver level corresponding to the caregiver.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein the caregiver beacon comprises an identification badge or biometric indicator.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the records are stored in a plurality of separate and independent data stores, including a real time patient condition data store and an electronic medical record data store.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the subset of data points are selected as data points having a highest frequency of reliance by experienced caregivers in a group of caregivers having a common job categorization.

8. The method of claim 1, further comprising detecting one or more indicia of organ failure and changing a display mode presented to the caregiver to provide information targeted to the organ failure and to deprecate other information previously displayed on a display.

9. The method of claim 1, further comprising performing an identification of a caregiver in proximity to a patient monitor and generating the display for presentation to the caregiver according to a custom layout for the caregiver.

10. A computing system, comprising:

a patient video monitor;

one or more processors;

memory; and

one or more programs, wherein the one or more programs are stored in the memory and configured to be executed by the one or more processors, the one or more programs including;

instructions for extracting, from records maintained for a patient under care in a healthcare facility, a subset of data points for that patient that are determined to represent data points of highest relevance to a subset of potential caregivers for the patient;

instructions for grouping the subset of data points into a plurality of groups based on a determined relatedness among data points in each of the plurality of groups;

instructions for generating a display for presentation to a caregiver that shows at least some of the subset of data points arranged in the groups.

11. The system of claim 10, wherein the one or more programs further include instructions for identifying a plurality of subset groups of the data points, where each of the plurality of subset groups is directed to a particular caregiver level that differs from others of the plurality of subset groups.

12. The system of claim 11, wherein the subset groups are directed to different job titles of caregivers.

13. The system of claim 12, further comprising an electronic sensor for detecting the presence of a caregiver beacon in proximity to a patient monitor, wherein the one or more programs further comprise instructions for determining a caregiver level corresponding to a caregiver associated with the beacon, and for displaying a subset of data points directed to the determined caregiver level corresponding to the caregiver.

14. The system of claim 13, wherein the caregiver beacon comprises an identification badge or biometric indicator.

15. The system of claim 10, further comprising a plurality of independent data stores storing the records, including a real time patient condition data store and an electronic medical record data store.

16. The system of claim 10, wherein the subset of data points are selected as data points having a highest frequency of reliance by experienced caregivers in a group of caregivers having a common job categorization.

17. The system of claim 10, wherein the one or more programs include instructions for performing an identification of a caregiver in proximity to a patient monitor and generating the display for presentation to the caregiver according to a custom layout for the caregiver.

18. A computer-implemented patient information presentation system, comprising:

a data extractor operating on a computer processor system programmed to analyze a plurality of independent data sources to obtain a subset of data about a patient, from the data sources, using heuristic rules directed to patient data points of highest relevance to a subset of potential caregivers for the patient;

a data grouper operating on the computer processor system

an electronic patient monitor to receive display data from the computer processor system and to display group patient information for at least some of the subset of data