Intelligent Particle Beam Allocation System and Related Method for Treatment in Multi-Room Medical Centers
First Claim
1. A computer implemented system for tracking and directing work flow in a particle therapy medical center, comprising:
- a monitoring system configured to receive real-time information about the current actions of people, hardware, and software at the medical center from the people, hardware, and software at the medical center;
an analysis system configured to analyze the information received by the monitoring system to construct probability distributions for each step in a treatment process of the medical center; and
a control system configured to use the probability distributions from the analysis system to predict demands on shared resources, provide strategies for dealing with the demands, and output the demands and strategies.
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Abstract
A computer-implemented system and method for controlling work flow management to improve the operational efficiency of a multi-room particle therapy medical center are disclosed. In one embodiment, the system includes a monitoring system configured through an active connection to receive real-time information about the current actions of the people, hardware and software at the center, an analysis system configured through an active connection to synthesize the information attained through the monitoring system, and a control system configured through an active connection that uses information acquired by the monitoring system to continuously update information made available through a set of user interfaces to an end user. Features also are provided to automatically synchronize, obtain, and update status information on the shared resources in the particle therapy medical center. Various ways of handling the data aggregation issues associated with compiling status data are also described.
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13 Claims
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1. A computer implemented system for tracking and directing work flow in a particle therapy medical center, comprising:
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a monitoring system configured to receive real-time information about the current actions of people, hardware, and software at the medical center from the people, hardware, and software at the medical center; an analysis system configured to analyze the information received by the monitoring system to construct probability distributions for each step in a treatment process of the medical center; and a control system configured to use the probability distributions from the analysis system to predict demands on shared resources, provide strategies for dealing with the demands, and output the demands and strategies. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5)
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6. A computer implemented method of managing a particle therapy medical center, comprising:
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monitoring real-time information about a current status of patients, employees, waiting rooms, treatment rooms, and a radiation source; analyzing probability distributions for each step of a treatment process in each treatment room of the medical center; and directing a particle beam from the radiation source to a specific treatment room based on the probability distributions to reduce the total amount of time all patients spend waiting for treatment. - View Dependent Claims (7, 8, 9)
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10. A computer implemented method for predicting beam priority of a radiation source in a medical center, comprising:
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monitoring real-time information about a current status of patients, employees, waiting rooms, treatment rooms, and a radiation source; analyzing probability distributions for each step of a treatment process in each treatment room of the medical center; and directing a particle beam from the radiation source to a specific treatment room based on the probability distributions to reduce the total amount of time all patients spend waiting for treatment. - View Dependent Claims (11, 12, 13)
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