EVIDENCE-BASED HEALTHCARE INFORMATION MANAGEMENT PROTOCOLS

• US 20130173284A1
• Filed: 12/05/2012
• Published: 07/04/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 12/30/2011
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: The Invention Science Fund II, L.L.C. (Intellectual Ventures LLC)
• Original Assignee: Elwha LLC (Intellectual Ventures LLC)
• Inventors: Hyde, Roderick A., Jung, Edward K.Y., Kare, Jordin T., Leuthardt, Eric C., Levien, Royce A., Lord, Richard T., Lord, Robert W., Malamud, Mark A., Rinaldo, John D. Jr., Rivet, Dennis J., Tegreene, Clarence T., Wood, Lowell L. Jr.
• Application Number:
  US13/705,338
• Publication Number:
  US 20130173284A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/2
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/063 Operations research, analysis or management
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/06398 Performance of employee with respect to a job function
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 10/40 for data related to laboratory analysis, e.g. patient specimen analysis
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 20/10 relating to drugs or medications, e.g. for ensuring correct administration to patients
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/60 for the operation of medical equipment or devices
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 50/30 for calculating health indices; for individual health risk assessment

Abstract

Structures and protocols are presented for signaling a status or decision (processing or transmitting a medical record or other resource, e.g.) conditionally. Such signaling may be partly based on one or more symptoms, regimen attributes, performance indicia (compliance indications, e.g.), privacy considerations (patient consent, e.g.), contextual considerations (being in or admitted by a care facility, e.g.), sensor data, or other such determinants. In some contexts this may trigger an incentive being manifested (as a dispensation of an item, e.g.), an intercommunication (telephone call, e.g.) beginning, a device being configured (enabled or customized, e.g.), data distillations being presented or tracked, or other such results.

Claims

1. A healthcare information management system comprising:

one or more articles of manufacture including transistor-based circuitry having an event-sequencing structure configured for obtaining via a first device a scalar indication of how well a first health regimen has been followed by a first individual;

transistor-based circuitry having an event-sequencing structure configured for obtaining via a second device a scalar indication of how well a second health regimen has been followed by a second individual; and

transistor-based circuitry having an event-sequencing structure configured for characterizing a performance of a third individual with a scalar evaluation obtained by mathematically combining the scalar indication of how well the first health regimen has been followed by the first individual with the scalar indication of how well the second health regimen has been followed by the second individual.

3. The healthcare information management system of claim 1, further comprising:

the first device, the first health regimen having a medicinal component, the first device configured to generate the scalar indication of how well the first health regimen has been followed by the first individual in response to one or more indications of a movement of a portion of a medicine container.

5. The healthcare information management system of claim 1, further comprising:

a data-handling medium, the first health regimen including an omission component, the scalar indication of how well the first health regimen has been followed by the first individual being a rate negatively or positively indicative of compliance with the omission component of the first health regimen borne on the data-handling medium.

6. The healthcare information management system of claim 1, further comprising:

a data-handling medium bearing a record associating the first device with the first individual and with the first health regimen.

7. The healthcare information management system of claim 1, further comprising:

a data-handling medium, the second health regimen including a medicinal component, the scalar indication of how well the second health regimen has been followed by the second individual being a rate negatively or positively indicative of compliance with the medicinal component of the second health regimen borne on the data-handling medium.

8. The healthcare information management system of claim 1, further comprising:

the second device, being wearable by and associated with the second individual.

16. The healthcare information management system of claim 1, further comprising:

a third device, being a networked device that includes the transistor-based circuitry having the event-sequencing structure configured for characterizing the performance of the third individual with the scalar evaluation obtained by mathematically combining the scalar indication of how well the first health regimen has been followed by the first individual with the scalar indication of how well the second health regimen has been followed by the second individual.

22. The healthcare information management system of claim 1, further comprising:

the transistor-based circuitry having the event-sequencing structure configured for characterizing the performance of the third individual with the scalar evaluation obtained by mathematically combining the scalar indication of how well the first health regimen has been followed by the first individual with the scalar indication of how well the second health regimen has been followed by the second individual including at least

transistor-based circuitry having an event-sequencing structure configured for contacting an individual by a fallback mode of communication as an automatic and conditional response to receiving no reply from the individual by a prior mode of communication, the fallback mode of communication being telephonic, the individual being the second individual.

30. The healthcare information management system of claim 1, further comprising:

the transistor-based circuitry having the event-sequencing structure configured for characterizing the performance of the third individual with the scalar evaluation obtained by mathematically combining the scalar indication of how well the first health regimen has been followed by the first individual with the scalar indication of how well the second health regimen has been followed by the second individual including at least

transistor-based circuitry having an event-sequencing structure configured for signaling a decision whether to transfer a resource to the first individual partly based on an indication that the first individual is not compliant with a health regimen and partly based on an indication that the first individual has accepted a telephone call.

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40. A healthcare information management system comprising:

one or more articles of manufacture including

means for obtaining via a first device a scalar indication of how well a first health regimen has been followed by a first individual;

means for obtaining via a second device a scalar indication of how well a second health regimen has been followed by a second individual; and

means for characterizing a performance of a third individual with a scalar evaluation obtained by mathematically combining the scalar indication of how well the first health regimen has been followed by the first individual with the scalar indication of how well the second health regimen has been followed by the second individual.

41. The healthcare information management system of claim 40, further comprising:

the means for characterizing the performance of the third individual with the scalar evaluation obtained by mathematically combining the scalar indication of how well the first health regimen has been followed by the first individual with the scalar indication of how well the second health regimen has been followed by the second individual including at least

means for looking up a communication delay as a function of a therapeutic protocol, the therapeutic protocol being a component of the first health regimen; and

means for transmitting a query as an automatic response to an expiration of the communication delay.

42. The healthcare information management system of claim 40, further comprising:

the means for characterizing the performance of the third individual with the scalar evaluation obtained by mathematically combining the scalar indication of how well the first health regimen has been followed by the first individual with the scalar indication of how well the second health regimen has been followed by the second individual including at least

means for looking up a communication delay as a function of a medical condition of the second individual; and

means for transmitting a query as an automatic response to an expiration of the communication delay.

43. The healthcare information management system of claim 40, further comprising:

the means for characterizing the performance of the third individual with the scalar evaluation obtained by mathematically combining the scalar indication of how well the first health regimen has been followed by the first individual with the scalar indication of how well the second health regimen has been followed by the second individual including at least

means for causing an individual to be contacted by a fallback mode of communication as a conditional response to receiving no reply from the individual by a prior mode of communication, the prior mode of communication being telephonic, the individual being the first individual or the second individual.

44. The healthcare information management system of claim 40, further comprising:

the means for characterizing the performance of the third individual with the scalar evaluation obtained by mathematically combining the scalar indication of how well the first health regimen has been followed by the first individual with the scalar indication of how well the second health regimen has been followed by the second individual including at least

means for contacting an individual by a fallback mode of communication as an automatic and conditional response to receiving no reply from the individual by a prior mode of communication, the fallback mode of communication being telephonic, the individual being the second individual.

46. The healthcare information management system of claim 40, further comprising:

the means for characterizing the performance of the third individual with the scalar evaluation obtained by mathematically combining the scalar indication of how well the first health regimen has been followed by the first individual with the scalar indication of how well the second health regimen has been followed by the second individual including at least

means for obtaining an indication that a specific pathology in the first individual has been treated at a first hospital and an indication that the specific pathology in the first individual has been treated at a second hospital.

47. The healthcare information management system of claim 40, further comprising:

the means for characterizing the performance of the third individual with the scalar evaluation obtained by mathematically combining the scalar indication of how well the first health regimen has been followed by the first individual with the scalar indication of how well the second health regimen has been followed by the second individual including at least

means for retrieving a medical treatment record of the first individual selectively in response to an explicit indication of a payment reduction that identifies the first individual.

48. The healthcare information management system of claim 40, further comprising:

the means for characterizing the performance of the third individual with the scalar evaluation obtained by mathematically combining the scalar indication of how well the first health regimen has been followed by the first individual with the scalar indication of how well the second health regimen has been followed by the second individual including at least

means for retrieving a medical treatment record relating to a set of one or more pathologies selectively in response to an explicit indication of a payment reduction that identifies the set.

50. The healthcare information management system of claim 40, further comprising:

the means for characterizing the performance of the third individual with the scalar evaluation obtained by mathematically combining the scalar indication of how well the first health regimen has been followed by the first individual with the scalar indication of how well the second health regimen has been followed by the second individual including at least

means for obtaining an explicit indication whether or not a record of treating a medical condition in the first individual with a particular protocol contains any extrinsic evidence that treating the medical condition with the particular protocol has precedent.

51. The healthcare information management system of claim 40, further comprising:

the means for characterizing the performance of the third individual with the scalar evaluation obtained by mathematically combining the scalar indication of how well the first health regimen has been followed by the first individual with the scalar indication of how well the second health regimen has been followed by the second individual including at least

means for initiating a telephone call between the first individual and the third individual as an automatic response to the first individual not being compliant with a component of the first health regimen and to an indication that the third individual is available.

52. The healthcare information management system of claim 40, further comprising:

the means for characterizing the performance of the third individual with the scalar evaluation obtained by mathematically combining the scalar indication of how well the first health regimen has been followed by the first individual with the scalar indication of how well the second health regimen has been followed by the second individual including at least

means for signaling a decision whether to transfer a resource to the first individual partly based on an indication that the first individual is not compliant with a health regimen and partly based on an indication that the first individual has accepted a telephone call.

54. The healthcare information management system of claim 40, further comprising:

the means for characterizing the performance of the third individual with the scalar evaluation obtained by mathematically combining the scalar indication of how well the first health regimen has been followed by the first individual with the scalar indication of how well the second health regimen has been followed by the second individual including at least

means for determining whether a medical device is in a vicinity of the first device, the medical device being a third device.

57. The healthcare information management system of claim 40, further comprising:

the means for characterizing the performance of the third individual with the scalar evaluation obtained by mathematically combining the scalar indication of how well the first health regimen has been followed by the first individual with the scalar indication of how well the second health regimen has been followed by the second individual including at least

means for detecting a passive wireless transponder within a vicinity of a vehicle, the first device including the passive wireless transponder and being wearable by the first individual.

58. The healthcare information management system of claim 40, further comprising:

the means for characterizing the performance of the third individual with the scalar evaluation obtained by mathematically combining the scalar indication of how well the first health regimen has been followed by the first individual with the scalar indication of how well the second health regimen has been followed by the second individual including at least

means for obtaining an indication whether the second individual is compliant with the second health regimen as a determinant of a decision whether or not to manifest an artificial incentive.

59. The healthcare information management system of claim 40, further comprising:

the means for characterizing the performance of the third individual with the scalar evaluation obtained by mathematically combining the scalar indication of how well the first health regimen has been followed by the first individual with the scalar indication of how well the second health regimen has been followed by the second individual including at least

means for triggering a search of a particular records archive by providing a selective search criterion, one that results in an exclusion of a first element in the particular records archive and an inclusion of a second element in the particular records archive, the second element referring to the first individual or to the second individual.

61. The healthcare information management system of claim 40, further comprising:

the means for characterizing the performance of the third individual with the scalar evaluation obtained by mathematically combining the scalar indication of how well the first health regimen has been followed by the first individual with the scalar indication of how well the second health regimen has been followed by the second individual including at least

means for implementing a failsafe preventing medical equipment from operating until an order that associates the medical equipment with the first individual is received and until an indication is received that the first individual is in a vicinity of the medical equipment.

86. The healthcare information management system of claim 40, further comprising:

the means for characterizing the performance of the third individual with the scalar evaluation obtained by mathematically combining the scalar indication of how well the first health regimen has been followed by the first individual with the scalar indication of how well the second health regimen has been followed by the second individual including at least

means for detecting a passive wireless transponder within a vicinity of a vehicle, the first device including the passive wireless transponder and being wearable by the first individual;

means for obtaining an explicit indication whether or not a record of treating a medical condition in the first individual with a particular protocol contains any extrinsic evidence that treating the medical condition with the particular protocol has precedent;

means for causing an individual to be contacted by a fallback mode of communication as a conditional response to receiving no reply from the individual by a prior mode of communication, the prior mode of communication being telephonic, the individual being the first individual or the second individual; and

means for retrieving a medical treatment record relating to a set of one or more pathologies selectively in response to an explicit indication of a payment reduction that identifies the set.

87. The healthcare information management system of claim 40, further comprising:

the means for characterizing the performance of the third individual with the scalar evaluation obtained by mathematically combining the scalar indication of how well the first health regimen has been followed by the first individual with the scalar indication of how well the second health regimen has been followed by the second individual including at least

means for looking up a communication delay as a function of a medical condition of the second individual and as a function of a therapeutic protocol, the therapeutic protocol being a component of the first health regimen; and

means for transmitting a query as an automatic response to an expiration of the communication delay;

means for determining whether a medical device is in a vicinity of the first device, the medical device being a third device; and

means for implementing a failsafe preventing medical equipment from operating until an order that associates the medical equipment with the first individual is received and until an indication is received that the first individual is in a vicinity of the medical equipment, the medical equipment including the medical device.

88. The healthcare information management system of claim 40, further comprising:

the means for characterizing the performance of the third individual with the scalar evaluation obtained by mathematically combining the scalar indication of how well the first health regimen has been followed by the first individual with the scalar indication of how well the second health regimen has been followed by the second individual including at least

means for triggering a search of a particular records archive by providing a selective search criterion, one that results in an exclusion of a first element in the particular records archive and an inclusion of a second element in the particular records archive, the second element referring to the first individual or to the second individual;

means for initiating a telephone call between the first individual and the third individual as an automatic response to the first individual not being compliant with a component of the first health regimen and to an indication that the third individual is available;

means for retrieving a medical treatment record of the first individual selectively in response to an explicit indication of a payment reduction that identifies the first individual;

means for obtaining an indication that a specific pathology in the first individual has been treated at a first hospital and an indication that the specific pathology in the first individual has been treated at a second hospital; and

means for obtaining an indication whether the second individual is compliant with the second health regimen as a determinant of a decision whether or not to manifest an artificial incentive.

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62. A healthcare information management method comprising:

obtaining via a first device a scalar indication of how well a first health regimen has been followed by a first individual;

obtaining via a second device a scalar indication of how well a second health regimen has been followed by a second individual; and

invoking transistor-based circuitry having an event-sequencing structure configured for characterizing a performance of a third individual with a scalar evaluation obtained by mathematically combining the scalar indication of how well the first health regimen has been followed by the first individual with the scalar indication of how well the second health regimen has been followed by the second individual.

79. The healthcare information management method of claim 62, further comprising:

the invoking the transistor-based circuitry having the event-sequencing structure configured for characterizing the performance of the third individual with the scalar evaluation obtained by mathematically combining the scalar indication of how well the first health regimen has been followed by the first individual with the scalar indication of how well the second health regimen has been followed by the second individual including at least

detecting a passive wireless transponder within a vicinity of a vehicle, the first device including the passive wireless transponder and being wearable by the first individual.

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84. An article of manufacture for healthcare information management comprising:

one or more physical media configured to bear a device-detectable implementation of a method including at least

obtaining via a first device a scalar indication of how well a first health regimen has been followed by a first individual;

obtaining via a second device a scalar indication of how well a second health regimen has been followed by a second individual; and

characterizing a performance of a third individual with a scalar evaluation obtained by mathematically combining the scalar indication of how well the first health regimen has been followed by the first individual with the scalar indication of how well the second health regimen has been followed by the second individual.

85. An article of manufacture for healthcare information management comprising:

one or more physical media bearing a device-detectable output manifesting an occurrence of

obtaining via a first device a scalar indication of how well a first health regimen has been followed by a first individual;

obtaining via a second device a scalar indication of how well a second health regimen has been followed by a second individual; and

characterizing a performance of a third individual with a scalar evaluation obtained by mathematically combining the scalar indication of how well the first health regimen has been followed by the first individual with the scalar indication of how well the second health regimen has been followed by the second individual.