METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MONITORING PATIENT CARE

• US 20130246100A1
• Filed: 05/14/2013
• Published: 09/19/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 02/28/2001
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Vigilanz Corporation
• Original Assignee: Vigilanz Corporation
• Inventors: Klass, David B., Klass, Adam P., Ring, Dennis J., Goldsteen, David
• Granted Patent: US 8,744,873 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/3
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 10/20 for electronic clinical trials or questionnaires
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 10/40 for data related to laboratory analysis, e.g. patient specimen analysis
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 10/60 for patient-specific data, e.g. for electronic patient records
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 15/00 ICT specially adapted for medical reports, e.g. generation or transmission thereof
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 20/10 relating to drugs or medications, e.g. for ensuring correct administration to patients
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/20 for the management or administration of healthcare resources or facilities, e.g. managing hospital staff or surgery rooms
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 50/20 for computer-aided diagnosis, e.g. based on medical expert systems
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 50/30 for calculating health indices; for individual health risk assessment
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 70/20 relating to practices or guidelines
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 70/40 relating to drugs, e.g. their side effects or intended usage

Abstract

The subject invention is a Patient Care Monitoring System which employs a novel method and system for monitoring the care provided to a patient at a health care facility. In one embodiment, the subject invention includes a central processor in communication with a health care facility'"'"'s computer systems, receiving data therefrom. This data is arranged and correlated to enable the subject invention to filter through the data and detect if a particular treatment, diagnostic test, or course of action has been or is in danger of being overlooked.

Claims

1. A method of monitoring patient care comprising creating a practice guideline rule having a rule criterion a response criterion and filtering patient data with the practice guideline rules.

2. The method of claim 1 wherein the rule criterion includes a target drug.

3. The method of claim 1 wherein the rule criterion includes a target lab result.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the practice guideline rule includes an associated variable.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the practice guideline rule includes a response interval.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the filtering step includes receiving lab data.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the filtering step includes receiving pharmacy data.

8. A method of monitoring patient care comprising:

creating a practice guideline rule having a rule criterion and a response criterion;

receiving patient data;

filtering the patient data with the practice guideline rules; and

determining whether the rule criterion and the response criterion are satisfied.

9. The method of claim 8 wherein the practice guideline rule includes an associated variable, and further comprising filtering the patient data for the associated variable.

10. The method of claim 8, and further comprising generating a reminder if a response criterion is not detected in the patient data after a predefined period of time.

11. The method of claim 10, and further comprising adjusting the predefined period of time based on the value of a lab result.

12. The method of claim 11, and further comprising adjusting the predefined period of time based on previous values of a laboratory test.

13. The method of claim 8, wherein the step of receiving data includes receiving data from a health care facility'"'"'s laboratory computer system.

14. The method of claim 13, wherein the step of receiving data includes receiving data from a health care facility'"'"'s pharmacy computer system.

15. The method of claim 8, and further comprising storing patient data.

16. The method of claim 15, and further comprising arranging the stored patient data in a user-defined format.

17. A system for monitoring patient care comprising

a central processor;

and

a database in communication with the processor, the database having stored therein a plurality of practice guideline rules, each having practice guideline rule data fields for rule criterion and a response criteria.

18. The system of claim 17, and further comprising a data source for patient information, the date source in communication with the central processor.

19. The system of claim 18, wherein the data source includes a health care facility'"'"'s pharmacy computer system.

20. The system of claim 18, wherein the data source includes a health care facility'"'"'s laboratory computer system.

21. The system of claim 18, wherein the rule criterion includes a laboratory test.

22. The system of claim 18, wherein the rule criterion includes drug.

23. The system of claim 18, wherein the practice guideline rule includes a data field for an associated laboratory test.

24. The system of claim 18, wherein the practice guideline rule includes a data field for an associated drug.

25. The system of claim 18, wherein the practice guideline rule includes a data field for a response interval.

26. The system of claim 18, and further comprising an alarm system in communication with the processor.

27. The system of claim 26 wherein the alarm system includes an interface to a paging system.

28. The system of claim 26 wherein the alarm system includes an interface to an E-mail system.

29. The system of claim 26, wherein the alarm system includes an interface to a video display.

30. A computer program product comprising:

a computer useable medium; and

computer readable program code embodied on the medium comprising;

computer readable program code for causing a computer to receive patient data from a data source;

computer readable program code for causing a computer to access a database having a plurality of clinical guideline rules stored therein; and

a computer readable program code for causing a computer to filter the patient data with the plurality of clinical guideline rules.

31. The product of claim 30, wherein the code for filtering includes computer readable program code for searching the patient data for a rule criterion from the practice guidelines.

32. The product of claim 31, wherein the code for filtering includes computer readable program code for searching the patient data for an associated lab from a practice guideline rule.

33. The product of claim 32, wherein the code for filtering includes computer readable program code for searching the patient data for an associated drug from a practice guideline rule.

34. The product of claim 30, wherein the computer usable medium includes a database embodied therein comprising a plurality of practice guideline rules having data fields for a rule criterion and a response criterion.

35. The product of claim 30, wherein the filtering program code includes a computer readable program code for searching the patient data for a clinical response found in the clinical guideline rules.

36. The product of claim 30, and further comprising computer readable program code for generating a reminder.

37. The product of claim 36, and further comprising computer readable program code to set a predefined period prior to issuing a reminder.

38. The product of claim 37, and further comprising computer readable program code to adjust the length of the predefined period based on a lab result.

39. The product of claim 38, and further comprising computer readable program code to adjust the length of the predefined period based on values of previous lab results.

40. The product of claim 38, and further comprising computer readable program code to extract data from a data record and placing the data in a normalized table.