Method for Monitoring the Medical Condition of a Patient

• US 20140323814A1
• Filed: 07/12/2011
• Published: 10/30/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 07/16/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Loser Medizintechnik GmbH
• Original Assignee: Loser Medizintechnik GmbH
• Inventors: Lser, Thomas
• Application Number:
  US13/810,610
• Publication Number:
  US 20140323814A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 600/300
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/4845 Toxicology, e.g. by detection of alcohol, drug or toxic products A61B5/4848 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/7275 Determining trends in physiological measurement data; Predicting development of a medical condition based on physiological measurements, e.g. determining a risk factor
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 10/60 for patient-specific data, e.g. for electronic patient records
• 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 40/63 for local operation
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 50/70 for mining of medical data, e.g. analysing previous cases of other patients

Abstract

The invention relates to a method for monitoring the medical condition of a patient by means of a patient data management and/or decision assist system. Here the following steps are provided:

• (a) detecting values of physiological parameters of the patient, wherein at least a part of the physiological parameters characterizes the presence of a disturbance of health;
• (b) linking the detected values to a first time stamp and a second time stamp, wherein the first time stamp indicates the time of occurrence of the value and the second time stamp the time of detection of the value;
• (c) continuously comparing the values of different parameters having the same first time stamp with comparative values stored in the system;
• (d) triggering an alert if the comparison shows that at least one of the values is outside of the given tolerance range with respect to the comparative value;
• (e) linking the alert to a third time stamp indicating the time of triggering the alert;
• (f) determining the time (final time) as from the third time stamp at which a medical measure must be taken at the latest, wherein the determination of the time is made on the basis of given time limits stored in the system; and
• (g) continuously outputting (i) the final time determined in step (f) and/or (ii) the period left to reach the final time and/or (iii) a time domain being shorter than the period left to reach the final time.

Claims

1. A method for monitoring the medical condition of a patient by means of a patient data management and/or decision assist system comprising the steps of

(a) detecting values of physiological parameters of the patient, wherein at least a part of the physiological parameters characterizes the presence of a disturbance of health;

(b) linking the detected values to a first time stamp and a second time stamp, wherein the first time stamp indicates the time of occurrence of the value and the second time stamp the time of detection of the value;

(c) continuously comparing the values of different parameters having the same first time stamp with comparative values stored in the system;

(d) triggering an alert if the comparison shows that at least one of the values is outside of the given tolerance range with respect to the comparative value;

(e) linking the alert to a third time stamp indicating the time of triggering the alert;

(f) determining the time (final time) as from the third time stamp at which a medical measure must be taken at the latest, wherein the determination of the time is made on the basis of given time limits stored in the system; and

(g) continuously outputting (i) the final time determined in step (f) and/or (ii) the period left to reach the final time and/or (iii) a time domain being shorter than the period left to reach the final time.

2. The method according to claim 1, characterized in that in step (g) there are additionally output the value(s) that caused the triggering of the alert in step (d).

3. The method according to claim 1, characterized in that step (b) comprises the triggering of an alert if for one value a second time stamp is present, but not a first time stamp.

4. The method according to claim 1, characterized in that in step (a) the physiological parameters are assigned to a first group or a second group, wherein the parameters of the first group are continuously determined and the parameters of the second group are determined discontinuously, wherein in the parameters of the first group the first time stamp is set equal to the second time stamp, and/or wherein in parameters of the second group an alert should be triggered if the first time stamp does not differ from the second time stamp.

5. The method according to claim 1, characterized in that with the output of the alert in step (d) a request for the manual input of information is output, wherein the request is generated on the basis of guidelines stored in the system and wherein further requests for the manual input of information can be output on the basis of the guidelines as soon as a manual input of the requested information is done.

6. The method according to claim 1, characterized in that each output of a request is associated with the output of the final time determined in step (f) and/or the period left to reach the final time.

7. The method according to claim 5, characterized in that at least one of the requests for the manual input of information is associated with the output of values of given parameters, wherein it is stored in the system with which parameters the request is associated.

9. The method according to claim 2, characterized in that step (b) comprises the triggering of an alert if for one value a second time stamp is present, but not a first time stamp.

10. The method according to claim 2, characterized in that in step (a) the physiological parameters are assigned to a first group or a second group, wherein the parameters of the first group are continuously determined and the parameters of the second group are determined discontinuously, wherein in the parameters of the first group the first time stamp is set equal to the second time stamp, and/or wherein in parameters of the second group an alert should be triggered if the first time stamp does not differ from the second time stamp.

11. The method according to claim 3, characterized in that in step (a) the physiological parameters are assigned to a first group or a second group, wherein the parameters of the first group are continuously determined and the parameters of the second group are determined discontinuously, wherein in the parameters of the first group the first time stamp is set equal to the second time stamp, and/or wherein in parameters of the second group an alert should be triggered if the first time stamp does not differ from the second time stamp.

12. The method according to claim 9, characterized in that in step (a) the physiological parameters are assigned to a first group or a second group, wherein the parameters of the first group are continuously determined and the parameters of the second group are determined discontinuously, wherein in the parameters of the first group the first time stamp is set equal to the second time stamp, and/or wherein in parameters of the second group an alert should be triggered if the first time stamp does not differ from the second time stamp.

13. The method according to claim 2, characterized in that with the output of the alert in step (d) a request for the manual input of information is output, wherein the request is generated on the basis of guidelines stored in the system and wherein further requests for the manual input of information can be output on the basis of the guidelines as soon as a manual input of the requested information is done.

14. The method according to claim 3, characterized in that with the output of the alert in step (d) a request for the manual input of information is output, wherein the request is generated on the basis of guidelines stored in the system and wherein further requests for the manual input of information can be output on the basis of the guidelines as soon as a manual input of the requested information is done.

15. The method according to claim 4, characterized in that with the output of the alert in step (d) a request for the manual input of information is output, wherein the request is generated on the basis of guidelines stored in the system and wherein further requests for the manual input of information can be output on the basis of the guidelines as soon as a manual input of the requested information is done.

16. The method according to claim 9, characterized in that with the output of the alert in step (d) a request for the manual input of information is output, wherein the request is generated on the basis of guidelines stored in the system and wherein further requests for the manual input of information can be output on the basis of the guidelines as soon as a manual input of the requested information is done.

17. The method according to claim 2, characterized in that each output of a request is associated with the output of the final time determined in step (f) and/or the period left to reach the final time.

18. The method according to claim 3, characterized in that each output of a request is associated with the output of the final time determined in step (f) and/or the period left to reach the final time.

19. The method according to claim 4, characterized in that each output of a request is associated with the output of the final time determined in step (f) and/or the period left to reach the final time.

20. The method according to claim 5, characterized in that each output of a request is associated with the output of the final time determined in step (f) and/or the period left to reach the final time.

8. A system for monitoring the medical condition of a large number of patients comprising a processor, a memory, an input device, and a display device, wherein

the input device enables the user to manually input information for each patient;

in the memory the detected values of parameters as well as the first and second time stamps for each of these patients are stored;

the processor carries out the continuous comparison of values of different parameters having the same first time stamp to comparative values stored in the system;

the triggering of an alert if the comparison shows that at least one of the values is outside of a given tolerance range with respect to the comparative value;

the linkage of the alert to a third time stamp representing the time of the triggering of the alert; and

the determination of the time (final time) as from the third time stamp at which a medical measure has to be taken at the latest, wherein the determination of the time is based on the basis of given time limits stored in the system; and

the display device continuously outputs the final time determined in step (f) and/or the period left to reach the final time or the time domain.