PATIENT ACTIVITY ALERT TOOL

• US 20150035675A1
• Filed: 07/31/2013
• Published: 02/05/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 07/31/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Oracle International Corporation (Oracle Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Oracle International Corporation (Oracle Corporation)
• Inventors: GUNARATNAM, Vasanthan, COSTLEY, Stuart, SHAH, Divya, TAM, Alex, FOECKLER, Philip
• Granted Patent: US 9,092,555 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 340/573.1
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 21/02 Alarms for ensuring the safety of persons
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 21/0453 worn on the body to detect health condition by physiological monitoring, e.g. electrocardiogram, temperature, breathing detecting, measuring or recording for diagnostic purposes A61B5/00
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/67 for remote operation
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 80/00 ICT specially adapted for facilitating communication between medical practitioners or patients, e.g. for collaborative diagnosis, therapy or health monitoring

Abstract

Systems, methods, and other embodiments associated with a patient activity alert tool are described. In one embodiment, a system includes a risk notification logic configured to receive a risk notification from a patient. The risk notification includes a threshold condition. The threshold condition may be a time interval during which the patient is at increased risk to experience an adverse event. The example system also includes a threshold logic configured to determine that the threshold condition has been met without receipt of a clearance notification from the patient. The threshold logic then generates an alert. An alert logic sends the alert to a caregiver selected by the patient.

Claims

1. A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing computer-executable instructions that when executed by a computer cause the computer to perform a method, the method comprising:

receiving, from a patient device, a risk notification that a patient is at increased risk to experience an adverse event, where the risk notification includes a threshold condition;

determining that the threshold condition has been met without receipt of a clearance notification from the patient device;

generating an alert; and

sending the alert to a caregiver.

2. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 1, where the alert includes at least one response option, where a response option provides a mode to respond to the alert.

3. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 2, where the at least one response option includes a quick call option that allows the caregiver to initiate communication by selecting a button.

4. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 1, where the alert is repeated a predetermined number of times when a response option is not selected.

5. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 1, where the risk notification further includes a location of the patient and a description of the activity that the patient is participating in.

6. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 1, where the threshold condition is a time interval.

7. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 1, where the clearance notification indicates that the patient is no longer at increased risk to experience an adverse event, and where the method further comprises, sending the clearance notification to the caregiver when a clearance notification is received.

8. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 1, where the method further comprises:

after generating the alert, receiving, from the patient device, the clearance notification; and

clearing the alert.

9. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 1, where the risk notification is received through a push notification service or short message service.

10. A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing computer-executable instructions that when executed by a computer cause the computer to perform a method, the method comprising:

selecting a first caregiver;

sending a risk notification to the first caregiver, where the risk notification indicates that a patient is at increased risk to experience an adverse event, and where the risk notification includes a time interval;

receiving a first availability response, from the first caregiver, that indicates whether the first caregiver will be available during the time interval;

determining that the time interval has elapsed without receipt of a clearance notification from the patient; and

selectively sending an alert to the first caregiver based, at least in part, on the first availability response.

11. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 10, where the first availability response indicates that the first caregiver is not available during the time interval, and where the alert is not sent to the first caregiver.

12. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 11, where in response to receiving the first availability response that indicates that the first caregiver is not available during the time interval, the method further includes:

selecting a second caregiver;

sending a risk notification to the second caregiver, where the risk notification indicates that a patient is at increased risk to experience an adverse event, and where the risk notification includes a time interval;

receiving a second availability response, from the second caregiver, that indicates whether the second caregiver will be available during the time interval;

determining that the time interval has elapsed without receipt of a clearance notification from the patient; and

selectively sending an alert to the second caregiver based, at least in part, on the second availability response.

13. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 12 where the second availability response indicated that the second caregiver is available, and where the alert is sent to the second caregiver.

14. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 10, where the method further comprises

providing a group of caregivers selected from a social networking website.

15. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 10, where the method further comprises:

sending the alert to emergency services.

16. A system, the system comprising:

a risk notification logic configured to receive, from a patient, a risk notification that the patient is at increased risk to experience an adverse event, where the risk notification includes a threshold condition;

a threshold logic configured to;

determine that the threshold condition has been met without receipt of a clearance notification from the patient; and

generate an alert; and

an alert logic configured to send the alert to a caregiver.

17. The system of claim 16, where the threshold condition is a predetermined maximum heart rate, a minimum medication amount, a maximum foot-speed, a location boundary, or a temperature range of the patient.

18. The system of claim 17, where the threshold logic evaluates the threshold condition using alert threshold data received from a mobile device associated with the patient.

19. The system of claim 16, where the alert threshold logic is further configured to receive clearance notifications from the patient to clear the alert.

20. The system of claim 16, where the system is launched from an application on a mobile device.