SYSTEM FOR REMOTE GUIDANCE OF HEALTH CARE EXAMINATIONS

• US 20180277258A1
• Filed: 05/25/2018
• Published: 09/27/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 08/08/2016
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Telshur Inc.
• Original Assignee: Telshur Inc.
• Inventors: PANWALA, Sanjiv
• Application Number:
  US15/990,183
• Publication Number:
  US 20180277258A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/951 Indexing; Web crawling techniques
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/22 Social work or social welfare, e.g. community support activities or counselling services
• 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 40/67 for remote operation
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 70/20 relating to practices or guidelines
• 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

A distributed computer system for conducting remote medical examinations may include a queryable database comprising a plurality of examination components, each of which is related to at least one respective physiological system and/or at least one medical diagnosis. The queried result may be further narrowed automatically, based on additional information such as known best practices, and/or manually by a user having sufficient system credentials. The system may send the resulting examination procedure to a target presenter at a target facility, and may provide a communication channel for real-time communication between a provider and the presenter, e.g., during subsequent examination of a patient at the target facility.

Claims

1. A method for remotely providing examination guidance, the method comprising:

establishing a first communication link between a first computer and a node in a computer network;

querying a database containing a plurality of examination components using the first computer, each of the examination components relating to at least one respective physiological system and to at least one respective medical diagnosis, by providing search criteria comprising a selected physiological system or a selected medical diagnosis or both;

narrowing a subset of the examination components returned from the database to generate an examination procedure comprising selected examination components from the subset;

establishing a second communication link between a second computer of the computer network and the node; and

communicating the examination procedure to the second computer via the node.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein narrowing the subset of the examination components is performed, at least in part, automatically.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein automatically narrowing the subset of the examination components includes comparing the subset to known patient information and excluding an examination component relating to the known patient information.

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

automatically adding instructional information relating to performance of each of the examination components in the examination procedure.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein the instructional information comprises video demonstration.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the first computer corresponds to a provider and the second computer corresponds to a target presenter at a remote target facility.

7. A method for remotely providing examination guidance, the method comprising:

establishing a first communication link between a first computer in a first facility and a network-instantiated presentation layer in a computer network;

querying a database containing a plurality of examination components using the first computer, each of the examination components relating to at least one respective physiological system and to at least one respective medical diagnosis, by providing search criteria comprising a selected physiological system or a selected medical diagnosis or both;

narrowing a subset of the examination components returned from the database to generate an examination procedure comprising selected examination components from the subset;

establishing a second communication link between a second computer of the computer network and the presentation layer, the second computer disposed in a second facility;

communicating the examination procedure to the second computer; and

providing a real-time communication channel between the first computer and the second computer via the presentation layer.

8. The method of claim 7, further comprising:

guiding, from the first facility, a patient examination in the second facility, using the examination procedure and the real-time communication channel.

9. The method of claim 7, wherein the communication channel comprises video chat.

10. The method of claim 7, wherein narrowing the subset of the examination components is performed, at least in part, automatically.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein automatically narrowing the subset of the examination components includes integrating information relating to known best practices.

12. The method of claim 10, wherein automatically narrowing the subset of the examination components includes comparing the subset to known patient information and excluding an examination component relating to the known patient information.

13. The method of claim 7, further comprising:

automatically adding instructional information relating to performance of each of the examination components in the examination procedure.

14. The method of claim 13, wherein the instructional information comprises video demonstration.

15. The method of claim 7, wherein the first computer corresponds to a provider and the second computer corresponds to a target presenter at a remote target facility.

16. A distributed data processing system for providing examination guidance remotely, the data processing system comprising:

a processor;

a memory in communication with the processor; and

a set of instructions stored in the memory and executable by the processor to;

query, in response to a search request from a first user at a first computer of the system, a data store containing a plurality of examination components, each examination component relating to at least one respective physiological system and to at least one respective diagnosis;

return a recommended subset of the examination components based on the search request;

generate, in response to selection of one or more of the examination components from the recommended subset by the first user, an examination procedure comprising the selected examination components; and

communicate the examination procedure to a second user at a second computer of the system.

17. The system of claim 16, wherein the first computer has an established first communication link with a node of the system, the second computer has an established second communication link with the node, and the node is a portion of a network-instantiated presentation layer.

18. The system of claim 16, wherein generating the examination procedure comprises providing instructional information relating to each examination component.

19. The system of claim 16, wherein each of the examination components comprises information relating to a respective duration, and the examination procedure is configured to display a total expected duration based on the respective durations.

20. The system of claim 16, the set of instructions being further executable to sort the examination components.