Method and apparatus for an integrated clinical tele-informatics system
First Claim
1. A tele-informatics system for providing clinical case and clinical practice management service comprising:
- a plurality of information appliances configured for deployment at locations remote from a central location for use by a corresponding plurality of patients, each appliance having a respective data entry device and an alpha-numeric display;
a Personal Health Advisor ("PHA") configured for deployment at said central location, said information appliances and said PHA in selective two-way communications with one another, said information appliances and said PHA being configured to transmit and receive data from each other, each of said information appliances selectively generating data by means of said data entry device which is received by said PHA, said PHA including a computer for analyzing said data and generating a plurality of responses which are received by said alpha-numeric display of said information appliances to provide clinical practice management for the plurality of patients; and
wherein said PHA further includes an event manager executing on said computer configured to generate a clinical agenda based on a comparative analysis of said data provided by said plurality of patients, said clinical agenda prioritizing timing of patient care.
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Abstract
An integrated clinical tele-informatics based system that provides outpatient health care delivery, self-care services, clinical communications and information, and clinical practice management services. The system retrieves and analyzes sign and symptom data of patients according to a plurality of case management rules, generates a patient information and develops a therapeutic program in response to the information. The therapeutic program is regularly updated based upon system monitoring of the patient'"'"'s condition. The system provides clinical management functional tools that alert a Personal Health Advisor when the data of at least one patient exceeds predefined medical parameters, triage clinical activity of volumes of patients based on the patient data, transform the data into clinical practice management information, and generate clinical practice management information reports of summarized text, numerical representations, and/or graphical representations.
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20 Claims
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1. A tele-informatics system for providing clinical case and clinical practice management service comprising:
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a plurality of information appliances configured for deployment at locations remote from a central location for use by a corresponding plurality of patients, each appliance having a respective data entry device and an alpha-numeric display; a Personal Health Advisor ("PHA") configured for deployment at said central location, said information appliances and said PHA in selective two-way communications with one another, said information appliances and said PHA being configured to transmit and receive data from each other, each of said information appliances selectively generating data by means of said data entry device which is received by said PHA, said PHA including a computer for analyzing said data and generating a plurality of responses which are received by said alpha-numeric display of said information appliances to provide clinical practice management for the plurality of patients; and wherein said PHA further includes an event manager executing on said computer configured to generate a clinical agenda based on a comparative analysis of said data provided by said plurality of patients, said clinical agenda prioritizing timing of patient care. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8)
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9. A tele-informatics system for providing outpatient health care delivery, self-care services, clinical communications and information, and clinical practice management services comprising a personal health advisor ("PHA") including:
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a medical data portion configured to accept medical data from a plurality of patients; a clinical information portion configured to analyze said medical data entered in said medical data portion according to a plurality of clinical case management rules; a therapy response portion configured to respectively assign the patients at least one therapy responsive to said clinical information portion; a monitoring portion configured to monitor updated data from each of the patients and to update said clinical information portion and said therapy response portion in response to said updated data; and wherein said PHA further includes an event manager executing on a computer and configured to generate a clinical agenda based on a comparative analysis of said medical data received by said medical data portion, said clinical agenda prioritizing timing of patient care. - View Dependent Claims (10, 11)
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12. A method for providing a communications tele-informatics system for providing outpatient health care delivery, patient self-care services, clinical communications and information, and clinical practice management services, said method comprising the following steps performed by a Personal Health Advisor, of:
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retrieving medical data from a plurality of patients; generating a triaged clinical agenda from a comparative analysis of said medical data to thereby prioritize a PHA response to each patient'"'"'s health care needs; analyzing said medical data according to a plurality of clinical case management rules; generating clinical case management information for each patient from said analyzing step; assigning, for each patient, at least one therapy responsive to said generating step; and sending, to each patient, the at least one therapy of the assigning step in accordance with the triaged clinical agenda. - View Dependent Claims (13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18)
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19. A tele-informatics system for providing clinical case and clinical practice management services comprising:
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a plurality of information appliances configured for deployment at locations remote from a central location for use by a corresponding plurality of patients, each appliance having a respective data entry device and an alpha-numeric display; and a Personal Health Advisor ("PHA") configured for deployment at said central location, said information appliances and said PHA in selective two-way communications with one another, said information appliances and said PHA being configured to transmit and receive data from each other, each of said information appliances selectively generating data by means of said data entry device which is received by said PHA, said PHA including a computer for analyzing said data and generating a plurality of responses which are received by said alpha-numeric display of said information appliances to provide clinical practice management for the plurality of patients, said PHA further including a medical data portion configured to accept medical data from the plurality of patients, a clinical information portion configured to analyze said medical data entered in said medical data portion according to a plurality of clinical case management rules, a therapy response portion configured to respectively assign the patient at least one therapy responsive to said clinical information portion, and a monitoring portion configured to monitor updated data from each of the patients and to update said clinical information portion and said therapy response portion in response to said updated information wherein said PHA further includes an event manager executing on said computer configured to generate a clinical agenda based on a comparative analysis of said data provided by said plurality of patients, said clinical agenda prioritizing timing of patient care. - View Dependent Claims (20)
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