Method and system for tracking and monitoring patient compliance with medical device usage prescription
First Claim
1. A method of measuring and utilizing efficiency of resources utilized by health care providers in the care of medical conditions, comprising:
- (a) obtaining at a computing device a minimum medical device usage compliance for a medical device for a predetermined compliance;
(b) obtaining at the computing device a quantity of the compliance periods in a measurement cycle;
(c) obtaining at the computing device measurements of actual medical device usage of the medical device during the measurement cycle;
(d) weighting, within the computing device, the measurements of medical device usage for individual usage sessions during the measurement cycle according to a predetermined weighting scheme;
(e) determining, within the computing device, whether a compliance period value for the measurement cycle, is at least equal to the minimum medical device usage compliance value, wherein the compliance period value for the measurement cycle is determined on the computing device as the number of compliance periods in the measurement cycle for which the weighted measurements of medical device usage indicate that the actual medical device usage has satisfied the compliance value, and wherein the weighted measurements of medical device usage indicate actual medical device usage has satisfied the compliance value, for a given compliance period responsive to the sum of the weighted measurements for the usage sessions that occurred during the given compliance period being greater than or equal to the compliance value;
(f) obtaining, at the computing device, a medical device usage prescription value; and
(g) comparing via the computing device, the compliance period value with the medical device usage prescription value.
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Abstract
A computer-implemented method for tracking and monitoring a patient'"'"'s compliance with a medical device usage prescription for a medical device is disclosed. This method and system includes the steps of: (a) providing a minimum medical device usage compliance value for the medical device for a predetermined compliance period; (b) providing the quantity of compliance periods in a measurement cycle; and (c) determining a compliance period value as the number of compliance periods in the measurement cycle in which an actual medical device usage value is at least equal to the minimum medical device usage compliance value. In another embodiment, the method also includes: providing a weighting factor, and applying the weighting factor to at least one actual medical device session usage value.
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32 Claims
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1. A method of measuring and utilizing efficiency of resources utilized by health care providers in the care of medical conditions, comprising:
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(a) obtaining at a computing device a minimum medical device usage compliance for a medical device for a predetermined compliance; (b) obtaining at the computing device a quantity of the compliance periods in a measurement cycle; (c) obtaining at the computing device measurements of actual medical device usage of the medical device during the measurement cycle; (d) weighting, within the computing device, the measurements of medical device usage for individual usage sessions during the measurement cycle according to a predetermined weighting scheme; (e) determining, within the computing device, whether a compliance period value for the measurement cycle, is at least equal to the minimum medical device usage compliance value, wherein the compliance period value for the measurement cycle is determined on the computing device as the number of compliance periods in the measurement cycle for which the weighted measurements of medical device usage indicate that the actual medical device usage has satisfied the compliance value, and wherein the weighted measurements of medical device usage indicate actual medical device usage has satisfied the compliance value, for a given compliance period responsive to the sum of the weighted measurements for the usage sessions that occurred during the given compliance period being greater than or equal to the compliance value; (f) obtaining, at the computing device, a medical device usage prescription value; and (g) comparing via the computing device, the compliance period value with the medical device usage prescription value. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32)
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