Systems and methods for providing a health score for a patient

• US 8,403,847 B2
• Filed: 01/23/2012
• Issued: 03/26/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 10/13/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Spacelabs Healthcare LLC (OSI Systems Incorporated)
• Original Assignee: PeraHealth, Inc.
• Inventors: Rothman, Michael J., Rothman, Steven I., Rothman, Daniel B.
• Primary Examiner(s): Thomson, Bill
• Assistant Examiner(s): JIAN, SHIRLEY XUEYING
• Application Number:
  US13/356,153
• Publication Number:
  US 20120116180A1
• Time in Patent Office: 428 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 600/300
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 15/00 ICT specially adapted for medical reports, e.g. generation or transmission thereof
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/63 for local operation
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 50/20 for computer-aided diagnosis, e.g. based on medical expert systems
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 50/30 for calculating health indices; for individual health risk assessment
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 50/70 for mining of medical data, e.g. analysing previous cases of other patients

Abstract

A system and method for providing an indicator of a patient'"'"'s health. The system may include a data module receiving data relating to a patient'"'"'s health, the data including subjective data, a conversion module generating an output from the data, the output representing the patient'"'"'s health, and a display module displaying the output and a standard output for a user to compare with the output. A method of providing a customizable system for generating an indicator of a patient'"'"'s health, the method including providing a system including a data module, a conversion module generating an output via a first algorithm, and a display module displaying the output and a standard output generated by a second algorithm, and customizing at least one of the first and second algorithms according to preferences of a user.

Claims

1. A system for monitoring a plurality of patients comprising:

a data module, executing on a computer, wherein the data module receives a plurality of data relating to a first patient'"'"'s health and a second patient'"'"'s health at a first time point, receives a plurality of data relating to the first patient'"'"'s health and the second patient'"'"'s health at a second time point, and continually receives a plurality of data relating to the first patient'"'"'s heath and the second patient'"'"'s health at subsequent time points;

a conversion module, executing on a computer, wherein the conversion module transforms the plurality of data received for the first patient at the first time point into transformed medical data and combines the transformed medical data to generate a first health score for the first patient, transforms the plurality of data received for the second patient at the first time point into transformed medical data and combines the transformed medical data to generate a first health score for the second patient, transforms the plurality of data received for the first patient at the second time point into transformed medical data and combines the transformed medical data to generate a second health score for the first patient, transforms the plurality of data received for the second patient at the second time point into transformed medical data and combines the transformed medical data to generate a second health score for the second patient, transforms each continually received data for the first patient into transformed medical data and combines the transformed medical data to generate additional health scores for the first patient, and transforms each continually received data for the second patient into transformed medical data and combines the transformed medical data to generate additional health scores for the second patient; and

a display module, executing on a computer, wherein the display module creates a first health score chart of continually plotted health scores of the first patient over time to show the first patient'"'"'s medical progress, and wherein the display module creates a second health score chart of continually plotted health scores of the second patient over time to show the second patient'"'"'s medical progress.

2. The system of claim 1 wherein at least some of the plurality of data received by the data module includes datum from a nursing assessment, wherein the nursing assessment is performed by a nurse.

3. The system of claim 1 further comprising an alert module, executing on a computer, wherein the alert module sends an alert to an attending physician or supervising nurse if a health score of either the first patient or the second patient has fallen below a pre-determined threshold.

4. The system of claim 1 wherein the health score chart shows continually plotted health scores of the patient over time to show the patient'"'"'s medical progress, and also shows a statistical reference curve so that the health scores of the patient may be compared to an average patient with similar conditions and circumstances.

5. The system of claim 4 further comprising an alert module, executing on a computer, wherein the alert module sends an alert to an attending physician or supervising nurse if the medical progress of the patient differs from the statistical reference curve.

6. The system of claim 1 wherein, by analyzing the medical progress of the patients by viewing the first health score chart and the second health score chart of the display module, performance of a particular doctor or nurse can be evaluated.

7. The system of claim 1 wherein, by analyzing the medical progress of the patients by viewing the first health score chart and the second health score chart of the display module, effectiveness of a medical treatment can be evaluated.

8. The system of claim 1 wherein, by analyzing the medical progress of the patients by viewing the first health score chart and the second health score chart of the display module, quality of care of a health care facility can be evaluated.

9. The system of claim 1 wherein a single health score plotted on either the first health score chart or the second health score chart can be expanded to access additional information about the first patient or the second patient.

10. The system of claim 9 wherein the additional information is the plurality of data that was received and transformed to generate each health score.

11. The system of claim 9 wherein the additional information is a name of a particular doctor or nurse caring for the patient.

12. The system of claim 1 wherein the first and the second health score charts are created so as to allow a user to determine how many nurses are needed to attend to the plurality of patients and to equalize workload among the nurses by viewing the first and second health score charts of the display module.

13. A system for long-term monitoring of a plurality of patients health comprising:

a data module, executing on a computer, wherein the data module receives a plurality of data relating to a first patient at a first time point, receives a plurality of data relating to the first patient at a subsequent time point, receives a plurality of data relating to a second patient at a first time point, and receives a plurality of data relating to the second patient at a subsequent time point;

a conversion module, executing on a computer, wherein the conversion module transforms the plurality of data received for the first patient at the first time point into transformed medical data and combines the transformed medical data to generate a first health score for the first patient, transforms the plurality of data received at the second time point for the first patient into transformed medical data and combines the transformed medical data to generate a second health score for the first patient, transforms the plurality of data received for the second patient at the first time point into transformed medical data and combines the transformed medical data to generate a first health score for the second patient, and transforms the plurality of data received at the second time point for the second patient into transformed medical data and combines the transformed medical data to generate a second health score for the second patient; and

a display module, executing on a computer, wherein the display module creates a first health score chart of continually plotted health scores of the first patient over time for the long-term monitoring of the first patient'"'"'s health, and wherein the display module creates a second health score chart of continually plotted health scores of the second patient over time for the long-term monitoring of the second patient'"'"'s health.

14. The system of claim 13 wherein at least some of the plurality of data received by the data module includes datum from a nursing assessment, wherein the nursing assessment is performed by a nurse.

15. The system of claim 13 further comprising an alert module, executing on a computer, wherein the alert module sends an alert to an attending physician or supervising nurse if a health score of either the first patient or the second patient has fallen below a pre-determined threshold.

16. The system of claim 13 wherein, by analyzing the health score chart of the patients by viewing the first health score chart and the second health score chart of the display module, long term declining health trends can be spotted.

17. The system of claim 13 wherein a single health score plotted on either the first health score chart or the second health score chart can be expanded to access additional information about the first patient or the second patient.

18. A system for tracking a patient'"'"'s medical progress during a first heath care facility visit and a subsequent health care facility visit comprising:

a data module, executing on a computer, wherein the data module receives a plurality of data relating to the patient'"'"'s health at a first time point during the subsequent health care facility visit, receives a plurality of data relating to the patient'"'"'s health at a second time point during the subsequent health care facility visit, and continually receives a plurality of data relating to the patient'"'"'s heath at subsequent time points during the subsequent health care facility visit, wherein at least some of the plurality of data received by the data module includes datum from a nursing assessment, wherein the nursing assessment is performed by a nurse;

a conversion module, executing on a computer, wherein the conversion module transforms the plurality of data received at the first time point during the subsequent health care facility visit into transformed medical data and combines the transformed medical data to generate a first health score, transforms the plurality of data received at the second time point during the subsequent health care facility visit into transformed medical data and combines the transformed medical data to generate a second health score, and transforms each continually received data during the subsequent health care facility visit into transformed medical data and combines the transformed medical data to generate additional health score; and

a display module, executing on a computer, wherein the display module creates a health score chart of continually plotted health scores of the patient over time during the subsequent health care facility visit, and wherein the display module displays a health score chart of continually plotted health scores of the patient over time during the first health care facility visit to track the patient'"'"'s medical progress.