Systems and methods for situational application development and deployment with patient event monitoring

• US 9,052,809 B2
• Filed: 05/26/2010
• Issued: 06/09/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 05/26/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: General Electric Company
• Original Assignee: General Electric Company
• Inventors: Vesto, Guy Robert
• Primary Examiner(s): Le, Michelle L
• Application Number:
  US12/788,059
• Publication Number:
  US 20110295616A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,840 Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0486 Drag-and-drop
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/34 Graphical or visual programming
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/06 Resources, workflows, human or project management; Enterprise or organisation planning; Enterprise or organisation modelling
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/20 for the management or administration of healthcare resources or facilities, e.g. managing hospital staff or surgery rooms

Abstract

Systems and methods for clinical event processing with situational awareness to dynamically facilitate a clinician'"'"'s workflow are provided. An example clinical event processing and situational awareness system includes a clinical event processor including a clinical event processing engine and a routing engine to receive information regarding a clinical event from an event source and to process the information regarding the clinical event to determine a clinical situation based on the clinical event. The system also includes an event handler to enrich the processed information regarding the clinical event by adding a clinical context to the processed information from a data source. The system further includes a dispatcher to notify a user and launch an anticipated application for the user to facilitate a situational aware clinical workflow based on the enriched, processed information regarding the clinical event.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented method for deploying clinical applications with situational awareness, the method comprising:

receiving information regarding a clinical event from an event source;

processing, using a processor, the information regarding the clinical event to determine a clinical situation based on the clinical event, the processing including single event processing of the clinical event and complex series event processing of the clinical event and an event history associated with the clinical event to determine the clinical situation;

adding, using the processor, a clinical context to establish an enriched information regarding the clinical event;

identifying, automatically using the processor, a next anticipated clinical application based on the enriched information regarding the clinical event and the determined clinical situation, the next anticipated clinical application automatically determined for use by a healthcare provider and automatically configured based on the enriched information regarding the clinical event and the determined clinical situation; and

providing the next anticipated clinical application to the healthcare provider on a device associated with the healthcare provider in anticipation of a clinical workflow involving the clinical situation to treat a patient.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the clinical event comprises a complex clinical event series.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein processing further includes processing the information regarding the clinical event to determine the clinical situation based on a combination of clinical events including the complex clinical event series.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein providing the next anticipated clinical application facilitates a situational aware workflow via a mobile device.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein providing the next anticipated clinical application further comprises providing one or more next anticipated clinical applications relevant to the clinical situation for browsing and selecting by the healthcare provider.

6. The method of claim 1, further comprising building a situational aware clinical application via a development environment having a graphical user interface, building comprising:

facilitating healthcare provider drag and drop of tools including one or more event sources, data sources, situations detectors, context enrichers, and clinical workflow applications onto the graphical user interface divided into trigger events, event processing, context enrichers, and workflow applications;

connecting the tools placed on the graphical user interface to form the situational aware clinical application; and

deploying the situational aware clinical application for use.

7. A clinical event processing and situational awareness system for operation by a healthcare provider, the system comprising:

a clinical event processor including a clinical event processing engine and a routing engine to receive information regarding a clinical event from an event source and to process the information regarding the clinical event to determine a clinical situation based on the clinical event, the clinical event processor including a single event processor to process the clinical event and a complex event series processor to process the clinical event and an event history associated with the clinical event, an output of the single event processor and the complex event series processor to determine the clinical situation;

an event handler to create an enriched, processed information regarding the clinical event by adding a clinical context to the information from the event source; and

a dispatcher to notify the healthcare provider and launch a next anticipated clinical application for the healthcare provider on a device associated with the healthcare provider to facilitate a situational aware clinical workflow based on the enriched, processed information regarding the clinical event, the next anticipated clinical application to be identified automatically for use by the healthcare provider based on the enriched, processed information regarding the clinical event and the determined clinical situation, the next anticipated application automatically to be configured based on the enriched, processed information regarding the clinical event and the determined clinical situation.

8. The system of claim 7, wherein the clinical event processing engine includes one or more programmable situation detectors to process the enriched, processed information regarding the clinical event to determine a clinical situation based on the clinical event.

9. The system of claim 7, further comprising a plurality of event channel adapters, each to adapt information from an event source to be processed by the clinical event processor.

10. The system of claim 7, wherein the event handler comprises a rules engine.

11. The system of claim 7, wherein the clinical context includes at least one of a patient context, a clinical location context, and a diagnosis context.

12. The system of claim 7, wherein the clinical event comprises a complex clinical event series.

13. The system of claim 12, wherein the clinical event processor is to process the information regarding the clinical event to determine the clinical situation based on a combination of clinical events including the complex clinical event series.

14. The system of claim 7, wherein the dispatcher is to provide the anticipated application to facilitate a situational aware clinical workflow via a smart phone.

15. The system of claim 7, wherein the dispatcher is to provide one or more clinical applications relevant to the clinical situation for browsing and selecting by the healthcare provider.

16. The system of claim 7, further comprising an integrated development environment to build a situational aware clinical application comprising:

a graphical user interface to;

facilitate healthcare provider drag and drop of tools including one or more event sources, data sources, situations detectors, context enrichers, and clinical workflow applications onto an interface area divided into trigger events, event processing, context enrichers, and workflow applications;

connect the tools placed on the interface to form the situational aware clinical application; and

deploy the situational aware clinical application for use.

17. A tangible, non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having a set of instructions stored thereon which, when executed, instruct a processor to implement a clinical event processing and situational awareness system, the system comprising:

a clinical event processor including a clinical event processing engine and a routing engine to receive information regarding a clinical event from an event source and to process the information regarding the clinical event to determine a clinical situation based on the clinical event, the clinical event processor including a single event processor to process the clinical event and a complex event series processor to process the clinical event and an event history associated with the clinical event, an output of the single event processor and the complex event series processor to determine the clinical situation;

an event handler to enrich the processed information regarding the clinical event by adding a clinical context to the processed information from a data source; and

a dispatcher to notify a healthcare provider and enable launch of a next anticipated clinical application for the healthcare provider on a device associated with the healthcare provider to facilitate a situational aware clinical workflow based on the enriched, processed information regarding the clinical event, the anticipated clinical application to be identified automatically for use by the healthcare provider based on the enriched, processed information regarding the clinical event and the determined clinical situation, the anticipated application automatically to be configured based on the enriched, processed information regarding the clinical event and the determined clinical situation.

18. The tangible computer-readable storage medium of claim 17, wherein the clinical event processing engine includes one or more programmable situation detectors to process the information regarding the clinical event to determine a clinical situation based on the clinical event.

19. The tangible computer-readable storage medium of claim 17, wherein the clinical context includes at least one of a patient context, a clinical location context, and a diagnosis context.

20. The tangible computer-readable storage medium of claim 17, wherein the system further comprises an integrated development environment to build a situational aware clinical application comprising:

a graphical user interface to;

facilitate healthcare provider drag and drop of tools including one or more event sources, data sources, situations detectors, context enrichers, and clinical workflow applications onto an interface area divided into trigger events, event processing, context enrichers, and workflow applications;

connect the tools placed on the interface to form the situational aware clinical application; and

deploy the situational aware clinical application for use.