Patient activity alert tool

• US 9,092,555 B2
• Filed: 07/31/2013
• Issued: 07/28/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 07/31/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Oracle International Corporation (Oracle Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Oracle International Corporation (Oracle Corporation)
• Inventors: Shah, Divya, Tam, Alex, Foeckler, Philip, Gunaratnam, Vasanthan, Costley, Stuart
• Primary Examiner(s): TRIEU, VAN THANH
• Application Number:
  US13/955,098
• Publication Number:
  US 20150035675A1
• Time in Patent Office: 727 Days
• Field of Search: 340/539.12, 340/573.1, 340/573.4, 340/506, 340/517, 340/562, 600/300, 600/301, 600/309, 600/483, 600/484, 600/544, 128/903, 128/904
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 21/02 Alarms for ensuring the safety of persons
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 21/0453 worn on the body to detect health condition by physiological monitoring, e.g. electrocardiogram, temperature, breathing detecting, measuring or recording for diagnostic purposes A61B5/00
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/67 for remote operation
• 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

Systems, methods, and other embodiments associated with a patient activity alert tool are described. In one embodiment, a system includes a risk notification logic configured to receive a risk notification from a patient. The risk notification includes a threshold condition. The threshold condition may be a time interval during which the patient is at increased risk to experience an adverse event. The example system also includes a threshold logic configured to determine that the threshold condition has been met without receipt of a clearance notification from the patient. The threshold logic then generates an alert. An alert logic sends the alert to a caregiver selected by the patient.

Claims

1. A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing computer-executable instructions that when executed by a computer cause the computer to perform a method, the method comprising:

receiving, from a patient device, a risk notification that a patient is at increased risk to experience an adverse event, where the risk notification includes a threshold condition;

in response to receiving the risk notification and prior to the threshold condition being met, sending the risk notification to a caregiver device;

in response to receiving, from the patient device, a clearance notification indicating that threshold condition has not been met and the patient is no longer at the increased risk, sending the clearance notification to the caregiver device; and

in response to determining that the threshold condition has been met, generating an alert that indicates that the patient is experiencing the adverse event, and sending the alert to the caregiver device.

2. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 1, where the alert includes at least one response option, where a response option provides a mode to respond to the alert.

3. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 2, where the at least one response option includes a quick call option that allows the caregiver to initiate communication by selecting a button.

4. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 1, where the alert is repeated a predetermined number of times when a response option is not selected.

5. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 1, where the risk notification further includes a location of the patient and a description of the activity that the patient is participating in.

6. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 1, where the threshold condition is a time interval.

7. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 1, where the method further comprises:

after generating the alert, receiving, from the patient device, the clearance notification; and

clearing the alert.

8. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 1, where the risk notification is received through a push notification service or short message service.

9. A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing computer-executable instructions that when executed by a computer cause the computer to perform a method, the method comprising:

receiving, from a patient device, a risk notification that indicates that a patient is at increased risk to experience an adverse event, and where the risk notification includes a time interval;

selecting a first caregiver device;

sending the risk notification to the first caregiver device;

receiving a first availability response, from the first caregiver device, that indicates that a first caregiver in possession of the first caregiver device will be available during the time interval;

in response to receiving a clearance notification from the patient device prior to the time period elapsing, sending the clearance notification to the first caregiver device, where the clearance notification indicates that the patient is no longer at the increased risk to experience the adverse event;

in response to determining that the time interval has elapsed without receipt of a clearance notification from the patient device, sending an alert to the first caregiver device, where the alert indicates that the patient is experiencing the adverse event.

10. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 9, the method further comprising not sending the alert to the first caregiver device when the first availability response indicates that the first caregiver is not available during the time interval.

11. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 10, where in response to receiving the first availability response that indicates that the first caregiver is not available during the time interval, the method further includes:

selecting a second caregiver device;

sending the risk notification to the second caregiver device;

receiving a second availability response, from the second caregiver device, that indicates whether that a second caregiver in possession of the first caregiver device will be available during the time interval;

determining that the time interval has elapsed without receipt of a clearance notification from the patient device; and

sending an alert to the second caregiver device based, at least in part, on the second availability response, where the alert indicates that the patient is experiencing the adverse event.

12. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 9, where the method further comprises

providing a group of caregivers selected from a social networking website;

and

where the first caregiver is a member of the group of caregivers.

13. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 9, where the method further comprises:

sending the alert to emergency services.

14. A system, the system comprising:

a risk notification logic configured to

receive, from a patient device, a risk notification that a patient in possession of the patient device is at increased risk to experience an adverse event, where the risk notification includes a threshold condition; and

send the risk notification to a caregiver device prior to the threshold condition being met;

a threshold logic configured to, in response to the risk notification;

monitor the threshold condition and a clearance condition and

when the threshold condition has been met;

generate an alert that indicates that the patient is experiencing the adverse event; and

when the threshold condition has not been met and the clearance condition is met, send a clearance notification to the caregiver device that indicates that the patient is no longer at the increased risk; and

an alert logic configured to send the alert to the caregiver device.

15. The system of claim 14, where the threshold condition is a predetermined maximum heart rate, a minimum medication amount, a maximum foot-speed, a location boundary, or a temperature range of the patient.

16. The system of claim 15, where the threshold logic evaluates the threshold condition using alert threshold data received from a mobile device associated with the patient.

17. The system of claim 14, where the threshold logic is further configured to

after generating the alert, receive a clearance notification from the patient;

and

in response to the clearance notification, clearing the alert.

18. The system of claim 14, where the system is implemented in an application on a mobile device.