System and method of automated healthcare assessments and event inferences

• US 9,875,450 B1
• Filed: 08/29/2013
• Issued: 01/23/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 08/29/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Andrew Thomas Johnson, Christopher Paul Mcintyre, James E. Anderson III, James Robert Iii Hendrick, Jonathan Eddy Barnes
• Original Assignee: Andrew Thomas Johnson, Christopher Paul Mcintyre, James E. Anderson III, James Robert Iii Hendrick, Jonathan Eddy Barnes
• Inventors: Hendrick, III, James Robert, Barnes, Jonathan Eddy, Johnson, Andrew Thomas, Anderson, III, James E., McIntyre, Christopher Paul
• Primary Examiner(s): Kanaan, Maroun
• Application Number:
  US14/013,132
• Time in Patent Office: 1,608 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/0631 Resource planning, allocation, distributing or scheduling for enterprises or organisations
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/22 Social work or social welfare, e.g. community support activities or counselling services
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 21/0415 detecting absence of activity per se
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 21/0423 detecting deviation from an expected pattern of behaviour or schedule
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 21/043 detecting an emergency event, e.g. a fall
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 21/0492 Sensor dual technology, i.e. two or more technologies collaborate to extract unsafe condition, e.g. video tracking and RFID tracking
• 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 40/67 for remote operation
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 50/30 for calculating health indices; for individual health risk assessment

Abstract

A healthcare assessment system is provided for a plurality of healthcare facilities each having healthcare providers and residential areas, each area equipped with biometric sensors and activity sensors. A central server receives sensor data and stores subject information in a data storage network. The system determines potential events for each subject based on respective healthcare profiles, and an event inference engine identifies the actual occurrence and extrapolates a likely occurrence of potential events based on the stored data points with respect to time. The system assigns values representative of a level of healthcare resource needs for each subject, and values representative of a quality of healthcare resources provided for each healthcare provider. A graphical user interface includes a resource allocation report with user-selectable lists of relative rankings of the assigned values for each subject and each provider in a healthcare facility, or for each respective healthcare facility.

Claims

1. A healthcare assessment system comprising:

a plurality of defined areas in a healthcare facility, each area associated with a healthcare subject and further comprising a first set of one or more sensors effective to generate output signals representative of biometric data for the subject, and a second set of one or more sensors effective to generate output signals representative of activity within the area;

a server functionally linked via a communications network to the first set of one or more sensors and the second set of one or more sensors and further comprising a data processor, a data storage network and a non-transitory computer-readable medium having program instructions residing thereon, the instructions executable by the processor to direct the performance of operations further comprising;

storing biometric and activity data points for each subject in the data storage network, the biometric and activity data points based at least in part on inputs from the first set of one or more sensors and the second set of one or more sensors,

determining potential events relevant to each subject for system monitoring based on a respective healthcare profile,

executing an event inference engine identifying actual occurrence of one or more of the potential events based on one or more stored data points with respect to time,

for identified actual occurrences of an event, post-event monitoring of activity data to determine a severity of the respective event,

aggregating data comprising actual events, determined severity of the actual events, and associated data points in the data storage network,

reverse analyzing post-event data points and pre-event data points represented by the aggregated data for extrapolating a likely occurrence of such events and a likely severity of such events for a respective subject,

assigning values representative of a level of healthcare resource needs for each subject, the values determined based on respective healthcare profiles and the identified and extrapolated events, and

delivering an intervention prompt to a graphical user interface on a display unit of a user computing device for a healthcare provider associated with the respective subject, wherein the intervention prompt is prioritized based on a relative post-event activity level of the subject with respect to a pre-event activity level, and

the user interface comprising a resource allocation report with relative rankings of the assigned values for each subject associated with the healthcare facility.

2. The system of claim 1, the operation of extrapolating likely occurrence of potential events further comprising matching an identified combination of data points with a predetermined combination of data points representative of an event relevant to a high-risk condition associated with the respective subject.

3. The system of claim 1, the instructions further executable to direct the performance of an operation of categorizing the identified or extrapolated events as billable events with respect to a particular subject.

4. The system of claim 3, the instructions further executable to direct the performance of an operation of cross-checking the categorized billable events against a list of actual billed events with respect to the subject.

5. The system of claim 4, the instructions further executable to direct the performance of an operation of generating a second user interface effective to enable user confirmation of one or more categorized billable events with respect to the subject.

6. The system of claim 1, the resource allocation report further comprising a graphical event log display with one or more primary data points corresponding to an event definition, and one or more secondary data points retroactively defined as relevant in view of an extrapolated event occurrence.

7. The system of claim 6, the graphical event log display further comprising a first highlighted time range between at least first and second primary data points corresponding to an event period, and one or more separately highlighted time ranges between secondary and a primary data points on either end of the event period.

8. A healthcare assessment system comprising:

a plurality of defined areas in a healthcare facility comprising a plurality of healthcare providers, each area associated with a healthcare subject and further comprising a first set of one or more sensors effective to generate output signals representative of biometric data for the subject, and a second set of one or more sensors effective to generate output signals representative of activity within the area;

a server functionally linked via a communications network to the first set of one or more sensors and the second set of one or more sensors and further comprising a data processor, a data storage network and a non-transitory computer-readable medium having program instructions residing thereon, the instructions executable by the processor to direct the performance of operations further comprising;

storing biometric and activity data points for each subject in the data storage network, the biometric and activity data points based at least in part on inputs from the first set of one or more sensors and the second set of one or more sensors,

determining potential events relevant to each subject for system monitoring based on a respective healthcare profile,

executing an event inference engine identifying actual occurrence of one or more of the potential events based on one or more stored data points with respect to time,

identifying one or more healthcare providers associated with each identified event,

for identified actual occurrences of an event, post-event monitoring of activity data to determine a severity of the respective event,

aggregating data comprising actual events, associated healthcare providers, determined severity of the actual events, and associated data points in the data storage network,

reverse analyzing post-event data points and pre-event data points represented by the aggregated data for extrapolating a likely occurrence of such events and a likely severity of such events for a respective subject,

delivering an intervention prompt to a graphical user interface on a display unit of one or more user computing devices for the healthcare providers associated with the respective subject, wherein the intervention prompt is prioritized based on a relative post-event activity level of the subject with respect to a pre-event activity level,

assigning values representative of a level of healthcare resource needs for each subject, the values determined based on respective healthcare profiles and the identified and extrapolated events,

assigning values representative of a quality of healthcare resources provided for each healthcare provider, the values determined based on the assigned values for relevant subjects and the identified events and intervention prompts associated with the respective provider, and

generating a resource allocation report with relative rankings of the assigned values for each subject and for each provider associated with the healthcare facility.

9. The system of claim 8, the operation of extrapolating likely occurrence of potential events further comprising matching an identified combination of data points with a predetermined combination of data points representative of an event relevant to a high-risk condition associated with the respective subject.

10. The system of claim 8, the instructions further executable to direct the performance of an operation of categorizing the identified or extrapolated events as billable events with respect to a particular subject and a particular healthcare provider.

11. The system of claim 10, the instructions further executable to direct the performance of an operation of cross-checking the categorized billable events against a list of actual billed events with respect to the subject.

12. The system of claim 11, the instructions further executable to direct the performance of an operation of generating a second user interface effective to enable user confirmation of one or more categorized billable events with respect to the subject.

13. The system of claim 8, the resource allocation report further comprising a graphical event log display with one or more primary data points corresponding to an event definition, and one or more secondary data points retroactively defined as relevant in view of an extrapolated event occurrence.

14. The system of claim 13, the graphical event log display further comprising a first highlighted time range between at least first and second primary data points corresponding to an event period, and one or more separately highlighted time ranges between secondary and a primary data points on either end of the event period.

15. A healthcare assessment system comprising:

a plurality of healthcare facilities each comprising a plurality of healthcare providers and a plurality of defined areas, each area associated with a healthcare subject and further comprising a first set of one or more sensors effective to generate output signals representative of biometric data for the subject, and a second set of one or more sensors effective to generate output signals representative of activity within the area;

a server functionally linked via a communications network to the first set of one or more sensors and the second set of one or more sensors and further comprising a data processor, a data storage network and a non-transitory computer-readable medium having program instructions residing thereon, the instructions executable by the processor to direct the performance of operations further comprising;

storing biometric and activity data points for each subject in the data storage network, the biometric and activity data points based at least in part on inputs from the first set of one or more sensors and the second set of one or more sensors,

determining potential events relevant to each subject for system monitoring based on a respective healthcare profile,

executing an event inference engine identifying actual occurrence of one or more of the potential events based on one or more stored data points with respect to time,

identifying one or more healthcare providers associated with each identified event,

for identified actual occurrences of an event, post-event monitoring of activity data to determine a severity of the respective event,

aggregating data comprising actual events, determined severity of the actual events, and associated data points in the data storage network,

reverse analyzing post-event data points and pre-event data points represented by the aggregated data for extrapolating a likely occurrence of such events and a likely severity of such events for a respective subject,

delivering an intervention prompt to a graphical user interface on a display unit of one or more user computing devices for the healthcare providers associated with the respective subject, wherein the intervention prompt is prioritized based on a relative post-event activity level of the subject with respect to a pre-event activity level,

assigning values representative of a level of healthcare resource needs for each subject, the values determined based on respective healthcare profiles and the identified and extrapolated events,

assigning values representative of a quality of healthcare resources provided for each healthcare provider, the values determined based on the assigned values for relevant subjects and the identified events and intervention prompts associated with the respective provider, and

generating a resource allocation report with user-selectable lists of relative rankings of the assigned values for each subject associated with a healthcare facility, each provider associated with a healthcare facility, and for each healthcare facility with respect to the plurality of facilities.

16. The system of claim 15, further comprising means for categorizing the identified or extrapolated events as billable events with respect to a particular subject and a particular healthcare provider.

17. The system of claim 16, further comprising means for cross-checking the categorized billable events against a list of actual billed events with respect to the subject.

18. The system of claim 17, further comprising means for enabling user confirmation of one or more categorized billable events with respect to the subject.

19. The system of claim 15, the resource allocation report further comprising a graphical event log display with one or more primary data points corresponding to an event definition, and one or more secondary data points retroactively defined as relevant in view of an extrapolated event occurrence,

the graphical event log display further comprising a first highlighted time range between at least first and second primary data points corresponding to an event period, and one or more separately highlighted time ranges between secondary and a primary data points on either end of the event period.