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Systems and methods for assessing staffing levels and predicting patient outcomes

  • US 9,946,840 B1
  • Filed: 03/13/2014
  • Issued: 04/17/2018
  • Est. Priority Date: 03/14/2013
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method implemented in a computing device comprising processing circuitry and interface circuitry communicatively coupled to the processing circuitry, the method comprising:

  • receiving, by the processing circuitry via the interface circuitry, empirical patient data for a plurality of patients assigned to a healthcare unit of a medical facility;

    responsive to detecting a change in the empirical patient data, determining, by the processing circuitry, a composite patient indicator score for each of the plurality of patients for a first period by scoring patient indicators using scores derived from the empirical patient data and using a weighting factor scale range for each of the patient indicators, wherein the weighting factor scale range is different for at least two of the patient indicators and a patient indicator representative of a higher mortality risk has a greater range of values than a patient indicator representative of a lower mortality risk;

    determining, by the processing circuitry, a population score by summing the composite patient indicator scores of the plurality of patients;

    updating, by the processing circuitry via the interface circuitry, a display device communicatively coupled to the interface circuitry with;

    a map of the medical facility that graphically illustrates a layout of the medical facility; and

    a visual representation of a juxtaposition of the healthcare unit relative to the layout of the medical facility;

    wherein the visual representation is labeled with a visual indication of the composite patient indicator scores, the population score, or both.

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