METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR IMPLEMENTING DIGITAL VIDEO MODELING TO GENERATE AN OPTIMAL HEALTHCARE DELIVERY MODEL

• US 20090006125A1
• Filed: 06/29/2007
• Published: 01/01/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 06/29/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Kraemer, James R., Angell, Robert Lee
• Application Number:
  US11/771,860
• Publication Number:
  US 20090006125A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/2
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 6/481 involving the use of contrast agents
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 6/486 involving generating temporal series of image data
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 6/50 specially adapted for specific body parts; specially adapted for specific clinical applications
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 6/504 for diagnosis of blood vessels, e.g. by angiography
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 6/507 for determination of haemodynamic parameters, e.g. perfusion CT
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/67 for remote operation

Abstract

A computer implemented method, apparatus, and computer program product for generating an optimal healthcare delivery model. The process parses event data derived from video data to identify patterns of events, wherein the event data comprises metadata describing events associated with a medical care facility. The process then identifies a subset of patterns of events from the patterns of events that achieves a target outcome to form a set of optimized patterns of events. The process generates an optimized healthcare delivery strategy using the set of optimized patterns of events to form the optimized healthcare delivery model for the medical care facility.

Claims

1. A computer implemented method for generating an optimized healthcare delivery model, the computer implemented method comprising:

parsing event data derived from video data to identify patterns of events, wherein the event data comprises metadata describing events associated with a medical care facility;

identifying a subset of patterns of events from the patterns of events that achieves a target outcome to form a set of optimized patterns of events; and

generating a healthcare delivery strategy using the set of optimized patterns of events to form an optimized healthcare delivery model for the medical care facility.

2. The computer implemented method of claim 1, wherein the target outcome is associated with a cost.

3. The computer implemented method of claim 1, wherein the target outcome is associated with a time.

4. The computer implemented method of claim 1, wherein the optimized healthcare delivery model comprises a set of actions, wherein the set of actions is performed by a healthcare worker.

5. The computer implemented method of claim 1, wherein the optimized healthcare delivery model comprises a set of locations for placement of objects within the medical care facility.

6. The computer implemented method of claim 1, further comprising:

receiving the video data from a set of sensors associated with the healthcare facility; and

analyzing the video data to identify event data, wherein analyzing the video data comprises generating the metadata describing the events associated with the medical care facility.

7. The computer implemented method of claim 6, wherein the set of sensors comprises a set of digital video cameras.

8. The computer implemented method of claim 1, wherein the healthcare delivery strategy is further generated using static data elements.

9. The computer implemented method of claim 1, wherein parsing the event data further comprises:

processing the event data using at least one of a statistical method, a data mining method, a causal model, a mathematical model, a marketing model, a behavioral model, a psychological model, a sociological model, or a simulation model.

10. A computer program product comprising:

a computer usable medium including computer usable program code for generating an optimized healthcare delivery model, the program product comprising;

computer usable program code for parsing event data derived from video data to identify patterns of events, wherein the event data comprises metadata describing events associated with a medical care facility;

computer usable program code for identifying a subset of patterns of events from the patterns of events that achieves a target outcome to form a set of optimized patterns of events; and

computer usable program code for generating a healthcare delivery strategy using the set of optimized patterns of events to form an optimized healthcare delivery model for the medical care facility.

11. The computer program product of claim 10, wherein the target outcome is associated with a cost.

12. The computer program product of claim 10, wherein the target outcome is associated with a time.

13. The computer program product of claim 10, wherein the optimized healthcare delivery model comprises a set of actions, wherein the set of actions is performed by a healthcare worker.

14. The computer program product of claim 10, wherein the optimized healthcare delivery model comprises a set of locations for placement of objects within the medical care facility.

15. The computer program product of claim 10, further comprising:

computer usable program code for receiving video data from a set of sensors associated with the healthcare facility; and

computer usable program code for analyzing the video data to identify event data, wherein analyzing the video data comprises generating the metadata describing the events associated with the medical care facility.

16. The computer program product of claim 15, wherein the set of sensors comprises a set of digital video cameras.

17. The computer program product of claim 10, wherein the healthcare delivery strategy is further generated using static data elements.

18. The computer program product of claim 10, wherein parsing the event data further comprises:

computer usable program code for processing the event data using at least one of a statistical method, a data mining method, a causal model, a mathematical model, a marketing model, a behavioral model, a psychological model, a sociological model, or a simulation model.

19. A system for creating an optimal healthcare delivery model, the system comprising:

a database, wherein the database stores event data collected by a set of sensors; and

an analysis server, wherein the analysis server parses metadata derived from video data to identify patterns of events occurring at the medical care facility;

identifies a subset of patterns from the patterns of events that achieves a target outcome to form a set of optimized patterns of events; and

generates a healthcare delivery strategy using the set of optimized patterns of events to form an optimized healthcare delivery model for the medical care facility.

20. The system of claim 19, wherein the set of sensors comprises a set of digital video camera.