Care plan update management

• US 8,015,034 B2
• Filed: 11/15/2006
• Issued: 09/06/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 12/05/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V. (Koninklijke Philips N.V.)
• Original Assignee: Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V. (Koninklijke Philips N.V.)
• Inventors: Fang, Yaqiong, Zhou, Bin, Haque, Imtiyaz, Simms, Daniel
• Primary Examiner(s): O'Connor; Gerald J.
• Assistant Examiner(s): PASS, NATALIE
• Application Number:
  US12/096,053
• Publication Number:
  US 20080306771A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,756 Days
• Field of Search: 705/1, 705/2, 705/3, 600/300, 715/763
• US Class Current: 705/3
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 19/0092 Nutrition
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 20/00 ICT specially adapted for therapies or health-improving plans, e.g. for handling prescriptions, for steering therapy or for monitoring patient compliance
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/20 for the management or administration of healthcare resources or facilities, e.g. managing hospital staff or surgery rooms
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/67 for remote operation
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 70/20 relating to practices or guidelines

Abstract

A care plan management system (10) includes a server (12) including a content database (14) containing care management-related content including multiple revisions of at least some said content. Each content revision is tagged with temporal content revision information. A care plans storage (18) stores a plurality of patient care plans (21, 22, 23) associated with corresponding patients. Each patient care plan includes a selection of care management-related content to be presented to the patient, and a revision policy indicating which temporal revision of said content should be presented. User interfaces (31, 32, 33) are operatively connected with a communication interface (28) of the server (12) to receive and present the selected care management-related content.

Claims

1. A server for a patient care management system, the server comprising:

a content database containing care management-related content including multiple revisions of at least some said content, each content revision being tagged with temporal content revision information;

a care plans storage storing a plurality of patient care plans associated with corresponding patients, each patient care plan including;

(i) a selection of care management-related content to be presented to the corresponding patient and (ii) a revision policy indicating which temporal revision of said content should be presented to the corresponding patient; and

at least one communication interface comprising a computer or digital processor configured to communicate selected care management-related content to patients, the communicated content for each patient being selected based on the corresponding patient care plan, tagged temporal content revision information, and the revision policy of the corresponding patient care plan.

2. The server as set forth in claim 1, wherein the revision policy is selected from a group of revision policy options including at least:

(i) a specific revision, and (ii) the latest revision.

3. The server as set forth in claim 2, wherein the tagged temporal content revision information includes an indication of which revision is the latest revision, the latest revision policy selecting that content revision indicated as the latest revision.

4. The server as set forth in claim 2, wherein the tagged temporal content revision information includes ordering information, the latest revision policy selecting that content revision whose tagged temporal content revision ordering information indicates the content revision is the latest revision.

5. The server as set forth in claim 2, wherein the group of revision policy options further includes:

(iii) omission of the content.

6. The server as set forth in claim 2, wherein the group of revision policy options further includes:

(iii) latest revision retroactive, the at least one communication interface re-presenting at least an updated portion of the latest revision under the latest revision retroactive revision policy responsive to an updated latest content revision.

7. The server as set forth in claim 2, wherein the group of revision policy options further includes:

(iii) a user-selection policy, the at least one communication interface querying the patient via the communication interface as to which content revision to present and then presenting the user-selected content revision.

8. The server as set forth in claim 7, wherein the tagged temporal content revision information includes semantic information about the revision that is presented to the user as part of the query.

9. The server as set forth in claim 1, wherein the care management-related content of the content database is organized into self-contained content modules, and the revision policy of each patient care plan includes an independent revision policy for each selected content module that indicates which temporal revision of that content module should be presented to the corresponding patient.

10. The server as set forth in claim 1, wherein each patient care plan further includes:

(iii) intervention rules providing at least a temporal ordering for presentation of the care management-related content to the corresponding patient.

11. The server as set forth in claim 10, wherein the intervention rules are also tagged with temporal content revision information, and each patient care plan further includes (iii) a rules revision policy indicating which revision of intervention rules should be applied for the corresponding patient.

12. A care plan management system comprising:

a server as set forth in claim 1; and

a user interface operatively connected with the at least one communication interface of the server to receive and present the selected care management-related content.

13. The care plan management system as set forth in claim 12, wherein the user interface is an interactive user interface whereby an associated patient can provide input that is communicated to the server via the at least one communication interface.

14. The care plan management system as set forth in claim 12, wherein the user interface is operatively connected with the at least one communication interface of the server via at least one of the Internet, a cable television network, a satellite television network, and a cellular telephone network.

15. The care plan management system as set forth in claim 12, wherein the user interface includes at least one of:

a television set, a television set including a set-top box, a computer, a laptop computer, a personal data assistant (PDA), and a cellular telephone (cellphone).

16. The care plan management system as set forth in claim 12, wherein the user interface includes at least one biometric feedback monitor that measures at least one biometric parameter of an associated patient that is communicated to the server via the at least one communication interface.

17. A method for managing care, the method comprising:

(I) storing care management-related content including multiple revisions of at least some said content, each content revision being tagged with temporal content revision information;

(II) storing a plurality of patient care plans associated with corresponding patients, each patient care plan including;

(i) a selection of care management-related content to be presented to the corresponding patient and (ii) a revision policy indicating which temporal revision of said content should be presented to the corresponding patient; and

(III) communicating selected care management-related content to patients, the communicated content for each patient being selected based on the corresponding patient care plan, tagged temporal content revision information, and the revision policy of the corresponding patient care plan;

wherein the operations (I), (II), and (III) are performed by a computer or digital processor.

18. The method as set forth in claim 17, wherein the revision policy of each patient care plan is selected from a group of revision policy options including at least:

(i) a specific revision policy, (ii) a latest revision policy, (iii) a latest revision retroactive policy, (iv) a user-query revision policy, and (v) a condition-based revision policy.

19. The method as set forth in claim 17, wherein the revision policy of each patient care plan includes a plurality of generally different revision policies each applicable to a different portion of the care management-related content.

20. The method as set forth in claim 19, wherein the different portions of the care management-related content are arranged as self-contained content modules.

21. A computer readable medium or media storing a program for managing care, the program when executed performing process operations comprising:

communicating selected care management-related content to a patient, the communicated content for each patient being selected based on a patient care plan, temporal content revision information tagged to the selected care management-related content, and a revision policy of the patient care plan.

22. The computer readable medium or media as set forth in claim 21, wherein the program when executed further performs process operations comprising:

tagging an updated portion of the selected care management-related content with updated temporal content revision information, the communicating presenting one of the portion or the updated portion of the selected care management-related content to the patient based on the temporal content revision information and the updated temporal content revision information.

23. The computer readable medium or media as set forth in claim 21, wherein the selected care management-related content is arranged as a plurality of self-contained content modules each tagged with temporal content revision information, and the communicating further comprises:

communicating content modules to a patient, the communicated content for each content module being selected based on temporal content revision information tagged to the content module and the revision policy of the patient care plan.

24. The computer readable medium or media as set forth in claim 23, wherein the revision policy of the patient care plan is configured to apply a generally different revision policy for each communicated content module.