Impactability scoring
AssigneeCerner Innovation, Inc.
InventorsCole Anthony Erdmann, Darcy Davis
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Abstract
Methods, systems, and computer-readable media for creating a model that enables a health system with a population of patients to better understand its patient population by being able to track which patients are being well-managed and which patients may be in need of some type of clinical intervention are provided. The methods, systems, and computer-readable media create a model that enables a health system to assess its patient population in terms of wellness, complexity, and impactability. Wellness provides a measure of resource consumption of patients within the population, complexity measures the long-term complexity of patients within the population, and impactability provides an indication of how in-need a patient is of some type of clinical intervention.
Claims16
A computerized method, carried out by at least one server having one or more processors, of generating impactability scores for a population of patients, the method comprising:
- receiving a plurality of wellness parameters for a patient in the population of patients, the wellness parameters comprising one or more of vital signs, labs, procedures, a number and type of patient encounters, and an indication of medication utilization;
- generating, using the one or more processors, a wellness score for the patient using the plurality of wellness parameters, the wellness score comprising an indication of an amount of resource utilization associated with the patient;
- determining a condition set associated with the patient, the condition set comprising a plurality of diagnosed disease conditions associated with the patient;
- generating a complexity score for the patient based on the condition set, the complexity score comprising an indication of the long-term complexity of the patient;
- using at least the wellness score and the complexity score to calculate an impactability score for the patient, the impactability score comprising an indication of whether a clinical intervention for the patient is needed;
- determining that the impactability score exceeds a predefined threshold;
- determining one or more intervention measures are needed for the patient;
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- instituting the one or more clinical intervention measures for the patient.
One or more computer-readable media having computer-executable instructions embodied thereon that, when executed by a computing device, perform a method of determining a clinical intervention for a patient based on the patient's impactability score, the method comprising:
- determining a wellness score for the patient based on one or more parameters comprising vital signs, labs, procedures, a number and type of patient encounters, and an indication of medication utilization;
- determining a complexity score for the patient based on a condition set associated with the patient;
- generating an impactability score for the patient based at least upon the patient's wellness score and complexity score;
- determining that the impactability score exceeds a predefined threshold;
- determining an intervention measure for the patient;
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- instituting the intervention measure for the patient.
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