US 10,636,104 B2 · Patient care and health information management systems and methods

Abstract

Streamlined and integrated patient care and health information management systems and methods for reducing the need for costly, near constant patient monitoring by providing system components that allow healthcare professionals to view the most important data for a number of patients in varying physical locations in a seamless manner are disclosed. Various components of the system can be used to monitor patients; measure, record, and track vital signs; and coordinate patient care in an automated fashion. Patients that have a achieved a relatively stable condition during a recovery process, but who still require or would benefit from near constant, or frequent vital sign monitoring can be provided with one or more body worn vital sign sensors. These patient worn sensors can track vital sign and other information about patients, including patient movement, activity, and sleep patterns.

A computer-implemented method for coordinating patient care, the method comprising:

accessing, by a computer system, a patient profile record for a patient, the patient profile record including:
a patient identifier for the patient;
vital sign information received from a patient-worn mobile sensor associated with the patient;
care information derived from user input received from a first caregiver, the care information indicating at least one medical occurrence associated with the patient;
and
care group information referencing one or more first user profile records, wherein each first user profile record is associated with a person in the patient's care group;
identifying, by the computer system, information associated with the patient profile record indicating a scheduled future medical occurrence for the patient and a specified medical occurrence type for the scheduled future medical occurrence, wherein the scheduled future medical occurrence comprises an event requiring interaction between at least one caregiver and the patient;
accessing, by the computing system, medical occurrence type information for the specified medical occurrence type, wherein the medical occurrence type information includes:
(1) location requirement information indicating location requirements for medical occurrences of the specified medical occurrence type, (2) precursor information indicating one or more prior vital sign states or one or more prior medical occurrences indicative of a possible need for the specified medical occurrence type;
and (3) indications of one or more caregiver types associated with the specified medical occurrence type;
matching, by the computing system, medical occurrence timing criteria associated with the scheduled future medical occurrence to schedule information for a location that meets the location requirements indicated by the accessed location requirement information, wherein the medical occurrence timing criteria is based, at least in part, on timing information included in the medical occurrence type information for the specified medical occurrence type, and wherein the medical occurrence timing criteria identifies at least one of:
(1) an estimated duration of the scheduled future medical occurrence, and (2) an indication of a deadline by which the scheduled future medical occurrence should occur;
scheduling, by the computing system, the location for the scheduled future medical occurrence in response to matching the medical occurrence timing criteria associated with the scheduled future medical occurrence to the schedule information for the location, wherein scheduling the location for the scheduled future medical occurrence includes associating the location with the scheduled future medical occurrence in the patient profile record;
identifying, by the computer system, a second user profile record for a second caregiver, wherein the second user profile record is distinct from the one or more first user profile records, and the second caregiver is not in the patient's care group prior the identifying of the second user profile record by the computer system, and wherein the identifying includes matching a particular caregiver type of the one or more caregiver types included in the medical occurrence type information for the specified medical occurrence type to information included in the second user profile record indicating that the second caregiver is a caregiver of the particular caregiver type, and wherein identifying the second user profile record for the second caregiver further comprises comparing the medical occurrence timing criteria for the scheduled future medical occurrence and a scheduled time for the scheduled future medical occurrence to availability information for the second caregiver stored in the second user profile;
and
adding, in response to identifying the second user profile record for the second caregiver, the second caregiver to the patient's care group by adding a first reference to the second user profile record to the care group information of the patient profile record, and adding a second reference to the patient profile record to the second caregiver record, the second reference enabling the second caregiver to access restricted patient information included in the patient profile record using a computing device.

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