US 11,080,367 B2 · System-wide probabilistic alerting and activation

Abstract

Systems, methods, and computer program products that enable system-wide probabilistic forecasting, alerting, optimizing and activating resources in the delivery of care to address both immediate (near real-time) conditions as well as probabilistic forecasted operational states of the system over an interval that is selectable from the current time to minutes, hours and coming days or weeks ahead are provided. There are multiple probabilistic future states that are implemented in these different time intervals and these may be implemented concurrently for an instant in time control, near term, and long term. Those forecasts along with their optimized control of hospital capacity may be independently calculated and optimized, such as for a dynamic workflow direction over the next hour and also a patient's stay over a period of days. In the present application, a probabilistic and conditional workflow reasoning system enabling complex team-based decisions that improve capacity, satisfaction, and safety is provided. A means to consume user(s) judgment, implement control on specific resource assignments and tasks in a clinical workflow is enabled, as is the dynamical and optimal control of the other care delivery assets being managed by the system so as to more probably achieve operating criteria such as throughput, waiting and schedule risk.

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A computerized healthcare operations control system comprising:

at least one processor to implement at least:
a plurality of first controllers to allocate a plurality of resources in locations of a healthcare facility to execute a process according to reference states associated with the resources and condition limits bounding the reference states for the respective resource, the plurality of first controllers to manage the allocation of the plurality of resources to maintain the condition limits bounding the reference states for the respective resources so that the respective reference state does not exceed the corresponding condition limit for the respective resource;
a second controller to monitor the resources allocated by the plurality of first controllers with respect to completion of a process, the second controller to predict a time of completion of the process by the resources and to provide feedback to one or more of the plurality of first controllers when the predicted of time of completion exceeds an allotted time duration for the process, the respective one or more of the plurality of first controllers to adjust a configuration of at least one of the plurality of resources based on the feedback from the second controller.

A non-transitory computer-readable storage device having a set of instructions for execution on a computer, the set of instructions, when executed, causing and configuring the computer to implement a method, the method comprising:

allocating, by a plurality of first controllers, a plurality of resources in locations of a healthcare facility to execute a process according to reference states associated with the resources and condition limits bounding the reference states for the respective resource;
managing, by the plurality of first controllers, the allocation of the plurality of resources to maintain the condition limits bounding the reference states for the respective resources so that the respective reference state does not exceed the corresponding condition limit for the respective resource;
monitoring, by a second controller, the resources allocated by the plurality of first controllers with respect to completion of a process;
predicting, by the second controller, a time of completion of the process by the resources;
and
providing, by the second controller, feedback to one or more of the plurality of first controllers when the predicted of time of completion exceeds an allotted time duration for the process, the respective one or more of the plurality of first controllers to adjust a configuration of at least one of the plurality of resources based on the feedback from the second controller.

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