Controlling equipment in a patient care facility based on never-event cohorts from patient care data

A computer program product for restoring power to a patient care facility based on never-event cohorts, wherein a never-event is a preventable error experienced by a patient while receiving medical care, and wherein the computer program product comprises:

• a non-transitory computer recordable-type medium;
• first program instructions for processing patient care data derived from a population of patients to form digital patient care data in response to receiving the patient care data, wherein the digital patient care data comprises metadata describing a set of patient care patterns associated with one or more patients in the population of patients, and wherein the set of patient care patterns is one or more patterns of events that indicate a likely occurrence of a never-event at a patient care facility;
• second program instructions for analyzing the digital patient care data using cohort criteria to identify a set of never-event attributes from the set of patient care patterns, wherein the never-event attributes do not directly describe a never-event, wherein the cohort criteria specifies at least one never-event attribute from the set of never-event attributes for each cohort in a set of never-event cohorts, and wherein the never-event attributes describe common medical care procedures given to each cohort member;
• third program instructions for receiving, from a set of sensors, facility event data, wherein the set of sensors comprises a motion sensor, a temperature sensor, a video camera, a power sensor, and a microphone capturing the facility event data, wherein the facility event data describes environmental conditions within a patient care facility, wherein the power sensor detects a lack of power in the patient care facility, wherein the facility event data is a component of patient care data, and wherein the patient care data comprises the set of patient care patterns;
• fourth program instructions for forming new digital patient care data from the patient care data;
• fifth program instructions for generating the set of never-event cohorts comprising members selected from the population of patients, wherein each member of a cohort in the set of never-event cohorts has the at least one never-event attribute in common, wherein a current patient is a current patient in the patient care facility, and wherein the current patient is a member of the set of never-event cohorts;
• sixth program instructions for identifying a series of multiple events that led to the unwanted electrical shock suffered by the current patient;
• seventh in response to identifying the series of multiple events that led to the unwanted electrical shock suffered by the current patient, assigning, by one or more processors, the current patient to the set of never-event cohorts;
• and
• eighth program instructions for transmitting, based on the set of never-event cohorts and in response to the current patient being the member of the set of never-event cohorts, an instruction to a power controller to switch from a primary power source for the patient care facility to a secondary power supply for the patient care facility;
• and wherein
• the first program instructions, the second program instructions, the third program instructions, the fourth program instructions, the fifth program instructions, the sixth program instructions, the seventh program instructions, and the eighth program instructions are stored on the non-transitory computer recordable-type medium.

An apparatus for restoring power to a patient care facility based on never-event cohorts, wherein a never-event is a preventable error experienced by a patient while receiving medical care, the apparatus comprising:

• a bus system;
• a memory connected to the bus system, wherein the memory includes computer usable program code;
• and
• a processing unit connected to the bus system, wherein the processing unit executes the computer usable program code to:
• process patient care data derived from a population of patients to form digital patient care data in response to receiving the patient care data, wherein the digital patient care data comprises metadata describing a set of patient care patterns associated with one or more patients in the population of patients, and wherein the set of patient care patterns is one or more patterns of events that indicate a likely occurrence of a never-event at a patient care facility;
• analyze the digital patient care data using cohort criteria to identify a set of never-event attributes from the set of patient care patterns, wherein the never-event attributes do not directly describe a never-event, wherein the cohort criteria specify at least one never-event attribute from the set of never-event attributes for each cohort in a set of never-event cohorts, and wherein the never-event attributes describe common medical care procedures given to each cohort member;
• receive, from a set of sensors, facility event data, wherein the set of sensors comprises a motion sensor, a temperature sensor, a video camera, a power sensor, and a microphone capturing the facility event data, wherein the facility event data describes environmental conditions within a patient care facility, wherein the power sensor detects a lack of power in the patient care facility, wherein the facility event data is a component of patient care data, and wherein the patient care data comprises the set of patient care patterns;
• form new digital patient care data from the patient care data;
• generate the set of never-event cohorts comprising members selected from the population of patients, wherein each member of a cohort in the set of never-event cohorts has the at least one never-event attribute in common, wherein a current patient is a current patient in the patient care facility, and wherein the current patient is a member of the set of never-event cohorts;
• identify a series of multiple events that led to the unwanted electrical shock suffered by the current patient;
• in response to identifying the series of multiple events that led to the unwanted electrical shock suffered by the current patient, assign the current patient to the set of never-event cohorts;
• and
• transmit, based on the set of never-event cohorts and in response to the current patient being the member of the set of never-event cohorts, an instruction to a power controller to switch from a primary power source for the patient care facility to a secondary power supply for the patient care facility.