System and method for predicting hygiene opportunity and hygiene actions for hygiene protocols
AssigneeMicrosensor Labs, LLC
InventorsPeng Liu, Yang Liu
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Abstract
A system and method for opportunity-based hygiene monitoring and/or reminding is disclosed. Healthcare providers may have various opportunities to interact with a patient. As such, an opportunity-based focus in managing a healthcare environment may assist in assessing the various opportunities when interacting with the patient. For example, an opportunity-based analysis may be used for protocol compliance, such as compliance with hand hygiene protocols and/or PPE protocols. Further, infection analysis, patient care billing, staff locating, or workload analysis may be opportunity based in order to more efficiently manage the healthcare environment.
Claims15
A method for identifying and determining compliance with a hygiene opportunity, the method comprising:
- automatically predicting the hygiene opportunity, the hygiene opportunity indicative of interaction for which compliance is to be monitored, the compliance requiring one or more hygiene actions;
- responsive to a controller automatically detecting at least one action so that the controller communicates with one or more mobile electronic devices indicative that the at least one action was performed, wherein each of the one or more mobile electronic devices are associated with a respective person, the at least one action comprising at least one of the one or more hygiene actions, automatically predicting, by a respective mobile electronic device of the one or more mobile electronic devices in communication with the controller, whether the respective person performed the at least one action;
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- determining compliance or non-compliance with the hygiene opportunity dependent on automatically predicting that the respective person performed the at least one action.
A system for identifying and determining compliance of a worker with a hygiene opportunity, the system comprising:
- at least one controller configured to:
- automatically predict the hygiene opportunity, the hygiene opportunity indicative of interaction for which compliance is to be monitored, the compliance requiring one or more hygiene actions;
- one or more mobile electronic devices configured to:
- responsive to the at least one controller automatically detecting at least one action so that the controller communicates with one or more mobile electronic devices indicative that the at least one action was performed, wherein each of the one or more mobile electronic devices are associated with a respective person, the at least one action comprising at least one of the one or more hygiene actions, automatically predict, by a respective mobile electronic device of the one or more mobile electronic devices in communication with the at least one controller, whether the respective person performed the at least one action;
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- wherein at least one of the at least one controller or the one or more mobile electronic devices are further configured to:
- determine compliance or non-compliance with the hygiene opportunity dependent on automatically predicting that the respective person performed the at least one action.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.