Ecosystem for long term care facility
AssigneeBioLink Systems, LLC
InventorRoger King
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Abstract
An ecosystem and platform for use within Long Term Care Facilities (LTCFs) enhances flow of accurate, usable medical data, and improves work atmosphere within typical nursing homes. These features include but are not limited to changes to call lights, changes to management of bed elevation, changes to data management, and changes to how nursing home workers and staff are compensated and incentivized. This ecosystem and platform leverages technology advances to be more effective in a nursing home environment. These features are all tied together to communicate directly to the staff via a single handheld device with data flowing through a centralized information hub that identifies patient needs.
Claims15
A method of identifying and rectifying risk factors within a long-term care facility (LTCF), comprising:
- locating and configuring a plurality of off-body and on-body sensing devices within a customized platform/ecosystem;
- continuously polling the devices and combining health data from the devices to form at least one patient-specific health fingerprint for each of the one or more patients within the LTCF;
- continuously collecting the health data according to a variety of individualized predetermined criteria inquiring as to whether a medically significant change to any of the one or more patients health fingerprints has occurred;
- the step of continuously collecting the health data further comprising weighting some data higher and other data lower depending on the individualized predetermined criteria;
- directing a garment specifically toward detecting conditions which are known to lead to a Urinary Tract Infection (UTI);
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- a UTI-danger event being a garment-indicated lack of urination for a predetermined amount of time;
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- in the instance where the patient is on a feeding tube, or has an IV drip containing nutrition, when such a UTI-danger event occurs, automatically increasing fluid intake without requiring any human intervention in doing so;
- providing Graphical User Interface (GUIs) of hospitalization metrics including independent objective LTCF-to-hospital transition data across an entire industry and storing that data as LTCF-H1;
- measuring the LTCFs using the ecosystem platform herein for their own LTCF-to-hospital transition data and storing that data as LTCF-H2;
- comparing LTCF-H1 with LTCF-H2;
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- obtaining and displaying objectively quantifiable tangible decreases in hospitalizations that are proximately caused by the ecosystem platform and only the ecosystem platform.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.