Integrated scheduling system for health care providers
AssigneeGeneral Electric Company
InventorsAnne Conry, Gopal Avinash
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Abstract
A technique for scheduling health care resources includes identifying particular characteristics of either the resources required for a procedure to be scheduled, or characteristics of a scheduling request. The characteristics may include a particular type of resource, its capabilities, skill levels of personnel, and so forth. Characteristics of requests may include urgency levels of procedures, urgency levels of service to be performed on required equipment, and so forth. Based upon the characteristics, the needed resources are scheduled, and schedules for each of the resources may be created, updated or modified. The characteristics may serve as a basis for prioritizing either the resources, the requests, or both.
Claims24
A method for scheduling health care resources comprising:
- receiving a request for scheduling a desired health care procedure;
- identifying health care resources for performing the desired procedure;
- identifying a characteristic of at least one of health care resources required for performing the desired procedure and a characteristic of the request;
- accessing resource data for the resources in accordance with the identified characteristic;
- accessing schedules for each of the required resources;
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- creating, deleting, modifying or recommending the schedules based upon the resource data and the desired procedure.
A method for scheduling health care resources comprising:
- receiving a plurality of requests for scheduling desired health care procedures;
- identifying health care resources required to perform the desired procedures;
- identifying a characteristic of at least one of health care resources required for performing the desired procedure and a characteristic of the request;
- accessing resource data for the resources in accordance with the identified characteristic;
- accessing schedules for the required resources;
- prioritizing the requests based upon at least one of a characteristic of the request and a characteristic of the resources;
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- creating, deleting, modifying or recommending the schedules based upon the resource data and the desired procedures.
A method for scheduling health care resources comprising:
- receiving a plurality of requests for scheduling a desired health care procedures from a plurality of different request initiators;
- identifying health care resources required to perform the desired procedures;
- identifying a characteristic of at least one of health care resources required for performing the desired procedure and a characteristic of the request;
- accessing resource data for the resources in accordance with the identified characteristic;
- prioritizing the requests based upon at least one of a characteristic of the request and a characteristic of the resources;
- accessing schedules for the required resources;
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- modifying the schedules based upon the resource data and the desired procedures.
A computer program for scheduling health care resources comprising:
- at least one machine readable medium;
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- computer code stored on the at least one machine readable medium including instructions for receiving a request for scheduling a desired health care procedure, identifying health care resources for performing the desired procedure, identifying a characteristic of at least one of health care resources required for performing the desired procedure and a characteristic of the request, accessing resource data for the resources in accordance with the identified characteristic accessing schedules for each of the required resources, and creating, deleting, modifying or recommending the schedules based upon the resource data and the desired procedure.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.