US 2014/0278500 A1Published application

Method for assisting patients in navigating a healthcare network from pre-procedure through post-admission

AssigneeInnovative Healthcare Delivery LLC

InventorShelli Lara

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Abstract

In an embodiment, a first communication that is an electronic hospital census and/or an outpatient authorization report is received by a control device operated by an entity that is a different entity than the hospital. The first communication identifies an individual admitted to a hospital and/or individual scheduled for an elective outpatient procedure. The control device stores a file for the patient identifying a service needed by the patient, and the service is a pre-procedure service, a post-procedure service, a pre-discharge service, and/or a post-discharge service. The entity that operates the control device performs a second communication that coordinates the service from a provider that is a different entity than the entity that operates the control device. The second communication is performed at a time that is at least one of before admission to the hospital, at admission to the hospital, before the procedure, after the procedure, or at discharge.

Claims26

Dependent claims

A method of coordinating a service to a patient from a service provider, the method comprising:

receiving, in a control device, a first communication comprising information from a hospital, the first communication selected from the group consisting of an electronic hospital census and an outpatient authorization report, wherein the first communication identifies a patient in need of receiving a service;
determining, in the control device, the service needed by the patient as a function of at least the first communication, wherein the service is to be provided before a procedure, after a procedure, before a discharge, after a discharge, and combinations thereof;
storing the determined service in the control device as a file;
and
generating, in a second communication, an alert that prompts a navigation specialist to coordinate the determined service for the patient,
wherein the patient is selected from the group consisting of an individual admitted to a hospital, an individual scheduled for the service, and combinations thereof, and
wherein the second communication is generated at a time selected from the group consisting of before admission to the hospital, at admission to the hospital, before the service, after the service, at discharge, and combinations thereof.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 14/212,129Filed 14 Mar 2014
Priority: 15 Mar 2013
Published: 18 Sep 2014
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification8 codes

G06Q 40/08
Finance; Insurance; Tax strategies; Processing of corporate or income taxes: insurance
G16H 15/00
Ict specially adapted for medical reports
G16H 10/20
ICT specially adapted for the handling or processing of patient-related medical or healthcare data: for electronic clinical trials or questionnaires
G16H 10/60
ICT specially adapted for the handling or processing of patient-related medical or healthcare data: for patient-specific data, e.g. for electronic…