US 2016/0103969 A1Published application

Chronic disease management and workflow engine

AssigneeCompugroup Medical AG

InventorsWerner Rodorff, Jerry Maynard Kizziar, SR.

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Abstract

The present invention relates to a method for monitoring a chronic disease using a chronic disease management device, the chronic disease management device comprising a rule engine unit and a receiving unit, the method comprising: providing a database for storing a plurality of clinical items related to the chronic disease; receiving, by the receiving unit, at a first point in time first data from a first user of the chronic disease management device, the first data being indicative of first values of at least part of the plurality of clinical items; selecting by the rule engine a set of clinical items of the plurality of clinical items using at least the first values, each or some of the set of clinical items being associated with a final target value; determining, by the rule engine unit, a set of target values including intermediate target values and the final target value for each or some of the set of clinical items, the set of target values being sequenced chronologically, wherein the final target value is last in the sequence; generating, by the rule engine unit, a documentation set comprising the set of clinical items and respective set of target values associated with each clinical item of the set of clinical items; storing, by the rule engine unit, the documentation set in the database.

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Dependent claims

A method for monitoring a chronic disease using a chronic disease management device, the chronic disease management device comprising a rule engine unit and a receiving unit, the method comprising:

a. providing a database for storing a plurality of clinical items related to the chronic disease;
b. receiving, by the receiving unit, at a first point in time first data from a first user of the chronic disease management device, the first data being indicative of first values of at least part of the plurality of clinical items;
c. selecting by the rule engine a set of clinical items of the plurality of clinical items using at least the first values, each or some of the set of clinical items being associated with a final target value;
d. determining, by the rule engine unit, a set of target values including intermediate target values and the final target value for each or some of the set of clinical items, the set of target values being sequenced chronologically, wherein the final target value is last in the sequence;
e. generating, by the rule engine unit, a documentation set comprising the set of clinical items and respective set of target values associated with each or some of the set of clinical items;
f. storing, by the rule engine unit, the documentation set in the database;
g. for each clinical item of the set of clinical items:
I. defining a given target value as the first target value of the set of target values;
II. providing, by the rule engine unit, a predefined second point in time for receiving a second value of the clinical item;
III. receiving, by the receiving unit, at the second point in time the second value for the clinical item from the first user;
IV. comparing, by the rule engine unit, the second value with at least the given target value;
V. assigning a score to the first user indicative of the clinical status of the first user at the second point in time using the results of the comparison;
VI. repeating steps ii)-v) with the given target value being a non-used target value of the set of target values until usage of at least part of the set of target values;
h. based on the scores, repeating steps c)-g) or repeating steps d)-g) until a predefined disease treatment convergence criterion is met.

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A chronic disease management device for monitoring a chronic disease, the chronic disease management device comprising a database for storing a plurality of clinical items related to the chronic disease, the chronic disease management device further comprising:

a receiving unit for receiving, at a first point in time first data from a first user of the chronic disease management device, the first data being indicative of first values of at least part of the plurality of clinical items;
a rule engine unit for:
1)selecting a set of clinical items of the plurality of clinical items using at least the first values, each or some of the set of clinical items being associated with a final target value;
2)determining a set of target values including intermediate target values and the final target value for each or some of the set of clinical items, the set of target values being sequenced chronologically, wherein the final target value is last in the sequence;
3)generating a documentation set comprising the set of clinical items and respective set of target values associated with each clinical item of the set of clinical items;
4)storing the documentation set in the database;
5)for each clinical item of the set of clinical items:
i. defining a given target value as the first target value of the set of target values;
ii. providing a predefined second point in time for receiving a second value of the clinical item;
iii. receiving, via the receiving unit, at the second point in time the second value for the clinical item from the first user;
iv. comparing the second value with at least the given tar-get value;
v. assigning a score to the first user indicative of the clinical status of the first user at the second point in time using the results of the comparison;
vi. repeating steps ii)-v) with the given target value being a non-used target value of the set of target values until us-age of at least part of the set of target values;
6)based on the scores, repeating steps 1)-5) or repeating steps 2)-5) until a predefined disease treatment convergence criterion is met.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.