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US 2018/0025123 A1Published application
Methods and systems for remotely determining levels of healthcare interventions
AssigneeCarePredict, Inc.
InventorSatish Movva
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Abstract
The present subject matter relates to methods and systems utilizing wearable sensor technology to determine when a patient's health may be degrading to trigger progressively higher levels of care and involvement, from “free” hands and eyes to skilled clinicians, in order to keep patients in the lowest cost setting of care, the home, for as long as possible.
Claims30
1-15. (canceled)
A distributed and reconfigurable healthcare communication system comprising:
- a wearable sensor configured to continually monitor a wearer, the wearable sensor comprising:
- at least one sensing device configured to sense activity of the wearer and generate sensed activity data of the wearer, and
- a processor configured to identify a location of the wearer during the activity and determine a current functional activity of the wearer based on the sensed activity data and the identified location, the current functional activity and the corresponding identified location forming current state information;
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- at least one remote server, in communication with the wearable sensor via a communication network, configured to receive the current state information from the wearable sensor, and reconfigure the healthcare communication system by selectively incorporating one or more additional devices into said healthcare communication system under particular conditions to provide additional wearer data, by:
- detecting an event based on deviation of the current state information from at least one baseline activity pattern established for the wearer,
- for the detected event, determining a statistical significance of the deviation of the current state information relative to the at least one baseline activity pattern,
- selecting a care level among a plurality of hierarchical care levels based on the statistical significance of the deviation and a previous health-state of the wearer, at least one of a lower statistical significance or a lower health-state variation associated with a lower care level, and at least one of a higher statistical significance or a higher health-state variation associated with a higher care level,
- transmitting a participation notification to a care level device associated with the selected care level, the participation notification based on at least one of the detected event, the selected care level and the previous health-state of the wearer, to incorporate the care level device into the healthcare communication system,
- causing the healthcare communication system to collect the additional wearer data via the incorporated device, and
- automatically updating the health-state of the wearer based on evaluation of the collected additional wearer data, the current state information, the detected event, and predetermined clinical guidelines, to determine whether to perform a further action by the remote server,
- wherein the further action includes obtaining additional health-state information of the wearer via a care level device of a different care level among the plurality of care levels, based on the updated health-state.
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A distributed and reconfigurable healthcare communication system comprising:
- a plurality of beacons disposed in respective specific areas of a larger area, and configured to transmit a corresponding plurality of transmissions, each transmission including an identifier of the respective beacon associated with a corresponding area among the specific areas in which the respective beacon is disposed;
- a wearable sensor configured to receive at least one transmission among the plurality of transmissions and to continually monitor a wearer, the wearable sensor comprising:
- at least one sensing device configured to sense activity of the wearer and generate sensed activity data of the wearer, and
- a processor configured to:
- identify a location of the wearer among the specific areas during the activity based on the corresponding identifier in the received at least one transmission and determine a current functional activity of the wearer based on the sensed activity data and the identified location, the current functional activity and the corresponding identified location forming current state information;
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- at least one remote server, in communication with the wearable sensor via a communication network, configured to receive the current state information from the wearable sensor, and reconfigure the healthcare communication system by selectively incorporating one or more additional devices into said healthcare communication system under particular conditions to provide additional wearer data, by:
- detecting an event based on deviation of the current state information from at least one baseline activity pattern established for the wearer,
- for the detected event, determining a statistical significance of the deviation of the current state information relative to the at least one baseline activity pattern,
- selecting a care level among a plurality of hierarchical care levels based on the statistical significance of the deviation and a previous health-state of the wearer, at least one of a lower statistical significance or a lower health-state variation associated with a lower care level, and at least one of a higher statistical significance or a higher health-state variation associated with a higher care level,
- transmitting a participation notification to a care level device associated with the selected care level, the participation notification based on at least one of the detected event, the selected care level and the previous health-state of the wearer, to incorporate the care level device into the healthcare communication system,
- causing the healthcare communication system to collect the additional wearer data via the incorporated device, and
- automatically updating the health-state of the wearer based on evaluation of the collected additional wearer data, the current state information, the detected event, and predetermined clinical guidelines, to determine whether to perform a further action by the remote server,
- wherein the further action includes obtaining additional health-state information of the wearer via a care level device of a different care level among the plurality of care levels, based on the updated health-state.
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A healthcare communication method for reconfiguring a distributed healthcare communication system, the method comprising the steps of:
- sensing, by at least one sensing device of a wearable sensor of the healthcare communication system, activity of a wearer and generating sensed activity data of the wearer, the wearable sensor configured to continually monitor the wearer;
- identifying, by a processor of the wearable sensor, a location of the wearer during the activity;
- determining, by the processor of the wearable sensor, a current functional activity of the wearer based on the sensed activity data and the identified location, the current functional activity and the corresponding identified location forming current state information;
- receiving, by at least one remote server of the healthcare communication system in communication with the wearable sensor via a communication network, the current state information from the wearable sensor;
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- reconfiguring, by the at least one remote server, the healthcare communication system by selectively incorporating one or more additional devices into said healthcare communication system under particular conditions to provide additional wearer data, by:
- detecting an event based on deviation of the current state information from at least one baseline activity pattern established for the wearer,
- for the detected event, determining a statistical significance of the deviation of the current state information relative to the at least one baseline activity pattern,
- selecting a care level among a plurality of hierarchical care levels based on the statistical significance of the deviation and a previous health-state of the wearer, at least one of a lower statistical significance or a lower health-state variation associated with a lower care level, and at least one of a higher statistical significance or a higher health-state variation associated with a higher care level,
- transmitting a participation notification to a care level device associated with the selected care level, the participation notification based on at least one of the detected event, the selected care level and the previous health-state of the wearer, to incorporate the care level device into the healthcare communication system,
- causing the healthcare communication system to collect the additional wearer data via the incorporated device, and
- automatically updating the health-state of the wearer based on evaluation of the collected additional wearer data, the current state information, the detected event, and predetermined clinical guidelines, to determine whether to perform a further action by the remote server,
- wherein the further action includes obtaining additional health-state information of the wearer via a care level device of a different care level among the plurality of care levels, based on the updated health-state.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.