Medical transfer protocol system and method
OwnerJeffrey Clawson, Ivan Whitaker +3inventors
InventorsJeffrey Clawson, Ivan Whitaker, Brett Patterson, Mark Rector, Darren Judd
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Abstract
A system and method assists a dispatcher in responding to callers requesting medical transfers for a patient. A computer implemented medical transfer protocol includes interrogatories for a dispatcher to ask a caller to generate an appropriate medical transfer. The medical transfer protocol selects a medical vehicle with the appropriate equipment, medicinal inventory, and trained medical personnel.
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A computer system to perform a method to assist a dispatcher in responding to a caller requesting a medical transfer of a patient, comprising:
- a processor;
- an input device in electrical communication with the processor;
- an output device in electrical communication with the processor;
- and
- a memory in electrical communication with the processor, and having stored thereon:
- a medical transfer protocol comprising:
- a logic tree to present on the output device a pre-scripted interrogation comprising a plurality of preprogrammed inquiries for the dispatcher to ask the caller to systematically obtain a description of the medical transfer, wherein the description of the medical transfer comprises caller responses to the plurality of preprogrammed inquiries, the preprogrammed inquiries including asking whether a request is urgent or if the request is to schedule a medical transfer on a future day;
- a determinant calculator to generate a determinant code to prioritize the medical transfer based on the caller responses;
- and
- a billing code calculator to generate a billing code based on the caller responses and corresponding to the medical transfer.
A computer system to perform a method to assist a dispatcher in responding to a caller requesting a medical transfer of a patient, comprising:
- a processor;
- an input device in electrical communication with the processor;
- an output device in electrical communication with the processor;
- and
- a memory in electrical communication with the processor, and having stored thereon:
- a medical transfer protocol comprising:
- a logic tree to present on the output device a pre-scripted interrogation comprising a plurality of preprogrammed inquiries for the dispatcher to ask the caller to systematically obtain a description of the medical transfer, wherein the description of the medical transfer comprises caller responses to the plurality of preprogrammed inquiries, the preprogrammed inquiries including,
- whether the request for medical transfer is urgent,
- whether the request is to schedule a medical transfer on a future day, and
- whether the request is for a mental health transfer;
- a determinant calculator to generate a determinant code to prioritize the medical transfer based on the caller responses;
- and
- a billing code calculator to generate a billing code based on the caller responses and corresponding to the medical transfer.
A computer readable medium comprising computer readable instruction code to perform a method for a medical transfer protocol to assist a dispatcher in responding to a caller requesting a medical transfer of a patient, the method comprising:
- providing a logic tree to present on an output device a pre-scripted interrogation comprising a plurality of preprogrammed inquiries for the dispatcher to ask the caller to systematically obtain a description of the medical transfer, wherein the description of the medical transfer comprises caller responses to the plurality of preprogrammed inquiries, the preprogrammed inquiries including asking whether a request is urgent or if the request is to schedule a medical transfer on a future day;
- generating a determinant code to prioritize the medical transfer based on the caller responses;
- and
- generating a billing code based on the caller responses and corresponding to the medical transfer.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.