System and method for predicting hygiene opportunity and hygiene actions for hygiene protocols
AssigneeMicrosensor Labs, LLC
InventorsPeng Liu, Yang Liu
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Abstract
A system and method for opportunity-based hygiene monitoring and/or reminding is disclosed. Healthcare providers may have various opportunities to interact with a patient. As such, an opportunity-based focus in managing a healthcare environment may assist in assessing the various opportunities when interacting with the patient. For example, an opportunity-based analysis may be used for protocol compliance, such as compliance with hand hygiene protocols and/or PPE protocols. Further, infection analysis, patient care billing, staff locating, or workload analysis may be opportunity based in order to more efficiently manage the healthcare environment.
Claims20
A method for identifying and determining compliance with a hygiene opportunity, the method comprising:
- automatically predicting the hygiene opportunity, the hygiene opportunity indicative of interaction for which compliance is to be monitored, the compliance requiring one or more hygiene actions;
- responsive to automatically detecting at least one action, the at least one action comprising at least one of the one or more hygiene actions, automatically predicting which of a plurality of people performed the at least one action;
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- determining compliance or non-compliance with the hygiene opportunity dependent on automatically predicting which of the plurality of people performed the at least one action.
A system for identifying and determining compliance of a worker with a hygiene opportunity, the system comprising:
- one or more electronic devices configured to:
- automatically predict the hygiene opportunity, the hygiene opportunity indicative of interaction for which compliance is to be monitored, the compliance requiring one or more hygiene actions;
- responsive to automatically detecting at least one action, the at least one action comprising at least one of the one or more hygiene actions, automatically predict which of a plurality of people performed the at least one action;
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- determine compliance or non-compliance with the hygiene opportunity dependent on automatically predicting which of the plurality of people performed the at least one action.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.