US 2023/0420088 A1Published application

Cross discipline disease management system

AssigneeBeckman Coulter, Inc.

InventorCarola SCHMIDT

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Abstract

A middleware device or software may be placed in communication with one or more testing instruments and a lab information system. As samples are collected from patients and tested with the testing instruments, test results pass through the middleware and are analyzed in context with other data, such as patient history, testing instrument history, and test results from other tests of the sample, in order to determine whether a particular result is acceptable, whether retesting is needed, whether additional sample collection or testing is needed, and whether currently ordered testing is still necessary. When the middleware determines a need for additional testing or retesting it may automatically create orders for such testing in order to reduce delays in manual review of testing results.

Claims20

Dependent claims

An information system for managing medical testing comprising:

(a) a computing server on a communication path between at least one laboratory instrument and at least one external patient data information system, the at least one external patient data information system configured to receive patent data from one or more sources other than through the computing server;
(b) an instrument communication interface communicatively coupled with the computing server and configured to provide a data communication between the computing server and the at least one external laboratory instrument;
(c) an information system interface communicatively coupled with the computing server and configured to provide a further data communication between the computing server and the at least one external patient data information system, wherein the at least one external patient data information system is configured to maintain a patient data set comprising a set of test orders and a history data set;
wherein the computing server comprises:
(i) a first receiving section configured to receive an instrument data set from the at least one external laboratory instrument via the instrument communication interface;
(ii) a second receiving section configured to receive the history data set from the at least one external patient data information system via the information system interface;
(iii) a test management section configured to build a test management data set based on the instrument data set received from the at least one external laboratory instrument and based on the history data set received from the at least one external patient data information system;
(iv) a rules engine configured to apply a set of test management rules to the test management data set to generate a testing task, wherein the set of test management rules comprises at least one rule operable to generate the testing task as detecting sepsis or monitoring sepsis;
and
(v) an updating section configured to update a set of test orders of a patient data set maintained by the at least one external patient data information system based upon the testing task;
wherein the instrument data set comprises test results associated with a patient;
and
wherein the history data set comprises at least one of biographical and historical information associated with the patient.

10 more elements

A method for operating an information system for managing medical testing, the method comprising the steps of:

(a) placing, on a communication path between an external patient data information system and at least one external laboratory instrument, a computing server, wherein, prior to placement of the computing server on the communication path, the external patient data information system was configured to communicate directly with the at least one external laboratory instrument;
(b) receiving, with the computing server, an instrument data set from the at least one external laboratory instrument via an instrument communication interface;
(c) receiving, with the computing server, a history data set from the external patient data information system via an information system interface;
(d) building, with the computing server, a test management data set based on the received instrument data set and based on the received history data set;
(e) generating, with the computing server, a testing task based on applying a set of test management rules to the test management data set, wherein the testing task is detecting sepsis or monitoring sepsis;
and
(f) updating, with the computing server, a set of test orders of a patient data set maintained by the external patient data information system based on the generated testing task;
wherein the instrument data set comprises test results associated with a patient;
and
wherein the history data set comprises at least one of biographical and historical information associated with the patient.

7 more elements

A non-transitory computer readable medium having stored thereon instructions operable to, when executed, cause a computing server to perform a method comprising:

(a) receiving an instrument data set from at least one external laboratory instrument via an instrument communication interface;
(b) receiving a history data set from an external patient data information system via an information system interface;
(c) building a test management data set based on the received instrument data set and based on the received history data set;
(d) generating a testing task based on applying a set of test management rules to the test management data set, wherein the testing task is detecting sepsis or monitoring sepsis;
and
(e) updating a set of test orders of a patient data set maintained by the external patient data information system based on the generated testing task;
wherein the instrument data set comprises test results associated with a patient;
and
wherein the history data set comprises at least one of biographical and historical information associated with the patient.

6 more elements

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 18/367,672Filed 13 Sep 2023
Priority: 28 Feb 2017
Published: 28 Dec 2023
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification5 codes

G16H 10/40
ICT specially adapted for the handling or processing of patient-related medical or healthcare data: for data related to laboratory analysis, e.g.…
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…
G16H 40/67
For the operation of medical equipment or devices: for remote operation
G16H 50/20
ICT specially adapted for medical diagnosis, medical simulation or medical data mining; ICT specially adapted for detecting, monitoring or…: for…

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Application62/464,631Us provisional application · filed 28 Feb 2017
Application16/488,503Continuation · filed 23 Aug 2019
Application18/367,672Continuation
US 11,791,022 B2Related patent
US 2020/0243171 A1Published application
US 2023/0420088 A1This patent

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