Treatment data processing and planning system

A patient treatment management system, comprising:

• a repository including treatment information for a particular patient identifying expected results of treatment, care actions a healthcare team need to take to reach said expected results and an associated schedule for achievement of said expected results;
• an interface processor for acquiring data representing clinical information of a particular patient related to a particular treatment result;
• a monitoring processor for automatically assessing from the acquired clinical information whether said particular treatment result is achieved substantially by a scheduled time deadline in response to an identified coded variance indicating a variation of patient treatment from planned treatment selected from a plurality of predefined coded variances documenting differences between actual and expected outcomes;
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• a task scheduling processor for substantially continuously monitoring work schedules and action and inaction of multiple clinicians and other systems that occurs within predetermined time periods and initiating scheduling of a sequence of tasks in response to a detected action or inaction and for automatically initiating scheduling of a first sequence of tasks to be performed by a healthcare worker in response to a determination a first treatment result is achieved and for initiating scheduling of a different second sequence of tasks to be performed by a healthcare worker in response to a determination a second treatment result is achieved.

A system for generating a patient treatment management plan, comprising:

• a repository including treatment information for a particular patient identifying treatment objectives, care actions to be taken to reach said objectives and an associated schedule for achievement of said objectives;
• an interface processor for receiving data representing a rule used for assessing from acquired clinical information whether a particular treatment objective is achieved substantially by a scheduled time deadline and for storing the rule representative data for use with said treatment information;
• a monitoring processor for assessing from acquired clinical information whether said particular treatment objective is achieved substantially by said scheduled time deadline in response to an identified variance indicating a variation of patient treatment from planned treatment selected from a plurality of predefined coded variances documenting differences between actual and expected outcomes;
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• a task scheduling processor for substantially continuously monitoring work schedules and action and inaction of multiple clinicians and other systems that occurs within predetermined time periods and initiating scheduling of a sequence of tasks in response to a detected action or inaction and for automatically initiating scheduling of a first sequence of tasks to be performed by a healthcare worker in response to a determination said treatment objective is achieved and for initiating scheduling of a different second sequence of tasks to be performed by a healthcare worker in response to a determination said treatment objective is not achieved.

A patient treatment management system, comprising:

• a repository including treatment information for a particular patient identifying results of treatment, care actions to be taken to reach said results and an associated schedule for achievement of said treatment results;
• an interface processor for acquiring data representing clinical information of a particular patient related to a particular treatment result;
• a monitoring processor for assessing from the acquired clinical information whether said particular treatment result is achieved substantially by said scheduled time deadline in response to an identified coded variance indicating a variation of patient treatment from planned treatment;
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• a task scheduling processor for substantially continuously monitoring work schedules and action and inaction of multiple clinicians and other systems that occurs within predetermined time periods and initiating scheduling of a sequence of tasks in response to a detected action or inaction and for automatically initiating scheduling of a first sequence of tasks to be performed by a healthcare worker in response to a determination a first treatment result is achieved and for initiating scheduling of a different second sequence of tasks to be performed by a healthcare worker in response to a determination a second treatment result is achieved.

A patient treatment management system, comprising:

• a repository including treatment information for a particular patient identifying treatment objectives, care actions to be taken to reach said objectives and an associated schedule for achievement of said objectives;
• an interface processor for acquiring data representing clinical information of a particular patient related to a particular treatment objective;
• a monitoring processor for determining, from the acquired clinical information, whether a procedure required by said treatment information has been performed substantially by a scheduled time deadline in response to an identified variance indicating a variation of patient treatment from planned treatment selected from a plurality of predefined coded variances documenting differences between actual and expected outcomes;
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• a task scheduling processor for substantially continuously monitoring work schedules and action and inaction of multiple clinicians and other systems that occurs within predetermined time periods and initiating scheduling of a sequence of tasks in response to a detected action or inaction and for automatically initiating scheduling of a first sequence of tasks to be performed by a healthcare worker in response to a determination said procedure has not been substantially performed by said scheduled time deadline and for initiating scheduling of a different second sequence of tasks to be performed by a healthcare worker in response to a determination said procedure has been performed substantially by said scheduled time deadline.

A method for managing patient treatment, comprising the activities of:

• employing at least one computer for,
• storing treatment information for a particular patient identifying treatment objectives and an associated schedule for achievement of said objectives;
• acquiring data representing clinical information of a particular patient related to a particular treatment objective;
• automatically determining from said acquired clinical information whether said particular treatment objective is achieved substantially by a scheduled time deadline in response to an identified variance indicating a variation of patient treatment from planned treatment;
• and
• automatically initiating scheduling of a first sequence of tasks to be performed by a healthcare worker in response to a determination said treatment objective is achieved and for initiating scheduling of a different second sequence of tasks to be performed by a healthcare worker in response to a determination said treatment objective is not achieved.

A method for generating a patient treatment management plan, comprising the activities of:

• employing at least one computer for,
• storing treatment information for a particular patient identifying treatment objectives, care actions a healthcare team need to take to reach said objectives and an associated schedule for achievement of said objectives;
• receiving data representing a rule used for assessing from acquired clinical information whether a particular treatment objective is achieved substantially by a scheduled time deadline;
• storing said rule representative data for use with said treatment information;
• determining from acquired clinical information whether said particular treatment objective is achieved substantially by said scheduled time deadline in response to an identified coded variance indicating a variation of patient treatment from planned treatment selected from a plurality of predefined coded variances documenting differences between actual and expected outcomes;
• substantially continuously monitoring work schedules and action and inaction of multiple clinicians and other systems that occurs within predetermined time periods and initiating scheduling of a sequence of tasks in response to a detected action or inaction;
• and
• automatically initiating scheduling of a first sequence of tasks to be performed by a healthcare worker in response to a determination said treatment objective is achieved and for initiating scheduling of a different second sequence of tasks to be performed by a healthcare worker in response to a determination said treatment objective is not achieved.