Healthcare information technology system for predicting or preventing readmissions
AssigneeSiemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc.
InventorsFaisal Farooq, Romer E. Rosales, Shipeng Yu, Balaji Krishnapuram, Bharat R. Rao
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Abstract
Hospital readmissions may be prevented. Readmission is prevented by predicting the probability of a given patient to be readmitted. The probability alone may prevent readmission by educating the patient or medical professional. The probability may be predicted during a patient stay and used to generate a workflow action item to reduce the probability, to warn, to output appropriate instructions, and/or assist in avoiding readmission. The probability may be specific to a hospital, physician group, or other entity, allowing prevention to focus on past readmission causes for the given entity.
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A system for predicting or preventing hospital readmission, the system comprising:
- at least one memory operable to store data for a plurality of readmitted patients of a first hospital;
- and
- a first processor configured to:
- identify variables contributing to readmission for the first hospital based on the data for the plurality of the readmitted patients of the first hospital;
- and
- incorporate the variables into a predictor of readmission for a future patient of the first hospital;
- wherein the processor is configured to identify and incorporate by machine learning a statistical model from the data, the predictor comprising a matrix of the statistical model.
In a non-transitory computer readable storage medium having stored therein data representing instructions executable by a programmed processor for predicting or preventing hospital readmission, the storage medium comprising instructions for:
- predicting a probability of readmission of a patient, the predicting occurring during a patient stay;
- comparing the probability to a threshold;
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- generating an alert based on the comparing, the generating occurring during the patient stay;
- wherein generating the alert comprises displaying the alert on a display while preventing entry of information until occurrence of an event such that the preventing is temporary, is until the probability is reduced, or is until overridden.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.