Remote patient management system
AssigneeKoninklijke Philips N. V.
InventorsAleksandra Tesanovic, Harald Reiter
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Abstract
A remote patient management system comprising a display and a processor. Execution of instructions cause the processor to: determine at least one first boundary value between a safe zone and a warning zone for each of at least one patient vital sign; determine at least one second boundary value between the warning zone and an alert zone for each of the at least one patient vital sign; repeatedly receive the at least one patient vital sign; determine a status value indicating the safe zone, warning zone, or alert zone; calculate a transition risk value; and display a patient status indicator which indicates the status level and the transition risk.
Claims20
A remote patient management system comprising:
- a display for displaying a graphical user interface;
- a plurality of sensors configured to measure vital signs of a patient, the sensors including a scale configured to measure a weight of the patient, a blood pressure cuff configured to measure a blood pressure of the patient, and a blood sugar sensor configured to measure blood sugar of a blood of the patient;
- and
- a computing device comprising a processor, wherein the computing device further comprises a memory containing machine readable instructions, wherein execution of the instructions cause the processor to:
- retrieve from the memory at least one first boundary value which defines a transition between a safe zone and a warning zone for individual ones of the vital signs of the patient;
- retrieve from the memory at least one second boundary value which defines a transition between the warning zone and an alert zone for individual ones of the vital signs of the patient;
- receive values of the vital signs of the patient as measured by the sensors;
- set a status value to alert if one or more of the values of the vital signs of the patient is in the alert zone;
- set the status value to warning if one or more of the values of the vital signs of the patient is in the warning zone and the alert is not displayed on the display;
- set the status value to safe if one or more of the values of the vital signs of the patient is within the safe zone;
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- calculate a vital sign transition risk using a distance between individual ones of the vital signs of the patient and the first boundary value or the second boundary value.
A computer-implemented method of controlling a remote patient management system, wherein the remote patient management system comprises a display for displaying a graphical user interface, a plurality of sensors configured to measure vital signs of a patient, the sensors including a scale configured to measure a weight of the patient, a blood pressure cuff configured to measure a blood pressure of the patient, and a blood sugar sensor configured to measure blood sugar of a blood of the patient, and a computing device including a processor configured by machine readable instructions, wherein the method comprises the steps of:
- receiving, by the processor, at least one first boundary value which defines a transition between a safe zone and a warning zone for individual ones of the vital signs of the patient,
- receiving, by the processor, at least one second boundary value which defines a transition between a warning zone and an alert zone for individual ones of the vital signs of the patient;
- receiving, by the processor, values of the vital signs of the patient as measured by the sensors;
- setting, by the processor, a status value to alert if any of the values of the vital signs of the patient is in the alert zone;
- setting, by the processor, the status value to warning if any of the values of the vital signs of the patient is in the warning zone and the alert is not displayed on the display;
- setting, by the processor, the status value to safe if individual ones of the values of the vital signs of the patient are within the safe zone, wherein the at least one first boundary value and the at least one second boundary value are:
- received from the user interface;
- retrieved from a database;
- determined using data mining techniques;
- and/or determined using similar patient histories;
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- calculating a vital sign transition risk using a distance between individual ones of the vital signs of the patient and the first boundary value or the second boundary value.
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