US6551243B2 — System and user interface for use in providing me…

Claim 1

Independent Claim 142 words

A medical information system for processing information from a plurality of sources suitable for use in critical clinical care delivery, comprising: a communication interface for receiving medical parameters from patient monitoring devices attached to a particular patient and for bidirectionally communicating with a hospital information database containing patient records; a data processor using said communication interface for acquiring patient record information for said particular patient from said hospital information database and for collating and storing received medical parameters for said particular patient from monitoring devices; and a decision processor supporting making of a treatment decision concerning a patient medical condition by suggesting at least one treatment based on passively acquired medical parameters received from said monitoring devices independently of patient interaction and processed by said decision processor to support treatment decision making concurrently with patient monitoring and using a treatment information database.

Claim 2

Dependent Claim 142 words

A medical information system for processing information from a plurality of sources suitable for use in critical clinical care delivery, comprising: a communication interface for receiving medical parameters from patient monitoring devices attached to a particular patient and for bidirectionally communicating with a hospital information database containing patient records; a data processor using said communication interface for acquiring patient record information for said particular patient from said hospital information database and for collating and storing received medical parameters for said particular patient from monitoring devices; and a decision processor supporting making of a treatment decision concerning a patient medical condition by suggesting at least one treatment based on passively acquired medical parameters received from said monitoring devices independently of patient interaction and processed by said decision processor to support treatment decision making concurrently with patient monitoring and using a treatment information database.

Claim 3

Dependent Claim 74 words

A system according to claim 1 , wherein said medical parameters are received and processed in substantially real-time, and said passively acquired medical parameters received from said monitoring devices independently of patient interaction comprise medical parameters acquired without said particular patient being required to interactively respond to questions and including an output processor for communicating said suggested treatment for presentation to support physical application of said treatment to said patient by a healthcare worker.

Claim 4

Dependent Claim 63 words

A system according to claim 1 , wherein said medical parameters are received substantially in real-time and comprise parameters indicative of vital signs sampled at intervals of less than 10 minutes to be suitable to support interventional critical care decision making in at least one of, (a) an Intensive Care Unit (ICU), (b) an Operating Room (OR) and (c) an Emergency Room (ER).

Claim 5

Dependent Claim 160 words

A system according to claim 1 , wherein said treatment information database includes historical treatment and outcome data for a plurality of patients and said decision processor suggests a treatment based on at least one of, (a) a received patient parameter exceeding a predetermined threshold value and (b) a received patient parameter being outside a value range determined by upper and lower predetermined threshold values and an individual predetermined threshold value is derived from processing historical data comprising a plurality of threshold values associated with treatment provided to a corresponding plurality of different patients and contained in said treatment information database. 5 .A system according to claim 4 , wherein said medical information system includes a data analyzer for intermittently parsing and analyzing stored collated medical parameters from a plurality of patients in said treatment information database to identify an improved threshold value based on previous treatment outcomes and to adaptively update said threshold value to said improved threshold value.

Claim 6

Dependent Claim 24 words

A system according to claim 1 , including an update processor for initiating updating of said patient record information to record a determined treatment.

Claim 7

Dependent Claim 23 words

A system according to claim 1 , wherein said decision processor identifies a complication involved in using a particular treatment for said patient.

Claim 8

Dependent Claim 142 words

A medical information system for processing information from a plurality of sources suitable for use in critical clinical care delivery, comprising: a communication interface for receiving medical parameters from patient monitoring devices and for receiving information from a treatment information database and for bidirectionally communicating with a hospital information database containing patient records; a data processor using said communication interface for acquiring patient record information for a particular patient from said hospital information database; and a decision processor supporting making of a treatment decision concerning a patient medical condition by suggesting at least one treatment based on, passively acquired medical parameters received from said monitoring devices independently of patient interaction and processed by said decision processor in substantially real-time to support treatment decision making concurrently with patient monitoring and said acquired particular patient record information and information from said treatment information database.

Claim 9

Dependent Claim 142 words

A medical information system for processing information from a plurality of sources suitable for use in critical clinical care delivery, comprising: a communication interface for receiving medical parameters from patient monitoring devices and for receiving information from a treatment information database and for bidirectionally communicating with a hospital information database containing patient records; a data processor using said communication interface for acquiring patient record information for a particular patient from said hospital information database; and a decision processor supporting making of a treatment decision concerning a patient medical condition by suggesting at least one treatment based on, passively acquired medical parameters received from said monitoring devices independently of patient interaction and processed by said decision processor in substantially real-time to support treatment decision making concurrently with patient monitoring and said acquired particular patient record information and information from said treatment information database.

Claim 10

Dependent Claim 75 words

A system according to claim 8 , including a repository of accumulated utilization data determining usage rates of at least one of, (a) medical goods and (b) medical services in treatment of different medical conditions for a plurality of patients and a data analyzer for analyzing said utilization data to identify a cost threshold representative of an expected cost limit and for using said threshold in identifying a treatment case exceeding said expected cost limit.

Claim 11

Dependent Claim 59 words

A system according to claim 8 , wherein said medical parameters comprise parameters indicative of vital signs sampled at intervals of less than 10 minutes to be suitable to support critical care decision making in at least one of, (a) an emergency room, (b) an intensive care unit, (c) an operating room and (d) another clinical care delivery setting.

Claim 12

Dependent Claim 51 words

A system according to claim 8 , including a workflow processor for identifying task sequences to be performed in critical care treatment in response to a received command and said decision processor is responsive to a command from said workflow processor in supporting treatment decision making concerning a patient medical condition.

Claim 13

Dependent Claim 48 words

A system according to claim 8 , including a workflow processor for generating task sequences to be performed in critical care treatment, said task sequences being generated in response to incorporate identified improvement derived from statistical analysis of treatment and associated outcome data in said treatment information database.

Claim 14

Dependent Claim 24 words

A system according to claim 8 , including an update processor for initiating updating of said patient record information to record a determined treatment.

Claim 15

Dependent Claim 139 words

A medical information system for processing information from a plurality of sources suitable for use in critical clinical care delivery, comprising: a communication interface for receiving medical parameters from patient monitoring devices attached to a patient and for bidirectionally communicating with a hospital information database containing patient records; a data processor using said communication interface for acquiring patient record information from said hospital information database and for collating and storing received patient medical parameters from monitoring devices; and a data analysis unit for identifying alternative treatment options, by comparing acquired medical parameters received from said monitoring devices with a metric derived by correlating historical data comprising stored parameters and corresponding medical outcomes, said medical parameters being acquired independently of patient interaction and processed by said data analysis unit to support identification of alternative treatment options concurrently with patient monitoring.

Claim 16

Dependent Claim 139 words

A medical information system for processing information from a plurality of sources suitable for use in critical clinical care delivery, comprising: a communication interface for receiving medical parameters from patient monitoring devices attached to a patient and for bidirectionally communicating with a hospital information database containing patient records; a data processor using said communication interface for acquiring patient record information from said hospital information database and for collating and storing received patient medical parameters from monitoring devices; and a data analysis unit for identifying alternative treatment options, by comparing acquired medical parameters received from said monitoring devices with a metric derived by correlating historical data comprising stored parameters and corresponding medical outcomes, said medical parameters being acquired independently of patient interaction and processed by said data analysis unit to support identification of alternative treatment options concurrently with patient monitoring.

Claim 17

Dependent Claim 40 words

A system according to claim 14 , wherein said data analysis unit includes a data mining unit for analyzing stored patient parameters by searching for patterns in stored patient parameters and corresponding medical outcomes to identify statistically significant data correlation.

Claim 18

Dependent Claim 48 words

A system according to claim 14 , wherein said data analysis unit identifies alternative treatment options using information acquired from a plurality of sources by a data aggregation unit, said data aggregation unit acquiring information from said plurality of sources using standard medical terminology and medical code sets.

Claim 19

Dependent Claim 41 words

A system according to claim 16 , wherein said data aggregation unit includes a map associating medical codes of a first code set with corresponding codes of a different second code set for use in associating information elements from different sources.

Claim 20

Dependent Claim 76 words

A system according to claim 14 , including a repository of accumulated utilization data determining usage rates of at least one of, (a) medical goods and (b) medical services in treatment of different medical conditions for a plurality of patients and a data resource analyzer for analyzing said utilization data to identify a cost threshold representative of an expected cost limit and for using said threshold in identifying a treatment case exceeding said expected cost limit.

Claim 21

Dependent Claim 47 words

A system according to claim 14 , including a workflow processor for identifying task sequences to be performed in critical care treatment in response to a received command and said data analysis unit is responsive to a command from said workflow processor in supporting alternative treatment identification.

Claim 22

Independent Claim 101 words

A method for use by a medical information system for processing information from a plurality of sources for use in critical clinical care delivery, comprising the steps of: receiving medical parameters from patient monitoring devices attached to a particular patient; bidirectionally communicating with a hospital information database containing patient records; collating and storing received medical parameters for said particular patient from monitoring devices; and supporting making of a treatment decision concerning a patient medical condition by suggesting at least one treatment, concurrently with patient monitoring, and based on passively acquired medical parameters received from said monitoring devices independently of patient interaction.

Claim 23

Independent Claim 101 words

A method for use by a medical information system for processing information from a plurality of sources for use in critical clinical care delivery, comprising the steps of: receiving medical parameters from patient monitoring devices attached to a particular patient; bidirectionally communicating with a hospital information database containing patient records; collating and storing received medical parameters for said particular patient from monitoring devices; and supporting making of a treatment decision concerning a patient medical condition by suggesting at least one treatment, concurrently with patient monitoring, and based on passively acquired medical parameters received from said monitoring devices independently of patient interaction.

Claim 24

Independent Claim 117 words

A method for use by a medical information system for processing information from a plurality of sources suitable for use in critical clinical care delivery, comprising the steps of: receiving medical parameters from patient monitoring devices and information from a treatment information database; bidirectionally communicating with a hospital information database containing patient records to acquire patient record information for a particular patient; and supporting making of a treatment decision concerning a patient medical condition concurrently with patient monitoring by suggesting at least one treatment based on, passively acquired medical parameters received from said monitoring devices in substantially real-time and independently of patient interaction and said acquired particular patient record information and information from said treatment information database.

Claim 25

Independent Claim 117 words

A method for use by a medical information system for processing information from a plurality of sources suitable for use in critical clinical care delivery, comprising the steps of: receiving medical parameters from patient monitoring devices and information from a treatment information database; bidirectionally communicating with a hospital information database containing patient records to acquire patient record information for a particular patient; and supporting making of a treatment decision concerning a patient medical condition concurrently with patient monitoring by suggesting at least one treatment based on, passively acquired medical parameters received from said monitoring devices in substantially real-time and independently of patient interaction and said acquired particular patient record information and information from said treatment information database.

Claim 26

Independent Claim 121 words

A method for use by a medical information system for processing information from a plurality of sources suitable for use in critical clinical care delivery, comprising the steps of: receiving medical parameters from patient monitoring devices attached to a patient, bidirectionally communicating with a hospital information database containing patient records; acquiring patient record information from said hospital information database; collating and storing received patient medical parameters from monitoring devices; deriving a metric by correlating historical data comprising stored parameters and corresponding medical outcomes; and identifying alternative treatment options by comparing acquired medical parameters received from said monitoring devices with said metric, said medical parameters being acquired independently of patient interaction to support identification of alternative treatment options concurrently with patient monitoring.

Claim 27

Independent Claim 121 words

A method for use by a medical information system for processing information from a plurality of sources suitable for use in critical clinical care delivery, comprising the steps of: receiving medical parameters from patient monitoring devices attached to a patient, bidirectionally communicating with a hospital information database containing patient records; acquiring patient record information from said hospital information database; collating and storing received patient medical parameters from monitoring devices; deriving a metric by correlating historical data comprising stored parameters and corresponding medical outcomes; and identifying alternative treatment options by comparing acquired medical parameters received from said monitoring devices with said metric, said medical parameters being acquired independently of patient interaction to support identification of alternative treatment options concurrently with patient monitoring.

Annuity Stage	Window Opens	Payment Deadline	Surcharge Period Until	Estimated Fee	Status
3.5 Years (Year 4)	2006-04-21	2006-10-21	2007-04-22	$2000.00	Window Closed / Lapsed
7.5 Years (Year 8)	2010-04-21	2010-10-21	2011-04-22	$3760.00	Window Closed / Lapsed
11.5 Years (Year 12)	2014-04-21	2014-10-21	2015-04-22	$7700.00	Window Closed / Lapsed

System and user interface for use in providing medical information and health care delivery support

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