Epoch of Care-Centric Healthcare System

摘要

A computer-based system and method improves the efficiency of healthcare services provided to a patient by modeling an epoch of care (EOC) of the patient and by using the EOC model to assist in the provision of healthcare services to the patient, such as by generating predictions of healthcare outcomes for the patient and by making recommendations for actions to be taken in connection with the provision of healthcare services to the patient. An EOC of a patient may include all services, products, and outcomes that are related to a particular medical condition or complaint of the patient over a period of time. Embodiments of the present invention may model multiple EOCs for the same patient and may model EOCs for multiple patients. Predictions and recommendations may be made based on the EOC data, possibly in addition to external data outside of the EOC.

主权项

1. A method performed by at least one computer processor executing computer program instructions stored on at least one non-transitory computer-readable medium, the method comprising:
(A) creating a plurality of epoch of care models representing a plurality of epochs of care of a plurality of patients, wherein each of the plurality of epoch of care models represents a corresponding epoch of care of a corresponding patient;
wherein each of the plurality of epoch of care models includes data identifying the corresponding patient and data representing a plurality of events related to a particular medical condition of the corresponding patient over time;wherein each of the plurality of events is one of:
an appointment,an outcome,a diagnosis,a prognosis,a test,a task,a medication,use of a piece of medical equipment,an implant,an admission,determination of a morbidity,a measure of patient satisfaction, anddetermination of a symptom; (B) storing the plurality of epoch of care models; (C) receiving sensor data from a particular patient via a sensor;
wherein the sensor data is one or more of:
data received from a computer input device,audio data,biometric data,handwriting data, andaccelerometer data; (D) determining whether the sensor data is associated with an event in an epoch of care of the particular patient, wherein the epoch of care of the particular patient is one of the plurality of epochs of care and is represented by one of the plurality of epoch of care models, and wherein the determining comprises:
(D) (1) performing statistical correlation on the sensor data and the plurality of epoch of care models to identify correlations between the sensor data and the plurality of epoch of care models; and(D) (2) determining whether the correlations between the sensor data and the plurality of epoch of care models are statistically significant; and (E) if the sensor data is determined to be associated with the event in the epoch of care, then updating the epoch of care model representing the epoch of care of the particular patient based on the sensor data.