System and method for generating real-time health care alerts

Abstract

The present invention discloses an automated system for presenting a patient with an online interactive personal health record (PHR) capable of delivering individualized alerts based on comparison of evidence-based standards of care to information related to the patient's actual medical care. A health care organization collects and processes medical care information, including clinical data relating to a patient in order to generate and deliver customized clinical alerts and personalized wellness alerts directly to the patient via the PHR. The PHR also solicits the patient's input for tracking of alert follow-up actions and allows the health care organization to track alert outcomes. Further embodiments include implementing a plurality of modules for providing real-time processing and delivery of clinical alerts and personalized wellness alerts to the patient via the PHR and to a health care provider via one or more health care provider applications, including disease management applications.

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technical field [0001] The present invention relates generally to the field of health care management and, more particularly, to the field of patient health communication. Background technique [0002] A healthcare system includes a variety of actors, including physicians, hospitals, insurers, and patients. These actors often rely on each other to obtain the information necessary to perform their respective roles, since personal care is delivered and paid for in many locations by typically unrelated individuals or organizations. As a result, a plethora of health care information storage and retrieval systems are required to support the heavy flow of information between these actors involved in patient care. Critical patient data is stored in many different locations using traditional mainframe and client-server systems that may be incompatible and / or store information in a non-standardized format. To ensure proper patient diagnosis and treatment, healthcare providers must ...

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Problems solved by technology

Additionally, although new medical research data continue to influence standards of medical care, there are time delays and signs of degradation in understanding in the dissemination of new medical knowledge

Existing solutions (some of them) typically focus on centralized storage of healthcare information without incorporating real-time analysis of patient healthcare information to quickly identify potential medical issues that may require attention

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