Multi-specialty Care Scheduling via Acuity Scoring
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current healthcare systems face inefficiencies in scheduling follow-up visits and laboratory investigations across multiple specialties, leading to duplicative tests, increased costs, and delayed healthcare delivery, particularly for patients with complex conditions like cardiovascular disease, due to disjointed electronic medical records and lack of coordinated care.
Innovation Solution
A multi-specialty integrated care clinic system that uses risk and benefit-based calculations to prioritize therapy uptake, incorporating an autonomous vehicle for medical assessments and laboratory sampling, and a computer program for scheduling and data management, allowing for same-day, same-site visits and reducing the need for multiple appointments.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If traditional individualized physician scheduling systems are used, then each physician can manage their own appointments independently, but coordination of multiple specialists and duplication of laboratory investigations cannot be avoided
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges individual physician scheduling systems into a single integrated care scheduling system that coordinates multiple specialists and primary care providers. The system combines separate appointment schedules, patient records, and laboratory investigations into a unified platform, eliminating the need for multiple independent scheduling systems while maintaining physician autonomy through centralized coordination.
Solution Approach 2:
The integrated care scheduling system performs multiple functions: it schedules appointments for different specialists, coordinates laboratory investigations, manages patient records, and sends alert notifications to multiple providers. This universal system replaces multiple specialized scheduling tools, allowing a single system to handle diverse care coordination tasks across different physician offices and specialties.
2Reliability
If multiple separate clinic visits are scheduled for different specialists, then comprehensive care can be provided, but patient time and healthcare costs increase due to duplication of tests
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary coordination of all necessary specialist appointments and laboratory investigations before the patient arrives. By pre-scheduling and pre-coordinating all required care activities, the system ensures that comprehensive evaluations are ready to be conducted during a single consolidated visit, eliminating the need for patients to undergo duplicate tests across multiple separate appointments.
Solution Approach 2:
The integrated scheduling system creates and distributes copies of patient records, test results, and care plans across all involved specialists and providers. This ensures that each specialist has access to complete patient information without requiring separate physical records or duplicate testing, allowing comprehensive care to be delivered through information sharing rather than physical duplication of tests.
3Measurement precision
If laboratory investigations are conducted before each specialist visit, then accurate diagnostics can be obtained, but duplication of tests increases costs and patient inconvenience
Solution Approach 1:
The system implements feedback mechanisms where test results obtained during a consolidated visit are automatically distributed to all relevant specialists and primary care providers. This ensures that diagnostic information is shared across the care team without requiring duplicate testing, as each provider receives real-time updates on patient status and test outcomes through the integrated platform.
Solution Approach 2:
The system creates a composite care plan that integrates diagnostic needs from multiple specialists into a single coordinated investigation protocol. By combining the diagnostic requirements of different specialists into one unified set of tests conducted during a single visit, the system achieves comprehensive diagnostic accuracy while eliminating redundant procedures and improving overall healthcare efficiency.
Data Source
AI summary
A method of automated medical appointments, said data being a plurality of predetermined physical conditions of a patient, each of the plurality of predetermined physical conditions having a predetermined assigned weight based on level of severity, generating a summation of the total weight for each predetermined physical condition, generating a predetermined specialty acuity score by comparing the corresponding range of the total weight and generating a report to output of the specialty acuity score, the specialty acuity score used to determine priority of scheduling patients in a system. A specialty acuity score may be generated for each system affected, the systems each assigned a value of 1. Determining a modified TOR (“mTOR”) wherein the mTOR is the TOR divided by the summation of the SPA score and the PTI and using the mTOR is used to schedule appointments for patients in a system schedule.