Home Care Delivery System with Telehealth Workflow Automation
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Solution Overview
Problem
The challenge is to provide effective patient care in a home setting while addressing the limitations of conventional hospital systems and equipment, which are often not suitable for deployment in a patient's home environment, particularly in the context of the hospital-at-home care model.
Innovation Solution
A care delivery system that includes sensors monitoring patients, processing devices, and computer-readable storage media to detect safety risks, determine clinical workflows, initiate telehealth consultations, and route alerts to caregivers based on predefined rules, while also providing a temporary care setting that can be installed in the patient's home if necessary.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If conventional hospital systems and equipment are deployed in a patient's home, then comprehensive patient care can be provided, but the environment of the patient's home prevents deployment of conventional hospital systems and equipment
Solution Approach 1:
The patent creates a virtual copy of the hospital environment through telehealth consultation systems, allowing patients to receive hospital-level care from home. The system captures and transmits patient data, vital signs, and clinical information to remote healthcare providers, replicating the hospital care experience without physically transporting hospital equipment to the home environment.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces telehealth technology as an intermediary between the patient's home environment and the healthcare provider. This intermediary system enables communication, data transmission, and clinical decision-making without requiring direct physical presence or deployment of conventional hospital equipment in the home setting.
2Reliability
If hospital-level care is provided at home, then patient safety and outcomes improve, but the complexity of monitoring and response systems increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines multiple monitoring functions, data collection mechanisms, and communication capabilities into an integrated telehealth platform. By merging sensors, data processing, alert generation, and caregiver notification systems into a unified system, the patent reduces overall complexity while maintaining comprehensive patient safety monitoring capabilities.
Solution Approach 2:
The system automatically monitors patient parameters, detects safety risks, generates alerts, and routes notifications to appropriate caregivers without requiring manual intervention. This self-service capability simplifies the system operation while ensuring continuous patient safety monitoring.
3Productivity
If remote patient monitoring is implemented, then hospital admissions are reduced, but the need for robust alert routing and clinical workflow management increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent establishes predefined clinical workflows and alert routing rules in advance, so that when safety risks are detected, the system can automatically execute appropriate responses without requiring complex real-time decision-making. Caregivers and facilities are pre-configured in the system with defined roles and protocols, enabling efficient automated response to patient events.
Data Source
AI summary
A care delivery system detects an event from one or more sensors. The event indicates a safety risk to a patient in a first location. The system determines a clinical workflow based on the safety risk, and one or more rules defined by a healthcare facility in a second location remote from the first location. The system initiates a telehealth consultation based on the clinical workflow. The telehealth consultation includes the patient and a first caregiver in the second location. The system generates an alert identifying the safety risk, and routes the alert to a second caregiver based on the clinical workflow.