Automated Patient Prioritization System for Heart Failure Management
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Solution Overview
Problem
High-volume clinics face scalability issues in managing heart failure patients due to the need for weekly manual review of pulmonary artery pressure (PAP) measurements by physicians and nurses, limiting the ability to monitor every patient effectively.
Innovation Solution
A system and method utilizing processors to determine a risk score for patients based on PAP data, patient parameters, and historical data, which are then used to prioritize patients for clinician management, scheduling appointments based on calculated priority scores.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If manual review of PAP measurements is performed weekly for all patients, then patient monitoring completeness is improved, but clinic scalability and personnel requirements worsen
Solution Approach 1:
The system enables self-service through automated risk stratification where the PAP monitoring system automatically assesses patient risk levels and prioritizes appointments without requiring manual intervention from clinicians for each patient, allowing the system to serve itself in the triage function
Solution Approach 2:
The patent replaces the mechanical manual review process with an automated electronic system that uses algorithms to process PAP data, calculate risk scores, and prioritize patients, substituting human manual labor with automated computational mechanisms
2Measurement precision
If manual review of PAP data is conducted for every patient, then measurement precision is maintained, but time consumption and operational complexity increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system extracts the critical decision-making function from manual review by automatically calculating risk scores based on PAP data, separating the essential information processing from the time-consuming manual examination, and presenting only prioritized patients for clinician attention
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces an intermediary automated risk stratification system that sits between the PAP monitoring devices and the clinicians, processing and filtering patient data to translate raw measurements into prioritized patient lists, thereby reducing the time clinicians spend on manual review
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AI summary
A system for prioritizing patients for clinician management that includes one or more processors configured to execute program instructions. When executed the one or more processors determine a risk score for a patient, alter the risk score based on patient based parameters to determine a priority score of the patient, compare the priority score of the patient to priority scores of other patients, assign a rank to the patient based on the comparison of the priority score of the patient to the priority scores of the other patients, and schedule an appointment for the patient based on the rank.