Synergistic Alert Processing in Automated Patient Management
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current automated patient management systems lack a centralized facility to consolidate disparate patient data into a cohesive and meaningful whole, leading to information overload and requiring substantial healthcare personnel intervention to interpret and act upon alert conditions, often resulting in unnecessary hospitalization of patients with stable conditions.
Innovation Solution
A system and method for synergistic alert condition processing that continuously analyzes and classifies alert conditions along a continuum of potential adverse outcomes versus medical intervention impact, managing them through disposition, severity, prioritization, and escalation, and communicates actionable alerts to patients, physicians, or third parties via selectable communication modes.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If conventional independent monitoring devices are used to track patient parameters, then specific physiological functions are monitored effectively, but the system lacks centralized coordination and generates information overload requiring substantial healthcare personnel intervention
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines multiple independent monitoring devices and data sources into a single centralized patient management system. The system consolidates physiological parameters, device data, sensor readings, and alert conditions into one unified platform that processes all information synergistically, eliminating the need for separate independent systems and reducing overall system complexity.
Solution Approach 2:
The centralized patient management system performs multiple functions including data collection from various sources, alert condition generation, classification along continua, combination of non-alert conditions, notification routing, and electronic medical record integration. This multi-functional approach replaces multiple specialized devices with a single universal system.
2Reliability
If frequent near-continuous monitoring is implemented to detect critical situations, then patient safety is improved, but unnecessary hospitalization occurs for patients with stable conditions due to inability to interpret disparate data
Solution Approach 1:
The system introduces an intelligent intermediary layer between raw monitoring data and healthcare personnel decision-making. This intermediary automatically classifies alert conditions along continua of adverse outcome potential versus intervention impact potential, combines non-alert conditions that may indicate problems when viewed together, and prioritizes notifications, enabling accurate interpretation of disparate data without constant human intervention.
Solution Approach 2:
The system provides automated feedback by continuously monitoring patient parameters, comparing them against thresholds and patterns, generating alert conditions when abnormalities are detected, and notifying appropriate personnel. This closed-loop feedback system enables early detection of critical situations while filtering out false alarms that would otherwise lead to unnecessary interventions.
3Quantity of substance
If multiple independent devices monitor different patient parameters, then comprehensive patient data is collected, but the data remains disparate and voluminous without centralized consolidation
Solution Approach 1:
The system merges data from multiple independent devices including physiological monitors, implantable medical devices, sensor systems, and electronic medical records into a single centralized repository. This consolidation transforms disparate voluminous data into a cohesive integrated dataset that maintains all information while enabling systematic analysis and interpretation.
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AI summary
A system and method for providing synergistic alert condition processing in an automated patient management system is presented. An alert condition is classified along a continuum that includes adverse outcome potential versus medical intervention impact potential. The alert condition is managed by assigning a disposition based on relative placement of the alert condition along the continuum. An alert notification is communicated over a selectable mode of communications and is conditioned upon the assigned disposition being actionable.