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Systems and methods for viewing biometrical information and dynamically adapting schedule and process interdependencies with clinical process decisioningSystems and methods for viewing biometrical information and dynamically adapting schedule and process interdependencies with clinical process decisioning description/claimsThe Patent Description & Claims data below is from USPTO Patent Application 20090112618, Systems and methods for viewing biometrical information and dynamically adapting schedule and process interdependencies with clinical process decisioning. Brief Patent Description - Full Patent Description - Patent Application Claims
This application is related to and claims the benefit of priority to Provisional Application U.S. Ser. No. 60/976,582, entitled “METHOD TO VIEW BIOMETRICAL INFORMATION AND DYNAMICALLY ADAPT SCHEDULE AND PROCESS INTERDEPENDENCIES WITH CLINICAL PROCESS DECISIONING”, filed Oct. 1, 2007, the contents of which are both herein incorporated by reference. The invention relates generally to business process management systems, and more particularly to scheduling systems in the clinical setting, such as healthcare delivery institutions or hospitals. Healthcare delivery institutions are business systems that can be designed and operated to achieve their stated missions robustly. As is the case with other business systems such as those designed to provide services and manufactured goods, there are benefits to managing variation such that the stake-holders within these business systems can focus more fully on the value added core processes that achieve the stated mission and less on activity responding to variations such as emergency procedures, regular medical interventions, delays, accelerations, backups, underutilized assets, unplanned overtime by staff and stock outs of material, equipment, people and space that are impacted in the course of delivering healthcare. Currently clinical process decisions have historically relied on the art of understanding symptoms and diagnosing causality much in alignment with the practice of the medical diagnosis arts. In an ever-evolving environment, judgment and experientially-developed mental models are utilized by the healthcare providers to utilize the information currently at hand to make decisions. Presented with similar data, the decision made from one caregiver to another typically exhibits a variation. Presented with partial information, which is the byproduct of being organized in functional departments, specialties, roles and by the nature of having partial and/or current or dated information availability on hand—clinical process decisions vary widely and typically are locally focused for lack of a systems view upstream and downstream of the decision point. As a hospital processes care plans on an increasing patient load, these variations in medical condition and selected treatment plans perturbs the schedules of doctors, nurses and assets such as rooms and equipment. If there is protective capacity in these schedules and staff, the providers of care can manage variation while maintaining care quality. When randomness and interdependencies exceed the ability to serve, care providers are forced to make choices amongst poor alternative options; some one or some thing is going to be bottlenecked or overextended. Delays, queues, overtime, burnout and emotional decision making characterize systems that are over-taxed or beyond their ability to perform. Where information systems exist, they are simply informational in nature. Examples include scheduled rooms, people, materials and equipment. Recent advances in locating devices such as those utilizing radio-frequency identification (RFID) technology to report a location of a tagged asset are utilized, yet personnel are loath to be tracked by wearing a device. RFID devices are not pervasive, and the systems that monitor them are not fully integrated with the requisite adjacent systems that gather contextual information. The current art is not predictive, probabilistic nor necessarily systemic. For example, knowing the location of an asset is desirable but knowing its anticipated need and interdependencies is required to make a decision to use a located asset actionable. The information required for such a decision comes from a plurality of adjacent health information systems and must have an ability to play forward into the future. Today, current procedure duration and room status is provided without any proactive or forward-looking capability. Schedules are produced before a day\'s activities commence. Process status is displayed along with trending and, often, alarm functionality should a process variable trip a threshold set point. Today, processes are planned for a given volume; when that volume is exceeded or processes have sufficient variation to overtax their capability, scheduling and recovery are reduced to manual triage and experience to sort out. Typically, queues, delay, overtime and cancellation result; there is no proactive decision support to dynamically reschedule people or physical assets or supplies. There is therefore a need for an integrated system and method for scheduling clinical activities and procedures in real time that incorporate variation, biometrical changes in the state of patient health, changes in process necessitated by protocols which must be executed that are different than what was originally scheduled, staff and equipment preferences, interdependencies and information flow into the clinical delivery of healthcare that can “look ahead” and enable “what-if” capability for prospective decision support, given the changes that are occurring, and provide viable ways going forward that reduce overall negative system impact. Certain embodiments provide a method for viewing biometrical information and dynamically adapting schedule and process interdependencies in a clinical environment. The method includes deriving a schedule including at least one patient treatment protocol based on a mathematical model using people and asset information as input. The method also includes processing input biometrical data indicating a patient status. Additionally, the method includes adapting the at least one patient treatment protocol based on the biometrical data. Further, the method includes revising the schedule based on adapting the at least one patient treatment protocol. In certain embodiments, the method includes recalculating a critical path, schedule tasks, and resource allocation based on adapting the at least one patient treatment protocol and revising the schedule. In certain embodiments, the method includes communicating with affected process stakeholders and assets regarding the revised schedule. Certain embodiments provide a scheduling system for viewing biometrical information and dynamically adapting schedule and process interdependencies in a clinical environment. The system includes a scheduling module deriving a schedule including at least one patient treatment protocol based on a mathematical model using people and asset information as input. The system also includes an input module processing input biometrical data indicating a patient status. The scheduling module adapts the at least one patient treatment protocol based on the biometrical data and revises the schedule based on adapting the at least one patient treatment protocol. Certain embodiments provide a computer-readable medium having a set of instructions for execution on a computer. The set of instructions includes a scheduling routine deriving a schedule including at least one patient treatment protocol based on a mathematical model using people and asset information as input. The set of instructions also includes an input routine processing input biometrical data indicating a patient status. The scheduling routine adapts the at least one patient treatment protocol based on the biometrical data and revises the schedule based on adapting the at least one patient treatment protocol. These and other features, aspects and advantages of the present invention will become better understood when the following detailed description is read with reference to the accompanying drawings in which like characters represent like part throughout the drawings. The embodiments shown in the drawings are presented for purposes of illustration only. It should be understood, however, that the present invention is not limited to the arrangements and instrumentality shown in the attached drawings. Continue reading about Systems and methods for viewing biometrical information and dynamically adapting schedule and process interdependencies with clinical process decisioning... 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