Patient tracking and dynamic updating of patient profile
Medical services are offered by various facilities near a patient's residence. The number of facility options continues to grow and the patients can now receive various different health care services. One example method of operation provides receiving sensor data indicating that one or more sensors were triggered at a predefined location at a first time during a monitoring event, receiving additional sensor data indicating an additional sensor was triggered at a second time later than the first time, identifying a time gap between the first time and the second time, storing the time gap in a schedule stored in memory, and creating a sensor trigger pattern based on the time gap and applying the sensor trigger pattern to an alert status for a subsequent monitoring event.
1. A method comprising:
receiving, by a patient monitoring server from a remote access point via a wireless network, sensor data indicating that at least one sensor of a plurality of sensors was triggered at a first time during a monitoring cycle, the sensor data comprising a unique sensor identifier;
identifying a user that is linked to the at least one sensor based on the unique sensor identifier and identifying a daily sensor trigger schedule of the identified user;
starting a timer of the patient monitoring server in response to receiving the sensor data indicating the at least one sensor was triggered;
receiving additional sensor data indicating at least one additional sensor of the plurality of sensors was triggered at a second time later than the first time during the monitoring cycle;
determining, by the patient monitoring server, a time gap between the first time and the second time based on a change in time of the timer of the patient monitoring server;
automatically creating a new monitoring sequence with an updated daily sensor trigger schedule for the identified user that begins at a later time when the time gap determined from the timer exceeds a predetermined time limit; and
executing the created new monitoring sequence including the updated daily sensor trigger schedule for the identified user during a next day.
2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the sensors comprise at least one of audio sensors, video sensors and motion sensors.
3. The method of claim 1 , wherein receiving additional sensor data indicating at least one additional sensor was triggered further comprises receiving at least three sensor data messages each corresponding to at least three sensors that were triggered successively in time to create a set of time gaps between the first time, the second time and a third time when sensor data of the third sensor was received, and wherein the set of time gaps are used to create a pattern in user behavior at the predefined location.
4. The method of claim 1 , wherein receiving additional sensor data from at least one of the plurality of sensors comprises receiving sensor data from one of the plurality of sensors and not receiving sensor data from another of the plurality of sensors identified by the schedule at a current time.
5. The method of claim 1 , wherein receiving additional sensor data from at least one of the plurality of sensors comprises not receiving sensor data from any sensor of the plurality of sensors identified by the schedule at a current time.
6. The method of claim 1 , wherein the automatically creating comprises replacing the daily sensor trigger schedule of the monitoring cycle with the updated daily sensor trigger schedule that begins at the later time.
7. An apparatus comprising:
a receiver of a patient monitoring server, configured to receive, from a remote access point via a wireless network, sensor data indicating that at least one sensor of a plurality of sensors was triggered at a first time during a monitoring cycle, the sensor data comprising a unique sensor identifier, and receive additional sensor data indicating at least one additional sensor of the plurality of sensors was triggered at a second time later than the first time during the monitoring cycle;
a processor of the patient monitoring server, configured to identify a user that is linked to the at least one sensor based on the unique sensor identifier and identifying a daily sensor trigger schedule of the identified user, start a timer of the patient monitoring server in response to receiving the sensor data indicating the at least one sensor was triggered, and determine a time gap between the first time and the second time based on a change in time of the timer of the patient monitoring server,
wherein the processor is further configured to automatically create a new monitoring sequence with an updated daily sensor trigger schedule for the identified user that begins at a later time when the time gap determined from the timer exceeds a predetermined time limit, and execute the created new monitoring sequence including the updated daily sensor trigger schedule for the identified user during a next day.
8. The apparatus of claim 7 , wherein the sensors comprise at least one of audio sensors, video sensors and motion sensors.
9. The apparatus of claim 7 , wherein receiving additional sensor data indicating at least one additional sensor was triggered further comprises the receiver being configured to receive at least three sensor data messages each corresponding to at least three sensors that were triggered successively in time to create a set of time gaps between the first time, the second time and a third time when sensor data of the third sensor was received, and wherein the set of time gaps are used to create a pattern in user behavior at the predefined location.
10. The apparatus of claim 7 , wherein receiving additional sensor data from at least one of the plurality of sensors comprises the receiver being configured to receive sensor data from one of the plurality of sensors and not receive sensor data from another of the plurality of sensors identified by the schedule at a current time.
11. The apparatus of claim 7 , wherein receiving additional sensor data from at least one of the plurality of sensors comprises the receiver not receiving sensor data from any sensor of the plurality of sensors identified by the schedule at a current time.
12. The apparatus of claim 7 , wherein the processor is configured to replace the daily sensor trigger schedule of the updated daily sensor trigger schedule that begins at the later time.
13. A non-transitory computer readable storage medium configured to store instructions that when executed cause a processor to perform:
receiving, by a patient monitoring server from a remote access point via a wireless network, sensor data indicating that at least one sensor of a plurality of sensors was triggered at a first time during a monitoring cycle, the sensor data comprising a unique sensor identifier;
identifying a user that is linked to the at least one sensor based on the unique sensor identifier and identifying a daily sensor trigger schedule of the identified user;
starting a timer of the patient monitoring server in response to receiving the sensor data indicating the at least one sensor was triggered;
receiving additional sensor data indicating at least one additional sensor of the plurality of sensors was triggered at a second time later than the first time during the monitoring cycle;
determining, by the patient monitoring server, a time gap between the first time and the second time based on a change in time of the internal timer of the patient monitoring server;
automatically creating a new monitoring sequence with an updated daily sensor trigger schedule for the identified user that begins at a later time when the time gap determined from the timer exceeds a predetermined time limit;
executing the created new monitoring sequence including the updated daily sensor trigger schedule for the identified user during a next day.
14. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 13 , wherein the sensors comprise at least one of audio sensors, video sensors and motion sensors.
15. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 13 , wherein receiving additional sensor data indicating at least one additional sensor was triggered further comprises receiving at least three sensor data messages each corresponding to at least three sensors that were triggered successively in time to create a set of time gaps between the first time, the second time and a third time when sensor data of the third sensor was received, and wherein the set of time gaps are used to create a pattern in user behavior at the predefined location.
16. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 13 , wherein receiving additional sensor data from at least one of the plurality of sensors comprises receiving sensor data from one of the plurality of sensors and not receiving sensor data from another of the plurality of sensors identified by the schedule at a current time.
17. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 13 , wherein receiving additional sensor data from at least one of the plurality of sensors comprises not receiving sensor data from any sensor of the plurality of sensors identified by the schedule at a current time.
18. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 13 , wherein the automatically creating comprises replacing the daily sensor trigger schedule of the monitoring cycle with the updated daily sensor trigger schedule that begins at the later time.