Granted Patent B2

US 11,705,240 · App. 15/859,538 · Granted Jul 18, 2023

Inventors: Thomas Perry (DuBois, PA); Joseph Christopher Schuck (McMurray, PA)

Assignee: TELETRACKING TECHNOLOGIES, INC.

G16H40/20G06Q10/06311G16H40/40

Abstract

Claims (42)

1. A method comprising:

receiving, from at least one of a plurality of information sources, a stream of data relating to a set of predictive factors of medical care requirements, wherein at least one of the plurality of information sources comprises the Internet and wherein the stream of data from the Internet comprises discussions, on at least one social media feed, by individuals related to a medical condition, wherein the receiving comprises mining the at least one social media feed, identifying symptoms within the at least one social media feed by parsing information mined from the at least one social media feed utilizing at least one natural language processing technique, and categorizing the symptoms as being related to the medical condition by accessing a database including information related to medical conditions and correlating the symptoms with the medical condition using the database;

determining, by analyzing a volume of information comprising the stream of data and at least one other stream of data, an influx of unpredicted medical patients for a predetermined facility within a healthcare enterprise system and having the medical condition, the determining being performed via sensing a trend in Internet context and related to the medical condition by identifying an increase in discussions of the medical condition and correlating the discussions to the predetermined facility that will experience the influx by filtering the stream of data based upon a geographic region associated with individuals corresponding to the discussions, wherein the determining comprises identifying a type of resource needed to treat the medical condition of at least a portion of the unpredicted medical patients by predicting, by analyzing the volume of information, a severity level of the medical condition of at least a portion of the unpredicted medical patients;

receiving, from the healthcare enterprise system, a notification, generated responsive to determining the predetermined facility will experience the influx of unpredicted medical patients, indicating a need for at least one medical resource during a predetermined time frame corresponding to an expected time frame of the influx of the unpredicted medical patients at the predetermined facility within the healthcare enterprise system, wherein the at least one medical resource corresponds to at least the type of resource needed to treat at least a portion of the unpredicted medical patients;

determining that the indicated need is unavailable during at least one of: the predetermined time frame and the predetermined facility by comparing the indicated need for the at least one medical resource during the predetermined time frame to an availability of the indicated need during the predetermined time frame;

identifying, based upon the indicated need being unavailable, at least one action to be performed to supply the at least one medical resource, wherein the at least one medical resource is needed during the predetermined time frame and identified based upon the influx of unpredicted medical patients, wherein the at least one action comprises finding a patient ready to be stepped down in care who is currently utilizing the at least one medical resource identified as the indicated need; and

performing the at least one action to acquire the at least one medical resource not currently available during the predetermined time frame at the predetermined facility within the healthcare enterprise system via decompressing the healthcare enterprise system, thereby increasing availability of the at least one medical resource, wherein the at least one medical resource is based on at least one of: a severity of injury from the influx and a symptom from the influx, wherein the decompressing comprises rerouting patients scheduled to arrive at the predetermined facility to a facility other than the predetermined facility.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the at least one medical resource comprises a bed in a facility downstream from an emergency department of the healthcare enterprise.

3. The method of claim 2 , wherein the identifying at least one action comprises identifying at least one bed included in the facility that can be made available.

4. The method of claim 3 , wherein the performing an action comprises rescheduling discharge times for the at least one bed included in the facility to occur prior to the predetermined time frame.

5. The method of claim 3 , wherein the performing an action comprises scheduling environmental services to clean the at least one bed prior to the predetermined time frame.

6. The method of claim 1 , wherein the at least one medical resource comprises at least one staff member.

7. The method of claim 6 , wherein the identifying an action comprises accessing a staff scheduling system and identifying, within the staff scheduling system, a proposed scheduled for at the least one staff member.

8. The method of claim 7 , wherein the performing an action comprises rescheduling the at least one staff member to be available during the predetermined time frame.

9. The method of claim 1 , wherein the at least one medical resource comprises at least one medical procedure object.

10. The method of claim 9 , wherein the identifying at least one action comprises identifying a current location of the at least one medical procedure object that is different from the predetermined facility and wherein the performing an action comprises providing instructions to transfer the at least one medical procedure object to the predetermined facility.

11. An information handling device, comprising:

a processor;

at least one sensor operatively coupled to the processor;

a memory device that stores instructions executable by the processor to:

receive, from at least one of a plurality of information sources, a stream of data relating to a set of predictive factors of medical care requirements, wherein at least one of the plurality of information sources comprises the Internet and wherein the stream of data from the Internet comprises discussions, on at least one social media feed, by individuals related to a medical condition, wherein the receiving comprises mining the at least one social media feed, identifying symptoms within the at least one social media feed by parsing information mined from the at least one social media feed utilizing at least one natural language processing technique, and categorizing the symptoms as being related to the medical condition by accessing a database including information related to medical conditions and correlating the symptoms with the medical condition using the database;

determine, by analyzing a volume of information comprising the stream of data and at least one other stream of data, an influx of unpredicted medical patients for a predetermined facility within a healthcare enterprise system and having the medical condition, the determining being performed via sensing a trend in Internet context and related to the medical condition by identifying an increase in discussions of the medical condition and correlating the discussions to the predetermined facility that will experience the influx by filtering the stream of data based upon a geographic region associated with individuals corresponding to the discussions, wherein the determining comprises identifying a type of resource needed to treat the medical condition of at least a portion of the unpredicted medical patients by predicting, by analyzing the volume of information, a severity level of the medical condition of at least a portion of the unpredicted medical patients;

receive, from the healthcare enterprise system, a notification, generated responsive to determining the predetermined facility will experience the influx of unpredicted medical patients, indicating a need for at least one medical resource during a predetermined time frame corresponding to an expected time frame of the influx of the unpredicted medical patients at the predetermined facility within the healthcare enterprise system, wherein the at least one medical resource corresponds to at least the type of resource needed to treat at least a portion of the unpredicted medical patients;

determine that the indicated need is unavailable during at least one of: the predetermined time frame and the predetermined facility by comparing the indicated need for the at least one medical resource during the predetermined time frame to an availability of the indicated need during the predetermined time frame;

identify, based upon the indicated need being unavailable, at least one action to be performed to supply the at least one medical resource, wherein the at least one medical resource is needed during the predetermined time frame and identified based upon the influx of unpredicted medical patients, wherein the at least one action comprises finding a patient ready to be stepped down in care who is currently utilizing the at least one medical resource identified as the indicated need; and

perform the at least one action to acquire the at least one medical resource not currently available during the predetermined time frame at the predetermined facility within the healthcare enterprise system via decompressing the healthcare enterprise system, thereby increasing availability of the at least one medical resource, wherein the at least one medical resource is based on at least one of: a severity of injury from the influx and a symptom from the influx, wherein the decompressing comprises rerouting patients scheduled to arrive at the predetermined facility to a facility other than the predetermined facility.

12. The information handling device of claim 1 , wherein the at least one medical resource comprises a bed in a facility downstream from an emergency department of the healthcare enterprise.

13. The information handling device of claim 12 , wherein the identifying at least one action comprises identifying at least one bed included in the facility that can be made available.

14. The information handling device of claim 13 , wherein the performing an action comprises rescheduling discharge times for the at least one bed included in the facility to occur prior to the predetermined time frame.

15. The information handling device of claim 13 , wherein the performing an action comprises scheduling environmental services to clean the at least one bed prior to the predetermined time frame.

16. The information handling device of claim 11 , wherein the at least one medical resource comprises at least one staff member.

17. The information handling device of claim 16 , wherein the identifying an action comprises accessing a staff scheduling system and identifying, within the staff scheduling system, a proposed scheduled for at the least one staff member and wherein the performing an action comprises rescheduling the at least one staff member to be available during the predetermined time frame.

18. The information handling device of claim 11 , wherein the at least one medical resource comprises at least one medical procedure object.

19. The information handling device of claim 18 , wherein the identifying at least one action comprises identifying a current location of the at least one medical procedure object that is different from the predetermined facility and wherein the performing an action comprises providing instructions to transfer the at least one medical procedure object to the predetermined facility.

20. A product, comprising:

a storage device that stores code, the code being executable by a processor and comprising:

code that receives, from at least one of a plurality of information sources, a stream of data relating to a set of predictive factors of medical care requirements, wherein at least one of the plurality of information sources comprises the Internet and wherein the stream of data from the Internet comprises discussions, on at least one social media feed, by individuals related to a medical condition, wherein the receiving comprises mining the at least one social media feed, identifying symptoms within the at least one social media feed by parsing information mined from the at least one social media feed utilizing at least one natural language processing technique, and categorizing the symptoms as being related to the medical condition by accessing a database including information related to medical conditions and correlating the symptoms with the medical condition using the database;

code that determines, by analyzing a volume of information comprising the stream of data and at least one other stream of data, an influx of unpredicted medical patients for a predetermined facility within a healthcare enterprise system and having the medical condition, the determining being performed via sensing a trend in Internet context and related to the medical condition by identifying an increase in discussions of the medical condition and correlating the discussions to the predetermined facility that will experience the influx by filtering the stream of data based upon a geographic region associated with individuals corresponding to the discussions, wherein the determining comprises identifying a type of resource needed to treat the medical condition of at least a portion of the unpredicted medical patients by predicting, by analyzing the volume of information, a severity level of the medical condition of at least a portion of the unpredicted medical patients;

code that receives, from the healthcare enterprise system, a notification, generated responsive to determining the predetermined facility will experience the influx of unpredicted medical patients, indicating a need for at least one medical resource during a predetermined time frame corresponding to an expected time frame of the influx of the unpredicted medical patients at the predetermined facility within the healthcare enterprise system, wherein the at least one medical resource corresponds to at least the type of resource needed to treat at least a portion of the unpredicted medical patients;

code that determines that the indicated need is unavailable during at least one of: the predetermined time frame and the predetermined facility by comparing the indicated need for the at least one medical resource during the predetermined time frame to an availability of the indicated need during the predetermined time frame;

code that identifies, based upon the indicated need being unavailable, at least one action to be performed to supply the at least one medical resource, wherein the at least one medical resource is needed during the predetermined time frame and identified based upon the influx of unpredicted medical patients, wherein the at least one action comprises finding a patient ready to be stepped down in care who is currently utilizing the at least one medical resource identified as the indicated need; and

code that performs the at least one action to acquire the at least one medical resource not currently available during the predetermined time frame at the predetermined facility within the healthcare enterprise system via decompressing the healthcare enterprise system, thereby increasing availability of the at least one medical resource, wherein the at least one medical resource is based on at least one of: a severity of injury from the influx and a symptom from the influx, wherein the decompressing comprises rerouting patients scheduled to arrive at the predetermined facility to a facility other than the predetermined facility.

Assignments (7)