Lead Inventor:
Desmond Jordan, M.D.
Consistent Patient Information for Quality of Care:
Due to time constraints, the structure, organization, and amount of information, and the relative importance of information to the briefing physician, there is little consistency in clinical information for each patient. Furthermore, subsequent caregivers may not have easy access to information passed at earlier briefings, forcing them to independently review a patient's records and independently assess a patient's condition. The number of medical judgment errors increase as a consequence of the lack of medical care continuity and disruptive transfer of information.
Accordingly, there is a need for efficient methods for briefing subsequent caregivers regarding a patient's operative course and the clinical operative and/or post-operative status. There is also a need for efficient methods for briefing subsequent caregivers with information that is consistent for all patients.
Patient Data Review System Identifies Abnormal Events:
This technology proposes methods, systems, and computer programs for identifying abnormal events inferred from patient data and for briefing subsequent caregivers on a patient's therapeutic treatment, severity of condition, and clinical status. Abnormal events that occur during course of treatment are identified by assigning scores to patient data based on the severity of the patient's condition. In the case of cardiac surgeries, for example, abnormal events may include those related to hemodynamics and laboratory results. Also, various types of patient data may be used to infer or identify abnormal events; these include pre-operative data (such as demographic and clinical data) and operative data (such as a patient's vital signs, anesthetics and drugs delivered, ventilation parameters, laboratory results, and devices used).
Applications:
• For inferring a patient's clinical status in the course of a treatment (e.g. cardiac surgeries)
Advantages:
• More efficient than present methods of clinical information transfer
• Consistent for each patient or all patients
Patent Status: Patent Pending (US20050197865A1) ~ see link below.
Publications:
Jordan and colleagues, Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association 8: 267-280 (2001)
Licensing Status: Available for Licensing and Sponsored Research Support