Patent ID: 11961049
Assignee: YIPS, LLC
Field: Medical technology (Instruments)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 0:
1. A system for reduction of patient waiting times at a medical provider site, comprising:
a scheduling server located across a first connection to the Internet from a healthcare provider and configured to schedule patient appointments at the medical provider site; and
a sensor and communication system comprising plural sensing devices, each having different spatial accuracy factors representing different spatial precisions and temporal accuracies between the plural sensing devices and each networked in communication with the scheduling server via the first connection to the Internet,
the sensing devices comprising at least
1) a mobile patient device located with a patient,
2) At least one provider device operated located at the medical provider site, and
3) a first medical records database at the medical provider site,

wherein the scheduling server a) communicates across a second connection to the Internet to query a second medical records database to obtain Health Insurance Portability and Accountability (HIPAA) compliant confidential patient data including prior patient medical information (PPMI) of third party patients, and b) divides the patient appointments at the medical provider site into respective appointment states, the respective states including at least a patient check-in state, a provider examination state, and a patient appointment complete state,
wherein the sensing devices sense patient availability at start times for at least one of the respective appointment states using available outputs indicating a proximity-time of the patient at the respective appointment states,
wherein the scheduling server is configured to:
a) based on the PPMI of the third party patients, determine respective predicted durations for each of the respective states,
b) based on the spatial accuracy factors representing the different spatial precisions and temporal accuracies, select from the available outputs from the sensing devices an output from the sensing device having a highest precision for the proximity-time of the patient, and determine respective actual durations at each of the respective states from the output from the sensing device having the highest precision for the proximity-time of the patient, and
c) update future predicted appointment times and durations for other patients based on the determined respective actual durations at each of the respective states,
d) predict future patient appointments whereby the patient waiting times at the medical provider site are reduced.