Patent ID: 8682686
Filing Date: 2014-03-25
Classification: G06Q,G16H

Abstract:
1. A system to manage progression of a plurality of patients through a workflow of events that employs a plurality of resources to deliver healthcare to the plurality of patients, comprising: a plurality of agents associated with the plurality of resources, at least one agent to track at least one property of at least one of the plurality of resources, the plurality of agents communicatively coupled to each other to communicate the at least one tracked property of the respective resource among the plurality of agents and to assign priority statuses to each of the resources, wherein the priority statuses indicate a priority of each of the resources relative to the other resources with respect to a slot in a schedule of the workflow of at least one patient, wherein one of the plurality of resources comprises a medical diagnostic system, and wherein the at least one property includes at least one of (1) a measured wait time of the at least one patient, (2) a critical condition of the at least one patient, (3) a degree of progression of the at least one patient through the workflow events, (4) a patient handling capacity of each of the plurality of resources, (5) a status of use of each of the plurality of resources or (6) a failure condition of each of the plurality of resources; and a processor in communication with the plurality of agents, the processor to execute computer readable program instructions in a non-transitory memory to: