Patent ID: 8092380
Filing Date: 2012-01-10
Classification: G16H

Abstract:
1. A system for improving hospital patient care by continually plotting and displaying health scores as a function of time, the system comprising: an interface module, executing on a computer, for receiving incoming disparate medical data relating to a patient collected at a point in time, the incoming disparate medical data including at least one datum from a nursing assessment, wherein the nursing assessment is performed by a nurse; a transformation module, executing on a computer, for transforming each of the incoming disparate medical data collected at the point in time into a transformed numerical quantity health score value, wherein each of the transformed health score values are in a format for combining together; a combination module, executing on a computer, for combining each of the transformed health score values corresponding to each of the incoming disparate medical data into a single health score, the single health score representing the health of the patient at the point in time at which the incoming disparate medical data was collected; and a presentation and comparison module, executing on a computer, for continually plotting and displaying on a health score plot single health scores that have been calculated for the patient as a function of time, wherein each of the single health scores displayed at a given point in time are recalculated using any new incoming disparate medical data and represent the health of the patient at the given point in time, such that a user may identify health trends in the patient as a function of time by evaluating the health score plot.