Patent ID: 7765114
Filing Date: 2010-07-27
Classification: A61B,G06Q,G16H

Abstract:
1. A patient treatment management method for a hospital comprising: a. providing a computer network comprising at least one healthcare provider terminal, at least one hospital administrator terminal, at least one patient monitoring device, and a computer storing at least one treatment management system database, said treatment management system database storing at least one treatment regimen, said at least one treatment regimen being a modifiable template defining a sequence of treatment events at least one healthcare provider needs to execute in order to treat a diagnosed condition, the at least one treatment regimen further including access permissions for the at least one treatment regimen, and an expected outcome of each treatment event, said expected outcome information further including event success indicators and a customizable alert schedule associated with the success indicators; b. accessing the at least one treatment management database by one of the at least one healthcare provider terminal and the hospital administrator terminal and determining at least one decision point in the sequence of treatment events of the at least one treatment regimen and set a default system alert schedule associated with the at least one decision point; c. accessing the at least one treatment management database by the at least one healthcare provider terminal and selecting the at least one treatment regimen from the treatment management system database, said selecting responsive to said access permissions for the at least one treatment regimen; d. generating at least one patient-specific treatment plan from the selected at least one treatment regimen, wherein said generating includes at least one of accepting the existing treatment regimen, modifying the treatment events responsive to the patient's medical history, adding or removing at least one treatment event, and combining two or more treatment regimens; e. customizing the alert schedule responsive to said generating the at least one patient-specific treatment plan, wherein said customizing includes at least one of adding or removing at least one additional treatment event success indicator and an alert schedule associated with the success indicator, and modifying the alert schedule associated with the patient-specific treatment plan; f. associating the patient-specific treatment plan with the at least one selected treatment regimen and storing the patient-specific treatment plan in the treatment management system database stored by the computer, wherein said association provides for the identification of the at least one treatment regimen selected in the generation of the patient-specific treatment plan; g. monitoring the treatment event outcomes in accordance with the patient-specific treatment plan through at least one of healthcare provider observations received from the at least one healthcare provider terminal and patient data received from the at least one monitoring device; h. determining that at least one treatment event outcome success indicator has not been met and issuing an alert in accordance with the customized alert schedule; i. determining that the at least one decision point in the sequence of treatment events has been reached; j. identifying with the computer the at least one treatment regimen which was used as the modifiable template for the at least one patient-specific treatment plan that is resulting in the at least one treatment event outcome success indicator not being met; k. determining a defect in the at least one treatment regimen related to the at least one treatment event outcome success indicator not being met in the at least one treatment plan; l. modifying the at least one treatment regimen stored in the treatment management system database to correct for the defect determined in the at least one treatment plan; m. storing the modified at least one treatment regimen in the treatment management system database; n. identifying all patients currently being treated with a treatment plan based on the treatment regimen that has been determined to be defective; and o. generating a notification according to the default system alert schedule to the healthcare providers responsible for the patients currently being treated with a treatment plan based on the defective one of the treatment regimens in the hospital.