Patent ID: 8706516

Claim:
A method to manage progress of a plurality of patients, including a first patient and a second patient, through a workflow of events in delivering healthcare, the method comprising: tracking at least one property of the first patient, the at least one property including an intrinsic physiological property of the first patient or a clinically-induced property of the first patient, wherein the clinically-induced property includes a time relative to receiving a biophysical marker; calculating, using a processor, a bid for the first patient, the bid based on the at least one property of the first patient and indicative of a priority status of the first patient with respect to the plurality of patients, wherein the bid is based on the at least one property relative to a threshold; adjusting the bid of the first patient relative to a bid of the second patient based on at least one tracked property of the second patient to obtain an adjusted bid; assigning the first patient to a slot in a schedule of at least one resource based on the adjusted bid, wherein the at least one resource includes a medical diagnostic system, and further comprising tracking at least one property of the medical diagnostic system, the at least one property including at least one of a patient handling capacity, a current status of use, or a failure condition of the medical diagnostic system; continually monitoring the at least one property of the first patient during progression of the first patient through the workflow of events, including continually monitoring the intrinsic physiological property or the clinically-induced property of the first patient with a physiological monitoring device during the workflow of events; detecting a change in the at least one property of the first patient during the workflow of events; dynamically updating the adjusted bid of the first patient based on the change in the at least one property to obtain an updated bid; and assigning the first patient to the slot or an additional slot in the schedule of the at least one resource based on a comparison of the adjusted bid and the updated bid.