Patent Document ID: 10089441
Application ID: 14746385
Patent Flag: 1

Claim One:
1. A computerized healthcare operations control system comprising: a prediction engine including a processor to integrate data from a plurality of healthcare systems across departments in a healthcare environment to facilitate control of operational throughput, wait-times, and schedule risk in the healthcare environment, the processor configured to at least: identify care delivery resources and distinguish between controllable resources and non-controllable resources in the care delivery resources by parsing data received from the care delivery resources to define a set of controllable resources differentiated from a set of non-controllable resources, wherein the set of controllable resources is able to be directly controlled by the prediction engine and wherein the set of non-controllable resources is not able to be directly controlled by the prediction engine; receive one or more operating objectives related to one or more of operational throughput, wait-times, or schedule risk; monitor execution, with respect to the one or more operating objectives, of a plurality of first clinical protocol tasks in the healthcare environment by the care delivery resources; predict a) activity of the care delivery resources and patients in a second plurality of clinical protocol tasks for one or more time periods and b) a change of activity of patients and care delivery resources with respect to the second plurality of clinical protocol tasks over a selectable interval of time; automatically adjust configuration of the set of controllable resources with respect to the second plurality of clinical protocol tasks to mitigate a predicted deviation from one or more operating objectives related to one or more of operational throughput, wait-times, or schedule risk; and monitor an effect of the adjusted configuration of the set of controllable resources across the departments in the healthcare environment, wherein the processor of the prediction engine includes an inner loop controller to allocate and control, based on the predicted activity and change of activity, controllable resources to satisfy states associated with the clinical protocol tasks for a particular department, and an outer loop controller to manage care delivery constraints across the departments in the healthcare environment by monitoring inner loop controller output in temporal and spatial domains and providing feedback to the inner loop controller.