Patent Document ID: 20160371441
Application ID: 14746385
Patent Flag: 0

Claim One:
1. A computerized healthcare operations control system comprising: a prediction engine integrating data from one or more departments or healthcare systems in a healthcare environment to be used for the control of operational throughput, wait-times, and schedule risk; identify controllable and non-controllable resources; receive one or more operating objectives related to one or more of operational throughput, wait-times, and schedule risk; monitor the execution, with respect to the objectives, of the plurality of clinical protocol tasks in a clinical environment by the care delivery resources including people and physical assets; predict a) activity of the one or more care delivery resources and patients in the 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 clinical protocol tasks over a selectable interval of time; automatically optimize present and future actions of the controllable care delivery resources to mitigate the predicted non-value-added idle time, throughput constraint and workload of care providers to control a flow of patients through clinical protocols and a risk of achieving specified resource efficiency across the plurality of clinical protocols; trigger the one or more mitigating actions with the respect to the plurality of clinical protocols; and monitor effects of the mitigating actions and adjust resource assignments based on the effects of the mitigating actions.