PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16189331
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-11
Publication Date: 2019-03
Patent Classification: ["705", "002000"]

Abstract:
Disclosed herein are unique systems and methods for remotely located physician specialists to diagnose and treat patients in a non-acute care facility having symptoms typically indicating a need for transfer to an acute care facility. The disclosed principles minimize the transfer of patients from a non-acute care facility to an acute care facility when not needed. The disclosed principles provide for the use of telemedicine units by geographically remote physician specialists to diagnose and treat patients in a non-acute care facility. If the physician specialist determines via the telemedicine unit that transfer of the patient to higher level of facility is needed, then the patient is transferred. If the physician specialist determines that the patient's new, elevated condition may be treated in the current, lower level facility, the physician specialist can prescribe a treatment for the current facility's staff to implement, even under the supervision of the physician specialist if it is needed. This unique approach is possible by providing an advanced telemedicine unit for use by the physician specialist that is geographically remote from the patient and his current lower level of care facility. Accordingly, the disclosed telemedicine program uses remote physicians having a higher level of skill or specialty to diagnose and treat patients currently located in a lower level healthcare facility than that type of specialty physician is typically found.

Claim (Index 9):
A method in accordance with  claim 1 , further comprising:\n determining, by the remote physician specialist via the Telemedicine Acute Care Unit, if the instructed treatment plan implemented by the non-physician specialist personnel at the non-acute care facility has successfully eliminated the one or more symptoms requiring acute care; if the instructed treatment plan is determined to be successful in eliminating the one or more symptoms requiring acute care, instructing, by the remote physician specialist via the Telemedicine Acute Care Unit, the non-physician specialist personnel at the non-acute care facility to cease the treatment plan; and if the instructed treatment plan is determined to not be successful in eliminating the one or more symptoms requiring acute care, re-diagnosing the patient, by the remote physician specialist via the Telemedicine Acute Care Unit, for one or more existing or newly arising symptoms that may require acute care, and: if the remote physician specialist determines that the re-diagnosis of the patient requires transfer to an acute care facility, instructing such transfer via the Telemedicine Acute Care Unit; if the remote physician specialist determines that the re-diagnosis of the patient does not require transfer to an acute care facility, instructing a new treatment plan for the patient via the Telemedicine Acute Care Unit and for implementation by non-physician specialist personnel at the non-acute care facility.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 59.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.45361
- Patent Class: 705.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15487955', '11415936', '15548694', '15685991', '13051675']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.1177955910681933
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5074855258979677
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.1567645845511708
- Mean Citation Score: 260.790444
- Max Citation Score: 270.89526
- Similarity Product: 175.008969925189

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 0
- Claim Label 102: 1
- Claim Label 103: 1
- Claim Label 112: 1
- Combined Label: 0
- Label 101 Adjusted: 0

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