Patent Application Titled “Determining The Effectiveness Of A Treatment Plan For A Patient Based On Electronic Medical Records” Published Online (USPTO 20240062859): Healthpointe Solutions Inc.

2024 MAR 08 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Insurance Daily News -- According to news reporting originating from Washington, D.C., by NewsRx journalists, a patent application by the inventors ANDERSON, Mark Henry (Newport Coast, CA, US); Gnanasambandam, Nathan (Irvine, CA, US), filed on January 11, 2022, was made available online on February 22, 2024.

The assignee for this patent application is Healthpointe Solutions Inc. (Austin, Texas, United States).

Reporters obtained the following quote from the background information supplied by the inventors: “Population health management entails aggregating patient data across multiple health information technology resources, analyzing the data with reference to a single patient, and generating actionable items through which care providers can improve both clinical and financial outcomes. A population health management service seeks to improve the health outcomes of a group by improving clinical outcomes while lowering costs.”

In addition to obtaining background information on this patent application, NewsRx editors also obtained the inventors’ summary information for this patent application: “Representative embodiments set forth herein disclose various techniques for enabling a system and method for operating a clinic viewer on a computing device of a medical personnel.

“In one embodiment, a computer-implemented method performed by a cognitive intelligence platform is disclosed. The method comprises: receiving, from a plurality of electronic health record systems, medical records associated with medical encounters of a patient with one or more medical providers over a period of time, the medical records including medical information related to care of the patient; analyzing the medical records by classifying the medical information included in the medical records into medical entities, the medical entities including categories having particular shared characteristics related to the care of the patient; determining, based on the medical entities, an effectiveness of a treatment plan received by the patient; generating an indication of the effectiveness of the treatment plan; and providing the indication to a user interface executing on a computing device.

“In one embodiment, a system, comprises: a memory device containing stored instructions; and a processing device communicatively coupled to the memory device. The processing device executes the stored instructions to: receive, from a plurality of electronic health record systems, medical records associated with medical encounters of a patient with one or more medical providers over a period of time, the medical records including medical information related to care of the patient; analyze the medical records by classifying the medical information included in the medical records into medical entities, the medical entities including categories having particular shared characteristics related to the care of the patient; determine, based on the medical entities, an effectiveness of a treatment plan received by the patient; generate an indication of the effectiveness of the treatment plan; and provide the indication to a user interface executing on a computing device.

“In one embodiment, a computer readable media storing instructions that are executable by a processor to cause a processing device to execute operations comprises: receive, from a plurality of electronic health record systems, medical records associated with medical encounters of a patient with one or more medical providers over a period of time, the medical records including medical information related to care of the patient; analyze the medical records by classifying the medical information included in the medical records into medical entities, the medical entities including categories having particular shared characteristics related to the care of the patient; determine, based on the medical entities, an effectiveness of a treatment plan received by the patient; generate an indication of the effectiveness of the treatment plan; and provide the indication to a user interface executing on a computing device.”

The claims supplied by the inventors are:

“1. A computer-implemented method performed by a cognitive intelligence platform, the method comprising: receiving, from a plurality of electronic health record systems, medical records associated with medical encounters of a patient with one or more medical providers over a period of time, the medical records including medical information related to care of the patient; analyzing the medical records by classifying the medical information included in the medical records into medical entities, the medical entities including categories having particular shared characteristics related to the care of the patient; determining, based on the medical entities, an effectiveness of a treatment plan received by the patient; generating an indication of the effectiveness of the treatment plan; and providing the indication to a user interface executing on a computing device.

“2. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein the medical entities includes at least one of the following: conditions, medications, laboratory results, test results, procedures, symptoms, and life style choices.

“3. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, the method further comprising: redacting personal identifying information from the medical records.

“4. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein determining the effectiveness of the treatment plan further includes analyzing a patient health outcome in response to medical care provided to the patient, the medical care stipulated in the treatment plan.

“5. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein determining the effectiveness of the treatment plan further includes analyzing any of the following: adequacy of facilities of where the treatment plan is provided; adequacy of equipment administering the treatment plan; the qualifications of medical staff administering the treatment plan; and qualifications of an organization administering the treatment plan.

“6. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein determining the effectiveness of the treatment plan further includes examining a process of care provided to the patient based on appropriateness, completeness and redundancy of the medical information related to the treatment plan included in the medical records.

“7. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein analyzing the medical records further comprises: identifying a negation cue modifying a piece of text in the medical information, the piece of text indicating an aspect of the care of the patient; and classifying the aspect of the care into the medical entities.

“8. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, the method further comprising: training, based on medical information associated with a plurality of patients, a medical treatment efficacy prediction model; applying the treatment plan to the medical treatment efficacy prediction model; and receiving, from the medical treatment efficacy prediction model, an indication that the treatment plan meets a threshold probability of being effective treatment.

“9. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, further comprising: generating the indication by: generating graphical user interface elements to represent the indication of the effectiveness of the treatment plan; and causing the graphical user interface elements to be presented on a single user interface of the cognitive intelligence platform.

“10. A system, comprising: a memory device containing stored instructions; a processing device communicatively coupled to the memory device, wherein the processing device executes the stored instructions to: receive, from a plurality of electronic health record systems, medical records associated with medical encounters of a patient with one or more medical providers over a period of time, the medical records including medical information related to care of the patient; analyze the medical records by classifying the medical information included in the medical records into medical entities, the medical entities including categories having particular shared characteristics related to the care of the patient; determine, based on the medical entities, an effectiveness of a treatment plan received by the patient; generate an indication of the effectiveness of the treatment plan; and provide the indication to a user interface executing on a computing device.

“11. The system of claim 10, wherein the medical entities includes at least one of the following: conditions, medications, laboratory results, test results, procedures, symptoms, and life style choices.

“12. The system of claim 10, wherein the processing device further executes the stored instructions to: redact personal identifying information from the medical records.

“13. The system of claim 10, wherein determining the effectiveness of the treatment plan further includes analyzing a patient health outcome in response to medical care provided to the patient, the medical care stipulated in the treatment plan.

“14. The system of claim 10, wherein determining the effectiveness of the treatment plan further includes analyzing any of the following: adequacy of facilities of where the treatment plan is provided; adequacy of equipment administering the treatment plan; the qualifications of medical staff administering the treatment plan; and qualifications of an organization administering the treatment plan.

“15. The system of claim 10, wherein determining the effectiveness of the treatment plan further includes examining a process of care provided to the patient based on appropriateness, completeness and redundancy of the medical information related to the treatment plan included in the medical records.

“16. The system of claim 10, wherein the processing device further executes the stored instructions to: identify a negation cue modifying a piece of text in the medical information, the piece of text indicating an aspect of the care of the patient; and classify the aspect of the care into the medical entities.

“17. The system of claim 10, wherein the processing device further executes the stored instructions to: train, based on medical information associated with a plurality of patients, a medical treatment efficacy prediction model; apply the treatment plan to the medical treatment efficacy prediction model; and receive, from the medical treatment efficacy prediction model, an indication that the treatment plan meets a threshold probability of being effective treatment.

“18. A computer readable media storing instructions that are executable by a processor to cause a processing device to execute operations comprising: receive, from a plurality of electronic health record systems, medical records associated with medical encounters of a patient with one or more medical providers over a period of time, the medical records including medical information related to care of the patient; analyze the medical records by classifying the medical information included in the medical records into medical entities, the medical entities including categories having particular shared characteristics related to the care of the patient; determine, based on the medical entities, an effectiveness of a treatment plan received by the patient; generate an indication of the effectiveness of the treatment plan; and provide the indication to a user interface executing on a computing device.

“19. The computer-readable medium of claim 18, wherein the medical entities includes at least one of the following: conditions, medications, laboratory results, test results, procedures, symptoms, and life style choices.

“20. The computer-readable medium of claim 18, wherein the processing device is further caused to execute operations comprising: identify a negation cue modifying a piece of text in the medical information, the piece of text indicating an aspect of the care of the patient; and classify the aspect of the care into the medical entities.”

For more information, see this patent application: ANDERSON, Mark Henry; Gnanasambandam, Nathan. Determining The Effectiveness Of A Treatment Plan For A Patient Based On Electronic Medical Records. U.S. Patent Application Number 20240062859, filed January 11, 2022 and posted February 22, 2024. Patent URL (for desktop use only): https://ppubs.uspto.gov/pubwebapp/external.html?q=(20240062859)&db=US-PGPUB&type=ids

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