NOW Inc.
Method for Capturing, Determining, and Reporting Non-Medical Discharge Delays Using Standardized Patient Medical Information

Abstract:

A hardware processor-based patient system and method having an indexing and referential storage that collects, converts and consolidates patient information from various physicians and health-care providers and hospital facilities into a standardized format, including converting input medical information, files and treatment information provided by different sources and different formats into that standardized format, as well as specialized subprograms to detect avoidable days, which are delays in the discharge of a patient for non-medical reasons, as well as to collect information about avoidable days, which are delays in the discharge of a patient for non-medical reasons, and to transmit electronic communications to a hospital facility about any avoidable days, which are delays in the discharge of a patient for non-medical reasons so the hospital facility can take appropriate actions.