AUTOMATED COLLECTION AND ANALYSIS PATIENT CARE SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ORDERING AND PRIORITIZING MULTIPLE HEALTH DISORDERS TO IDENTIFY AN INDEX DISORDER

摘要

An automated collection and analysis patient care system and method for ordering and prioritizing multiple health disorders to identify an index disorder is described. A plurality of monitoring sets are retrieved from a database. Eac h of the monitoring sets include stored measures relating to patient information recorded and derived on a substantially continuous basis. A patient status change is determined by comparing at least one stored measure from each of the monitoring sets to at least one other stored measure with both stored measur es relating to the same type of patient information. Each patient status change is ordered in temporal sequence from least recent to most recent. A plurality o f health disorder candidates categorized by quantifiable physiological measure s of pathophysiologies indicative of each respective health disorder are evaluate d and the health disorder candidate with the pathophysiology most closely matching those patient status changes which occurred least recently is identified./S DOAB