Patents by Inventor Richard F. Averill

Richard F. Averill has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 11551814
    Abstract: Evaluating future healthcare event risks of a patient includes receiving, at one or more computers, patient healthcare data for the patient, wherein the patient healthcare data represents a healthcare event and includes one or more healthcare codes, accessing, with the one or more computers, a database that associates the healthcare event and the healthcare codes with risks of potentially preventable healthcare events, and presenting, with the one or more computers, indications of the risks of potentially preventable healthcare events to a user to facilitate mitigation of the risks of potentially preventable healthcare events for the patient.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: 3M Innovative Properties Company
    Inventors: Elizabeth C. McCullough, Richard L. Fuller, Norbert I. Goldfield, Richard F. Averill
  • Publication number: 20210005312
    Abstract: A health management system includes a processor, a searchable multi-dimensional data representation of the performance of an entire health care delivery system accessible by the processor, in which the performance of every healthcare provider, including downstream providers, that are delivering services is distilled down to a clinically credible measure of actual versus expected performance at analytic points across a comprehensive set of quality outcomes and resource utilization measures wherein the performance matrix has multiple dimensions, and a memory device coupled to the processor and having a program stored thereon for execution by the processor to perform operations. The operations include creating the multi-dimensional data representation to obtain performance measures of a selected healthcare provider and accessing the multi-dimensional data representation to obtain performance measures of the selected healthcare provider.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2020
    Publication date: January 7, 2021
    Applicant: 3M INNOVATIVE PROPERTIES COMPANY
    Inventors: Richard F. Averill, RICHARD R. FULLER, ELIZABETH C. MCCULLOUGH, KEITH C. MITCHELL, GARRI L. GARRISON
  • Publication number: 20190006045
    Abstract: A health management system includes a processor, a searchable multi-dimensional data representation of the performance of an entire health care delivery system accessible by the processor, in which the performance of every healthcare provider, including downstream providers, that are delivering services is distilled down to a clinically credible measure of actual versus expected performance at analytic points across a comprehensive set of quality outcomes and resource utilization measures wherein the performance matrix has multiple dimensions, and a memory device coupled to the processor and having a program stored thereon for execution by the processor to perform operations. The operations include creating the multi-dimensional data representation to obtain performance measures of a selected healthcare provider and accessing the multi-dimensional data representation to obtain performance measures of the selected healthcare provider.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2016
    Publication date: January 3, 2019
    Applicant: 3M Innovative Properties Company
    Inventors: Richard F. AVERILL, Richard L. FULLER, Elizabeth C. McCULLOUGH, Keith C. MITCHELL, Garri L. GARRISON
  • Publication number: 20170109492
    Abstract: Evaluating future healthcare event risks of a patient includes receiving, at one or more computers, patient healthcare data for the patient, wherein the patient healthcare data represents a healthcare event and includes one or more healthcare codes, accessing, with the one or more computers, a database that associates the healthcare event and the healthcare codes with risks of potentially preventable healthcare events, and presenting, with the one or more computers, indications of the risks of potentially preventable healthcare events to a user to facilitate mitigation of the risks of potentially preventable healthcare events for the patient.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2015
    Publication date: April 20, 2017
    Inventors: Elizabeth C. McCullough, Richard L. Fuller, Norbert I. Goldfield, Richard F. Averill
  • Publication number: 20170091410
    Abstract: Evaluating future healthcare event risks of a patient includes accessing, with one or more computers, indications of risks of potentially preventable healthcare events associated with the patient, accessing, with the one or more computers, personal health information associated with the patient, adjusting, with the one or more computers, the risks of potentially preventable healthcare events associated with the patient, based on the personal health information associated with the patient, to produce adjusted risks of potentially preventable healthcare events, and presenting, with the one or more computers, indications of the adjusted risks of potentially preventable healthcare events to a user to facilitate mitigation of the risks of potentially preventable healthcare events for the patient
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2015
    Publication date: March 30, 2017
    Inventors: Elizabeth C. McCullough, Richard L. Fuller, Norbert I. Goldfield, Richard F. Averill
  • Publication number: 20160055310
    Abstract: In one embodiment, the invention is directed to a method of processing patient healthcare data, via one or more computers. In some examples, the method comprises receiving, at the one or more computers, patient healthcare data, wherein the patient healthcare data represents a healthcare event and includes one or more healthcare codes. The method may further comprise determining, by the one or more computers and based on the one or more healthcare codes, one or more patient factors associated with the healthcare event. The method may also comprise determining, by the one or more computers and based on the one or more healthcare codes and the one or more patient factors associated with the healthcare event, whether the healthcare event is a potentially preventable healthcare event, wherein the healthcare event comprises one of: an inpatient admission, an emergency room visit, and an outpatient ancillary service.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 30, 2014
    Publication date: February 25, 2016
    Inventors: Linda A. Bentley, Richard F. Averill, Richard L. Fuller, Norbert I. Goldfield, Elizabeth C. McCullough, Caroline R. Piselli, James C. Vertrees
  • Publication number: 20140330587
    Abstract: In general the invention is directed to systems, methods, and/or software modules which may analyze a patient's drug history, and optionally other data, and derive a probable diagnosis for the patient based on rules.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 17, 2014
    Publication date: November 6, 2014
    Inventors: Jon Eisenhandler, Richard F. Averill, Norbert I. Goldfield
  • Publication number: 20140249829
    Abstract: In one example, this disclosure describes a method determining a resource utilization value, via one or more computers. The method may comprise receive dated patient healthcare data comprising information about one or more of diagnosed conditions, delivered services or procedures, severity indicators, or resource utilization data associated with any delivered services or procedures. The method may further comprise receiving selection input comprising one or more resource type parameters. After receiving selection input, the method may further comprise determining a resource utilization value based at least in part on the patient healthcare data and the selection input.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 1, 2013
    Publication date: September 4, 2014
    Applicant: 3M INNOVATIVE PROPERTIES COMPANY
    Inventors: Richard F. Averill, Jon Eisenhandler, David E. Gannon, Anthony J. Quain, James A. Switalski, James C. Vertrees
  • Patent number: 8814790
    Abstract: In general the invention is directed to systems, methods, and/or software modules which may analyze a patient's drug history, and optionally other data, and derive a probable diagnosis for the patient based on rules.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 26, 2014
    Assignee: 3M Innovative Properties Company
    Inventors: Jon Eisenhandler, Richard F. Averill, Norbert I. Goldfield
  • Publication number: 20140025395
    Abstract: A method of creating a classification system for rating the nature and severity of health care requirements, including obtaining a set of medical disease codes, categorizing the medical disease codes into major disease categories, and categorizing the medical disease codes in each major disease category into episode disease categories based on severity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2013
    Publication date: January 23, 2014
    Applicant: 3M INNOVATIVE PROPERTIES COMPANY
    Inventors: Richard F. Averill, Jon Eisenhandler, Norbert I. Goldfield
  • Patent number: 8579811
    Abstract: In general the invention is directed to systems, methods, and/or software modules which may analyze a patient's drug history, and optionally other data, and derive a probable diagnosis for the patient based on rules.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2013
    Assignee: 3M Innovative Properties Company
    Inventors: Jon Eisenhandler, Richard F. Averill, Norbert I. Goldfield
  • Publication number: 20080081955
    Abstract: In general the invention is directed to systems, methods, and/or software modules which may analyze a patient's drug history, and optionally other data, and derive a probable diagnosis for the patient based on rules.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2006
    Publication date: April 3, 2008
    Inventors: Jon Eisenhandler, Richard F. Averill, Norbert I. Goldfield