Patents by Inventor Douglas S. McNair

Douglas S. McNair 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: 11961612
    Abstract: Systems, methods and computer-readable media are provided for applying performance data (e.g., Electronic Clinical Quality Measures (eCQM), Pay-for-Performance (P4P) measures, Meaningful Use (MU) measures) to a fantasy league health exchange. In aspects, a set of patient data for patients is determined. The set of patient data corresponds to a time interval of treatment of the patients by a population of clinicians. In addition, performance data is determined. The performance data corresponds to the population of clinicians and is based on the set of patient data and the time interval. Further, a provider ranking is determined using a classification model determined from the performance data and from explanatory attributes. The provider ranking can be used to forecast or project future performance results for selected individual or group providers. Further, the provider rankings can be used for draft picks, roster submission, or bets placed in a fantasy league exchange system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: Cerner Innovation, Inc.
    Inventor: Douglas S. McNair
  • Publication number: 20240120100
    Abstract: A system, methods, and computer-readable media are provided for the automatic identification of patients having an elevated near-term risk of pulmonary function deterioration or respiratory distress. Embodiments of the invention are directed to event prediction, risk stratification, and optimization of the assessment, communication, and decision-making to prevent respiratory events in humans, and in one embodiment take the form of a platform for wearable, mobile, untethered monitoring devices with embedded decision support. Respiratory information is obtained over one or a plurality of previous time intervals, to classify a likelihood of events leading to an acute respiratory decompensation event within a future time interval. In an embodiment, the risk prediction is based a plurality of nonlinearity measures of capnometry information over the previous time interval(s), and the risk for an acute respiratory decompensation event determined using an ensemble model predictor on the nonlinearity measures.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2023
    Publication date: April 11, 2024
    Applicant: Cerner Innovation, Inc.
    Inventor: Douglas S. McNair
  • Patent number: 11948691
    Abstract: Technologies are provided for determining an individual's likelihood of relapsing into prior behavior subsequent to a treatment for a mental health or addiction disorder, and in some instances predicting a likelihood time frame for such a relapse. Target subjects having a risk of addiction relapse, non-adherence to a treatment program, or absconding, may be automatically identified based on a multiplicative-regression model for relative survival (MRS) that is developed for predicting risk or likelihood of relapse or non-adherence. Further, in some embodiments, a leading indicator of near-term future abnormalities may be provided thereby proactively notifying supervisory personnel responsible for the person and providing such personnel with timely notice to enable effective corrective, preventive, or trend-modifying maneuvers to be undertaken.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: Cerner Innovation, Inc.
    Inventor: Douglas S. McNair
  • Patent number: 11942219
    Abstract: Decision support technology is provided for use with patients who may be prone to a cardiovascular condition such as acute coronary syndromes. A mechanism is provided to determine a patient's risk for experiencing a cardiovascular ischemic event at a future time interval based on temporal patterns determined using physiological parameters of the patient such as serum or blood uric acid and/or C-reactive protein (CRP). A forecast or score may be determined indicating whether or not temporal patterns merit intervention to prevent occurrence or reoccurrence of ischemic events, or for determining adherence to or efficacy of treatment or preventive interventions. Based on the forecast or score, appropriate response action such as automatically issuing an alert or notification to a caregiver associated with the patient, may be determined, recommended, or implemented.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Cerner Innovation, Inc.
    Inventor: Douglas S. McNair
  • Publication number: 20240096465
    Abstract: A system, method, and computer-readable media are provided for facilitating clinical decision making, and in particular, decision making based on a third party's clinical situation by determining and providing useful, up-to-date information, such as patient-related information to a decision maker. In one embodiment, a user first identifies an information item concerning a patient. Based on that item, a set of related information items is determined and prioritized, and a reference pointer, which identifies the set of related information, is generated. The reference pointer is communicated to the user's mobile device. Subsequently, the user's mobile device requests information from the set of information items associated with the reference pointer, and provides information authorization information. Following authentication of the user's credentials, updates of information from the set of information items may be communicated to the user's mobile device as they become available.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2023
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Applicant: CERNER INNOVATION, INC.
    Inventor: Douglas S. McNair
  • Publication number: 20240095845
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for the problem of automatic, algorithm-guided estimation of insurance loss ratio, claims frequency, the probability of excess claims, and other insurance policy performance characteristics for an individual insured or for groups of insured individuals. A time-series-derived Bayesian power spectrum weight is calculated from the frequency of temporal pattern-specific values in terms of intensities at various frequencies of the power spectrum computed from credit utilization ratio (CUR; outstanding balance of debt, as a percentage of credit line available) time-series obtained by the insurer by ‘soft pull’ inquiries submitted periodically to credit-rating agencies, and provides an opportunity to capture and measure the relative magnitude of frequent or unexpected changes in consumer liquidity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 27, 2023
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Applicant: CERNER INNOVATION, INC.
    Inventor: Douglas S. McNair
  • Publication number: 20240096482
    Abstract: Systems, methods and computer-readable media are provided for determining conformity to performance of meaningful use measures in human health care delivery. A Bayesian Markov Chain Monte Carlo statistical process is utilized to achieve reliable estimates for such measures despite the small subgroup sample sizes accruing during each measurement period. One embodiment utilizes zero- and one-inflated beta regression that is robust against moderate prevalence of zero or one counts in the numerators for such measurements and determinations of statistical associations with such factors as clinician, care venue, and patient attributes. Based on the determined conformity, a notification is provided to provider clinicians or organization management indicating the conformity and, in some instances, a degree of conformity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2023
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Applicant: Cerner Innovation, Inc.
    Inventor: Douglas S. McNair
  • Patent number: 11931167
    Abstract: Technologies are provided for determining a likelihood or risk of a human patient for developing pressure injury based on patterns of movement by the patient determined using a specialized measurement support surface. Some embodiments automatically ascertain whether patterns of movements of a human subject, whose weight is supported on the support surface, exhibit sufficient frequency and variability of activity such as will confer either certain health benefits or expose the individual to certain health risks, such as development of pressure ulcers in the load-bearing skin and soft tissues. The measurement support surface can include a contact layer, a pressure-measuring layer having an air bladder subjacent to the measurement support surface, and a substrate layer with a density and stiffness to mechanically isolate the pressure-measuring layer from ambient vibrations transmitted through a floor, furniture, or other intervening articles upon which the measurement support surface is mounted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: Cerner Innovation, Inc.
    Inventor: Douglas S. McNair
  • Patent number: 11929176
    Abstract: Systems, methods and computer-readable media are provided for facilitating clinical decision support and managing patient population health by health-related entities including caregivers, health care administrators, insurance providers, and patients.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Cerner Innovation, Inc.
    Inventors: Douglas S. McNair, John Christopher Murrish, Kanakasabha Kailasam
  • Publication number: 20240078390
    Abstract: Technologies are provided for determining deficiencies in narrative textual data that may impact decision-making in a decisional context. A candidate text document and a reference corpus of text may be utilized to generate one or more topic models and document-term matrices, and then to determine a corresponding statistical perplexity and probabilistic coherence. Statistical determinations of a degree to which the candidate deviates from the reference normative corpus are determined, in terms of the statistical perplexity and probabilistic coherence of the candidate as compared to the reference. If the difference is statistically significant, a message may be reported to user, such as the author or an auditor of the candidate text document, so that the user has the opportunity to amend the candidate document so as to improve its adequacy for the decisional purposes in the context at hand.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 13, 2023
    Publication date: March 7, 2024
    Applicant: Cerner Innovation, Inc.
    Inventor: Douglas S. McNair
  • Patent number: 11923056
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer-readable media are provided for patient case and care complexity characterization, and detecting matches of an individual patient's record with collections of other patients' records, based on serial, longitudinal patterns, for facilitating efficient health services utilization, implementing programs to reduce complexity, preventive medicine, and risk management in health care.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Cerner Innovation, Inc.
    Inventor: Douglas S. McNair
  • Patent number: 11923048
    Abstract: A diagnostic and decision support technology is provided for determining the presence, identity, and/or severity of an inherited lysosomal storage disorder. In particular, a mechanism is provided to detect and classify a lysosomal storage disorder in a human patient, which utilizes a logistic regression classifier determined based on a multi-variable-composite-biomarker comprising a specific set of physiological variables of the patient. This multi-variable statistical predictive biomarker approach may be employed for identifying persons whose attributes are consistent with features or lysosomal storage diseases, such as attenuated mucopolysaccharidosis Type 1 (Hurler-Scheie or Scheie syndromes).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Cerner Innovation, Inc.
    Inventor: Douglas S. McNair
  • Patent number: 11908338
    Abstract: Methods, computer systems, and computer readable media are provided for promoting positive activity patterns for users and facilitate long-term adherence to the activity patterns, such as by providing alerts or electronic reminders to ambulate in a fashion that is responsive to an individual's actual activity patterns and behaviors and compatible with routine activities in the workplace and home. In particular, embodiments of the present invention are directed to measuring physical activity patterns during the waking hours of a human, and in some embodiments continuously measuring these activity patterns; automatically ascertaining whether the patterns exhibit sufficient frequency and variability of activity such as confers certain health benefits; and if the patterns do not manifest such features, to adaptively provide sensible reminders at irregular within-day intervals such as are likely to establish healthy patterns of ambulation and other light activity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: CERNER INNOVATION, INC.
    Inventor: Douglas S. McNair
  • Publication number: 20240055127
    Abstract: Systems, methods and computer-readable media are provided for facilitating clinical decision support and managing patient population health by health-related entities including caregivers, health care administrators, insurance providers, and patients.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 23, 2023
    Publication date: February 15, 2024
    Applicant: Cerner Innovation, Inc.
    Inventors: Douglas S. McNair, John Christopher Murrish, Kanakasabha Kailasam
  • Publication number: 20240046045
    Abstract: Methods and systems for enhanced natural language processing of clinical documentation are provided. Using natural language processing, a clinical condition is extracted from unstructured data within a current electronic document. A clinical ontology identifying itemsets associated with the clinical condition is retrieved, and indicators of relevant clinical concepts, as identified from the ontology, are searched from within the patient's longitudinal record, which comprises documentation from at least a prior encounter. Based on the whether the clinical concepts are present in the patent's record, a confidence is assigned to the NLP-extracted clinical condition, and one or more actions may be performed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 19, 2023
    Publication date: February 8, 2024
    Applicant: CERNER INNOVATION, INC.
    Inventors: Kanakasabha Kailasam, Douglas S. McNair, John Christopher Murrish, David Cohen, Josh Smith, Alex Vickers, Tanuj Gupta
  • Patent number: 11894127
    Abstract: Systems, methods and computer-readable media are provided for determining conformity to performance of meaningful use measures in human health care delivery. A Bayesian Markov Chain Monte Carlo statistical process is utilized to achieve reliable estimates for such measures despite the small subgroup sample sizes accruing during each measurement period. One embodiment utilizes zero- and one-inflated beta regression that is robust against moderate prevalence of zero or one counts in the numerators for such measurements and determinations of statistical associations with such factors as clinician, care venue, and patient attributes. Based on the determined conformity, a notification is provided to provider clinicians or organization management indicating the conformity and, in some instances, a degree of conformity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: Cerner Innovation, Inc.
    Inventor: Douglas S. McNair
  • Patent number: 11894117
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer-readable media are provided for patient case and care complexity characterization, and detecting matches of an individual patient's record with collections of other patients' records, based on serial, longitudinal patterns, for facilitating efficient health services utilization, implementing programs to reduce complexity, preventive medicine, and risk management in health care.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: Cerner Innovation, Inc.
    Inventor: Douglas S. McNair
  • Patent number: 11887706
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer-readable media are provided for facilitating record matching and entity resolution and for enabling improvements in record linkage. A power-spectrum-based temporal pattern-specific weight may be incorporated into record linkage methods to enhance the record linkage accuracy and statistical performance. For example, in embodiments, a value-specific weight may be calculated from a population-based frequency of field-specific values or dichotomized values of selected phenotypic variables, and provides an opportunity to capture and measure the relative importance of specific values found in a field. A phenotypic bit-vector “fingerprint” pattern-specific weight or Bayesian power spectrum weight may be determined and incorporated into record linkage methods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: Cerner Innovation, Inc.
    Inventor: Douglas S. McNair
  • Patent number: 11869671
    Abstract: Systems, methods and computer-readable media are provided for facilitating patient health care through automatic discovery, establishment, and statistical validation of safety signals in repositories of EMR information, identifying safety signals regarding therapeutics or therapeutics combinations administered to patients. In an embodiment, a method includes identifying, from a dataset of health care records, a first group of patients that received a drug; extracting one or more medical events that the first group experienced; identifying a second group of patients similar to the first group who have received one or more concomitant comparator drugs that address the same set of conditions that prevail in both the first group and second group; extracting one or more medical events that the second group of patients have experienced; and comparing the medical events of the first group to the medical events of the second group to determine statistically significant differences in occurrences between the groups.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: Cerner Innovation, Inc.
    Inventor: Douglas S. McNair
  • Patent number: 11861731
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for the problem of automatic, algorithm-guided estimation of insurance loss ratio, claims frequency, the probability of excess claims, and other insurance policy performance characteristics for an individual insured or for groups of insured individuals. A time-series-derived Bayesian power spectrum weight is calculated from the frequency of temporal pattern-specific values in terms of intensities at various frequencies of the power spectrum computed from credit utilization ratio (CUR; outstanding balance of debt, as a percentage of credit line available) time-series obtained by the insurer by ‘soft pull’ inquiries submitted periodically to credit-rating agencies, and provides an opportunity to capture and measure the relative magnitude of frequent or unexpected changes in consumer liquidity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: Cerner Innovation, Inc.
    Inventor: Douglas S. McNair