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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 21, 2020
Filed:
Oct. 22, 2018
Cerner Innovation, Inc., Kansas City, KS (US);
Neil Kusens, Sherman Oaks, CA (US);
CERNER INNOVATION, INC., Kansas, KS (US);
Abstract
A method and system that allows healthcare providers to monitor disabled, elderly or other high-risk individuals to prevent or reduce falls and/or mitigate the impact of a fall by delivering automated notification of 'at risk' behavior and falls by such an individual. Two systems are used to identify patients—a skeletal tracking system that identifies patients by biometric indicators and a virtual blob detection system. In the virtual blob system, the monitored individual is virtually represented as a blob object of at least a specific size by a computerized monitoring system, and such system detects and alerts when the blob object enters or crosses into a virtually defined or designated blob detection zone and remains in the zone for at least a predetermined period of time. These systems may be used concurrently and conflicts between the systems may be resolved.