US Patent Issued to CERNER INNOVATION on April 7 for "Computerized decision support tool for post-acute care patients" (Kansas, Missouri Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,597,508, issued on April 7, was assigned to CERNER INNOVATION INC. (Kansas City, Mo.).

"Computerized decision support tool for post-acute care patients" was invented by Leonardo Ji (Overland Park, Kan.), Andrew Roberts (Overland Park, Kan.) and Sasanka Are (Kansas City, Mo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A decision support tool is provided for discharging a patient by predicting the probability of a patient's readmission based on information prior to discharge. The information used to make the prediction may include labs, vitals, diagnoses, and medications from prior encounters and from the current encounter. At least some of this inform...