US Patent Issued to MatrixCare on Sept. 29 for "Readmission model based on social determinants of health" (Illinois Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,748,921, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to MatrixCare Inc. (Bloomington, Minn.).

"Readmission model based on social determinants of health" was invented by Robert W. Price (Lockport, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques to determine readmission risk profiles of patients admitted to a healthcare facility. A patient record for a patient admitted to the healthcare facility is received. The patient record includes social information determined for the patient. A machine learning model is applied to the patient record to determine a readmission risk profile of the patient. An indication of the readmission risk profile of the pati...