Visualization of concurrently executing computer interpretable guidelines

• US 10,242,156 B2
• Filed: 08/16/2011
• Issued: 03/26/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 08/18/2010
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V. (Koninklijke Philips N.V.)
• Original Assignee: Koninklijke Philips N.V.
• Inventors: Lord, William Palmer, Van Zon, Cornelis Conradus Adrianus Maria
• Primary Examiner(s): To, Jennifer N
• Assistant Examiner(s): Filosi, Terri L
• Application Number:
  US13/814,508
• Publication Number:
  US 20130174084A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,779 Days
• Field of Search: 715781, 705 3
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/20 for the management or administration of healthcare resources or facilities, e.g. managing hospital staff or surgery rooms
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/60 for the operation of medical equipment or devices
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 50/00 ICT specially adapted for medical diagnosis, medical simulation or medical data mining; ICT specially adapted for detecting, monitoring or modelling epidemics or pandemics
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 50/20 for computer-aided diagnosis, e.g. based on medical expert systems
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 70/20 relating to practices or guidelines

Abstract

A method for visualizing concurrently executing clinical guidelines executed by a clinical decision support system for a subject includes presenting, on a display, a first guideline window in a graphical user interface, wherein the first guideline window presents information corresponding to a first of the concurrently executing clinical guidelines, and presenting, on the display and concurrently with the first guideline window, a second guideline window in the graphical user interface, wherein the second guideline window presents information corresponding to a second of the concurrently executing clinical guidelines.

Claims

1. A method for visualizing concurrently executing clinical guidelines for a same subject executed by a decision support system, comprising:

presenting, on a display, a first guideline window in a graphical user interface, wherein the first guideline window presents information corresponding to a first of the concurrently executing clinical guidelines and the first guideline window includes a first unique identifier that represents the first guideline window and the first of the concurrently executing clinical guidelines;

presenting, on the display and concurrently with the first guideline window, a second guideline window in the graphical user interface, wherein the second guideline window presents information corresponding to a second of the concurrently executing clinical guidelines, and the second guideline window includes a second unique identifier that represents the second guideline window and the second of the concurrently executing clinical guidelines; and

presenting, on the display, for at least one of the guideline windows, one or more auxiliary windows that presents further information corresponding to the concurrently executing clinical guideline of the at least one of the first guideline window and the second guideline window, and the one or more auxiliary windows includes an identifier corresponding to at least one of the first or second unique identifiers, wherein each of the concurrently executing clinical guidelines for the same subject includes a documented set of recommendations to treat and manage a different morbidity of the same subject;

wherein a clinical guideline is a documented set of recommendations to treat and manage a morbidity;

wherein an executing clinical guideline includes a clinical guideline retrieved and displayed in response to an input indicative of a condition or disease of the subject which corresponds to the morbidity of the clinical guideline, and the executing clinical guideline includes a modification of received and displayed clinical guidelines in response to an input indicating at least one recommendation of the documented set of recommendations is completed, wherein each concurrently executing clinical guideline comprises a different executing clinical guideline for the same subject;

monitoring data related to each concurrently executing clinical guideline;

determining whether a first set of the documented sets of recommendations of one of concurrently executing clinical guidelines is to be displayed based on the monitored data;

identifying at least one of a conflict or redundancy between the documented sets of recommendations of the concurrently executing clinical guidelines using an ontology; and

providing a notification indicative of the conflict or redundancy.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

presenting, on the display and concurrently with at least one of the first or second guideline windows, one or more other guideline windows in the graphical user interface, wherein the one or more other guideline windows respectively presents information corresponding to one or more of the concurrently executing clinical guidelines.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the identifier includes one or more of a color, a pattern, or a symbol unique to the first or second concurrently executing clinical guideline.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the further information corresponds to a task in a flow diagram presented in the at least one of the first and second guideline windows.

5. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

presenting, in connection with each auxiliary window, the unique identifier of the corresponding guideline window.

6. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

presenting, on the display, a persistent information region presenting at least one of data, an alert, a timer, a to do item, or user-selected parameter.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein the information presented in the persistent information region is always visible in the GUI.

8. The method of claim 6, wherein the information presented in the persistent information region alternatively corresponds to the subject associated with the concurrently executing clinical guidelines or a different subject.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein at least one of the conflict or redundancy between two or more concurrently executing clinical guidelines is identified based on a comparison of at least one of a goal, an order, a treatment, or a diagnostic tool of the two or more concurrently executing clinical guidelines.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein at least one of the conflict or redundancy is identified of two or more concurrently executing clinical guidelines by inferring based on the ontology at least one of relationship or purpose of at least one of a goal, an order, a treatment, or a diagnostic tool of the two or more concurrently executing clinical guidelines.

11. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

presenting, on the display, a to do window that presents at least one of a status of a task for one or more executing clinical guidelines, a recommended next task, or a current task from among active concurrently executing clinical guidelines, in a single window without showing a sequence of a clinical guideline to get items in the to do window.

12. A system, comprising:

a display for displaying information;

a storage medium for storing computer executable instructions;

a knowledge base including a plurality of executable clinical guidelines; and

a processor that executes at least one computer executable instruction in the storage medium and, in response, concurrently presents a graphical user interface via the display, including windows of a plurality of executing guidelines from the knowledge base, wherein each window of the plurality of executing guidelines corresponds to a different clinical guideline of the knowledge base that is concurrently executed by the processor and each window of the plurality of executing guidelines includes a unique identifier, and at least one of the of the plurality of executing guidelines includes one or more auxiliary windows that presents further information corresponding to one window of the windows of the plurality of executing guidelines, and the one or more auxiliary windows includes an identifier corresponding to the unique identifier of the one window of the windows of the plurality of executing guidelines, wherein each of the windows of the plurality of executing guidelines include a documented set of recommendations to treat and manage a different morbidity of a same subject;

wherein a clinical guideline is a documented set of recommendations to treat and manage a morbidity;

wherein an executing clinical guideline includes a clinical guideline retrieved and displayed in response to an input indicative of a condition or disease of the subject which corresponds to the morbidity of the clinical guideline, and the executing clinical guideline includes a modification of received and displayed clinical guideline in response to an input indicating at least one recommendation of the documented set of recommendations is completed, wherein each concurrently executing clinical guideline comprises a different executing clinical guideline for the same subject;

wherein each window of the plurality of executing clinical guidelines is a separate and distinct window, and the processor identifies using an ontology at least one of a conflict or a redundancy between at least two different guidelines of the plurality of executing clinical guidelines concurrently executed by the processor.

13. The system of claim 12, wherein the processor presents a list of available subjects in a select subject menu, receives a subject select signal indicative of a user selected one of the subjects from the list of available subjects in the select subject menu, and populates a persistent information window of the graphical user interface with information based thereon.

14. The system of claim 13, wherein the processor presents a list of available executable clinical guidelines in a select guideline menu, receives a guideline select signal indicative of a user selected one of the guidelines from the list of available executable clinical guidelines in the select guideline menu, and displays one of the windows of the plurality of executing guidelines in response thereto, wherein the one window of the windows of the plurality of executing guidelines includes the unique identifier corresponding to the selected guideline.

15. The system of claim 14, wherein the processor presents a list of available form for guidelines in a select form menu, receives a form select signal indicative of a user selected one of the form from the list of available forms in the select form menu, and displays a form windows, which includes the unique identifier.

16. The system of claim 15, wherein the form window is linked to corresponding guideline and presents a flow block of a flow diagram of the one window of the windows of the plurality of executing guidelines.

17. The system of claim 12, wherein the unique identifier includes one or more of a color or a pattern of a window identifier unique to one of the windows of the plurality of executing guidelines.