System and method for integrating data with guidelines to generate displays containing the guidelines and data
First Claim
1. A method for integrating guidelines with data in a medical condition management system, comprising:
- storing general guideline data in a database representing at least one of guidelines for assessing a condition of a patient and guidelines for taking action on said patient;
obtaining patient specific data with a medical instrument configured to measure any one of blood pressure, pulse rate, cholesterol level, and HbAlc level;
automatically inputting said patient specific data from said medical instrument into a patient terminal;
storing patient specific data received from the patient terminal in said database representing at least one physical aspect of said patient measured by said medical instrument;
outputting at least one branching graphical pathway diagram on a display of said medical condition management system representing said guideline data, said branching graphical pathway diagram comprising a plurality of diagnosis boxes comprising data elements corresponding to data ranges, the diagnosis boxes connected by decision pathways corresponding to the data ranges, one such data range being highlighted to reflect measured patient data being within the data range,automatically determining at least one decision for at least one decision pathway based on the stored patient specific data, andautomatically enhancing the diagnosis boxes of said branching graphical pathway diagram on said display to represent said general guideline data enhanced with said patient specific data integrated into the determined decision pathway to represent a relationship of at least a portion of said patient specific data to at least a portion of said general guideline data.
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Abstract
A system and method for automatically integrating data with guidelines to generate displays containing the guidelines and data. The automated system and method can integrate patient data with treatment guidelines to assist a healthcare provider, such as a physician or the like, in providing treatment to the patient. The system and method employ a data storage component, adapted to store guideline data representing guidelines for assessing a condition of an entity, guidelines for taking action on the entity, or both, and to store feature data representing at least one feature of the entity. The system and method further employ an output device, adapted to output at least one diagram representing the guideline data, with the diagram including at least one component representing a relationship of at least a portion of the feature data to at least a portion of the guideline data.
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34 Claims
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1. A method for integrating guidelines with data in a medical condition management system, comprising:
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storing general guideline data in a database representing at least one of guidelines for assessing a condition of a patient and guidelines for taking action on said patient; obtaining patient specific data with a medical instrument configured to measure any one of blood pressure, pulse rate, cholesterol level, and HbAlc level; automatically inputting said patient specific data from said medical instrument into a patient terminal; storing patient specific data received from the patient terminal in said database representing at least one physical aspect of said patient measured by said medical instrument; outputting at least one branching graphical pathway diagram on a display of said medical condition management system representing said guideline data, said branching graphical pathway diagram comprising a plurality of diagnosis boxes comprising data elements corresponding to data ranges, the diagnosis boxes connected by decision pathways corresponding to the data ranges, one such data range being highlighted to reflect measured patient data being within the data range, automatically determining at least one decision for at least one decision pathway based on the stored patient specific data, and automatically enhancing the diagnosis boxes of said branching graphical pathway diagram on said display to represent said general guideline data enhanced with said patient specific data integrated into the determined decision pathway to represent a relationship of at least a portion of said patient specific data to at least a portion of said general guideline data. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 31, 32)
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11. A system for integrating guidelines with data, comprising:
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a medical instrument configured to obtain patient specific data from a patient, the data comprising any one of blood pressure, pulse rate, cholesterol level, and HbAlc level, and to transmit the patient specific data to a patient terminal; a database configured to store general guideline data representing at least one of guidelines for assessing a condition of a patient and guidelines for taking action on said patient, and to store patient specific data received automatically from the patient terminal representing at least one physical aspect of said patient measured by said medical instrument; and an output display configured to automatically output at least one branching graphical pathway diagram representing said guideline data, said branching graphical pathway diagram comprising a plurality of diagnosis boxes comprising data elements corresponding to data ranges, the diagnosis boxes connected by decision pathways corresponding to the data ranges, one such data range being highlighted to reflect measured patient data being within the data range, the diagnosis boxes of said branching graphical pathway diagram representing said general guideline data enhanced with said patient specific data integrated into the decision pathway to represent at least one decision for at least one decision pathway based on the stored patient specific data as it relates to at least a portion of said general guideline data. - View Dependent Claims (12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 33)
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21. A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing instructions that when executed by a computer, cause the computer to perform operations comprising:
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store general guideline data representing at least one of guidelines for assessing a condition of a patient and guidelines for taking action on said patient; obtain patient specific data from a medical instrument configured to measure any one of blood pressure, pulse rate, cholesterol level, and HbAlc level, and to automatically store said patient specific data representing at least one physical aspect of said patient measured by said medical instrument; automatically output at least one branching graphical pathway diagram representing said guideline data, said branching graphical pathway diagram comprising a plurality of diagnosis boxes comprising data elements corresponding to data ranges, the diagnosis boxes connected by decision pathways corresponding to the data ranges, one such data range being highlighted to reflect measured patient data being within the data range, and automatically determine at least one decision for at least one decision pathway based on the stored patient specific data, and to enhance the diagnosis boxes of said branching graphical pathway diagram to represent said general guideline data enhanced with said patient specific data integrated into the determined decision pathway to represent a relationship of at least a portion of said patient specific data to at least a portion of said general guideline data. - View Dependent Claims (22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 34)
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