Real-time collaborative clinical document analysis and editing

• US 10,417,322 B2
• Filed: 05/06/2016
• Issued: 09/17/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 05/06/2016
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Cerner Innovation, Inc. (Oracle Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Cerner Innovation, Inc. (Oracle Corporation)
• Inventors: Finn, Christopher S., Crooks, Steven S., McCallie, Jr., David P., Kolm, Margaret Cushing, O'Larte, David J.
• Primary Examiner(s): Ries, Laurie A
• Application Number:
  US15/148,589
• Publication Number:
  US 20170322919A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,229 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/169 Annotation, e.g. comment data or footnotes
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 15/00 ICT specially adapted for medical reports, e.g. generation or transmission thereof
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/10 in which an application is distributed across nodes in the network software deployment G06F8/60; multiprogramming arrangements G06F9/46

Abstract

Methods, computer systems, and computer storage media are provided for providing real-time analysis and annotation of clinical documents in a distributed system. A clinical transformation session is opened at a clinical transformation server maintaining sessions for one or more editors and agents operating on a clinical document. Sequences of operations on the clinical document are stored at a memory accessible by the server. At least a portion of the clinical document is analyzed in real-time to provide annotations and other document modifications to each of the one or more editors having a session at the server. Parallel annotations or modifications are resolved and a synchronized view of the clinical document is maintained based on operational transformation.

Claims

1. One or more computer storage media having computer-executable instructions embodied thereon, that when executed, perform a method of real-time analysis and annotation of clinical documents in a distributed system, the method comprising:

opening a clinical transformation session at a clinical transformation server maintaining sessions for one or more editors and agents operating on a clinical document;

storing sequences of operations on the clinical document at a memory accessible by the server;

analyzing, by the agents maintained by the server, at least a portion of the clinical document in real-time to provide inline annotations and other document modifications to each of the one or more editors having a session at the server, wherein an agent of the agents monitors for errors in the clinical document as compared to data available in an electronic health record (EHR); and

monitoring, at an agent operating on the clinical document, a documentation storage subsystem to provide transformation of documentation to other storage and representation formats in the EHR.

2. The media of claim 1, wherein the at least a portion of the clinical document comprises the clinical document in its entirety.

3. The media of claim 1, wherein the at least a portion of the clinical document comprises only portions of the clinical document that have been annotated or modified.

4. The media of claim 1, further comprising receiving, at an agent operating on the clinical document, the annotations or other document modifications from one or more editors of the clinical document.

5. The media of claim 4, further comprising triggering decision support based on the annotations or other document modifications to the clinical document.

6. The media of claim 1, wherein the annotations or other document modifications to the clinical document include a timestamp.

7. The media of claim 6, wherein the timestamp enables workflow analysis or playback of an editing session.

8. The media of claim 1, wherein the clinical transformation server brokers changes to the clinical document being annotated or modified by sequencing received transactions and responding to each editor subscribed to the document.

9. The media of claim 8, wherein the one or more editors and agents utilize operational transformation to resolve parallel annotations or modifications to the clinical document.

10. The media of claim 9, wherein the one or more editors and agents utilize operational transformation to maintain a synchronized view of the clinical document.

11. The media of claim 1, wherein the agents monitor a document for possible errors in text or typing.

12. The media of claim 1, wherein the agents monitor a document for unsafe medical abbreviations.

13. The media of claim 1, wherein the agents monitor a document for possible errors in content or meaning.

14. The media of claim 1, wherein the agents monitor a document for incorrect word choice or contradictory information.

15. One or more computer storage media having computer-executable instructions embodied thereon, that when executed, perform a method of real-time analysis and annotation of clinical documents in a distributed system, the method comprising:

establishing, by an agent, a clinical transformation session at a clinical transformation server, the clinical transformation session enabling the agent to analyze in real-time at least a portion of a clinical document, wherein the agent monitors for errors in the clinical document as compared to data available in an electronic health record (EHR);

receiving, at the agent, annotations or other document modifications from the one or more editors of the clinical document;

providing, by the agent, the annotations and other document modifications to each of the one or more editors having a session at the server; and

resolving parallel annotations or modifications to and maintaining a synchronized view of the clinical document for each of the editors based on operational transformation.

16. The media of claim 15, wherein the agent monitors a document for possible errors in text or typing, unsafe medical abbreviations, possible errors in content or meaning, incorrect word choice, similarity to other documents, contradictory information, inappropriate copy-and-paste of clinical notes, inappropriate duplication, or other forms of textual analysis.

17. The media of claim 15, wherein the agent monitors a documentation storage subsystem to provide transformation of documentation to other storage and representation formats in an electronic health record.

18. A computerized system comprising:

one or more processors; and

a non-transitory computer storage media storing computer-useable instructions that, when used by the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to;

open a clinical transformation session, at a clinical transformation server maintaining sessions for one or more editors and agents operating on a clinical document;

store sequences of operations on the clinical document, at a memory accessible by the server;

analyze at least a portion of the clinical document in real-time to provide annotations and other document modifications to each of the one or more editors having a session at the server, wherein an agent of the agents monitors for errors in the clinical document as compared to data available in an electronic health record (EHR); and

resolve parallel annotations or modifications and maintain a synchronized view of the clinical document based on operational transformation.