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Longitudinal multi-author care planning and management system with user-tailored care plan hierarchy that propagates based on care responsibility information

  • US 10,504,198 B1
  • Filed: 06/01/2016
  • Issued: 12/10/2019
  • Est. Priority Date: 03/15/2013
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method of providing patient health information corresponding to care plan elements, including such care plan elements as problems and orders, into a computer system to create an updated structured care plan for a patient, the patient health information being provided from a plurality of different external sources and operable upon by the computer system, the method comprising the steps of:

  • providing, within the computer system, an application program for entry of patient health information, the application program providing for linkage between a plurality of care plan elements, a topic catalog, and a structured care plan;

    providing, from the computer system and associated with the application program, a collection of topics organized into a plurality of topic nodes within a hierarchical topic catalog, the plurality of topic nodes, at least one having an associated structured sentence template, and a plurality of such structured sentence templates being associated with a care plan template;

    instantiating, in the computer system and with the application program, the structured care plan for the patient, including a hierarchy of care plan nodes, at least one of which has a link to at least one topic node of the plurality of topic nodes in the hierarchical topic catalog and at least one of which has an associated structured sentence;

    receiving, at the computer system and associated with the application program, data from one of the plurality of different external sources, such data containing one or more problem care plan elements and one or more order care plan elements corresponding to the patient;

    matching, by the computer system and the application program, the care plan elements obtained from the external sources with the plurality of topic nodes within the hierarchical topic catalog, and identifying at least one topic node of the plurality of topic nodes for which there is an associated structured sentence template in the hierarchical topic catalog and for which there are no linked care plan nodes within the structured care plan for the patient;

    instantiating, by the computer system and the application program, within the care plan for the patient, at least one proposed node linked to the at least one topic node, the at least one proposed node having an associated including a structured sentence created based on the structured sentence template of the at least one topic node; and

    updating, using the computer system and the application program, the structured care plan into an updated structured care plan in response to confirmation of the proposed node as a new node in the updated structured care plan.

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