Computing system for presenting supplemental content in context

• US 10,726,088 B1
• Filed: 07/12/2017
• Issued: 07/28/2020
• Est. Priority Date: 08/12/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Harris Dawn Holdings Incorporated
• Original Assignee: Allscripts Software LLC (Veradigm, Inc.)
• Inventors: Wartenfeld, Robert, Ofek, Ziv, Greenberg, Eyal, Gome, Ziv, Ben-Tal, Shiri
• Primary Examiner(s): Nguyen, Kim T
• Application Number:
  US15/648,096
• Time in Patent Office: 1,112 Days
• Field of Search: 715812
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9535 Search customisation based on user profiles and personalisation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/546 Message passing systems or structures, e.g. queues
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 10/60 for patient-specific data, e.g. for electronic patient records
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 50/70 for mining of medical data, e.g. analysing previous cases of other patients
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/02 based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/12 specially adapted for proprietary or special-purpose networking environments, e.g. medical networks, sensor networks, networks in vehicles or remote metering networks

Abstract

Described herein are various technologies pertaining to displaying contextually relevant supplemental content retrieved from population data concurrently with data presented to a healthcare worker in a graphical user interface of an electronic health record application (EHR). Also described herein are graphical user interface features pertaining to concurrent display of a graphical user interface of the EHR and a graphical user interface of a supplement application.

Claims

1. A computing device comprising:

at least one processor; and

memory that stores instructions that, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the at least one processor to perform acts comprising;

receiving data that is indicative of an identity of an individual, wherein at a time that the data that is indicative of the identity of the individual is received, data about the individual is being presented in a graphical user interface (GUI) of an electronic health record application (EHR) on a display of a client computing device;

responsive to receiving the data that is indicative of the identity of the individual and based upon the data that is indicative of the identity of the individual, searching a data repository that comprises population data to generate search results, wherein the population data comprises data about the individual from a plurality of different data sources;

causing the search results to be presented in a GUI of a supplement application on the display of the client computing device, wherein the search results are presented in the GUI of the supplement application simultaneously with the GUI of the EHR depicting the data about the individual;

receiving an indication that the data about the individual is no longer being presented in the GUI of the EHR; and

responsive to receiving the indication, causing the search results to be removed from the GUI of the supplement application.

2. The computing device of claim 1, wherein the data that is indicative of the identity of the individual is received from the client computing device.

3. The computing device of claim 1, wherein the data that is indicative of the identity of the individual is received from a server computing device that executes the EHR.

4. The computing device of claim 1, wherein the plurality of different sources comprise a server computing device that executes a second EHR.

5. The computing device of claim 1, wherein the plurality of different sources comprise a health information exchange.

6. The computing device of claim 1, the acts further comprising:

receiving data that is indicative of an identity of a second individual, wherein at a time that the data is received, data about the second individual is being presented in the GUI of the EHR on the display of the client computing device;

responsive to receiving the data that is indicative of the identity of the second individual and based upon the data that is indicative of the identity of the individual, searching the data repository that comprises the population data to generate second search results; and

causing the second search results to be presented in the GUI of the supplement application on the display of the client computing device, wherein the second search results are presented in the GUI of the supplement application simultaneously with the GUI of the EHR depicting the data about the second individual.

7. The computing device of claim 1, wherein the data that is indicative of the identity of the individual is received responsive to a button in the GUI of the EHR being selected by an end user at the client computing device.

8. The computing device of claim 1, wherein the data that is indicative of the identity of the individual is a medical record number (MRN) for the individual.

9. The computing device of claim 1, the acts further comprising receiving data that identifies a healthcare worker who is operating the client computing device, wherein the search results are based upon the data that identifies the healthcare worker.

10. The method of claim 1, further comprising receiving data that identifies a healthcare worker who is operating the client computing device, wherein the search results are based upon the data that identifies the healthcare worker.

11. A method performed by a server computing device that is in communication with a client computing device, the method comprising:

receiving data that is indicative of an identity of an individual, wherein at a time that the data that is indicative of the identity of the individual is received, data about the individual is being presented in a graphical user interface (GUI) of an electronic health record application (EHR) on a display of a client computing device;

responsive to receiving the data that is indicative of the identity of the individual and based upon the data that is indicative of the identity of the individual, searching a data repository that comprises population data to generate search results, wherein the population data comprises data about the individual from a plurality of different data sources;

causing the search results to be presented in a GUI of a supplement application on the display of the client computing device, wherein the search results are presented in the GUI of the supplement application simultaneously with the GUI of the EHR depicting the data about the individual;

receiving an indication that the data about the individual is no longer being presented in the GUI of the EHR; and

responsive to receiving the indication, causing the search results to be removed from the GUI of the supplement application.

12. The method of claim 11, wherein the data that is indicative of the identity of the individual is received from the client computing device.

13. The method of claim 11, wherein the data that is indicative of the identity of the individual is received from a server computing device that executes the EHR.

14. The method of claim 11, wherein the plurality of different sources comprise a second server computing device that executes a second EHR.

15. The method of claim 11, wherein the plurality of different sources comprise a health information exchange.

16. The method of claim 11, further comprising:

receiving data that is indicative of an identity of a second individual, wherein at a time that the data is received, data about the second individual is being presented in the GUI of the EHR on the display of the client computing device;

responsive to receiving the data that is indicative of the identity of the second individual and based upon the data that is indicative of the identity of the individual, searching the data repository that comprises the population data to generate second search results; and

causing the second search results to be presented in the GUI of the supplement application on the display of the client computing device, wherein the second search results are presented in the GUI of the supplement application simultaneously with the GUI of the EHR depicting the data about the second individual.

17. The method of claim 11, wherein the data that is indicative of the identity of the individual is received responsive to a button in the GUI of the EHR being selected by an end user at the client computing device.

18. The method of claim 11, wherein the data that is indicative of the identity of the individual is a medical record number (MRN) for the individual.

19. A non-transitory computer-readable storage device that comprises instructions that, when executed by a processor, cause the processor to perform acts comprising:

receiving data that is indicative of an identity of an individual, wherein at a time that the data that is indicative of the identity of the individual is received, data about the individual is being presented in a graphical user interface (GUI) of an electronic health record application (EHR) on a display of a client computing device;

responsive to receiving the data that is indicative of the identity of the individual and based upon the data that is indicative of the identity of the individual, searching a data repository that comprises population data to generate search results, wherein the population data comprises data about the individual from a plurality of different data sources;

causing the search results to be presented in a GUI of a supplement application on the display of the client computing device, wherein the search results are presented in the GUI of the supplement application simultaneously with the GUI of the EHR depicting the data about the individual;

receiving an indication that the data about the individual is no longer being presented in the GUI of the EHR; and

responsive to receiving the indication, causing the search results to be removed from the GUI of the supplement application.

20. The non-transitory computer-readable storage device of claim 19, wherein the data that is indicative of the identity of the individual is received from the client computing device.