Physician decision support system with improved diagnostic code capture
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1. A patient-side decision support system comprising:
- a hand-held terminal usable during examination and providing a display and physician input device;
a terminal server communicating with the hand-held terminal and executing a stored program to;
(a) present on the display of the hand-held terminal a navigation menu presenting diagnosis codes representing different medical diagnoses;
(b) accept from the physician input device of the hand-held terminal a selection identifying a specific diagnosis code from the diagnosis codes; and
(c) only after identification of a specific diagnosis code, enable for access by the physician, additional physician support features related to a treatment of a medical diagnosis represented by the specific diagnosis code;
whereby entry of specific diagnosis codes may be promoted.
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Abstract
A patient-side support system provided physician support materials keyed to detailed diagnosis codes. The support materials encourage the physician to provide detailed records without additionally burdening the physician'"'"'s practice thus providing a solid basis for outcome-based evaluation different treatments in a practice group.
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22 Claims
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1. A patient-side decision support system comprising:
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a hand-held terminal usable during examination and providing a display and physician input device;
a terminal server communicating with the hand-held terminal and executing a stored program to;
(a) present on the display of the hand-held terminal a navigation menu presenting diagnosis codes representing different medical diagnoses;
(b) accept from the physician input device of the hand-held terminal a selection identifying a specific diagnosis code from the diagnosis codes; and
(c) only after identification of a specific diagnosis code, enable for access by the physician, additional physician support features related to a treatment of a medical diagnosis represented by the specific diagnosis code;
whereby entry of specific diagnosis codes may be promoted. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22)
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7. The patient-side decision support system of claim 7 wherein the display of a history of related diagnoses and treatments for the patient includes identification of at least one medication used in the treatment
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