Systems for generating radiology reports

• US 20020169639A1
• Filed: 08/02/2001
• Published: 11/14/2002
• Est. Priority Date: 05/09/2001
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Jeffrey Yu
• Original Assignee: Jeffrey Yu
• Inventors: Yu, Jeffrey
• Application Number:
  US09/922,390
• Publication Number:
  US 20020169639A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/3
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/174 Form filling; Merging
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/04 Billing or invoicing
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 15/00 ICT specially adapted for medical reports, e.g. generation or transmission thereof

Abstract

A method of generating a patient report, comprising: presenting an operator with an on screen menu of standardized types of reports; having the operator select a standardized type of report from the on screen menu of standardized types of reports; presenting the operator with an on screen organ list corresponding to the selected standardized type of report; for each organ, presenting the operator with a menu of standard medical descriptions corresponding to the organ; having the operator determine a medical description corresponding to each organ; and outputting a patient report describing the medical description of each organ.

Claims

1. A method of generating a patient report, comprising:

presenting an operator with an on screen menu of standardized types of reports;

having the operator select a standardized type of report from the on screen menu of standardized types of reports;

presenting the operator with an on screen organ list corresponding to the selected standardized type of report;

for each organ, presenting the operator with a menu of standard medical descriptions corresponding to the organ;

having the operator determine a medical description corresponding to each organ; and

outputting a patient report describing the medical description of each organ.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein having the operator determine a medical description corresponding to each organ comprises:

having the operator select one of the standard medical descriptions presented for at least one of the organs.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein having the operator determine a medical description corresponding to each organ comprises:

having the operator compose a medical description for at least one of the organs.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein having the operator compose a medical description comprises editing a standard medical description.

5. The method of claim 3, wherein having the operator compose a medical description comprises adding additional comments to a standard medical description.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein outputting a patient report comprises outputting a medical description corresponding to each organ.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein having the operator select a standardized type of report comprises having the operator select a standard type of radiology report.

8. The method of claim 7, wherein the operator selects a standardized type of report from a pop-up menu.

9. The method of claim 2, wherein having the operator select one of the standard medical descriptions for at least one organ comprises having the operator select a standard medical description corresponding from a pop-up menu.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein outputting a patient report comprises:

printing out the patient report.

11. The method of claim 1, wherein outputting a patient report comprises:

displaying the patient report on a computer screen.

12. The method of claim 1, wherein the on screen organ list corresponding to a selected standardized type of report is presented in its entirety on a single computer screen.

13. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

generating a billing report based upon the type of report selected by the operator.

15. The computer system of claim 14, wherein the system for allowing the operator to enter a medical description for each organ comprises:

a system permitting the operator to select one of the standard medical descriptions for each organ.

16. The computer system of claim 15, wherein the system permitting the operator to select one of the standard medical descriptions for each organ comprise a pop-up menu.

17. The computer system of claim 14, wherein the system for allowing the operator to enter a medical description for each organ comprises:

a system permitting the operator to compose the medical description for each organ.

18. The computer system of claim 14, wherein the system for presenting the operator with a menu of standardized types of reports displays a pop-up menu of standard standardized types of reports.

19. The computer system of claim 14, wherein system for presenting the operator with an on screen organ list corresponding to the selected standardized type of report presents the organ list in its entirety on a single computer screen.

20. The computer system of claim 14, further comprising:

a system for generating a billing report corresponding to the organ list presented to the operator, wherein a billing entry is made for each organ selected on the list.

22. The method of claim 1, wherein the organ list corresponding to the selected standardized type of report comprises a subset of an organ list corresponding to all of the standardized types of reports provided in the on screen menu of standardized types of reports.

23. The computer system of claim 14, wherein the organ list corresponding to the selected standardized type of report comprises a subset of an organ list corresponding to all of the standardized types of reports provided in the on screen menu of standardized types of reports.

14. A computer system for generating a patient report, comprising:

a system for presenting an operator with an on screen menu of standardized types of reports;

a system for allowing the operator to select a standardized type of report from the on screen menu of standardized types of reports;

a system for presenting the operator with an on screen organ list corresponding to the selected standardized type of report;

a system for presenting the operator with a menu of standard medical descriptions corresponding to each organ;

a system for allowing the operator to enter a medical description for each organ; and

a system for outputting a patient report describing the medical description of each organ.

21. A computer user interface for generating a patient report, comprising:

a first screen presenting an operator with a menu of selectable standardized types of reports; and

a second screen presenting the operator with an on screen organ list corresponding to any of the selected standardized types of report, wherein a menu of selectable standard medical descriptions are provided for each of the organs.