Method and system for monitoring patient care
First Claim
1. A method of monitoring patient care comprising creating a practice guideline rule having a rule criterion a response criterion and filtering patient data with the practice guideline rules.
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Abstract
The subject invention is a Patient Care Monitoring System which employs a novel method and system for monitoring the care provided to a patient at a health care facility. In one embodiment, the subject invention includes a central processor in communication with a health care facility'"'"'s computer systems, receiving data therefrom. This data is arranged and correlated to enable the subject invention to filter through the data and detect if a particular treatment, diagnostic test, or course of action has been or is in danger of being overlooked.
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- 1. A method of monitoring patient care comprising creating a practice guideline rule having a rule criterion a response criterion and filtering patient data with the practice guideline rules.
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8. A method of monitoring patient care comprising:
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creating a practice guideline rule having a rule criterion and a response criterion;
receiving patient data;
filtering the patient data with the practice guideline rules; and
determining whether the rule criterion and the response criterion are satisfied. - View Dependent Claims (9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29)
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17. A system for monitoring patient care comprising
a central processor; - and
a database in communication with the processor, the database having stored therein a plurality of practice guideline rules, each having practice guideline rule data fields for rule criterion and a response criteria.
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30. A computer program product comprising:
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a computer useable medium; and
computer readable program code embodied on the medium comprising;
computer readable program code for causing a computer to receive patient data from a data source;
computer readable program code for causing a computer to access a database having a plurality of clinical guideline rules stored therein; and
a computer readable program code for causing a computer to filter the patient data with the plurality of clinical guideline rules. - View Dependent Claims (31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40)
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