System for checking treatment plans

• US 20030074340A1
• Filed: 09/26/2002
• Published: 04/17/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 09/26/2001
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Siemens AG
• Original Assignee: Siemens AG
• Inventors: Abraham-Fuchs, Klaus, Rumpel, Eva
• Application Number:
  US10/254,976
• Publication Number:
  US 20030074340A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 706/46
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 10/60 for patient-specific data, e.g. for electronic patient records
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 20/00 ICT specially adapted for therapies or health-improving plans, e.g. for handling prescriptions, for steering therapy or for monitoring patient compliance
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/67 for remote operation
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 50/20 for computer-aided diagnosis, e.g. based on medical expert systems
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 70/60 relating to pathologies
• CPC Class Codes: G16Z 99/00 Subject matter not provided for in other main groups of this subclass

Abstract

A system for checking treatment plans, especially in the course of disease management services for patient information, instruction and motivation, possibly combined with telemonitoring of critical body values and, on this basis, early detection of risk situations, having an expert system with expert rules stored in a computer databank which, by accessing patient data in different patient records and/or with different doctors or clinics, independently subjects the treatment plan to a plausibility check, especially checks the treatment plan for contraindications with older patient data.

Claims

1. A system for checking treatment plans, in the course of disease management services for patient information, instruction and motivation, possibly combined with telemonitoring of critical body values and, on this basis, early detection of risk situations, which comprises an expert system with expert rules stored in a computer databank which, by accessing patient data in different patient records and/or with different doctors or clinics, independently subjects the treatment plan to a plausibility check, especially checks the treatment plan for contraindications with older patient data.

2. The system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the treatment plan is built up in the form of a machine-readable representation of a sequence of working steps and decisions.

3. The system as claimed in claim 1, wherein said system is linked with databanks relating to medical guidelines, textbook knowledge, or EPR.

4. The system as claimed in claim 1, wherein said system automatically carries out a cyclical repetition, or repetition taking place in response to input of new patient data or medical guidelines, of the plausibility check with amended patient data or guidelines taken into account.

5. The system as claimed in claim 1, wherein said system is integrated into a system for devising treatment plans in which a multiplicity of treatment modules are stored in digital form in a databank and can be interlinked with one another with the aid of operators to form a treatment plan, with a graphic user interface to assist the selection and assembly of predetermined treatment modules preferably being provided.

6. The system as claimed in claim 2, wherein said system is linked with databanks relating to medical guidelines, textbook knowledge, or EPR.

7. The system as claimed in claim 2, wherein said system automatically carries out a cyclical repetition, or repetition taking place in response to input of new patient data or medical guidelines, of the plausibility check with amended patient data or guidelines taken into account.

8. The system as claimed in claim 3, wherein said system automatically carries out a cyclical repetition, or repetition taking place in response to input of new patient data or medical guidelines, of the plausibility check with amended patient data or guidelines taken into account.

9. The system as claimed in claim 6, wherein said system automatically carries out a cyclical repetition, or repetition taking place in response to input of new patient data or medical guidelines, of the plausibility check with amended patient data or guidelines taken into account.

10. The system as claimed in claim 2, wherein said system is integrated into a system for devising treatment plans in which a multiplicity of treatment modules are stored in digital form in a databank and can be interlinked with one another with the aid of operators to form a treatment plan, with a graphic user interface to assist the selection and assembly of predetermined treatment modules preferably being provided.

11. The system as claimed in claim 3, wherein said system is integrated into a system for devising treatment plans in which a multiplicity of treatment modules are stored in digital form in a databank and can be interlinked with one another with the aid of operators to form a treatment plan, with a graphic user interface to assist the selection and assembly of predetermined treatment modules preferably being provided.

12. The system as claimed in claim 4, wherein said system is integrated into a system for devising treatment plans in which a multiplicity of treatment modules are stored in digital form in a databank and can be interlinked with one another with the aid of operators to form a treatment plan, with a graphic user interface to assist the selection and assembly of predetermined treatment modules preferably being provided.

13. The system as claimed in claim 6, wherein said system is integrated into a system for devising treatment plans in which a multiplicity of treatment modules are stored in digital form in a databank and can be interlinked with one another with the aid of operators to form a treatment plan, with a graphic user interface to assist the selection and assembly of predetermined treatment modules preferably being provided.

14. The system as claimed in claim 8, wherein said system is integrated into a system for devising treatment plans in which a multiplicity of treatment modules are stored in digital form in a databank and can be interlinked with one another with the aid of operators to form a treatment plan, with a graphic user interface to assist the selection and assembly of predetermined treatment modules preferably being provided.

15. The system as claimed in claim 9, wherein said system is integrated into a system for devising treatment plans in which a multiplicity of treatment modules are stored in digital form in a databank and can be interlinked with one another with the aid of operators to form a treatment plan, with a graphic user interface to assist the selection and assembly of predetermined treatment modules preferably being provided.