Personnel and process management system suitable for healthcare and other fields
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1. A system for supporting providing health care to individual patients, comprising:
- an interface processor for receiving information in at least one message initiated by a particular healthcare worker, said received information identifying, said particular healthcare worker, a particular patient, and a healthcare role identifying a work function to be performed by said particular healthcare worker for said particular patient; and
a management processor for updating an information repository to include said received information.
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Abstract
A system supports providing healthcare to individual patients. The system includes an interface processor and a management processor. The interface processor receives information in one or more messages initiated by a particular healthcare worker. The received information identifies the particular healthcare worker, a particular patient, and a healthcare role. The healthcare role identifies a work function to be performed by the particular healthcare worker for the particular patient. The management processor updates an information repository to include the received information.
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1. A system for supporting providing health care to individual patients, comprising:
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an interface processor for receiving information in at least one message initiated by a particular healthcare worker, said received information identifying, said particular healthcare worker, a particular patient, and a healthcare role identifying a work function to be performed by said particular healthcare worker for said particular patient; and
a management processor for updating an information repository to include said received information. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8)
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9. A system supporting managing personnel responsible for health care of individual patients, comprising:
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a repository of information identifying, for an individual patient, a plurality of different healthcare roles and a plurality of individual healthcare workers assigned to perform said roles, said healthcare roles including roles being performed at different locations and a healthcare role identifying a work function to be performed by a healthcare worker; and
a management processor for updating said information repository to include information identifying a particular individual healthcare worker assigned to perform a particular healthcare role for a particular patient in response to a received message initiated by said particular individual healthcare worker. - View Dependent Claims (10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24)
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25. A system supporting ordering of healthcare related goods or services for use in providing healthcare to a patient, comprising:
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a repository of information identifying, for an individual patient, a plurality of different healthcare roles indicating work functions to be performed by healthcare workers, a plurality of individual healthcare workers assigned to perform said roles, and individual healthcare worker authorization to perform a particular role, an order processor for identifying placement of an order associated with providing healthcare to a particular patient and for identifying a healthcare worker initiating placement of said order;
an authentication processor for using said information repository, in response to an identified order placement, to determine whether said healthcare worker initiating placement of said order has authorization to perform a role associated with said order and said particular patient. - View Dependent Claims (26, 27)
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28. A system for supporting managing personnel responsible for health care of individual patients, comprising:
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a repository of information identifying, a particular healthcare worker, a particular patient, and a healthcare role identifying a work function to be performed by said particular healthcare worker for said particular patient; and
an interface processor supporting communication with a particular patient, and enabling access of said particular patient to said repository of information to identify a healthcare worker assigned to perform a healthcare role for said particular patient. - View Dependent Claims (29)
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30. A method supporting providing health care to individual patients, comprising the activities of:
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receiving, in at least one message initiated by a particular healthcare worker, information identifying, said particular healthcare worker, a particular patient, and a healthcare role identifying a work function to be performed by said particular healthcare worker for said particular patient; and
updating an information repository to include said received information.
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31. A system supporting providing health care to individual patients, comprising:
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a repository of information identifying, a particular healthcare worker, a particular patient, and a healthcare role identifying a work function to be performed by said particular healthcare worker for said particular patient; and
a task scheduling processor for, scheduling performance of a task by said particular healthcare worker performing said healthcare role for said particular patient, said particular healthcare worker being identified using said information repository and initiating generation of a message to said particular healthcare worker notifying said particular healthcare worker of a scheduled task.
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32. A method supporting providing health care to individual patients, comprising the activities of:
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identifying, for an individual patient, a plurality of different healthcare roles and a plurality of individual healthcare workers assigned to perform said roles, said healthcare roles including roles being performed at different locations and a healthcare role identifying a work function to be performed by a healthcare worker; and
updating an information repository to include information identifying a particular individual healthcare worker assigned to perform a particular healthcare role for a particular patient in response to a received message initiated by said particular individual healthcare worker.
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33. A method supporting ordering of healthcare related goods or services for use in providing healthcare to a patient, comprising the activities of:
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identifying, for an individual patient, a plurality of different healthcare roles indicating work functions to be performed by healthcare workers, a plurality of individual healthcare workers assigned to perform said roles, and individual healthcare worker authorization to perform a particular role, identifying placement of an order associated with providing healthcare to a particular patient and for identifying a healthcare worker initiating placement of said order;
determining whether said healthcare worker initiating placement of said order has authorization to perform a role associated with said order and said particular patient, in response to an identified order placement.
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34. A method for supporting patient access to health care information, comprising the activities of:
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maintaining a repository of information identifying, a particular healthcare worker, a particular patient, and a healthcare role identifying a work function to be performed by said particular healthcare worker for said particular patient; and
supporting communication with a particular patient and enabling access of said particular patient to said repository of information to identify a healthcare worker assigned to perform a healthcare role for said particular patient.
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