Electronic medical records system with active clinical guidelines and patient data
First Claim
1. In a computerized patient records system operated for a healthcare entity which maintains clinical guidelines, a method of operating active guidelines comprising:
- accessing a clinical guideline including at least one recommended action and an active guideline tag associated with the recommended action, the active guideline tag including codes for actions to be taken by the computerized patient records system;
identifying patient data associated with the recommended action; and
displaying the clinical guideline and the identified patient data.
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Abstract
An active guidelines capability or component is linked to a computerized patient record system to integrate the use of clinical guidelines in the workflow of clinicians treating patients. Many healthcare entities maintain sets of clinical guidelines describing recommended treatment or analysis options for patients displaying sets of symptoms or for whom certain diagnoses have been made. The active guidelines feature adds an active guidelines tag to such clinical guidelines so that when the clinician accesses the clinical guidelines and wishes to follow the recommendation, the clinician merely has to click on a hypertext created from the tag which then transmits action orders, also contained in the tag, to be transmitted to the computerized patient record system for implementation. Patient data associated with the recommendations, such as relevant test or lab results, interaction or allergy information, or other current treatments, is also identified and displayed.
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33 Claims
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1. In a computerized patient records system operated for a healthcare entity which maintains clinical guidelines, a method of operating active guidelines comprising:
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accessing a clinical guideline including at least one recommended action and an active guideline tag associated with the recommended action, the active guideline tag including codes for actions to be taken by the computerized patient records system;
identifying patient data associated with the recommended action; and
displaying the clinical guideline and the identified patient data. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16)
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17. A medical records system, comprising:
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a guidelines server adapted to maintain at least one clinical guideline including at least one recommended action and an active guideline tag associated with the recommended action, the active guideline tag including codes for actions to be taken by the computerized patient records system;
an active guidelines interpreter adapted to identify patient data associated with the recommended action and display the clinical guideline and the identified patient data. - View Dependent Claims (18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32)
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33. A computerized patient records system, comprising:
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means for accessing a clinical guideline including at least one recommended action and an active guideline tag associated with the recommended action, the active guideline tag including codes for actions to be taken by the computerized patient records system;
means for identifying patient data associated with the recommended action; and
means for displaying the clinical guideline and the identified patient data.
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