Naturally expressed medial procedure descriptions generated via synchronized diagrams and menus

• US 20050137907A1
• Filed: 12/23/2003
• Published: 06/23/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 12/23/2003
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Provation Software Incorporated (Fortive Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Pro Vation Medical, Inc.
• Inventors: Barski, Conrad, Claypool, Steve, Starmer, Jack, Toro, David Del, Peitzman, Linda, Yu, Ying Ching, Svensson, Ingrid, Swenson, Steve, Crist, Peter E., Duke, Robert
• Granted Patent: US 7,840,416 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/2
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/20 for the management or administration of healthcare resources or facilities, e.g. managing hospital staff or surgery rooms
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/67 for remote operation
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 70/20 relating to practices or guidelines

Abstract

A computing device-based system and method are described for generating a medical procedure description recorded into the system by a physician. The system and method manipulate a set of database records comprising medical content which is naturally descriptive of clinical procedures and clinically accurate diagrams which are naturally descriptive to document a medical procedure. To support the generation of a set of said medical procedure descriptions, the system and method provide interchangeable, connected, ontologically-based medical procedure database cartridges of medical content terms, rules, and diagrams that naturally describe constrained procedure representations for clinical procedure descriptions.

Claims

1. A method for documenting a medical procedure, comprising the steps of:

(a) recording a medical procedure description; and

(b) constructing said medical procedure description using a synchronized diagram and menu system.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein said constructing said medical procedure description comprises the steps of:

(a) accessing a procedures representations database of procedure term and attributes representations;

(b) selecting a procedure term and attributes representation from said procedure representations database that is associated with said medical procedure description; and

(c) constructing said medical procedure description using said selected term and attributes representation via synchronized diagram and menu system.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein said accessing a procedures representations database of said procedure term and attributes representations further comprises:

(a) accessing a database of procedure terminologies that are interconnected to said procedures representations database of said procedure term and attributes representations.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein said accessing a database of procedure terminologies further comprises:

(a) accessing a database of diagrams interconnected to said procedures representations database.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein said selecting said procedure term and attributes representation further comprises:

(a) automatically selecting a plurality of diagrams from said database of diagrams that are interconnected to said procedure term and attributes representation.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein said constructing said medical procedure description further comprises:

(a) associating said diagram for said procedure term and attributes representation to said menu, wherein said diagram and said menu are synchronized in their medical procedure description.

7. A method for documenting a medical procedure, comprising the steps of:

(a) recording a medical procedure description;

(b) constructing said recording a medical procedure description using a synchronized diagram and menu system;

(c) accessing a procedures representations database of procedure term and attributes representations; and

(d) selecting a procedure term and attributes representation from said procedure representations database that is associated with said medical procedure description.

8. The method for documenting a medical procedure according to claim 7, further comprising:

(e) accessing a database of procedure terminologies.

9. The method for documenting a medical procedure according to claim 8 further comprising:

(f) accessing a database of diagrams interconnected to said procedures representations database of said procedure term and attributes representations.

10. The method for documenting a medical procedure according to claim 9 further comprising:

(g) automatically selecting a plurality of diagrams from said database of diagrams that are interconnected to said procedure term and attributes representation; and

(h) associating said diagram for said procedure term and attributes representation to said menu, wherein said diagram and said menu are synchronized in their medical procedure description.

11. A documentation system for medical procedure descriptions comprising:

(a) a computing device;

(b) a user interface residing on said computing device for recording a medical procedure description; and

(c) a diagram and menu system configured for construct a medical procedure description, wherein said diagram and menu system concisely summarizes said medical procedure description.

12. The system of claim 11, wherein said system further comprises a first database residing on said computing device, said database operably connected to said user interface and comprising medical content including a plurality of medical procedure descriptions, diagrams, and programming logic.

13. The system of claim 12, wherein said system further comprises a second database residing on said computing device, said second database operably connected to said user interface and comprising a set of procedures terms and attributes representations.

14. The system of claim 13, wherein said system further comprises an anticipatory user interface for accessing said procedure terms and attributes representations, wherein said medical procedure description is concisely constructed using said diagram and menu system.

15. The system of claim 14, wherein said system further comprises a diagram and menu ontology interference engine residing on said user interface.

16. A documentation system for medical procedure descriptions comprising:

(a) a computing device;

(b) a user interface residing on said computing device for recording a medical procedure description;

(c) a diagram and menu system residing on said computing device, said system configured to construct a medical procedure description, wherein when synchronized, said diagram and menu system concisely summarizes said medical procedure description;

(d) a first database residing on said computing device and operably connected to said user interface, said first database comprising medical content including a plurality of medical procedure descriptions, diagrams, and programming logic;

(e) a second database residing on said computing device and operably connected to said user interface, said second database comprising procedures terms and attributes representations;

(f) an anticipatory user interface configured for accessing said first database and said second database to construct said medical procedure description, wherein said medical procedure description is concisely constructed using said diagram and menu system; and

(g) a diagram and menu ontology interference engine residing on said user interface, said database on said computing device accessing said first database.

17. The system of claim 16 comprising a plurality of computing devices, wherein the said user interface, said first database and said second database operate on said plurality of said computing devices operating on a networked computing device system within a healthcare facility'"'"'s wide area network.

18. The system of claim 17 comprising a plurality of computing devices, wherein the said user interface, said first database and said second database operate on said plurality of said computing devices operating on said networked computing device system within and outside of said healthcare facility'"'"'s wide area network.

19. The system of claim 18, wherein said user interface, said first database and said second database are distributed to said plurality of said computing devices operating on said networked computing device system within said healthcare facility'"'"'s wide area network.

20. The system of claim 19, wherein said user interface, said first database and said second database are distributed to said plurality of said computing devices operating on said networked computing device system within and outside of said healthcare facility'"'"'s wide area network.

21. A documentation system for medical procedure descriptions comprising:

(a) a computing device;

(b) a diagram and menu system configured to construct a medical procedure description;

(c) a user interface residing on said computing device for recording said medical procedure description;

(d) a first database residing on said computing device and operably connected to said user interface and comprising medical information including a plurality of medical procedure descriptions, diagrams, and programming logic;

(e) a second database residing on said computing device and operably connected to said user interface and comprising procedures terms and attributes representations;

(f) an anticipatory user interface for accessing said procedure terms and attributes representations of said second database, to construct said medical procedure description, wherein said medical procedure description is concisely constructed using said diagram and menu system; and

(g) a diagram and menu ontology interference engine residing on said user interface for accessing said first database of medical content;

wherein said user interface and said databases operate on a plurality of said computing devices operating on a networked computing device system within a healthcare facility'"'"'s wide area network.

22. A documentation system for medical procedure descriptions comprising:

(a) a computing device;

(b) a user interface residing on said computing device for recording a medical procedure description;

(c) a diagram and menu system configured to construct said medical procedure description, wherein said diagram and menu system concisely summarizes said medical procedure description;

(d) a first database residing on said computing device and operably connected to said user interface and comprising medical content including a plurality of medical procedure descriptions, diagrams, and programming logic;

(e) a second database residing on said computing device and connected to said user interface and comprising procedures terms and attributes representations;

(f) an anticipatory user interface configured for accessing said procedure terms and attributes representations of said second database, wherein said medical procedure description was concisely constructed and synchronized with said diagram and menu system; and

(g) a diagram and menu ontology interference engine residing on said user interface for accessing said first database of medical content;

wherein said user interface and said databases operate on a plurality of said computing devices operating on a networked computing device system within and outside of a healthcare facility'"'"'s wide area network.

23. A documentation system for medical procedure descriptions comprising:

(a) a computing device;

(b) a user interface residing on said computing device for constructing and recording a medical procedure description;

said user interface comprising a diagram and menu system;

(c) a first database residing on said computing device and operably connected to said user interface and comprising medical content including a plurality of medical procedure descriptions, diagrams, and programming logic;

(d) a second database residing on said computing device and operably connected to said user interface and comprising procedures terms and attributes representations;

(e) an anticipatory user interface for accessing said procedure terms and attributes representations of said second database;

(f) a diagram and menu ontology interference engine residing on said user interface for accessing said first database of medical content;

wherein said user interface and said databases operate on a plurality of computing devices operating on a networked computing device system within a healthcare facility'"'"'s wide area network, and said user interface and said databases are distributed to said plurality of computing devices.

24. A documentation system for medical procedure descriptions comprising:

(a) a computing device;

(b) a user interface residing on said computing device for constructing and recording a medical procedure description;

said user interface comprising a diagram and menu system;

(c) a first database residing on said computing device and operably connected to said user interface and comprising medical content including a plurality of medical procedure descriptions, diagrams, and programming logic;

(d) a second database residing on said computing device and operably connected to said user interface and comprising procedures terms and attributes representations;

(e) an anticipatory user interface for accessing said procedure terms and attributes representations of said second database;

(f) a diagram and menu ontology interference engine residing on said user interface for accessing said first database of medical content;

wherein said user interface and said databases operate on a plurality of computing devices operating on a networked computing device system within and outside of a healthcare facility'"'"'s wide area network, and said user interface and said databases are distributed to said plurality of computing devices operating on said networked computing device system within said healthcare facility'"'"'s wide area network.

25. A documentation system for medical procedure descriptions comprising:

(a) a computing device;

(b) a user interface residing on said computing device for constructing and recording a medical procedure description;

said user interface comprising a diagram and menu system;

(c) a first database residing on said computing device and operably connected to said user interface and comprising medical content including a plurality of medical procedure descriptions, diagrams, and programming logic;

(d) a second database residing on said computing device and operably connected to said user interface and comprising procedures terms and attributes representations;

(e) an anticipatory user interface for accessing said procedure terms and attributes representations of said second database;

(f) a diagram and menu ontology interference engine residing on said user interface for accessing said first database of medical content;

wherein said user interface and said databases operate on a plurality of computing devices operating on a networked computing device system within and outside of a healthcare facility'"'"'s wide area network, and said user interface and said databases are distributed to said plurality of computing devices operating on said networked computing device system within and outside of said healthcare facility'"'"'s wide area network.