Clinical wound manager and method
First Claim
1. A method for assessing deviations from a preselected medical treatment that has been indicated by appropriate diagnosis from a clinician, comprising the steps of:
- (A) gathering patient care data and diagnosing a malady;
(B) storing said patient care data in a data storage means;
(C) identifying an appropriate clinical pathway to follow in treating said diagnosed malady;
(D) implementing said identified clinical pathway and recording clinical actions taken by a clinician in said data storage means;
(E) monitoring said recorded clinical actions taken by said clinician to determine variations from said identified clinical pathway; and
(F) alerting said clinician of a variance from said identified clinical pathway.
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Abstract
A method is provided for assessing and documenting wound and skin conditions, and includes an automatically triggered alerting mechanism that is activated when a treatment is initiated that deviates or is a variation from an expected or standard treatment, under the current circumstances, and given previously gathered wound and skin condition patient information, and a method for triggering that alerting mechanism. In one embodiment the method includes the steps of initial patient care data gathering, clinical pathway identification and implementation, variance assessment and triggering, and issuance of variance cautions that are trigger during variance assessment and triggering, and are related to skin and wound care decisions made by healthcare professionals involved in a patient'"'"'s care.
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16 Claims
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1. A method for assessing deviations from a preselected medical treatment that has been indicated by appropriate diagnosis from a clinician, comprising the steps of:
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(A) gathering patient care data and diagnosing a malady;
(B) storing said patient care data in a data storage means;
(C) identifying an appropriate clinical pathway to follow in treating said diagnosed malady;
(D) implementing said identified clinical pathway and recording clinical actions taken by a clinician in said data storage means;
(E) monitoring said recorded clinical actions taken by said clinician to determine variations from said identified clinical pathway; and
(F) alerting said clinician of a variance from said identified clinical pathway. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8)
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9. A method for assessing deviations from a preselected medical treatment that has been indicated by appropriate diagnosis from a clinician, comprising the steps of:
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(A) gathering patient care data and diagnosing a malady;
(B) storing said patient care data in a data storage means of a general purpose computer;
(C) identifying an appropriate clinical pathway to follow in treating said diagnosed malady;
(D) implementing said identified clinical pathway and recording clinical actions taken by a clinician in said data storage means;
(E) monitoring said recorded clinical actions taken by said clinician to determine variations from said identified clinical pathway; and
(F) alerting said clinician of a variance from said identified clinical pathway. - View Dependent Claims (10, 11, 12, 13, 14)
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15. A method for assessing deviations from a preselected medical treatment that has been indicated by appropriate diagnosis from a clinician, comprising the steps of:
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(A) gathering patient care data according to a predetermined regimen for diagnosing a malady of the skin;
(B) storing said patient care data in a data storage means of a general purpose computer;
(C) identifying an appropriate clinical pathway from a plurality of pathways for treating said diagnosed malady;
(D) implementing said identified clinical pathway via clinical actions taken by a clinician;
(E) monitoring said clinical actions taken by said clinician to determine variations from said identified clinical pathway; and
(F) alerting said clinician of a variance from said identified clinical pathway. - View Dependent Claims (16)
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