Automated medical record creation system

• US 20060059012A1
• Filed: 09/10/2004
• Published: 03/16/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 09/10/2004
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Christopher T. Thompson
• Original Assignee: Christopher T. Thompson
• Inventors: Thompson, Christopher T.
• Application Number:
  US10/938,253
• Publication Number:
  US 20060059012A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/2
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 10/60 for patient-specific data, e.g. for electronic patient records
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 15/00 ICT specially adapted for medical reports, e.g. generation or transmission thereof
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 70/00 ICT specially adapted for the handling or processing of medical references

Abstract

A system and method for creating and editing a medical database containing patient histories allows users to prepare a medical chart through color coded templates using interactive graphical user interfaces (GUIs).

Claims

1. A computer assisted method of creating a medical record for a patient, the method comprising the steps of:

providing a list of active patients from which to select a patient to create a record for;

providing a list of a plurality of medical conditions from which to select a chief complaint;

providing a plurality of templates, each template corresponding to a medical condition and comprising a textual description of the medical condition, wherein at least a portion of the textual description includes modifiable and non-modifiable text, the modifiable text further providing a plurality of options to further describe one aspect of the medical condition.

2. The method of claim 1 wherein the modifiable text is color coded.

3. The method of claim 1 further including the step of inserting an unit of time, through a graphical user interface, for describing at least one of a duration of symptoms for the medical condition, duration of medical treatment, amount of dosage for treating the medical condition.

4. The method of claim 1 wherein the record is edited through at least one of a keyboard, mouse, or voice recognition software.

5. The method of claim 1 further including the step of selecting at least one of a menu bar, navigation cube, title bar, or navigation tab.

6. The method of claim 1 further including the step of deleting at least one of the modifiable text or non modifiable text from the chart using at least one of a keyboard, mouse, or voice recognition software.

7. The method of claim 1 further including the step of adding either a modifiable or non-modifiable text to the record for describing the medical condition of the patient.

8. The method of claim 1 further including the step of storing multimedia information comprising at least one of an EKG, pictures, voice segments, of the patient.

9. A computer assisted system of creating a medical chart for a patient, the system comprising:

means for selecting at least one of a plurality of medical conditions from the list relating to the condition of the patient;

a template that includes description related to the selected medical condition; and

means for incorporating description from the template, describing the medical condition, into a chart;

said chart including at least one modifiable text and at least one non modifiable text, said modifiable text being color coded to provide a plurality of options to further describe one aspect of the medical condition;

wherein selection of the modifiable text opens a menu of the plurality of options for insertion into the chart.

10. The system of claim 9 wherein the modifiable text is color coded.

11. The system of claim 9 further including a graphical user interface for selecting a unit of time describing at least one of a duration of symptoms for the medical condition, duration of medical treatment, amount of dosage for treating the medical condition.

12. The method of claim 9 wherein the chart is edited through at least one of a keyboard, mouse, or voice recognition software.

13. The method of claim 9 further including means for selecting at least one of a menu bar, navigation cube, title bar, or navigation tab.

14. The method of claim 9 further including means for deleting at least one of the modifiable and non-modifiable text from the chart using at least one of a keyboard, mouse, or voice recognition software.

15. The method of claim 9 further including means for adding at least one of a modifiable and non-modifiable text to the chart for describing the medical condition of the patient.

16. The method of claim 9 further including the means for storing multimedia information comprising at least one of an EKG, pictures, voice segments, of the patient.