Medical planning agent

• US 20060074720A1
• Filed: 09/20/2005
• Published: 04/06/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 09/21/2004
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Siemens AG
• Original Assignee: Siemens AG
• Inventors: Brutting, Alfons, Prihoda, Heinz, Strasdas, Kai
• Application Number:
  US11/231,150
• Publication Number:
  US 20060074720A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/3
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 10/60 for patient-specific data, e.g. for electronic patient records
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 20/00 ICT specially adapted for therapies or health-improving plans, e.g. for handling prescriptions, for steering therapy or for monitoring patient compliance
• 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 50/20 for computer-aided diagnosis, e.g. based on medical expert systems

Abstract

A system and method to plan medical diagnosis and/or therapy procedures is provided. The method includes electronic recording of a patient anamnesis (medical history), electronic recording of a patient finding, automatic generation of a keyword list dependent on the patient anamnesis and the patient finding by access to a keyword databank, automatic generation of diagnosis and/or therapy measure list dependent on keywords of the keyword list under access to a medical databank, automatic assessment of diagnosis and/or therapy measures of the diagnosis and/or therapy measure list under access to a case databank, automatic temporal pre-allocation of resources necessary for the implementation of diagnosis and/or therapy measures, dependent on a result of the assessment of the diagnosis and/or therapy measures under access to a resource databank, automatic generation of at least one diagnosis and/or therapy procedure dependent on the pre-allocation of resources, automatic generation of an electronic checklist with diagnosis and/or therapy measures and temporal pre-allocation of resources necessary for implementation of these diagnosis and/or therapy measures. The method allows flexible planning adapted to the current availability of resources and, via the immediate enlistment of expertise, ensures a consistent quality of the diagnosis and/or therapy planning.

Claims

1. A method for planning diagnosis and/or therapy procedures, comprising the steps:

electronically recording a patient anamnesis;

electronically recording a patient finding;

automatically generating a keyword list dependent on the patient anamnesis and the patient finding by accessing a keyword databank;

automatically generating a diagnosis and/or therapy measure list dependent on keywords of the keyword list by accessing a medical databank;

automatically assessing diagnosis and/or therapy measures of the diagnosis and/or therapy measure list by accessing a case databank;

automatically providing a temporal pre-allocation of resources necessary for implementation of the diagnosis and/or therapy measures depending on a result of the step of automatically assessing step by accessing a resource databank;

automatically generating at least one diagnosis and/or therapy procedure dependent on the temporal pre-allocation of resources; and

automatically generating an electronic checklist with diagnosis and/or therapy measures and the temporal pre-allocation of resources necessary for implementation of these diagnosis and/or therapy measures.

2. A method according to claim 1, further comprising the step of:

storing the electronic checklist in an electronic patient record.

3. A method according to claim 1, further comprising the step of:

proposing a plurality of possible diagnosis and/or therapy procedures;

receiving a selection of one of the possible diagnosis and/or therapy procedures from a user; and

generating the electronic checklist dependent on the selection of one of the possible diagnosis and/or therapy procedures.

automatically evaluating the plurality of possible diagnosis and/or therapy procedures;

showing a user at least one of the following data;

diagnosis and/or therapy procedure duration, resource allocation duration, personnel expenditure, compatibility for a patient, wait time between diagnosis and/or therapy steps, chance of success, and costs of a diagnosis and/or therapy measure.

5. A system for planning diagnosis and/or therapy procedures, comprising:

a keyword databank;

a keyword wizard connected to said keyword databank and connected to receive an electronic patient anamnesis and an electronic patient finding and operable to automatically generate a keyword list dependent on the electronic patient anamnesis and the electronic patient finding by accessing said keyword databank;

a medical databank;

a checklist agent connected to said medical databank and connected to receive said keyword list from said keyword wizard and operable to automatically generate a diagnosis and/or therapy measure list dependent on keywords of said keyword list by accessing said medical databank;

a case databank;

a data miner connected to said case databank and connected to receive said diagnosis and/or therapy measure list and operable to automatically assess diagnosis and/or therapy measures of said diagnosis and/or therapy measure list by accessing said case databank;

a resource databank;

a resource planner connected to said resource databank and connected to receive said diagnosis and/or therapy measures from said data miner and operable to automatically temporally pre-allocate resources necessary for implementation of said diagnosis and/or therapy measures depending on a result of an assessment of said diagnosis and/or therapy measures by accessing said resource databank, at least one diagnosis and/or therapy procedure being automatically generated dependent on said temporal pre-allocation of resources, and an electronic checklist being automatically generated with said diagnosis and/or therapy measures and said temporal pre-allocation of resources necessary for implementation of said diagnosis and/or therapy measures.

6. A system according to claim 5, wherein said resource planner is operable to store said electronic checklist in an electronic patient record.

7. A system according to claim 5, wherein said resource planner is operable to propose a plurality of possible diagnosis and/or therapy procedures;

and further comprising;

an input for receiving a selection by a user of one of said plurality of diagnosis and/or therapy procedures, the checklist being generated dependent on the selection of the diagnosis and/or therapy procedure.

8. A method according to claim 7, wherein said resource planner is operable to automatically evaluate the plurality of diagnosis and/or therapy procedures and display to the user at least one of the following criteria:

diagnosis and/or therapy procedure duration, resource allocation duration, personnel expenditure, compatibility for the patient, wait time between diagnosis and/or therapy steps, chance of success, and costs of a diagnosis and/or therapy measure.