Method and system to facilitate decision point information flow and to improve compliance with a given standardized vocabulary

• US 20060224573A1
• Filed: 02/24/2006
• Published: 10/05/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 03/26/2004
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Ecapable Incorporated
• Original Assignee: Ecapable Incorporated
• Inventors: Claud, Robert Daniel, Marishta, Sokol, Chiong-Claud, Erika
• Application Number:
  US11/361,764
• Publication Number:
  US 20060224573A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/332 Query formulation
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 10/60 for patient-specific data, e.g. for electronic patient records
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 20/10 relating to drugs or medications, e.g. for ensuring correct administration to patients
• CPC Class Codes: Y02A 90/10 Information and communication technologies [ICT] supporting adaptation to climate change, e.g. for weather forecasting or climate simulation

Abstract

An information search system incorporating computer algorithms that provide for (1) enforcement of compliance with a standardized vocabulary by a user or users, in a manner that is much more acceptable to users than known existing methods; 2) instant or essentially instant provision of information that is context sensitive, that is, sensitive to the sequence of characters that are entered by a user, in a manner that is highly acceptable to users.

Claims

1. A method of searching for pharmaceutical compounds for use in generating a prescription, comprising:

(a) display a text entry interface having a first field on a screen;

(b) receiving an input of a first character in the first field of the text entry interface;

(c) providing the first character to a remote server via a network;

(d) receiving a set of pharmaceutical compounds that are possible matches to the first character from the remote server in substantially real time;

(e) displaying at least a portion of the set of pharmaceutical compounds in a static data set display area on the screen;

(f) automatically updating the display of pharmaceutical compounds in response to an input of a second character, the updating being provided in substantially real time; and

(g) accepting a selection of one of the pharmaceutical compounds.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the receiving in (b) is done via a wireless manner.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

(h) displaying the selection of the one of the possible matches in the first field.

4. A computer-readable medium having computer-executable instructions for performing steps comprising:

(a) displaying a text entry interface on a screen;

(b) accepting a character input from a user;

(c) transmitting the symbol to a remote server via a network substantially simultaneously with displaying the symbol in the text entry interface on the screen;

(d) receiving a set of possible matches to the first symbol;

(e) displaying on the screen at least a first portion of the set of possible matches in a static data set display area;

(f) in response to an input of an additional character by the user, updating the display of the set of possible matches in substantially real time; and

(g) in response to a selection of one of the possible matches, displaying the selection in a first field.

5. The computer readable medium of claim 4, wherein the first field is part of the text entry interface and the displaying of the character in (c) comprises:

(i) displaying the character in the first field.