Method and system for processing observation charts

• US 20070132744A1
• Filed: 12/06/2006
• Published: 06/14/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 08/01/2003
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Accenture Global Services Limited (Accenture PLC)
• Original Assignee: Accenture Global Services GmbH (Accenture PLC)
• Inventors: Montet, Ivan, Burdsall, Ben
• Granted Patent: US 7,786,984 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/179
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/174 Form filling; Merging
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 10/20 for electronic clinical trials or questionnaires
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 20/10 relating to drugs or medications, e.g. for ensuring correct administration to patients
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 80/00 ICT specially adapted for facilitating communication between medical practitioners or patients, e.g. for collaborative diagnosis, therapy or health monitoring

Abstract

The invention concerns a method and system for digitally processing information to be written on an observation form, said form being preprinted with at least one blank chart having at least one line and several columns, each column corresponding to a determined printed time, said form being also preprinted with a pattern adapted to cooperate with a digital pen and a computerized localization system for determining the position of the pen; using a pen having a writing tip and a digital tip; filling in data in one column at a time; reproducing said data in the computerized localization system and associating to said data its recording time; and comparing said recording time with the localized printed time of said data, so as to detect any inconsistency between the recording time and the printed time.

Claims

1. A method for digitally processing information to be written on an observation form, said form being preprinted with a time scaled area chart having at least one line and several columns, each column corresponding to a determined printed time, said form also being preprinted with a pattern adapted to cooperate with a digital pen and a computerized localization system for determining the position of the digital pen, the method comprising:

reproducing in said computerized localization system data filled in one of said columns by said digital pen and associating to said data its recording time;

determining a localized printed time of said data by localizing said data on said time scaled area chart; and

comparing said recording time with said localized printed time of said data, so as to detect any inconsistency between a location of said data on said time scaled area chart and a time that said data was filled in.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising generating an alert if a difference between said localized printed time and said recording time exceeds a predetermined threshold.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising comparing said recording time and/or said localized printed time and/or a current time with a pre-registered prescript time of a given prescript action monitored by said time scaled area chart, so as to detect an eventual miss of said prescript action.

4. The method of claim 3, in which said prescript time is automatically deduced from said time scaled area chart or another chart.

5. The method of claim 3, in which said prescript action is a drug administration.

6. The method of claim 3, further comprising collecting information on drug administration from several observation forms for drug stock evaluation.

7. A computerized system for processing information to be written on at least one printed observation form, said form being preprinted with a time scaled area chart having at least one line and several columns, each column corresponding to a determined printed time, said form also being preprinted with a pattern adapted to cooperate with a digital pen and a computerized localization system for determining the position of the digital pen, the digital pen having a writing tip and a digital tip, the system comprising:

means for registering along with data handwritten with said digital pen in one of said columns a recording time of said data;

means for determining a localized printed time of said data by localizing said data on said time scaled area chart; and

means for collecting and storing said data and said recording time, for comparing said recording time with said localized printed time of said data, and for detecting a possible inconsistency between a location of said data on said time scaled area chart and a time that said data was filled in.

8. The system of claim 7, further comprising means for collecting information on drug administration from several observation forms for drug stock evaluation.

9. The system of claim 7, further comprising means for comparing said recording time and/or said localized printed time and/or a current time with a pre-registered prescript time of a given prescript action monitored by said time scaled area chart, so as to detect an eventual miss of said prescript action.

10. The system of claim 9, wherein said prescript time is automatically deduced from said time scaled area chart or another chart.

11. The system of claim 9, further comprising means for generating an alert if a difference between said localized printed time and said recording time exceeds a predetermined threshold.

12. The system of claim 9, wherein said prescript action is a drug administration.

13. The system of claim 7, wherein the system is operable to identify a person that filled in said data handwritten in one of said columns and subsequently send an alert to said person when said inconsistency is detected.

14. A method for digitally processing information to be written on an observation form, said form being preprinted with a time scaled area chart having at least one line and several columns, each column corresponding to a determined printed time, said form also being preprinted with a pattern adapted to cooperate with a digital pen and a computerized localization system for determining the position of the digital pen, the method comprising:

using said computerized localization system to receive digital data associated with handwritten information written on said time scaled area chart generated by said digital pen; and

using said digital data received to automatically detect a miss of a prescript action tracked by said time scaled area chart.

15. The method of claim 14, the method further comprising:

identifying a person associated with a use of said digital pen; and

sending said person an alert when said miss of said prescript action is detected.

16. The method of claim 14, wherein said miss of said prescript action is automatically detected by comparing a first time with a pre-determined prescript time associated with said prescript action.

17. The method of claim 16, wherein said first time is determined by a clock.

18. The method of claim 16, wherein said first time is associated with a position on said time scaled area chart at which said handwritten information is written.

19. The method of claim 16, wherein said first time is associated with when said digital pen recorded said handwritten information.

20. The method of claim 14, the method further comprising collecting information regarding drug administration from said observation form for drug stock evaluation.