Method for verifying compliance with a performance specifications assigned to a medical working practice

• US 20070150223A1
• Filed: 02/09/2005
• Published: 06/28/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 02/18/2004
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Siemens AG
• Original Assignee: Siemens AG
• Inventors: Abraham-Fuchs, Klaus, Schmidt, Markus, Rumpel, Eva, Schneider, Siegfried, Schreiner, Horst, Zahlmann, Gudrun
• Application Number:
  US10/589,538
• Publication Number:
  US 20070150223A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 702/108
• 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 70/20 relating to practices or guidelines

Abstract

A method is disclosed for verifying whether an implementation rule assigned to a medical procedure has been observed. The method includes: data correlated with the procedure is automatically entered and stored in a data processing device; test criteria for the data, which are correlated with the implementation rule, are stored in a test system; the procedure is implemented; the test system reads out the data from the data processing device; and the test system evaluates the data based on the test criteria and determines to what degree the implementation rule has been observed.

Claims

1. A method for determining a degree of compliance with a performance specification assigned to a medical working practice, the method comprising:

recording and storing data correlated with the medical working practice in a data-processing device;

storing test criteria for the data, correlated with the performance specification, in a test system;

carrying out the working practice;

reading, via the test system, the data out from the data-processing device; and

evaluating, via the test system, the data with the aid of the test criteria and determining a degree of compliance with the performance specification.

2. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein:

clinical data are collected as the medical working practice, the collection process being assigned a collection protocol as the performance specification.

3. The method as claimed in claim 2, wherein:

a measurement value for a clinical study is collected from a patient as the medical working practice, and

the test system sends the measurement value as a valid measurement value to a study database if the collection protocol is complied with.

4. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein:

a knowledge-based system is used as the test system, and

the performance specification is stored in the form of a rule set in the knowledge-based system.

5. The method as claimed in claim 4, wherein the performance specification is stored as a module in the rule set.

6. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the method is carried out automatically after each medical working practice.

7. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein:

if the performance specification is not complied with, a decision is made as to whether it is possible to repeat the working practice and, if so, repetition is requested; and

if repetition is possible, a corresponding repetition request is made to those carrying it out.

8. The method as claimed in claim 2, wherein:

a knowledge-based system is used as the test system, and

the performance specification is stored in the form of a rule set in the knowledge-based system.

9. The method as claimed in claim 3, wherein:

a knowledge-based system is used as the test system, and

the performance specification is stored in the form of a rule set in the knowledge-based system.

10. The method as claimed in claim 8, wherein the performance specification is stored as a module in the rule set.

11. The method as claimed in claim 9, wherein the performance specification is stored as a module in the rule set.

12. The method as claimed in claim 2, wherein the method is carried out automatically after each medical working practice.

13. The method as claimed in claim 3, wherein the method is carried out automatically after each medical working practice.

14. The method as claimed in claim 4, wherein the method is carried out automatically after each medical working practice.

15. The method as claimed in claim 5, wherein the method is carried out automatically after each medical working practice.

16. The method as claimed in claim 2, wherein:

if the performance specification is not complied with, a decision is made as to whether it is possible to repeat the working practice and, if so, repetition is requested; and

if repetition is possible, a corresponding repetition request is made to those carrying it out.

17. The method as claimed in claim 3, wherein:

if the performance specification is not complied with, a decision is made as to whether it is possible to repeat the working practice and, if so, repetition is requested; and

if repetition is possible, a corresponding repetition request is made to those carrying it out.

18. The method as claimed in claim 4, wherein:

if the performance specification is not complied with, a decision is made as to whether it is possible to repeat the working practice and, if so, repetition is requested; and

if repetition is possible, a corresponding repetition request is made to those carrying it out.

19. The method as claimed in claim 5, wherein:

if the performance specification is not complied with, a decision is made as to whether it is possible to repeat the working practice and, if so, repetition is requested; and

if repetition is possible, a corresponding repetition request is made to those carrying it out.

20. The method as claimed in claim 6, wherein:

if the performance specification is not complied with, a decision is made as to whether it is possible to repeat the working practice and, if so, repetition is requested; and

if repetition is possible, a corresponding repetition request is made to those carrying it out.