SYSTEM, METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR INTERFACING AN EXPERT SYSTEM TO A CLINICAL INFORMATION SYSTEM

• US 20070213602A1
• Filed: 05/11/2007
• Published: 09/13/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 02/07/2003
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: TheraDoc, Inc. (Premier Incorporated)
• Original Assignee: TheraDoc, Inc. (Premier Incorporated)
• Inventors: Harty, William, Pestotnik, Stanley, Ketcherside, William, Hausam, Robert, Baza, Michael, Olson, Jonathan
• Granted Patent: US 7,705,727 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 600/300
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 50/20 for computer-aided diagnosis, e.g. based on medical expert systems
• CPC Class Codes: G16Z 99/00 Subject matter not provided for in other main groups of this subclass

Abstract

A method and computer program for interfacing an expert system to a clinical information system. Embodiments of the invention provide tight integration of the systems permitting a clinician to use the functionality provided by the expert system without specifically maintaining separate patient data. They provide a method for communication between the expert system and one or more clinical information systems. This communication permits flow of information and actions between the expert system and the clinical systems and allows maintenance of audit logs in both systems.

Claims

1. A computer program product for use in a system where a separate expert system is configured to communicate with a clinical system having one or more clinical modules, and notwithstanding that the separate expert system and the clinical system are configured to process data having different and otherwise incompatible data formats, the computer program product for implementing a method of interfacing the separate expert system with the clinical system, the computer program product comprising one or more physical storage media have stored thereon computer-executable instructions that, when executed at a processor, cause the system to perform the method, including the following:

receive clinical data from the clinical system on at least one of an inbound data interface and a synchronous alert interface, the clinical data having a first format structured for compatible processing at the clinical system;

modify the structure of the clinical data to a second different format structured for compatible processing at the separate expert system such that the clinical data can be compatibly processed at the separate expert system, wherein without the structural modification of the clinical data the separate expert system is unable to compatibly process the clinical data;

store the modified clinical data in an expert system database of the expert system in the second different format;

process the modified clinical data in the expert system to make a medical decision;

generate an alert based on results of processing the modified clinical data, the alert having the second different data format structured for compatible processing at the separate expert system;

modify the structure of the generated alert to the first format such that the generated alert can be compatible processed at the clinical system, wherein without the structural modification of the generated alert the clinical system is unable to compatibly process the alert; and

send the modified generated alert to the clinical system on at least one of the synchronous alert interface and the outbound alert interface.