REPORT GENERATION WITH INTEGRATED QUALITY MANAGEMENT

• US 20070240038A1
• Filed: 04/07/2006
• Published: 10/11/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 04/07/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: PP Associates LP
• Original Assignee: PP Associates LP
• Inventors: Orsburn, John, Rundell, Marion
• Granted Patent: US 7,861,159 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/210
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 15/00 ICT specially adapted for medical reports, e.g. generation or transmission thereof
• 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 50/70 for mining of medical data, e.g. analysing previous cases of other patients

Abstract

Reports are generated by a computing engine using user inputs to a template and automatically added quality management values. Quality management reports can be automatically generated at selected intervals, such as daily, monthly, and yearly. Users are thus able to meet required quality assurance standards.

Claims

1. A system, comprising:

a configurable data retrieval device;

an input device configured to receive data and one or more commands;

a computing engine coupled to the input device for at least a predetermined period of time, wherein

the computing engine receives the data and the one or more commands from the input device; and

wherein the computing engine is configured to access the configurable data retrieval device; and

the computing engine is further configured to generate a report, wherein the report comprises;

at least a subset of the data;

values retrieved from the configurable data retrieval device in response to at least one of the one or more commands; and

one or more quality management values determined by the computing engine.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the computing engine is further configured to store the data in one or more selected locations in the configurable data retrieval device in response to the one or more commands.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the computing engine is further configured to store the data in one or more selected locations in the configurable data retrieval device based on an internal configuration.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein the computing engine is further configured to provide one of a plurality of templates for a user to indicate a field for associating with each of the data, and wherein each field corresponds to one or more selected locations in the configurable data retrieval device.

6. The method of claim 3, further comprising:

adding stored material to the report in response to a request in the notes.

7. The method of claim 3, further comprising:

adding stored material to the report without a request in the notes to add the stored material.

8. The method of claim 3, further comprising:

making one or more observations to be put into a report.

9. The method of claim 3, further comprising:

the device retrieving one or more entries in one or more databases in response to a command of the one or more commands, wherein the one or more entries are added to the report.

5. A method of creating a report, the method comprising:

using an input device to enter notes about one or more observations, wherein the notes include one or more commands on how to present the one or more observations in the report;

a device receiving the notes from the input device;

the device extracting the one or more commands from the notes and arranging the notes about the one or more observations in the report based on the one or more commands;

the device adding one or more quality management values to the report;

generating the report.

10. A database system, comprising:

a first set of records, wherein each entry of the first set of records corresponds to a data entry of a category in the first set of records;

a second set of records, wherein each entry of the second set of records corresponds to a command of a category in the second set of records, wherein each command of the category in the second set of records includes a corresponding code; and

a database engine configured to receive a string of values, wherein each of the string of values corresponds to either an entry in the first set of records or a code in the second set of records, and wherein the database engine is further configured to execute the command corresponding to the code from the second set of records, wherein the database engine is further configured to respond to selected data entries with one or more quality management values in addition to one or more records in the first set of records and the second set of records.

11. The database system of claim 10, wherein the database engine is further configured to generate a report including at least a subset of the string of values and at least one of the one or more quality management values.

13. The method of claim 10, further comprising:

performing quality assurance analysis on the notes;

reporting the quality assurance analysis results.

14. The method of claim 10, further comprising:

the user inputting the notes with the data input device.

15. The method of claim 10, further comprising:

storing the notes from the input device in a database.

16. The method of claim 10, further comprising:

providing automatic billing codes based on at least one procedure performed and at least one material the at least one procedure is performed upon, as indicated in the notes.

17. The method of claim 10, wherein the providing the automatic reporting by the electronic transmission further comprises providing automatic physician diagnostic reporting by the electronic transmission.

12. A method of generating reports, comprising:

providing a plurality of data fields editable by a user inputting notes with a data input device;

providing navigation by the user with the data input device direct to any of the plurality of data fields;

capturing the notes from the input device in a database format;

providing automatic reporting by electronic transmission.