Automated Newborn Screening Results Reporting

• US 20070255585A1
• Filed: 04/27/2006
• Published: 11/01/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 04/27/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Cerner Innovation, Inc. (Oracle Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Cerner Innovation, Inc. (Oracle Corporation)
• Inventors: Moussavi, Mahcameh, Hoffman, Mark
• Granted Patent: US 8,489,409 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/2
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 10/60 for patient-specific data, e.g. for electronic patient records
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 15/00 ICT specially adapted for medical reports, e.g. generation or transmission thereof
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/67 for remote operation

Abstract

Systems and methods are provided for facilitating the electronic collection and dissemination of newborn screening results to identified and/or default recipients of the results. A newborn screening manager may be provided to receive and store newborn screening results in an associated database. The newborn screening results may then be communicated electronically to any number of recipients of the results. In some cases, a notification may be provided to the recipients, indicating that the newborn screening results are available to be reviewed. The recipients may then access and review the results.

Claims

1. A method in a clinical computing environment for communicating a newborn screening result to one or more recipients, the method comprising:

receiving a newborn screening result at a newborn screening manager, wherein the newborn screening manager is configured to communicate with at least one of a state laboratory performing newborn screening and a state office responsible for coordinating newborn screening results;

identifying one or more recipients of the newborn screening result; and

communicating the newborn screening result to the one or more recipients.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising receiving an order for a newborn screening.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the order comprises an identification for at least one of a physical specimen associated with the newborn screening, a newborn, one or more parents of a newborn, one or more guardians of a newborn, a place of birth, a place of collection, a time of collection, a testing laboratory, and one or more recipients of the newborn screening result.

4. The method of claim 2, further comprising associating the newborn screening result with the order for the newborn screening.

5. The method of claim 2, further comprising generating an alert notification if the newborn screening result is not received within a predetermined period of time after receiving the order for the newborn screening.

6. The method of claim 1, further comprising storing the newborn screening result.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein communicating the newborn screening result to the one or more recipients comprises providing a notification of an availability of the newborn screen result to the one or more recipients.

8. The method of claim 7, wherein communicating the newborn screening result to the one or more recipients further comprises:

receiving, from at least one of the one or more recipients, a request to access the newborn screening result; and

communicating the newborn screening result to the at least one of the one or more recipients based on the request.

9. The method of claim 7, further comprising:

determining if the newborn screening result has been accessed by at least one of the one or more recipients within a predetermined period of time after providing the notification of the availability of the newborn screening result; and

generating an alert notification if the newborn screening result has not been accessed within the predetermined period of time.

10. The method of claim 9, further comprising communicating the alert notification to at least one of the one or more recipients, the state laboratory, and the state office.

11. The method of claim 1, further comprising adding the newborn screening result to a list of newborn screening results pending review by a recipient.

12. The method of claim 11, further comprising communicating the list of newborn screening results pending review by a recipient to at least one of the state laboratory and the state office.

13. The method of claim 12, further comprising receiving a verification that the newborn screening result has been reviewed by at least one of the one or more recipients.

14. The method of claim 13, further comprising removing the newborn screening result from the list of newborn screening results pending review based on the verification.

15. The method of claim 1, further comprising populating the newborn screening result into at least one of a community health record, a personal health record, and an electronic medical record.

16. The method of claim 1, further comprising associating the newborn screening result with a controlled vocabulary.

17. The method of claim 16, wherein the controlled vocabulary comprises an ontology.

18. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

determining if the newborn screening result is a critical result; and

if the newborn screening result is determined to be a critical result, providing an alert indication that the newborn screening result is a critical result .

19. One or more computer-readable media having computer-executable instructions embodied thereon for causing a computing device to perform the method of claim 1.

20. A method in a clinical computing environment for facilitating the notification of an availability of a newborn screening result, the method comprising:

receiving a newborn screening result;

adding the newborn screening result to a list of newborn screening results pending review;

providing a notification of an availability of the newborn screening result to one or more recipients; and

providing the list of newborn screening results pending review to at least one of a state laboratory performing newborn screening and a state office responsible for coordinating newborn screening results.

21. The method of claim 20, further comprising receiving a verification that the newborn screening result has been reviewed by at least one of the one or more recipients.

22. The method of claim 21, further comprising removing the newborn screening result from the list of newborn screening results pending review based on the verification.

23. One or more computer-readable media having computer-useable instructions embodied thereon for causing a computing device to perform the method of claim 20.

24. A system in a clinical computing environment for facilitating the communication of newborn screening results, the system comprising:

at least one first interface to one or more sources of newborn screening results;

at least one second interface to one or more recipients of newborn screening results;

a newborn screening manager communicating with the one or more sources of newborn screening results via the at least one first interface and with the one or more recipients via the at least one second interface, the newborn screening manager configured to access one or more newborn screening results from the one or more sources of newborn screening results, determine at least one of the one or more recipients for receiving at least one of the one or more newborn screening results, and communicate the at least one of the one or more newborn screening results to the at least one of the one or more recipients.