Graphical user interface for clinical order administration scheduling

• US 20070265882A1
• Filed: 05/11/2006
• Published: 11/15/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 05/11/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Cerner Innovation, Inc. (Oracle Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Cerner Innovation, Inc. (Oracle Corporation)
• Inventors: Jennings, Britton, Barlow, Beth, Schneider, Charles, Boswell, Sara
• Granted Patent: US 8,024,200 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/3
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/1095 Meeting or appointment
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 20/10 relating to drugs or medications, e.g. for ensuring correct administration to patients
• 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 40/63 for local operation

Abstract

A user interface provides a visual indication of the time-based parameters surrounding individual scheduling options for a clinical order. The user interface facilitates the display of a graphical representation of one or more scheduling options, providing a clinician with a visualization of the parameters surrounding the options and the ability to select a particular scheduling option for associating with the established order. Each of the options includes a set of display objects presented in a context, such as a time graph, that indicates a date and time for each administration for the substance-based orderable under the respective scheduling option.

Claims

1. A user interface embodied on at least one computer-readable medium, the user interface comprising at least one display region for presenting:

a graphical representation of one or more options for an administration schedule associated with a clinical order, each option including a set of display objects presented in a context to indicate administration dates and times for a substance-based orderable under the respective option.

2. The user interface of claim 1, wherein the clinical order has a current administration schedule associated therewith, and wherein the one or more options comprise alternative scheduling for medication administration under the clinical order, each option being associated with a policy comprising one of:

maintaining the remaining number of doses of the substance-based orderable to be administered under the current administration schedule associated with the clinical order;

maintaining the remaining number of doses of the substance-based orderable to be administered under the current administration schedule associated with the clinical order while observing a stop date and time for administration of the substance-based orderable that is as close as possible to a current stop date and time under the current administration schedule associated with the clinical order; and

observing a stop date and time for administration of the substance-based orderable that represents temporal proximity with a current stop date and time under the current administration schedule associated with the clinical order.

3. The user interface of claim 2, wherein the one or more options further comprise the current administration schedule.

4. The user interface of claim 2, further comprising:

a textual representation of the policy associated with each of the one or more options; and

an option selection area associated with each textual representation for accepting input regarding a user selection of one option of the one or more options.

5. The user interface of claim 1, further comprising:

a dosage time selection area for accepting input utilized to generate the one or more options for an administration schedule, wherein the input is representative of one or more of;

an earliest time for administering a dose and a number of doses per day of the substance-based orderable for the administration schedule; and

a set of times representing when a dose of the substance-based orderable is to be administered within a day for the administration schedule.