Medical care administration system and method

• US 20080010089A1
• Filed: 04/20/2007
• Published: 01/10/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 04/21/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Remedi Technology Holdings, LLC
• Original Assignee: Atromick International, Inc.
• Inventors: Guth, Paul, Kerr, Robert, Spiers, Bonnie, Russo, Michael, Drasin, Daniel, Friar, Timothy, Stutz, John, DiMaggio, John, Romick, Jerome
• Granted Patent: US 8,930,206 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/002
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 10/60 for patient-specific data, e.g. for electronic patient records
• 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

Abstract

A medical care administration system that continuously provides accurate identifications of what medical care orders are due for administration in a medical care facility. The system uses a services oriented architecture to provide an interface with a pharmacy. The architecture provides message formats and respective data definitions in a web services descriptive language. Thus, data relating to medical care orders may be stored in a relational database in normative format of definitions that is independent of known pharmacy codes and definitions. With the system, all written orders are sent to a pharmacy by facsimile copy and returned to the care facility in electronic form for comparison with the written order. The system further provides a user interface that leads a person through an administration process and simplifies creation of an electronic administration record.

Claims

1. A method of providing data that may be used to generate an electronic

administration record of a medical care order created in a medical care facility comprising:

producing a written order for medical care within the medical care facility;

providing the written order for medical care to a pharmacy by facsimile transmission;

converting the written order for medical care to an electronic pharmacy order for medical care;

receiving an electronic pharmacy order for medical care with an application server, the electronic pharmacy order being created in response the written order;

storing in a relational database first data that may be used to generate an electronic administration record of the medical care order in response to receiving the electronic pharmacy order;

transmitting the first data to a computer in the medical care facility;

comparing the first data with the written order for medical care;

accepting the first data as accurately representing the written order for medical care.

2. The method of claim 1 wherein after receiving the method further comprises transforming with the application server the electronic pharmacy order for medical care into the first data having a normative formal of standard definitions.

3. The method of claim 2 wherein after accepting, the method further comprises:

providing the first data to an administration cart computer; and

generating with the administration cart computer second data relating to a charting of an administration of the medical care order;

providing the second data to the application server; and

storing the second data in the relational database.

4. The method of claim 3 wherein the process further comprises generating an electronic administration record in response to the first data.

5. The method of claim 3 wherein the process further comprises

generating an electronic administrative record in response to the first data and the second data.

6. The method of claim 1 wherein all data relating to the written medical care order is provided to the pharmacy by only facsimile transmission.

7. The method of claim 1 wherein all data relating to the electronic pharmacy order is provided only from the pharmacy to the application server.

8. The method of claim 1 wherein no data relating to the written medical care order is provided from the application server to the pharmacy.

9. An apparatus for providing data that may be used to generate an electronic administration record of a medical care order created in a medical care facility comprising:

a facsimile transmission apparatus adapted to transmit a facsimile copy of a written order for medical care from the medical care facility to a pharmacy;

a pharmacy computer adapted to store an electronic pharmacy order for the medical care order;

an application server adapted to receive the electronic pharmacy order from the pharmacy computer;

a relational database in electronic communications with the application server and adapted to store first data corresponding to the electronic pharmacy order;

a computer in the medical care facility adapted to receive the first data, the computer comprising a display screen and being operable to present on the display screen

a first display permitting a comparison between the first data and the written order for medical care, and

a second display permitting an acceptance of the first data as accurately representing the written order for medical care.

10. A method of providing data that may be used to generate an electronic administration record of a medical care order created in a medical care facility comprising:

producing a written medical care order within the medical care facility;

providing the written medical care order to a pharmacy by facsimile transmission;

generating an electronic pharmacy medical care order in response to the written medical care order;

receiving the electronic pharmacy medical care order with an application server;

storing in a relational database first data that may be used to generate an electronic administration record of the medical care order in response to receiving the electronic pharmacy medical care order;

generating in response to a user input a first screen display on a first computer in the medical care facility, the first display permitting a selection of a temporary order entry relating to one of a medication order, a nonmedication order and a new admittance;

generating, in response to an input selecting the temporary order entry display a series of further screen displays permitting an entry of data relating the temporary order entry; and

generating a further display permitting an acceptance of the temporary order entry.

11. The method of claim 10 wherein in response to an input selecting the acceptance of the temporary order entry, the method further comprises:

transmitting the data relating to the temporary order entry to the application server;

storing the data relating to the temporary order entry in the relational database; and

transmitting the data relating to the temporary order entry to a second computer in the medical care facility operable during an administration of the medical care order.

12. The method of claim 11 further comprising:

transmitting a facsimile copy of the data relating to the temporary order entry to the pharmacy.

13. The method of claim 12 further comprising:

producing a second written medical care order within the medical care facility relating to the temporary order entry;

providing the second written medical care order to a pharmacy by facsimile transmission;

generating an electronic second pharmacy medical care order in response to the second written medical care order;

receiving the second electronic pharmacy medical care order with the application server;

storing in a relational database second data that may be used to generate an electronic administration record of the second written medical care order in response to receiving the second electronic pharmacy medical care order;

generating a screen display of the first computer permitting an acceptance of the second data representing the second written medical care order; and

transmitting the second data to the second computer to replace the data relating to the temporary order entry.

14. An apparatus for providing data that may be used to generate an electronic administration record of a medical care order created in a medical care facility comprising:

a facsimile transmission apparatus adapted to transmit a facsimile copy of a written order for medical care from the medical care facility to a pharmacy;

a pharmacy computer adapted to store an electronic pharmacy order for the medical care order;

an application server adapted to receive the electronic pharmacy order from the pharmacy computer;

a relational database in electronic communications with the application server and adapted to store first data corresponding to the electronic pharmacy order;

a computer in the medical care facility adapted to receive the first data, the computer comprising a display screen and being operable to present on the display screen