System for Processing and Testing of Electronic Forms and Associated Templates

• US 20080040162A1
• Filed: 08/07/2007
• Published: 02/14/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 08/08/2006
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Siemens Medical Solutions USA Incorporated (Siemens AG)
• Original Assignee: Siemens Medical Solutions USA Incorporated (Siemens AG)
• Inventors: Brice, Claudia
• Application Number:
  US11/834,802
• Publication Number:
  US 20080040162A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/3
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/174 Form filling; Merging
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/06 Resources, workflows, human or project management; Enterprise or organisation planning; Enterprise or organisation modelling
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 40/08 Insurance
• 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

Abstract

A system processes and tests forms and associated templates. A form repository includes data representing different electronic forms. A repository of information includes a plurality of sets of HIPAA compliant test data associated with a plurality of different electronic forms. The HIPAA compliant test data is used in populating a plurality of different electronic forms for review. A user interface provides data representing at least one display image enabling a user to select an electronic form from the form repository. A test form generator uses the test data to automatically populate an electronic form selected by a user via the user interface with a HIPAA compliant set of data. An output generator provides a populated electronic form to a user for reproduction and review.

Claims

1. A system for processing and testing of electronic forms and associated templates, comprising:

a repository including data representing different electronic forms;

a repository of information including a plurality of sets of HIPAA compliant test data associated with a plurality of different electronic forms, said HIPAA compliant test data being for use in populating a plurality of different electronic forms for review;

a user interface for providing data representing at least one display image enabling a user to select an electronic form from said form repository;

a test form generator for using said test data in automatically populating an electronic form selected by a user via said user interface with a HIPAA compliant set of data; and

an output generator for providing a populated electronic form to a user for reproduction and review.

2. A system according to claim 1, wherein said test form generator uses said test data information in automatically populating said electronic form with said HIPAA compliant set of test data in a healthcare information system capable of generating and communicating documents in the absence of at least one of:

(a) real (non-test) patient data, (b) real (non-test) physician data, and (c) set-up of said healthcare information system for operational (non-test) use.

3. A system according to claim 1, wherein said test form generator uses said test data information in automatically populating said electronic form with said HIPAA compliant set of data in a healthcare information system capable of generating and communicating documents in the absence of at least one of:

(a) a real (non-test) patient data master file, (b) a physician data master file, and (c) a database of said healthcare information set-up for operational (non-test) use.

4. A system according to claim 1, wherein said information further comprises data which associates said plurality of sets of HIPAA compliant test data with corresponding business processes and with a corresponding plurality of different electronic forms.

5. A system according to claim 1, wherein said test form generator generates an XSL compatible template from electronic form representative data and a map associating one of said plurality of sets of HIPAA compliant test data in said information repository with said electronic form.

6. A system according to claim 5, wherein said XSL compatible template includes an XML map associating said one of said plurality of sets of HIPAA compliant data with an electronic form.

7. A system according to claim 6, wherein said test form generator automatically populates the electronic form by merging one of said plurality of sets of HIPAA compliant test data using the XML map into said XSL template.

8. A system according to claim 7, wherein:

the test form generator generates at least one of;

(a) an rtf file, (b) a pdf file, and (c) a txt file, representing the populated electronic form; and

the output generator routes the rtf, pdf or txt file to the user for reproduction and review.

9. A system for processing and testing of electronic forms and associated templates, comprising:

a repository including data representing different electronic forms;

a repository of information including a plurality of sets of HIPAA compliant test data associated with a plurality of different electronic forms, said HIPAA compliant test data being for use in populating a plurality of different electronic forms for review;

a user interface for providing data representing at least one display image enabling a user to select an electronic form from said form repository;

a test form generator for using said test data in automatically populating an electronic form selected by a user via said user interface with a HIPAA compliant set of data for use in a healthcare information system capable of generating and communicating documents prior to set-up of said healthcare information system for operational (non-test) use; and

an output generator for providing a populated electronic form to a user for reproduction and review.

10. A system according to claim 9, wherein:

said test form generator is able to use said test data in automatically populating said electronic form; and

said output generator is able to provide said populated electronic form to said user for reproduction and review in the absence of availability of one of;

(a) real (non-test) patient medical record data, and (b) physician data indicating physician names and specialties.

11. A method for processing and testing of electronic forms and associated templates, comprising the activities of:

providing data representing different electronic forms;

providing information including a plurality of sets of HIPAA compliant test data associated with a plurality of different electronic forms, said HIPAA compliant test data being for use in populating a plurality of different electronic forms for review;

providing a user interface via data representing at least one display image enabling a user to select an electronic form from said different electronic forms;

using said test data in automatically populating an electronic form selected by the user via the user interface with a HIPAA compliant set of data; and

providing a populated electronic form to a user for reproduction and review.

12. A method for using a system for processing and testing of electronic forms and associated templates comprising a repository of data representing different electronic forms, a repository of information including a plurality of sets of HIPAA compliant test data associated with a plurality of different electronic forms, and a user interface for providing data representing at least one display image enabling a user to select an electronic form from said form repository, comprising the activities of:

manipulating the user interface to select an electronic form and an associated set of HIPAA compliant test data associated with the selected form; and

manipulating the user interface to condition a test form generator to automatically populate the selected electronic form with the associated HIPAA compliant set of data and to condition an output generator to provide a populated electronic form to the user for reproduction and review.