Intelligent Guided Registration Within A Health Information System
First Claim
1. A method for guiding a registrar during a patient registration in a health information system, the method comprising the steps of:
- detecting a designated field within the health information system;
accessing a questionnaire upon detection of the designated field, the questionnaire including a first question and one or more responses for the first question;
displaying the questionnaire on a graphical user interface;
receiving a response to the questionnaire through an input device;
analyzing the received response in a computer process to determine whether the received response indicates an action to be performed or one or more additional questions in the questionnaire;
when the received response indicates at least one additional question in the questionnaire, continuing to display the questionnaire, receive responses and perform any indicated actions until an end processing action is performed.
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Abstract
A method of intelligently guiding a registrar through a patient registration within a health information system. The method utilizes an inverted tree-type decision structure in which a question path is dependent on and determined by the responses to prior questions. A registrar is guided through the decision structure by responding to a series of questions. Within the decision structure, one or more actions are performed, which may include the return of an identifier to an initiating field in the health information system. An administrator may customize the questions, responses, and screen presentations of the decision structure through a Windows®-based graphical user interface. When multiple identifiers are returned in a registration session, the identifiers are automatically sequenced according to a predetermined hierarchy.
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20 Claims
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1. A method for guiding a registrar during a patient registration in a health information system, the method comprising the steps of:
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detecting a designated field within the health information system; accessing a questionnaire upon detection of the designated field, the questionnaire including a first question and one or more responses for the first question; displaying the questionnaire on a graphical user interface; receiving a response to the questionnaire through an input device; analyzing the received response in a computer process to determine whether the received response indicates an action to be performed or one or more additional questions in the questionnaire; when the received response indicates at least one additional question in the questionnaire, continuing to display the questionnaire, receive responses and perform any indicated actions until an end processing action is performed. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8)
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9. A method of facilitating selection of a health insurance plan during a patient registration session in a health information system, the method comprising the steps of:
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detecting an insurance plan identification field within the health information system; accessing a health insurance questionnaire upon detection of the insurance plan identification field, the health insurance questionnaire including at least one question having one or more responses; displaying the health insurance questionnaire on a graphical user interface; receiving a response to the questionnaire through an input device; analyzing the received response in a computer process to determine whether the received response branches to one or more additional questions in the questionnaire or an action to be performed; when the received response branches to at least one additional question in the questionnaire, iteratively displaying additional questions, and analyzing received responses to the additional questions, until a received response branches to an end processing action; and performing the end processing action. - View Dependent Claims (10, 11, 12, 13)
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14. A system for facilitating the performance of an action in conjunction with a patient registration at a health care facility, the system comprising:
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a monitor for detecting a designated field in a health information system; a first computer process for retrieving a questionnaire in response to detection of the designated field, the questionnaire including one or more questions, responses and actions related together in a decision structure; a graphical user interface for displaying the questionnaire; an input device for receiving user responses to the one or more questions; a second computer process for analyzing user responses to the questionnaire, the second computer process including processing means for reiteratively displaying questions from the questionnaire and receiving user responses in a decision path until the path terminates at an end processing action; and computer processing means for performing the end processing action in conjunction with the patient registration. - View Dependent Claims (15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20)
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