ORDER SETS HAVING DIFFERENT VIEWS FOR CPOE SYSTEMS

• US 20080189135A1
• Filed: 01/03/2008
• Published: 08/07/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 01/03/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Performance Clinical Systems LLC
• Original Assignee: Stepping Stone Clinical Systems, LLC
• Inventors: Johnson, Christopher David, Zeiger, Roni Fischman
• Granted Patent: US 8,140,352 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/2
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management
• 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

Order sets are presented in different views thereby allowing the doctor to treat a patient in a more intuitive manner. Order set content is created so that order sets can be viewed from varying perspectives. An order set library is modified such that each order statement or orderable is tagged with metadata. Each orderable is tagged with an Intervention tag, a Problem tag, and a System tag. An application may then take the modified order sets and present them to doctors based on an Intervention view, a Problem view, or a System view. These views give the doctor the option of switching between views depending on the severity of a patient'"'"'s medical condition and allows the doctor to follow a more intuitive and internal mental process when treating a patient. The doctor does not have to translate between different perspectives of the order sets mentally, thereby greatly reducing the doctor'"'"'s cognitive load.

Claims

1. A method of creating an order set in a CPOE system, the method comprising:

selecting a patient;

selecting a hospital unit to which the patient will be admitted to if needed;

selecting one or more medical problems associated with the patient;

creating an order set based on the selected hospital unit and the one or more selected medical problems, wherein the order set contains a plurality of order statements, an order statement having a plurality of metadata tags; and

wherein the order set is viewable based on a plurality of criteria related to the plurality of metadata tags.

2. A method as recited in claim 1 wherein the plurality of metadata tags includes an Intervention tag, a Problem tag, and a System tag.