Medical information system
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Abstract
A medical information system receives patient data and information from various sources and displays such information in a variety of formats for use by member of a medical team in a hospital, clinic, or office. The system receives patient information from doctors, pharmacists, patient monitoring equipment, testing laboratories, and/or computer databases. Access to selected subsets of patient information is provided by user selection of specific data sets identified by job function selection icons. Multiple types of patient data are selectively displayed simultaneously, and to multiple remote users. The system can access stored data according to user-specified formulae to compute a score or metric which reflects a relationship between various factors, each factor being weighted appropriately according to its significance as defined in the formula.
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66 Claims
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41. A system for providing expert critical care simultaneously to a plurality of geographically dispersed intensive care units (ICUs) from a remote location, the system comprising:
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a network; a plurality of geographically dispersed ICUs comprising means for monitoring patient data elements from a patient and means for transmitting the monitored patient data elements to a remote command center by the network; the remote command center connected to the network and comprising; a database, wherein the database comprises stored patient data elements relating to the patient; a computerized patient care management system connected to a workstation, wherein the computerized patient care management system is adapted for; receiving the monitored patient data elements from the plurality of geographically dispersed ICUs; storing the monitored patient data elements in the database; applying a rules engine continuously to at least two patient data elements stored in the database to search for patterns of data indicative of the medical condition of the patient; monitoring the medical condition of the patient and utilizing the output from the rules engine to determine if intervention is warranted; and wherein the monitoring and intervention for individual patients in the plurality of geographically dispersed ICUs is directed from the remote command center 24 hours per day 7 days per week. - View Dependent Claims (42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56)
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57. A method for providing expert critical care simultaneously to a plurality of geographically dispersed intensive care units (ICUs) from a remote location comprising:
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monitoring patient data elements of patients in a plurality of geographically dispersed ICUs; communicating over a network the monitored patient data elements to a remote command center, the remote command center comprising a database and a workstation; storing the monitored patient data elements in the database, wherein the database comprises stored patient data elements; applying a rules engine continuously to at least two patient data elements stored in the database to search for patterns of data indicative of the medical condition of a patient; and utilizing the output from the rules engine to determine if intervention is warranted; and wherein the monitoring and determining if intervention is warranted, for individual patients is directed from the remote command center 24 hours per day 7 days per week. - View Dependent Claims (58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66)
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