SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING CONTEXTUALLY RELEVANT MEDICAL INFORMATION

• US 20080208912A1
• Filed: 02/19/2008
• Published: 08/28/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 02/26/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Stereotaxis, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Stereotaxis, Inc.
• Inventors: Garibaldi, Jeffrey M.
• Application Number:
  US12/033,312
• Publication Number:
  US 20080208912A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 707/104.1
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/06 Resources, workflows, human or project management; Enterprise or organisation planning; Enterprise or organisation modelling
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 10/60 for patient-specific data, e.g. for electronic patient records
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/20 for the management or administration of healthcare resources or facilities, e.g. managing hospital staff or surgery rooms
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/60 for the operation of medical equipment or devices
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/63 for local operation
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 50/20 for computer-aided diagnosis, e.g. based on medical expert systems

Abstract

A system and method for the real-time presentation of context-relevant information to a user of a medical intervention system is disclosed. Embodiments of the invention provide for the definition of a current system context, analysis of the current system context, generation of a search parameter set, search of a set of information sources, analysis of the search results, and presentation to the user. The context-relevant information is updated as the intervention proceeds.

Claims

1. An automated method of searching for and providing contextually relevant medical information to a user of a procedure-supporting medical system, the method comprising:

gathering procedure status information to define a current medical system context;

processing the medical system context in preparation for searching for relevant information in a set of electronic information sources;

searching a set of information sources based at least in part on processed system context; and

presenting to the user at least part of the search results, wherein at least one of the gathering, processing, searching, and presenting is done during the procedure.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising processing the search results prior to presenting.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein gathering procedure status information comprises accounting for patient information data.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein the patient information data comprises a diagnostic record.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein gathering procedure status comprises utilizing the user'"'"'s preferences.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein utilizing the user'"'"'s preferences further comprises learning the user'"'"'s preferences over a plurality of procedures performed using the medical system.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein at least one of processing the medical system context and searching a set of information sources comprises sending data to a remote site;

the remote site processing the sent data and generating output results;

wherein at least one of processing the medical system context and searching a set of information sources is performed during the procedure.

8. The method of claim 7, wherein the remote site automatically processes the data;

9. The method of claim 7, wherein processing the sent data at the remote site comprises a human interpreting the sent data and generating output data based on said interpretation.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein the data generated during a procedure comprises at least one of an ECG data set, a medical image data set, an electrical activity data set, a vital sign data set, a blood pressure data set, an oximetry data set, a hemodynamics data set.

11. The method of claim 1, wherein the user information comprises at least one of a procedure type, a device type, a drug, an anatomy type, user selection criteria.

12. The method of claim 1, wherein processing the medical system context comprises generating a parameter set.

13. The method of claim 12, wherein a parameter set comprises a keyword set.

14. The method of claim 12, wherein a parameter set comprises a numerical range.

15. The method of claim 1, wherein performing a search in a set of information sources comprises performing a search selected from the group consisting of a parameter search, and a feature search.

16. The method of claim 1, wherein the set of information sources comprises at least one of a local database, a remote database, an intranet site, an internet site.

17. The method of claim 1, wherein the set of information sources contains information types, the information types comprising at least one of a published article, a patent, a patent application, an intranet file, an advertisement, a book, a presentation record, a news release, an information data sheet, a marketing brochure, a product specification.

18. The method of claim 1, wherein presenting to the user at least part of the search results comprises generating a tabbed display with a plurality of reference links.

19. A method of conducting a procedure with a medical system using context relevant information, comprising:

gathering relevant medical procedure context;

searching a database for procedure-related data; and

displaying the procedure-related data to a user of the medical system, wherein at least one of the gathering, searching, and

displaying is performed during the procedure.

20. The method of claim 19, further comprising updating the database.