Treatment Order Entry User Interface and Processing System

• US 20080255883A1
• Filed: 04/10/2008
• Published: 10/16/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 04/16/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Siemens Medical Solutions USA Incorporated (Siemens AG)
• Original Assignee: Siemens Medical Solutions USA Incorporated (Siemens AG)
• Inventors: Jones, Hilari K.
• Application Number:
  US12/100,738
• Publication Number:
  US 20080255883A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/3
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 20/10 relating to drugs or medications, e.g. for ensuring correct administration to patients
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/63 for local operation

Abstract

A system enables a user to place large volumes of orders at one time as well as to assign the same order to multiple order sets and provides a method of using special formatting styles to group as well as differentiate orders in a shopping cart. A system provides data representing treatments for order for administration to a patient. The system includes a display processor for providing data representing at least one display image. The display image includes a data item indicating an individual treatment for order, data items indicating an order set incorporating multiple different treatments for order, and visual attributes indicating the different treatments are associated with the order set and are distinct from the individual treatment and the individual treatment is unassociated with an order set. A sorting processor sorts data items indicating the individual treatment for order and the different treatments for order for presentation in a sorted sequence in a display image by at least one of, (a) order set and (b) treatment description.

Claims

1. A system for providing data representing treatments for order for administration to a patient, comprising:

a display processor for providing data representing at least one display image including,

a data item indicating an individual treatment for order,

data items indicating an order set incorporating a plurality of different treatments for order and

visual attributes indicating said different treatments are associated with said order set and are distinct from said individual treatment and said individual treatment is unassociated with an order set; and

a sorting processor for sorting data items indicating said individual treatment for order and said different treatments for order for presentation in a sorted sequence in a display image by at least one of, (a) order set and (b) treatment description.

2. A system according to claim 1, wherein

said visual attributes indicating said different treatments are associated with said order set comprise indentation.

3. A system according to claim 1, wherein

said visual attributes indicating said different treatments are associated with said order set comprise a displayed icon.

4. A system according to claim 1, wherein

said visual attributes indicating said different treatments are associated with said order set comprise indentation and a displayed icon.

5. A system according to claim 1, wherein

said visual attributes indicating said different treatments are associated with said order set comprise underlining.

6. A system according to claim 1, wherein

said visual attributes indicating said different treatments are associated with said order set comprise at least one of, (a) highlighting, (b) shading, (c) a symbol, (d) underlining and (e) spatial layout.

7. A system according to claim 1, wherein

said sorting processor sorts data items indicating said individual treatment for order and said different treatments for order for presentation in a sorted sequence in a display image in response to selection sequence of orders.

8. A system according to claim 1, wherein

said sorting processor sorts data items indicating said individual treatment for order and said different treatments for order for presentation in a sorted sequence in a display image in response to type of hospital department or medication class associated with an order.

9. A system according to claim 1, including

an order validation processor for indicating data items indicating duplicate treatments for order with a visual attribute.

10. A system according to claim 1, wherein

said sorting processor sorts data items indicating said individual treatment for order and said different treatments for order alphabetically.

11. A system according to claim 1, wherein

said sorting processor sorts data items indicating said individual treatment for order and said different treatments for order by at least one of, (a) the sequence they are selected by a user and (b) by hospital department.

12. A system according to claim 1, wherein

said sorting processor sorts data items indicating said individual treatment for order and said different treatments for order by order set in alphabetic sequence followed by individual treatments in alphabetic sequence.

13. A system according to claim 1, wherein

said visual attributes include hover text identifying at least one of, (a) an individual treatment and (b) an order set and said hover text is displayed in response to a user superimposing a cursor over a treatment name.

14. A system for providing data representing care plan items including treatments for order for administration to a patient, expected outcomes and interventions, comprising:

a display processor for providing data representing at least one display image including,

a data item indicating an individual care plan item,

data items indicating a set of care plan items incorporating a plurality of different care plan items and

visual attributes indicating said different care plan items are associated with said set of care plan items and are distinct from said individual care plan item and said individual care plan item is unassociated with a set of care plan items; and

a sorting processor for sorting data items indicating said individual care plan item for order and said different care plan items for order for presentation in a sorted sequence in a display image by at least one of, (a) set of care plan items and (b) care plan item description.

15. A system according to claim 14, wherein

care plan items comprise treatments for order for administration to a patient, expected outcomes and interventions and

said visual attributes indicating said different care plan items are associated with said set of care plan items comprise at least one of, (a) indentation, (b) an icon and (c) hover text.

16. A system according to claim 15, wherein

said sorting processor sorts data items indicating said individual care plan item and said set of care plan items by at least one of, (a) the sequence they are selected by a user and (b) by hospital department.

17. A system according to claim 14, wherein

said sorting processor sorts data items indicating said individual care plan item and said set of care plan items by care plan set in alphabetic sequence followed by individual care plan item in alphabetic sequence.

18. A system for providing data representing treatments for order for administration to a patient, comprising:

a display processor for providing data representing at least one display image including,

a data item indicating an individual treatment for order,

data items indicating an order set incorporating a plurality of different treatments for order and

visual attributes indicating said different treatments are associated with said order set and are distinct from said individual treatment and said individual treatment is unassociated with an order set, said visual attributes comprise at least one of, (a) indentation, (b) an icon and (c) hover text; and

a sorting processor for sorting data items indicating said individual treatment for order and said different treatments for order for presentation in a sorted sequence in a display image by at least one of, (i) order set and (ii) treatment description.

19. A system according to claim 18, wherein

said sorting processor sorts data items indicating said individual treatment for order and said different treatments for order by at least one of, (a) the sequence they are selected by a user and (b) by hospital department.