System for Providing an Overview of Patient Medical Condition

• US 20090119128A1
• Filed: 09/27/2007
• Published: 05/07/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 10/02/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Cerner Innovation, Inc. (Oracle Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Siemens Medical Solutions USA Incorporated (Siemens AG)
• Inventors: Spiotta, Vickilyn, Lampone, Christian, Fitzgerald, Loretta A.
• Granted Patent: US 10,410,748 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/3
• 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 40/63 for local operation
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 50/20 for computer-aided diagnosis, e.g. based on medical expert systems

Abstract

A system provides an overview of patient medical condition by automatically converting a financial diagnosis description of a medical condition, into clinical terminology and associating a clinical diagnosis with a patient in a record that persists the association across multiple patient visits for a lifetime type medical condition. A system provides an overview of patient medical condition identifying both long term and short term medical conditions. The system includes a designation processor for designating an identified patient medical condition as being long term in response to user command. At least one repository stores information associating a designated long term patient medical condition with a patient and with a plurality of encounter identifiers identifying corresponding interactions of the patient with a healthcare provider organization and medical conditions associated with the encounters. A user interface initiates generation of data representing a composite display image window including data identifying a designated long term patient medical condition together with encounters and medical conditions associated with the encounters providing a user an overview of long term and short term medical conditions of a patient.

Claims

10. A system for providing an overview of patient medical condition identifying both long term and short term medical conditions, comprising:

a designation processor for automatically designating an identified patient medical condition as being long term by parsing data representing a patient medical condition and identifying data indicating a potentially long term medical condition in said data representing a patient medical condition based on a predetermined list of potentially long term medical conditions;

at least one repository for storing information associating a designated long term patient medical condition with a patient and with a plurality of encounter identifiers identifying corresponding interactions of said patient with a healthcare provider organization and medical conditions associated with said encounters; and

a user interface for initiating generation of data representing a composite display image window including data identifying a designated long term patient medical condition together with encounters and medical conditions associated with said encounters providing a user an overview of long term and short term medical conditions of a patient.

11. A system for providing an overview of patient medical condition identifying long term medical conditions, comprising:

at least one repository for storing data identifying and mutually associating, a designated long term patient medical condition, a plurality of patient visits and at least one financial reimbursement related diagnosis code supporting reimbursement for services provided during said plurality of patient visits; and

a user interface for using said at least one repository in,

initiating generation of data representing a composite display image window including data identifying a designated long term patient medical condition together with a plurality of patient visits and enabling a user to associate at least one financial reimbursement related diagnosis code supporting reimbursement for services provided during said plurality of patient visits with a text phrase representing a clinical diagnosis and

adaptively altering user interface data processing in response to a patient diagnosis.

1. A system for providing an overview of patient medical condition identifying both long term and short term medical conditions, comprising:

a designation processor for designating an identified patient medical condition as being long term in response to user command;

at least one repository for storing information associating a designated lone term patient medical condition with a patient and with a plurality of encounter identifiers identifying corresponding interactions of said patient with a healthcare provider organization and medical conditions associated with said encounters; and

a user interface for initiating generation of data representing a composite display image window including data identifying a designated long term patient medical condition together with encounters and medical conditions associated with said encounters providing a user an overview of long term and short term medical conditions of a patient.

2. A system according to claim 1, wherein

said designation processor automatically parses data representing a patient diagnosis and identifies data indicating a potentially long term medical condition in said patient diagnosis and automatically initiates providing a user with a prompt message prompting a user to select a patient medical condition as being a long term medical condition.

3. A system according to claim 2, wherein

said designation processor automatically identifies data indicating a potentially long term medical condition based on a predetermined list of potentially tong term medical conditions.

4. A system according to claim 1, wherein

said designation processor automatically parses data representing a patient medical condition and identifies data indicating at least one potentially long term medical condition in said data representing a patient medical condition and automatically initiates providing a user with a corresponding candidate list of potentially long term medical conditions enabling a user to select a particular long term medical condition for association with a patient.

5. A system according to claim 1, including

a workflow processor for automatically prompting a user to confirm addition of a task to a task list of a healthcare worker in response to, designation of an identified patient medical condition as being long term and data identifying at least one of, (a) a short term medical condition of said patient, (b) an order for treatment to be administered to said patient and (c) a laboratory test result of said patient.

6. A system according to claim 1, wherein

said identified patient medical condition is identified from a condition representative code in a predetermined code set.

7. A system according to claim 6, including

a converter for automatically translating a code representing said identified patient medical condition to a text phrase representing said identified patient medical condition understandable by a clinician.

8. A system according to claim 7, wherein

said composite display image window includes said text phrase.

9. A system according to claim 1, wherein

said designation processor associates a designated long term patient medical condition with a particular patient.

12. A system according to claim 11, including

a designation processor for designating an identified patient medical condition as being long term in response to user command.

13. A system according to claim 11, including

a workflow processor for adaptively altering user interface data processing in response to data indicating a patient diagnosis.

14. A system according to claim 11, wherein

said at least one repository stores identifiers identifying said plurality of patient visits.

15. A system according to claim 11, wherein

said user interface initiates generation of data representing a composite display image window including data identifying a short term patient medical condition.

16. A system according to claim 11, wherein

said designated long term patient medical condition is cancer and

said user interface adaptively alters user interface data processing in response to a patient diagnosis by initiating generation of data representing a display image element supporting acquisition of data identifying a stage of patient cancer from physician data entry.

17. A system according to claim 11, wherein

said user interface initiates generation of data representing a care plan in response to data indicating a patient diagnosis.

18. A system according to claim 11, including

a converter for automatically translating said financial reimbursement related diagnosis code representing said identified patient medical condition to said text phrase representing said clinical diagnosis understandable by a clinician.

19. A system according to claim 1, including

a converter for automatically translating said financial reimbursement related diagnosis code to a plurality of text phrases representing clinical diagnoses understandable by a clinician using a predetermined map associating codes with one or more corresponding text phrases indicating one or more clinical diagnoses.

20. A system according to claim 19, wherein

said converter uses additional patient information including at least one of, (a) patient assessments, (b) patient demographic data and patient record information, to select between different text phrases indicating one or more clinical diagnoses.

15-1. A system according to claim 11, wherein

said designated long term patient medical condition is at least one of, (a) cancer, (b) diabetes and (c) congestive heart failure.