Generation and Dissemination of Automatically Pre-Populated Clinical Notes

• US 20090182580A1
• Filed: 10/08/2008
• Published: 07/16/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 10/08/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Vesselin Zlatev
• Original Assignee: Vesselin Zlatev
• Inventors: Ziatev, Vesselin, Buxey, Farzad D., Martin, Neil A., Hu, Xiao, Nenov, Valeriy I.
• Granted Patent: US 8,805,703 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/3
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/0002 Remote monitoring of patients using telemetry, e.g. transmission of vital signals via a communication network A61B5/07 takes precedence; transmission systems for measured values G08C; transmission H04B; transmission of digital information H04L; wireless communication networks H04W
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 40/08 Insurance
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 40/12 Accounting
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 10/60 for patient-specific data, e.g. for electronic patient records
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 15/00 ICT specially adapted for medical reports, e.g. generation or transmission thereof
• 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 40/67 for remote operation

Abstract

Some embodiments provide a system and method for automatedly aggregating medically related data and disseminating different sets of the aggregated data to two or more different members of a medical care provider. Some embodiments automatedly and intelligently disseminate the aggregated data such that the data that is written once to the data storage solution is usable for a multitude of purposes within the functions of the medical care provider. Some embodiments intelligently disseminate the aggregated data by disseminating only relevant sub-components of the data to different members of the medical care provider based on the needs of the members such that different members receive different subsets of the data.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

a) receiving medically related data from at least one medical data source in an automated manner, said data comprising a plurality of data components; and

b) disseminating different sets of the data components to each of a plurality of medical care providing members to facilitate operations performed by said members, wherein a plurality of the sets of the data components comprises only a subset of the received data components but not all of the data components.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein a medical care providing member is a physician of a hospital, the method further comprising automatically pre-populating the physician'"'"'s clinical notes with data components related to patients under the care of the physician.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein disseminating the sets of the data components comprises sending the pre-populated clinical notes to an electronic device of the physician.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein receiving the medically related data comprises aggregating the medically related data from a plurality of medical data sources into a particular data item, each medical data source supplying a set of the received data components for the particular data item.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein disseminating the different sets of the data components comprises identifying data components of the particular data item that are relevant to the purposes of each member and supplying the relevant data components identified for each particular member from the particular data item to the particular member.

6. The method of claim 1 further comprising verifying completeness of said data prior to dissemination.

7. The method of claim 6 further comprising notifying at least one data source to provide additional data to complete said data when said data is incomplete.

8. The method of claim 7 wherein notifying the at least one data source comprises dynamically generating an editable form to send to the at least one data source, wherein said data form comprises data fields to specify incomplete data components.

9. The method of claim 7 wherein notifying the at least one data source comprises modifying a user interface of the at least one data source in order to specify data fields for incomplete data components.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein operations performed by a first member are different from operations performed by a second member and a first set of data components from the aggregated data to disseminate to the first member is different than a second set of data components from the aggregated data to disseminate to the second member.

11. The method of claim 1, wherein the medically related data comprises objective medical data and subjective medical data.

12. The method of claim 11, wherein the objective medical data comprises vital statistics and laboratory results provided by various electronic monitors monitoring a patient.

13. The method of claim 1, wherein disseminating the sets of data components comprises wirelessly transmitting said sets of data components to the plurality of medical care providing members.

14. The method of claim 1 further comprising storing said aggregated data within a storage solution, wherein disseminating different sets of the data components comprises processing the aggregated data stored in the storage solution.

15. A method comprising:

a) receiving medically related data for a particular patient from a medical data source, said medical data comprising a plurality of data components;

b) processing the medical data to identify a subset of the data components relevant to different members of a medical care provider; and

c) providing different sets of relevant data components to each member.

16. The method of claim 15, wherein the processing of the medical data comprises identifying data components relevant to the different members based on different functionalities performed by each of the members.

17. The method of claim 15, wherein the processing of the medical data comprises identifying values of data components that are within a set of threshold values as relevant data components to disseminate.

18. The method of claim 15 further comprising organizing the different sets of data components prior to providing the data components to the members such that data components most relevant to functionalities of the member are presented first.

19. The method of claim 15 further comprising identifying at least one of a plurality of dissemination scripts prior to processing the medical data, wherein each dissemination script defines rules for determining the relevancy of the data components to at least one member.

20. The method of claim 19, wherein processing the medical data occurs according to the rules of the dissemination script.

21. The method of claim 15, wherein the different sets of data components comprise at least one shared data component.

22. The method of claim 15, wherein the processing of the medical data comprises determining whether the received data is complete.

23. The method of claim 22 further comprising sending an electronic data acquisition form for acquiring additional data to at least one particular medical data source prior to providing the different the different sets of data components when the received data is incomplete.

24. The method of claim 23, wherein the electronic data acquisition form is dynamically created to cure the incomplete data from the particular medical data source.

25. The method of claim 15, wherein receiving the medical data comprises automatically aggregating medical data from a plurality of medical data sources.

26. The method of claim 25, wherein the plurality of medical data sources comprise a plurality of healthcare monitoring devices, each device for monitoring different healthcare specific parameters.

27. The method of claim 15, wherein the plurality of members comprise different databases of a medical care provider.

28. The method of claim 27, wherein the different databases comprises a quality reporting database, a research database, and a billing database.

29. A method comprising:

a) receiving medical data from at least one medical data source, said data comprising a plurality of data components;

b) tagging each data component of the medical data with identification information; and

c) distributing relevant data components to a plurality of destinations based on the tags associated with each data component.

30. The method of claim 29, wherein the tags specify access permissions to the data components by the plurality of destinations.

31. The method of claim 29, wherein the identification information associated with the tags specifies a source of the received data and a timestamp indicating when the data was received.

32. A system comprising:

a) a data aggregator for aggregating medically related data from a plurality of medical data sources in an automated manner, said data comprising a plurality of data components; and

b) a dissemination engine for disseminating different sets of the data components to each of a plurality of medical care providing members to facilitate operations performed by said members.