ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORD TIMELINE AND THE HUMAN FIGURE

• US 20090192823A1
• Filed: 11/25/2008
• Published: 07/30/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 04/26/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: General Electric Company
• Original Assignee: General Electric Company
• Inventors: Hawkins, Michael, Pavlov, Dmitry, Lopez, Kenneth, Burt, Christopher, Siddiqui, Khan
• Granted Patent: US 10,032,236 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/3
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/06 Resources, workflows, human or project management; Enterprise or organisation planning; Enterprise or organisation modelling
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 10/40 for data related to laboratory analysis, e.g. patient specimen analysis
• 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 30/20 for handling medical images, e.g. DICOM, HL7 or PACS
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 30/40 for processing medical images, e.g. editing
• CPC Class Codes: G16Z 99/00 Subject matter not provided for in other main groups of this subclass

Abstract

A patient information interface system presents an aggregated, graphical view of patient anatomy and history. The system includes a graphical representation of at least a portion of a human anatomy including one or more indicators, aggregated from a plurality of clinical information sources and located at anatomical locations on the representation, that correspond to clinical events that have occurred in connection with a patient. The system also includes an electronic health record timeline of clinical events for the patient. The timeline includes the same one or more indicators that are displayed on the graphical representation corresponding to clinical events that have occurred in connection with a patient. A selection or change of an indicator on one of the graphical representation or the electronic health record timeline triggers a corresponding selection or change of the indicator on the other of the graphical representation or the electronic health record timeline.

Claims

1. A patient information interface system presenting an aggregated, graphical view of patient anatomy and history, said system comprising:

a graphical representation of at least a portion of a human anatomy including one or more indicators corresponding to clinical events that have occurred in connection with a patient, each of the one or more indicators located at an anatomical location on the graphical representation affected by the clinical event corresponding to the indicator; and

an electronic health record timeline of clinical events for the patient, the timeline including the one or more indicators corresponding to clinical events that have occurred in connection with a patient, the one or more indicators displayed on both the graphical representation and the electronic health record timeline, the one or more indicators representing clinical event information aggregated from a plurality of clinical information sources,

wherein a selection or change of an indicator on one of the graphical representation or the electronic health record timeline triggers a corresponding selection or change of the indicator on the other of the graphical representation or the electronic health record timeline.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the electronic health record timeline comprises a plurality of parallel timelines, each of the timelines indicating a certain type of clinical events occurring with respect to the patient.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the one or more indicators are provided from one or more of the plurality of clinical information sources and are deduced from information in clinical data messages from one or more of the plurality of clinical information sources.

4. The system of claim 1, further comprising a time bar positionable by a user at a certain point along the electronic health record timeline to display information regarding one or more clinical events for the patient occurring at that point in the timeline.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein selection of one of the one or more indicators on either the graphical representation or the electronic health record timeline displays a document corresponding to the clinical event for the patient.

6. The system of claim 1, wherein positioning a cursor over one of one or more indicators on either the graphical representation or the electronic health record timeline displays a thumbnail view of a document corresponding to the clinical event for the patient.

7. The system of claim 1, wherein the graphical representation comprises a three-dimensional representation of at least a portion of a human anatomy.

8. The system of claim 1, wherein the electronic health record timeline is overlaid on the graphical representation for joint manipulation of the one or more indicators of the graphical representation and the electronic health record timeline.

9. The system of claim 1, wherein a characteristic of the one or more indicators indicates at least one of a type, a status, and a severity of the clinical event corresponding to the indicator.

10. The system of claim 1, further comprising a control to allow a user to manipulate a view of the graphical representation.

11. A method for aggregating and displaying a graphical view of patient anatomy and history, said method comprising:

compiling patient information from a plurality of clinical information sources and identifying clinical events related to the patient based on the patient information;

graphically displaying the compiled patient information using both a graphical representation of at least a portion of a human anatomy and an electronic health record timeline of clinical events for the patient, each of the representation and the timeline including corresponding sets of one or more indicators identifying clinical events that have occurred in connection with the patient, each of the one or more indicators located at an anatomical location on the graphical representation affected by the clinical event corresponding to the indicator and located on the timeline at a point in time at which the clinical event occurred; and

facilitating user interaction with the displayed patient clinical event indicators on both the graphical representation and the timeline, wherein a selection or change of an indicator on one of the graphical representation or the electronic health record timeline triggers a corresponding selection or change of the indicator on the other of the graphical representation or the electronic health record timeline.

12. The method of claim 11, wherein the electronic health record timeline comprises a plurality of parallel timelines, each of the timelines indicating a certain type of clinical events occurring with respect to the patient.

13. The method of claim 11, further comprising deducing a relationship between clinical events based on information in clinical data messages from one or more of the plurality of clinical information sources.

14. The method of claim 11, wherein user interaction comprises positioning a time bar at a certain point along the electronic health record timeline to display information regarding one or more clinical events for the patient occurring at that point in the timeline.

15. The method of claim 11, further comprising displaying a document corresponding to the clinical event for the patient based on selection by a user of one of the one or more indicators on either the graphical representation or the electronic health record timeline.

16. The method of claim 11, further comprising displaying a thumbnail view of a document corresponding to the clinical event for the patient based on positioning by a user of a cursor over one of one or more indicators on either the graphical representation or the electronic health record timeline.

17. The method of claim 11, wherein the electronic health record timeline is overlaid on the graphical representation for joint manipulation of the one or more indicators of the graphical representation and the electronic health record timeline.

18. The method of claim 11, wherein a characteristic of the one or more indicators indicates at least one of a type, a status, and a severity of the clinical event corresponding to the indicator.

19. The method of claim 11, wherein facilitating user interaction further comprises allowing a user to manipulate a view of the graphical representation.

20. A machine readable medium having a set of instructions for execution on a computing device, the set of instructions, when executed on the computing device, causing the computing device to execute a method for aggregating and displaying a graphical view of patient anatomy and history, the method comprising:

compiling patient information from a plurality of clinical information sources and identifying clinical events related to the patient based on the patient information;

graphically displaying the compiled patient information using both a graphical representation of at least a portion of a human anatomy and an electronic health record timeline of clinical events for the patient, each of the representation and the timeline including corresponding sets of one or more indicators identifying clinical events that have occurred in connection with the patient, each of the one or more indicators located at an anatomical location on the graphical representation affected by the clinical event corresponding to the indicator and located on the timeline at a point in time at which the clinical event occurred; and

facilitating user interaction with the displayed patient clinical event indicators on both the graphical representation and the timeline, wherein a selection or change of an indicator on one of the graphical representation or the electronic health record timeline triggers a corresponding selection or change of the indicator on the other of the graphical representation or the electronic health record timeline.