Automatically Pre-Populated Templated Clinical Daily Progress Notes

• US 20090326985A1
• Filed: 06/30/2009
• Published: 12/31/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 06/30/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Global Care Quest, Inc. (Karl Storz Se & Co. Kg), Regents of the University of California (University of California)
• Original Assignee: Global Care Quest, Inc. (Karl Storz Se & Co. Kg)
• Inventors: Martin, Neil A., Hu, Xiao, Zlatev, Vesselin, Buxey, Farzad D.
• Application Number:
  US12/495,322
• Publication Number:
  US 20090326985A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/3
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/186 Templates
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 40/08 Insurance
• 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

Abstract

A system and method for providing a pre-populated daily progress note to a health care provider in response to a request for such a note or on a pre-determined schedule. The system includes a server, and databases in communication with the server. The server is connected to a communication network. Software on server the generates a pre-populated daily progress note for a patient by retrieving clinical data related to that patient and populating the corresponding fields of the template. The system transmits the daily progress note to a health care provider who may enter additional data into the template. The health care provider transmits the completed daily progress note to the hospital server.

Claims

1. A system for providing pre-populated daily progress notes to a health care provider, comprising:

a server;

a clinical data database in communication with said server, said database comprising a plurality clinical data components;

a template database in communication with said server, said template database comprising at least one template, said template comprising one or more fields corresponding to one or more clinical data components;

software executing on said sever for merging said one or more clinical data components with said template to form a pre-populated template;

software executing on said server for automatically transmitting said pre-populated template to a health care provider via push delivery.

2. The system for claim 1, wherein said software transmits said pre-populated template via email.

3. The system of claim 2, wherein said pre-populated template comprises a plurality of clinical data components,

wherein each said clinical data component is related to a first patient.

4. The system of claim 3, wherein said email further comprises:

a plurality of pre-populated templates, each said template comprising clinical data components related to one of a plurality of patients.

5. The system of claim 4, wherein said health care provider is responsible for providing care to said plurality of patients.

6. The system of claim 5, wherein the system automatically transmits said plurality of pre-populated templates to said health care provider on a periodic basis corresponding to a rounding schedule of said health care provider.

7. The system of claim 3, further comprising:

software executing on said server for receiving a completed template from said health care provider;

wherein said completed template comprises a plurality of clinical data components entered by said health care provider.

8. The system of claim 7, further comprising:

software executing on said server for updating said clinical data database with said plurality of clinical data components entered by said health care provider.

9. The system of claim 8, further comprising:

software executing on said server for storing said completed template;

wherein said health care provider can review said completed template stored on said server via a client in communication with said server via said network,

wherein said health care provider can authorize said completed template stored on said server.

10. The system of claim 8, further comprising:

software executing on said server for transmitting at least a portion of said completed template to one or more third parties.

11. The system of claim 10, wherein said completed template is pre-configured with an address of said one or more third parties.

12. The system of claim 5, further comprising

software executing on said server for encrypting said pre-populated template,

wherein said software encrypts said pre-populated template prior to transmitting said pre-populated template to said health care provider.

13. The system of 7, further comprising:

software executing on said server for determining an author of said entered clinical data components.

14. The system of claim 13, further comprising:

software executing on said server for generating a confirmation of receipt in response to a receipt of said completed template;

software executing on said server for transmitting said confirmation of receipt to said health care provider.

15. A system for providing pre-populated daily progress notes to a health care provider, comprising:

a server;

a clinical data database in communication with said server, said database comprising a plurality clinical data components;

a template database in communication with said server, said template database comprising at least one template, said template comprising one or more fields corresponding to one or more clinical data components;

software executing on said sever for merging one or more clinical data components with said one or more fields of said template to form a pre-populated template;

a communication link between said server and a network;

a client device;

a communication link between said client device and said network;

software executing on said server for transmitting said pre-populated template to said client device via said network.

16. The system of claim 15, further comprising

software executing on said server for receiving a request for said pre-populated template from said client device;

wherein said server transmits said pre-populated template to said client device in response to said request.

17. The system of claim 16, wherein said server transmits a plurality of pre-populated templates to said client device.

18. The system of claim 15 further comprising:

software executing on said client device for displaying said pre-populate template;

software executing on said client device for entering clinical data components into one or more fields of said pre-populated template.

19. The system of claim 15, further comprising

software executing on said server for transmitting said pre-populated template to said electronic device on a push basis.

20. The system of claim 19, wherein said software executing on said server transmits said pre-populated template to said electronic device in accordance with a daily schedule of said health care provider.

21. A method for generating and transmitting a pre-populated daily progress note, comprising the steps of:

providing an electronic daily progress note template having one or more fields;

generating a pre-populated daily progress note by merging clinical data components with said one or more fields of said daily progress note template;

transmitting said pre-populated daily progress note to a health care provider via email.

22. The method for claim 21, further comprising the step of:

transmitting said pre-populated daily progress note to said health care provider on a daily basis prior to a scheduled round of said health care provider.

23. The method of claim 22, wherein said first merged template comprises a plurality of clinical data components, each said plurality of clinical data components being associated with a first patient.