PATIENT DIABETES DATA INTERCHANGE WITH ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORDS

• US 20100076784A1
• Filed: 09/19/2008
• Published: 03/25/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 09/19/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Roche Diabetes Care Inc. (Roche Holding AG)
• Original Assignee: Roche Diagnostics Operations Incorporated (Roche Holding AG)
• Inventors: Butt, Anthony J., Dressler, Brittany A., Davenport, Kristin, Gejdos, Igor, Greenburg, Alan M.
• Granted Patent: US 8,583,455 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/3
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 10/60 for patient-specific data, e.g. for electronic patient records

Abstract

A system and method for transferring patient diabetes information into an electronic medical record on a health record system with user validation are disclosed. After testing a patient'"'"'s blood glucose levels over a period of time with a blood glucose meter which stores the patient diabetes information and the blood glucose levels in a first electronic format record, and after a user transfers the first electronic format record from the blood glucose meter into a diabetes management system on a computer, the invention provides a service which automatically monitors an output folder to determine when an export file containing the patient diabetes information is stored therein and after detection, automatically processes the export file into a default electronic medical report which can be copied into a clipboard utility provided by the computer and pasted into the electronic medical record of the patient on the health record system.

Claims

1. A method for formatting and transferring patient diabetes data into an electronic medical record on a health record system with user validation, after testing a patient'"'"'s blood glucose levels over a period of time with a blood glucose meter which stores the patient diabetes data containing blood glucose levels in a first electronic format and after a user transfers the patient diabetes data from the blood glucose meter into a patient record provided by a diabetes management system on a computer, creates an export file which provides the patient diabetes data in a second electronic format and stores the export filed to an output folder, said method comprising:

providing an interface service which automatically monitors the output folder to determine when the export file is provided thereto;

automatically detecting with the service the export file when provided to the output folder;

after detection, automatically parsing and formatting with the interface service the export file into formatted patient diabetes data according to a pre-defined report template;

automatically opening a dialog box which displays the formatted patient diabetes data;

copying the displayed formatted patient diabetes data into a clipboard utility provided by the computer;

selecting and displaying the electronic medical record of the patient in a client application of the health record system provided on the computer; and

pasting and displaying the formatted patient diabetes data in the electronic medical record of the patient.

2. The method of claim 1 further comprising permitting automatic reformatting of the formatted patient diabetes data by selection of another report template from a plurality of report templates listed in a choice box provided by the dialog box.

3. The method of claim 2 further comprises selecting another report template.

4. The method of claim 1 wherein the automatically parsing and formatting with the interface service of the export file is also according to a pre-defined date range.

5. The method of claim 1 wherein the automatically parsing and formatting with the interface service of the export file is also according to a pre-defined date range, and said method further comprises permitting automatic reformatting of the formatted patient diabetes data by selection of another date range from a plurality of date ranges listed in a choice box provided by the dialog box.

6. The method of claim 1 wherein the user interface of the health record system stores the pasted formatted patient diabetes data in a database of the health record system.

7. The method of claim 1 further comprises accessing the health record system over a network from another computer.

8. The method of claim 1 further comprising providing the health record system on the computer.

9. The method of claim 1 further comprising closing the dialog box along with automatically clearing the clipboard service and removing the export file from the export folder.

10. The method of claim 1 further comprising including patient locator data from the diabetes management system in the formatted patient diabetes data.

11. The method of claim 1 further comprising providing an additional data processing service that intercepts a storage path of the electronic medical record which continues into the medical record database and provides an output path that stores the storage path and patient locator data as mapping information.

12. The method of claim 11, further comprising allowing the interface service to access the mapping information and directing future records for the same patient using an alternate direct route to store the formatted patient diabetes data without a further need for user intervention.

13. A computer system implementing the method of claim 1.

14. A computer readable medium providing instructions which will configured a computer system to implement the method of claim 1.