Proximity-Based Task Lists

• US 20110106565A1
• Filed: 12/29/2010
• Published: 05/05/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 11/04/2009
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Cerner Innovation, Inc. (Oracle Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Cerner Innovation, Inc. (Oracle Corporation)
• Inventors: Compton, David, Eaton, James, Pierre, David, Sawka, Matthew, Nelson, Justin
• Application Number:
  US12/980,497
• Publication Number:
  US 20110106565A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/3
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/00 Administration; Management
• 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

Abstract

Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for providing proximity-based task lists to clinicians are provided. In embodiments, a task is identified as well as a clinician that is near a location associated with the task. In addition to identifying clinicians that are near the location associated with the task, clinicians authorized to complete the task and available to complete the task are identified. If all criteria are met, a clinician may be assigned to the task and notified of the task. Additionally, a task may be reassigned to a different clinician should any of the criteria fail to be satisfied at any point.

Claims

1. One or more computer-storage media having computer-useable instructions embodied thereon that, when executed, perform a method, the method comprising:

identifying in a patient'"'"'s electronic health record that a first task has been ordered for the patient;

receiving a location for the patient by way of a patient identifier, wherein the patient identifier is tracked via a plurality of sensors in a healthcare environment;

identifying a first clinician that is near the location of the patient, wherein the first clinician is determined to be near the location of the patient utilizing the plurality of sensors in the healthcare environment;

determining whether the first clinician is authorized to complete the first task;

upon determining that the first clinician is authorized to complete the first task, assigning the first task to the first clinician; and

presenting a notification of the first task to the first clinician, wherein the notification includes an option to receive navigation to the location for the patient.

2. The computer-storage media of claim 1, wherein the method further comprises:

presenting the notification to the first clinician via a mobile device.

3. The computer-storage media of claim 1, wherein the method further comprises:

presenting navigational directions to the first clinician.

4. The computer storage media of claim 3, wherein the navigations directions are one of a list of turn-by-turn directions, a blueprint of the healthcare environment, or a combination thereof.

5. The computer-storage media of claim 4, wherein the method further comprises:

determining if a workload of the first clinician allows the first clinician to be assigned to the first task.

6. The computer-storage media of claim 1, wherein the plurality of sensors utilize a real-time location services technology.

7. The computer-storage media of claim 1, wherein the notification is an audio notification.

8. The computer-storage media of claim 1, wherein the method further comprises presenting status updates of a task via a mobile device.

9. The computer-storage media of claim 1, further comprising presenting a patient-specific task list to the first clinician, wherein the patient-specific task list includes one or more tasks that have been ordered for the patient.

10. One or more computer-storage media having computer-useable instructions embodied thereon that, when executed, perform a method, the method comprising:

receiving an indication that an ordering clinician has input a task for a patient;

identifying one or more clinicians that are near the patient;

determining if any of the one or more clinicians that are near the patient are authorized to perform the task for the patient;

upon determining that a first clinician of the one or more clinicians that are near the patient is authorized to perform the task for the patient, assigning the task to the first clinician;

receiving a workload update of the first clinician;

determining whether the workload update of the first clinician requires that the task be reassigned to a second clinician that is near the patient and authorized to complete the task;

upon determining the workload update of the first clinician requires that the task be reassigned to the second clinician, assigning the task to the second clinician;

notifying the second clinician of the task and a location to complete the task; and

routing the second clinician to the location to complete the task.

11. The computer-storage media of claim 10, wherein the method further comprises:

presenting the location to complete the task on a mobile device with a screen.

12. The computer-storage media of claim 11, wherein the location to complete the task is presented on a blueprint of a healthcare environment.

13. The computer-storage media of claim 10, wherein routing the second clinician to the location to complete the task includes providing turn-by-turn instructions in combination with a blueprint of a healthcare environment.

14. The computer-storage media of claim 10, wherein the location to complete the task is identified by a plurality of sensors within a healthcare environment.

15. The computer-storage media of claim 14, wherein the plurality of sensors utilize a real-time location services technology.

16. One or more computer-storage media having computer-useable instructions embodied thereon that, when executed, perform a method, the method comprising:

identifying a first upcoming task for a patient;

determining a location of the patient, wherein the location of the patient is determined based on a patient identifier that is identified by one of a plurality of sensors in the healthcare environment;

accessing clinician location information, wherein clinician location information is obtained via clinician identifiers that are identified by the plurality of sensors in the healthcare environment;

identifying a clinician nearest to the location of the patient;

determining whether the patient is associated with one or more additional upcoming tasks;

upon determining that the patient is associated with one or more additional upcoming tasks, assigning both the first upcoming task and the one or more additional upcoming tasks to the clinician nearest to the location of the patient;

displaying a notification to the nearest clinician that the first upcoming task and the one or more additional upcoming tasks are required for the patient, wherein the notification includes a selectable navigation indicator that, upon selection thereof, routes the nearest clinician to a location to complete the first upcoming task and the one or more additional upcoming tasks.

17. The computer-storage media of claim 16, wherein the notification is presented to the nearest clinician via a mobile device with a screen.

18. The computer-storage media of claim 16, wherein the nearest clinician is a clinician associated with a clinician location that is near the location of the patient.

19. The computer-storage media of claim 16, wherein the method further comprises:

presenting the clinician with the location to complete the tasks via a mobile device by way of a blueprint of a healthcare environment.

20. The computer-storage media of claim 16, wherein the plurality of sensors utilize one of ultrasound technology, infrared technology, or radio-frequency identification technology.