GENERATING A HEALTHCARE TIMELINE

• US 20110145012A1
• Filed: 12/11/2009
• Published: 06/16/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 12/11/2009
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Cerner Innovation, Inc. (Oracle Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Cerner Innovation, Inc. (Oracle Corporation)
• Inventors: Solito, Melissa, Ryan, Hugh, Sutariya, Bharat, Nightingale, Brent, Zimmerman, Heidi
• Application Number:
  US12/636,206
• Publication Number:
  US 20110145012A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/3
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 20/10 relating to drugs or medications, e.g. for ensuring correct administration to patients
• 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

Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for generating healthcare timelines are provided. In embodiments, healthcare timelines are generated based on a clinical condition identified for a patient and a patient care plan associated with the clinical condition. Evidence-based best practice standards are evaluated to generate the healthcare timeline as well as a patient history that may affect the healthcare timeline and best practice standards that are appropriate for the patient. The healthcare timeline includes an onset time of the clinical condition, one or more tasks to complete for the clinical condition, and a timer that illustrates an amount of time remaining to complete the one or more tasks before expiration of the timer and administration of a critical treatment.

Claims

1. One or more computer-storage media having computer-executable instructions embodied thereon that, when executed, perform a method for generating a healthcare timeline, the method comprising:

receiving an indication of a clinical condition for a patient including an onset time of the clinical condition;

generating a healthcare timeline based on the clinical condition and the onset time of the clinical condition, wherein the healthcare timeline includes;

a critical point that represents a time to administer a critical treatment to the patient that is within a predetermined amount of time from the onset time; and

one or more tasks to complete prior to the critical point; and

displaying the healthcare timeline to a clinician.

2. The computer-storage media of claim 1, wherein the onset time is an actual onset time or an estimated onset time.

3. The computer-storage media of claim 1, wherein the predetermined amount of time from the onset time is determined by evidence-based best practice standards.

4. The computer-storage media of claim 1, further comprising:

displaying the healthcare timeline to the patient.

5. The computer-storage media of claim 1, further comprising:

determining whether a patient history includes factors that effect the healthcare timeline.

6. The computer-storage media of claim 5, further comprising:

upon a determination that the patient history does not include factors that effect the healthcare timeline, displaying the healthcare timeline to the clinician; and

upon a determination that the patient history does include factors that effect the healthcare timeline, customizing the healthcare timeline for the patient and displaying the customized healthcare timeline to the clinician.

7. The computer-storage media of claim 1, wherein one of the one or more tasks to complete prior to the critical point is a condition-specific task that is associated with a target completion time.

8. One or more computer-storage media having computer-executable instructions embodied thereon that, when executed, perform a method for generating a healthcare timeline, the method comprising:

receiving an indication of a clinical condition for a patient, wherein the indication of the clinical condition includes an onset time for the clinical condition;

identifying a patient care plan associated with the clinical condition, wherein the patient care plan includes one or more tasks to complete within a predetermined amount of time from the onset time;

generating a healthcare timeline for the patient care plan, wherein the healthcare timeline includes;

the onset time for the clinical condition;

an arrival time of the patient to a healthcare facility;

the one or more tasks to complete, wherein each of the one or more tasks to complete are associated with a target completion time, and wherein at least one of the one or more tasks to complete is specific to the clinical condition;

one or more completed tasks, wherein the one or more completed tasks are associated with an actual completion time;

a current time indicator; and

a timer, wherein the timer displays an amount of time remaining from the predetermined amount of time to complete the one or more tasks; and

displaying the healthcare timeline to a clinician.

9. The computer-storage media of claim 8, further comprising:

displaying the healthcare timeline to the patient.

10. The computer-storage media of claim 8, further comprising:

determining whether a patient history includes factors that effect the healthcare timeline.

11. The computer-storage media of claim 10, further comprising:

upon a determination that the patient history does not include factors that effect the healthcare timeline, displaying the healthcare timeline to the clinician; and

upon a determination that the patient history does include factors that effect the healthcare timeline, customizing the healthcare timeline for the patient and displaying the customized healthcare timeline to the clinician.

12. The computer-storage media of claim 10, wherein the patient history is obtained from a patient'"'"'s electronic medical record.

13. The computer-storage media of claim 10, wherein the clinical condition is one of a stroke, an acute myocardial infarction, pneumonia, or asthma.

14. A graphical user interface (GUI) stored on one or more computer-readable media and executable by a computing device, said GUI comprising:

an onset time display area configured for displaying an onset time of a clinical condition for a patient;

an arrival time display area configured for displaying a time of arrival to a healthcare facility for the patient;

a task status display area configured for displaying one or more tasks to perform, wherein each of the one or more tasks to perform are associated with a target completion time, and wherein at least one of the one or more tasks to complete is specific to the clinical condition; and

a critical point timer area configured for displaying a time remaining of a predetermined amount of time from the onset time to complete the one or more tasks prior to administration of a critical treatment.

15. The GUI of claim 14, further comprising a current time indicator.

16. The GUI of claim 14, further comprising one or more completed tasks, wherein the one or more completed tasks are associated with an actual completion time.

17. The GUI of claim 16, wherein hovering over one of the one or more completed tasks results in a task detail window.

18. The GUI of claim 14, further comprising an alarm icon indicating that one of the one or more tasks to complete is approaching the target completion time.

19. The GUI of claim 14, further comprising a past due icon indicating that one of the one or more tasks to complete remains has the target completion time prior to an actual completion time.

20. The GUI of claim 14, wherein the clinical condition is a stroke.