METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SIMULTANEOUS GUIDELINE EXECUTION

• US 20110210853A1
• Filed: 10/28/2009
• Published: 09/01/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 11/06/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Koninklijke Philips N.V.
• Original Assignee: Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V. (Koninklijke Philips N.V.)
• Inventors: Rock, Joseph, Lagor, Charles, Lord, William P.
• Application Number:
  US13/125,819
• Publication Number:
  US 20110210853A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 340/573.1
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 20/40 relating to mechanical, radiation or invasive therapies, e.g. surgery, laser therapy, dialysis or acupuncture
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 50/20 for computer-aided diagnosis, e.g. based on medical expert systems
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 70/20 relating to practices or guidelines

Abstract

A system and method for retrieving a plurality of sets of recommendations, each of the sets of recommendations corresponding to a condition of a patient, displaying a first one of the sets of recommendations, monitoring data related to each of the plurality of sets of recommendations, determining, based on the monitored data, whether a second one of the sets of recommendations is to be displayed and displaying the second one of the sets of recommendations.

Claims

1. A method, comprising:

retrieving a plurality of sets of recommendations, each of the sets of recommendations corresponding to a condition of a patient;

simultaneously executing the plurality of sets of recommendations;

displaying a first one of the sets of recommendations;

monitoring data related to each of the plurality of sets of recommendations;

determining, based on the monitored data, whether a second one of the sets of recommendations is to be displayed; and

displaying the second one of the sets of recommendations.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the data is a user input.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the data is an indication of a termination of the first one of the sets of recommendations.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the data is an indication that the second one of the sets of recommendations is at an instruction having a high importance.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the first one of the set of recommendations is specific to the patient and the second one of the set of recommendations is general to a group of patients to which the patient belongs.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein the data is from one or more of the group of patients and not from the patient.

7. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

providing a user with a warning relating to modifying the display from the first one of the set of recommendations to the second one of the set of recommendations.

8. The method of claim 7, wherein the warning is one of a visible warning and an audible warning.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein only selected recommendations of the first and second sets of recommendations are displayed corresponding to a predetermined type of health care provider.

10. The method of claim 9, wherein the predetermined type of health care provider is one of a radiologist, a nurse, an x-ray technician, an emergency room physician and a surgeon.

11. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

monitoring further data related to each of the plurality of sets of recommendations;

determining, based on the monitored further data, whether a further one of the sets of recommendations is to be displayed; and

displaying the further one of the sets of recommendations.

12. The method of claim 1, wherein the data is monitored by the first set of recommendations and the second set of recommendations retrieves the data from the first set of recommendations.

13. A system, comprising:

a memory (140) storing sets of recommendations, each set of recommendations corresponding to a patient condition,

a display (110); and

a processor (130) retrieving, from the memory (140), a plurality of the sets of recommendations, the processor simultaneously executing the plurality of sets of recommendations, the display (110) displaying a first one of the plurality of the sets of recommendations, the processor (130) monitoring data related to each of the plurality of sets of recommendations and determining, based on the monitored data, whether a second one of the sets of recommendations is to be displayed and instructing the display (110) to display the second one of the sets of recommendations.

14. The system of claim 13, wherein the data is one of a user input, an indication of a termination of the first one of the sets of recommendations and an indication that the second one of the sets of recommendations is at an instruction having a high importance.

15. The system of claim 13, wherein the first one of the set of recommendations is specific to the patient and the second one of the set of recommendations is general to a group of patients to which the patient belongs.

16. The system of claim 13, wherein the processor (130) receives the data from an external information system.

17. The system of claim 16, wherein the external information system is a hospital information system.

18. The system of claim 13, wherein the processor (130) receives the data from a further device connected to the system.

19. The system of claim 13, wherein the data includes one of a test result and a result of a monitoring process.

20. A computer readable storage medium including a set of instructions executable by a processor, the instructions operable to:

retrieve a plurality of sets of recommendations, each of the sets of recommendations corresponding to a condition of a patient;

execute, simultaneously, the plurality of sets of recommendations;

display a first one of the sets of recommendations;

monitor data related to each of the plurality of sets of recommendations;

determine, based on the monitored data, whether a second one of the sets of recommendations is to be displayed; and

display the second one of the sets of recommendations.