METHOD, APPARATUS AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR PROVIDING A DISTRIBUTED CARE PLANNING TOOL

• US 20110218819A1
• Filed: 03/02/2010
• Published: 09/08/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 03/02/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Change Healthcare Holdings, LLC (UnitedHealth Group Incorporated)
• Original Assignee: Mckesson Financial Holdings Limited (McKesson Corp.)
• Inventors: Malec, Arien
• Application Number:
  US12/715,633
• Publication Number:
  US 20110218819A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/3
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 20/00 ICT specially adapted for therapies or health-improving plans, e.g. for handling prescriptions, for steering therapy or for monitoring patient compliance
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/67 for remote operation

Abstract

A method for providing distributed care plan management may include receiving, at a service platform, information associated with a care plan item for a patient in which the information is received from a health system entity among a plurality of health system entities with which the service platform is capable of communicating. The method may further include storing the information in association with a care plan of the patient, and providing delivery of at least a portion of the information to a different entity with selected view parameters for rendering the portion of the information being determined based on an identity of the different entity. A corresponding computer program product and apparatus are also provided.

Claims

1. A method for providing distributed care plan management comprising:

receiving, at a service platform, information associated with a care plan item for a patient, the information being received from a health system entity among a plurality of health system entities with which the service platform is capable of communicating;

storing the information in association with a care plan of the patient; and

providing, via processing circuitry, delivery of at least a portion of the information to a different entity with selected view parameters for rendering the portion of the information being determined based on an identity of the different entity.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein receiving the information further comprises receiving additional information from multiple respective ones of the plurality of health system entities and wherein storing the information comprises storing the additional information received from each of the multiple respective ones of the plurality of health system entities in association with a corresponding care plan item of the care plan.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein receiving the information further comprises receiving patient specific and care plan item specific information for a plurality of different patients and wherein storing the information comprises storing the patient specific and care plan item specific information received in association with a corresponding care plan item of each respective different patient.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein providing delivery of the portion of the information comprises providing a different view of different selected information for respective ones of a patient, a care provider or a care manager.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein providing the different view comprises utilizing a view selection algorithm to select view parameters based on the identity.

6. The method of claim 4, wherein providing the different view comprises utilizing a view template to provide a view of the selected information based on the identity.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein receiving the information comprises receiving the information from health care entities employing different applications for generation of the information.

8. A computer program product for providing distributed care plan management, the computer program product comprising at least one computer-readable storage medium having computer-executable program code instructions stored therein, the computer-executable program code instructions comprising:

program code instructions for receiving, at a service platform, information associated with a care plan item for a patient, the information being received from a health system entity among a plurality of health system entities with which the service platform is capable of communicating;

program code instructions for storing the information in association with a care plan of the patient; and

program code instructions for providing delivery of at least a portion of the information to a different entity with selected view parameters for rendering the portion of the information being determined based on an identity of the different entity.

9. The computer program product of claim 8, wherein program code instructions for receiving the information further include instructions for receiving additional information from multiple respective ones of the plurality of health system entities and wherein program code instructions for storing the information include instructions for storing the additional information received from each of the multiple respective ones of the plurality of health system entities in association with a corresponding care plan item of the care plan.

10. The computer program product of claim 8, wherein program code instructions for receiving the information further include instructions for receiving patient specific and care plan item specific information for a plurality of different patients and wherein program code instructions for storing the information include instructions for storing the patient specific and care plan item specific information received in association with a corresponding care plan item of each respective different patient.

11. The computer program product of claim 8, wherein program code instructions for providing delivery of the portion of the information include instructions for providing a different view of different selected information for respective ones of a patient, a care provider or a care manager.

12. The computer program product of claim 11, wherein program code instructions for providing the different view include instructions for utilizing a view selection algorithm to select view parameters based on the identity.

13. The computer program product of claim 11, wherein program code instructions for providing the different view include instructions for utilizing a view template to provide a view of the selected information based on the identity.

14. An apparatus for providing a distributed care plan manager comprising processing circuitry configured to:

receive, at a service platform, information associated with a care plan item for a patient, the information being received from a health system entity among a plurality of health system entities with which the service platform is capable of communicating;

store the information in association with a care plan of the patient; and

provide delivery of at least a portion of the information to a different entity with selected view parameters for rendering the portion of the information being determined based on an identity of the different entity.

15. The apparatus of claim 14, wherein the processing circuitry is configured to receive the information including receiving additional information from multiple respective ones of the plurality of health system entities and wherein the processing circuitry is configured to store the information by storing the additional information received from each of the multiple respective ones of the plurality of health system entities in association with a corresponding care plan item of the care plan.

16. The apparatus of claim 14, wherein the processing circuitry is configured to receive the information by receiving patient specific and care plan item specific information for a plurality of different patients and wherein the processing circuitry is configured to store the information by storing the patient specific and care plan item specific information received in association with a corresponding care plan item of each respective different patient.

17. The apparatus of claim 14, wherein the processing circuitry is configured to provide delivery of the portion of the information by providing a different view of different selected information for respective ones of a patient, a care provider or a care manager.

18. The apparatus of claim 16, wherein the processing circuitry is configured to provide the different view by utilizing a view selection algorithm to select view parameters based on the identity.

19. The apparatus of claim 16, wherein the processing circuitry is configured to provide the different view by utilizing a view template to provide a view of the selected information based on the identity.

20. The apparatus of claim 14, wherein the processing circuitry is configured to receive the information by receiving the information from health care entities employing different applications for generation of the information.