Medical Information Generation and Recordation Methods and Apparatus

• US 20110231786A1
• Filed: 03/17/2010
• Published: 09/22/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 03/17/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Discus Analytics LLC
• Original Assignee: Discus Analytics LLC
• Inventors: Kenney, Howard M., Ferguson, Karen M., Mueller, Eric C., LaSalle, Sean P., Craig, Gary L., Butler, Jeffrey B.
• Granted Patent: US 8,458,610 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/771
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 10/60 for patient-specific data, e.g. for electronic patient records
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 15/00 ICT specially adapted for medical reports, e.g. generation or transmission thereof

Abstract

Computer-implemented medical information recording methods are described. According to one aspect, a computer-implemented medical information recording method includes displaying a graphical user interface including a graphical representation of the human anatomy, accessing user inputs interacting with the graphical representation of the human anatomy, and generating an electronic record comprising data pertaining to the health of the patient using the user inputs interacting with the graphical representation of the human anatomy.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented medical information recording method comprising:

displaying a graphical user interface including a graphical representation of the human anatomy;

accessing user inputs interacting with the graphical representation of the human anatomy; and

using the user inputs interacting with the graphical representation of the human anatomy, generating an electronic record which includes data pertaining to the health of the patient.

2. The method of claim 1 wherein at least one the user inputs selects one of a plurality of parts of the human anatomy, and the data pertaining to the health of the patient included in the electronic record comprises data with respect to the one of the parts of the human anatomy.

3. The method of claim 1 wherein the graphical representation includes different parts of the human anatomy, and the generating comprises generating the electronic record including a table having a plurality of entries corresponding to the different parts of the human anatomy, and data associated with the entries which corresponds to the user inputs.

4. The method of claim 1 wherein the generating comprises generating the electronic record including the data pertaining to the health of the patient in the form of an outcome measure which is indicative of a level of disease in the patient.

5. The method of claim 1 wherein accessing comprises accessing the user inputs which result from interactions of medical personnel with the patient at one moment in time, and wherein the generating comprises generating the electronic record including the data comprising trend data pertaining to the health of the patient at a plurality of moments in time including the one moment in time.

6. The method of claim 5 further comprising generating a graph of the trend data pertaining to the health of the patient at the plurality of moments in time including the one moment in time.

7. The method of claim 1 further comprising generating the data pertaining to the health of the patient using the user inputs.

8. The method of claim 1 wherein the displaying comprises displaying the graphical user interface comprising the data pertaining to the health of the patient.

9. The method of claim 1 further comprising:

selecting some of the data pertaining to the health of the patient which corresponds to an outcome measure which is indicative of disease activity in the patient; and

calculating a score for the outcome measure using the some of the data pertaining to the health of the patient.

10. The method of claim 9 wherein the calculating comprises calculating the score using a plurality of parameters, and further comprising displaying a visual analog scale for one of the parameters, and accessing user input interacting with the visual analog scale which selects a value for one of the parameters used in the calculation of the score of the outcome measure.

11. The method of claim 9 further comprising accessing laboratory information regarding the individual, and wherein the calculating comprises calculating the score using the laboratory information.

12. The method of claim 9 wherein the displaying comprises displaying the user interface including the graphical representation of the human anatomy including a plurality of joints and the data comprises a plurality of conditions associated with different ones of the joints, and the selecting comprises selecting comprises selecting the conditions for some of the joints.

13. The method of claim 9 wherein the user inputs result from interactions of the medical personnel with the patient at one moment in time, and the generating comprises generating the electronic record comprising trend data regarding the patient comprising a plurality of scores of the patient at a plurality of moments in time including the one moment in time.

14. The method of claim 1 further comprising generating a report comprising the data pertaining to the health of the patient for submission to a medical agency with respect to compensation for services of the medical personnel treating the patient.

15. The method of claim 1 wherein the displaying comprises displaying the user interface including the graphical representation of the human anatomy including a plurality of joints, and further comprising assigning one of a plurality of conditions to at least one of the joints as a result of the user inputs.

16. The method of claim 15 wherein the generating comprises generating the electronic record comprising a table including an entry for the at least one of the joints, and data including the one of the conditions associated with the entry for the at least one of the joints.

17. The method of claim 15 wherein the assigning comprises assigning the one of the conditions to a plurality of the joints, and further comprising determining a total number of joints having the one of the conditions.

18. The method of claim 15 wherein the user inputs assign a plurality of different conditions to a plurality of the joints, and further comprising determining total numbers of the joints having the respective different conditions.

19. A computer-implemented method for generating medical information for a patient comprising:

displaying a graphical user interface having a graphical representation of a plurality of different joints of the human anatomy;

accessing user inputs which interact with at least some of the joints of the graphical representation of the human anatomy;

as a result of the user inputs, associating a plurality of different conditions with different ones of the joints for a patient; and

using the joints with the associated conditions, determining a value of an outcome measure which is indicative of a level of activity of arthritis in the patient.

20. The method of claim 19 further comprising generating a report including the value of the outcome measure and a table having a plurality of entries corresponding to the joints of the human anatomy and data associated with the entries which corresponds to the user inputs.

21. The method of claim 19 wherein accessing comprises accessing the user inputs which result from interactions of medical personnel with the patient at one moment in time, and further comprising generating trend data pertaining to the health of the patient at a plurality of moments in time including the one moment in time.

22. The method of claim 19 wherein the determining comprises determining the value of the outcome measure using laboratory information and a value indicative of the general health of the patient.

23. An article of manufacture comprising:

at least one computer-readable media comprising programming configured to cause processing circuitry to perform processing comprising;

displaying a graphical user interface including a graphical representation of the human anatomy, wherein the graphical representation includes a plurality of joints;

accessing user inputs interacting with the graphical representation of the human anatomy;

as a result of the user inputs, associating a plurality of different conditions with different joints of a patient; and

displaying information regarding the different conditions associated with the different joints of the patient.

24. The article of claim 23 further comprising determining a value of an outcome measure using the different conditions associated with the different ones of the joints of the patient.

25. The article of claim 23 wherein the displaying comprises displaying a table having a plurality of entries corresponding to the joints of the human anatomy and data associated with the entries which corresponds to the user inputs.

26. The article of claim 23 wherein the displaying comprises displaying the graphical representation of the human anatomy which graphically indicates the different conditions associated with the different joints.