HEALTHCARE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, COMPUTER-READABLE NON-TRANSITORY STORAGE MEDIUM, AND COMPUTER-IMPLEMENTED METHOD FOR COMPILING A GUIDELINE MODEL INTO A RULE SET

• US 20120065986A1
• Filed: 08/08/2011
• Published: 03/15/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 09/13/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V. (Koninklijke Philips N.V.)
• Original Assignee: Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V. (Koninklijke Philips N.V.)
• Inventors: TESANOVIC, Aleksandra, REITER, Harald
• Application Number:
  US13/204,742
• Publication Number:
  US 20120065986A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/2
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/06 Resources, workflows, human or project management; Enterprise or organisation planning; Enterprise or organisation modelling
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/67 for remote operation
• 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 healthcare management system comprising:

• • a guideline model database containing models of medical guidelines;
  • a computer system comprising a processor and a display; and
  • a computer-readable non-transitory storage medium containing instructions for execution by the processor, wherein the instructions cause the processor to perform the steps of:
    • reading a guideline model from the guideline model database,
    • displaying the guideline model on the display, wherein the guideline model is displayed as a diagram,
    • receiving a set of annotations of the diagram,
    • compiling the guideline model into a rule set using the annotations,
    • writing the rule set into a rule database.

Claims

1. A healthcare management system comprising:

a guideline model database containing models of medical guidelines;

a computer system comprising a processor and a display; and

a computer-readable storage medium containing instructions for execution by the processor, wherein the instructions cause the processor to perform the steps of;

reading a guideline model from the guideline model database,

displaying the guideline model on the display, wherein the guideline model is displayed as a diagram,

receiving a set of annotations of the diagram,

compiling the guideline model into a rule set using the annotations,

writing the rule set into a rule database.

2. The healthcare management system of claim 1, wherein the instructions further cause the processor to perform the steps of:

receiving a set of modifications to the diagram; and

modifying the guideline model in accordance with the set of modifications before compiling the guideline model into a rule set.

3. The healthcare management system of claim 1, wherein the annotations comprise personalization options, wherein the personalization options comprise a predetermined option which may be selected to personalize the rule set.

4. The healthcare management system of claim 3, wherein the instructions further cause the processor to perform the steps of:

reading the rule set from the rule database;

displaying personalization questions on the display, wherein the personalization questions are generated using the personalization options;

receiving a personalization selection; and

compiling a patient pathway using the rule set and the personalization selection.

5. The healthcare management system of claim 4, wherein the instructions further cause the processor to perform the step of reading a second rule set from the rule database;

wherein the personalization questions relate to both the rule set and the second rule set; and

wherein the patient pathway is compiled using the rule set, the second rule set, and the personalization selection.

6. The healthcare management system of claim 5, wherein the instructions further cause the processor to perform the steps of:

checking the combination of the rule set and the second rule set for self consistency;

displaying an error message on the display if the rule set and the second rule set are not self consistent;

receiving correction data if the error message is displayed; and

modifying the combined rule set and second rule set using the correction data.

7. The healthcare management system of claim 4, wherein the healthcare management system further comprises a remote patient management system, wherein the remote patient management system comprises an application hosting device for providing patient data, wherein the patient pathway comprises machine readable instructions executable by a remote patient management system, wherein the instructions implement a rule evaluator software module executing the patient pathway depending upon the patient data.

8. The healthcare management system of claim 1, wherein the healthcare management system further comprises a guideline database, wherein the instructions further cause the processor to perform the steps of:

reading a guideline from the guideline database;

generating the guideline model from the guideline; and

writing the guideline model into the guideline model database.

9. The healthcare management system of claim 8, wherein the guideline model is generated using a natural language processing module.

10. The healthcare management system of claim 1, wherein the diagram is a flowchart.

11. The healthcare management system of claim 1, wherein the diagram comprises boxes indicating elements of the guideline model, and wherein the annotations indicate if each element is any one of:

a decisions step, an action, and a query for data.

12. The healthcare management system of claim 1, wherein the display is a graphical user interface.

13. A computer-implemented method for compiling a guideline model into a rule set, wherein the method comprises the steps of:

reading a guideline model from a guideline model database, wherein the guideline model database contains models of medical guidelines;

displaying the guideline model on a display, wherein the guideline model is displayed as a diagram,

receiving a set of annotations of the diagram,

compiling the guideline model into a rule set using the annotations,

writing the rule set into a rule database.

14. The computer-implemented method of claim 13, wherein the method further comprises the steps of:

receiving a set of modifications to the diagram; and

modifying the guideline model in accordance with the set of modifications before compiling the guideline model into a rule set.

15. The computer-implemented method of claim 13, wherein the annotations comprise personalization options, wherein the personalization options comprise a predetermined option which may be selected to personalize the rule set.

16. The computer-implemented method of claim 15, wherein the method further comprises the steps of:

reading the rule set from the rule database;

displaying personalization questions on the display, wherein the personalization questions are generated using the personalization options;

receiving a personalization selection; and

compiling a patient pathway using the rule set and the personalization selection.

17. The healthcare management system of claim 16, wherein the method further comprises the step of reading a second rule set from the rule database;

wherein the personalization questions relates to both the rule set and the second rule set; and

wherein the patient pathway is compiled using the rule set, the second rule set, and the personalization selection.

18. A computer-readable non-transitory storage medium containing instructions for execution by the processor of a healthcare management system, wherein execution of the instructions cause the processor to perform the steps of:

reading a guideline model from a guideline model database, wherein the guideline model database contains models of medical guidelines;

displaying the guideline model on a display, wherein the guideline model is displayed as a diagram;

receiving a set of annotations of the diagram;

compiling the guideline model into a rule set using the annotations; and

writing the rule set into a rule database.

19. The computer-implemented method of claim 18, wherein execution of the instructions further cause the processor to perform the steps of:

receiving a set of modifications to the diagram; and

modifying the guideline model in accordance with the set of modifications before compiling the guideline model into a rule set.

20. The computer-implemented method of claim 18, wherein the annotations comprise personalization options, wherein the personalization options comprise a predetermined option which may be selected to personalize the rule set.

21. The computer-implemented method of claim 20, wherein execution of the instructions further cause the processor to perform the steps of:

reading the rule set from the rule database;

displaying personalization questions on the display, wherein the personalization questions are generated using the personalization options;

receiving a personalization selection; and

compiling a patient pathway using the rule set and the personalization selection.