LINKING HEALTH RECORDS

• US 20120109685A1
• Filed: 11/01/2010
• Published: 05/03/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 11/01/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Cerner Innovation, Inc. (Oracle Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Cerner Innovation, Inc. (Oracle Corporation)
• Inventors: Carter, Brian R., Ackerson, Robert Scott
• Application Number:
  US12/916,736
• Publication Number:
  US 20120109685A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/3
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 10/60 for patient-specific data, e.g. for electronic patient records

Abstract

Methods, systems, and computer storage media are provided for linking health records. A patient document may be received from a provider and confirmed by a patient to be linked to their health record. To confirm a document, a connection between a provider and a health record is established. Once the connection is initially established between the provider and the health record, subsequent patient documents received from the approved provider may be automatically linked to the health record. Connections may be established with multiple providers such that a single health record includes patient documents for multiple patient encounters with different providers.

Claims

1. One or more computer storage media storing computer-useable instructions that, when used by one or more computing devices, cause the one or more computing devices to perform a method comprising:

receiving a patient document for a patient, wherein the patient document includes patient data and clinical data;

identifying a provider associated with the patient document;

communicating a prompt to the patient to verify the patient document;

receiving input from the patient;

determining that the patient input correlates with the patient data of the patient document; and

storing, utilizing a computing device, the patient document in a health record for the patient, wherein the health record for the patient includes at least one other patient document including documentation of another patient encounter.

2. The media of claim 1, wherein the at least one other patient document is associated with a second provider.

3. The media of claim 2, wherein the provider and the second provider are different healthcare providers.

4. The media of claim 1, wherein the patient data includes demographic information of the patient.

5. The media of claim 4, wherein the patient data includes the patient'"'"'s name, the patient'"'"'s date of birth, and the patient'"'"'s postal zip code.

6. The media of claim 1, wherein the prompt is communicated to the patient based on patient contact information from the patient document.

7. The media of claim 6, wherein the patient contact information is an electronic mail address.

8. The media of claim 1, wherein the patient document is a continuity of care document for the patient encounter.

9. The media of claim 1, wherein clinical data is clinical documentation of a patient encounter.

10. The media of claim 1, further comprising:

determining whether a connection exists between the provider and the health record for the patient; and

upon determining that no connection exists between the provider and the health record for the patient, displaying a connection prompt to the patient to create the connection between the provider and the health record for the patient.

11. One or more computer storage media storing computer-useable instructions that, when used by one or more computing devices, cause the one or more computing devices to perform a method comprising:

receiving, for a patient, a patient document including patient data and clinical data;

identifying a provider associated with the patient document;

verifying the patient document, wherein verifying the patient document comprises;

(a) communicating a prompt to the patient to verify the patient document;

(b) receiving patient input including identifying information for the patient; and

(c) determining whether the patient input correlates with the patient data from the patient document;

upon determining that the identifying information from the patient input correlates with the patient data from the patient document, determining whether a connection exists between the provider and a health record of the patient associated with the patient document;

upon determining a connection does not exist between the provider and the patient'"'"'s health record, establishing a connection between the provider and the patient'"'"'s health record; and

storing, utilizing a computing device, the patient document in the patient'"'"'s health record.

12. The media of claim 11, further comprising communicating the patient document to the patient'"'"'s health record.

13. The media of claim 11, further comprising upon determining that a connection does exist between the provider and the patient'"'"'s health record, automatically storing the patient document in the patient'"'"'s health record.

14. The media of claim 11, wherein the patient data includes the patient'"'"'s name and the patient'"'"'s date of birth.

15. The media of claim 14, wherein the patient data further includes the patient'"'"'s postal zip code.

16. The media of claim 11, wherein the prompt is communicated to the patient based on patient contact information from the patient document.

17. The media of claim 11, wherein the patient document is a continuity of care document for a single patient encounter.

18. One or more computer storage media storing computer-useable instructions that, when used by one or more computing devices, cause the one or more computing devices to perform a method comprising:

receiving, for a patient, a first patient document including patient data and clinical data;

identifying a first provider associated with the first patient document;

communicating a prompt to the patient to associate the first patient document with a health record for the patient;

receiving a first patient input;

determining whether a connection exists between the first provider and the health record for the patient;

upon determining a connection does not exist between the first provider and the patient'"'"'s health record, establishing a connection between the first provider and the patient'"'"'s health record;

storing, utilizing a computing device, the first patient document in the patient'"'"'s health record;

receiving, for the patient, a second patient document including patient data;

identifying a second provider associated with the second patient document;

communicating a prompt to the patient to associate the second patient document with the health record for the patient;

receiving a second patient input;

determining whether a connection exists between the second provider and the patient'"'"'s health record;

upon determining a connection does not exist between the second provider and the patient'"'"'s health record, establishing a connection between the second provider and the patient'"'"'s health record; and

storing, utilizing the computing device, the second patient document in the patient'"'"'s health record such that the patient'"'"'s health record includes both the first patient document and the second patient document.

19. The media of claim 18, wherein the first patient document is a continuity of care document.

20. The media of claim 18, further comprising:

identifying that the first patient input correlates with patient data from the first patient document; and

identifying that the second patient input correlates with patient data from the second patient document.