Integrated Point of Care Medication Administration Information System
First Claim
1. An integrated point of care medication administration system, comprising:
- at least one repository of information associating individual medications of a plurality of different medications with data identifying patient parameters and laboratory test results to be acquired and recorded prior to administration of an individual medication to a patient and identifying data sources for providing corresponding particular patient parameters and laboratory test results; and
a point of care medication administration system including,an interface for communicating with said at least one repository and said sources,a processor for using said information and said interface in automatically acquiring for a particular patient data representing particular patient parameters and laboratory test results associated with a particular individual medication in response to user initiation of an order for said particular individual medication to be administered to said particular patient anda display device for presenting at least one display image indicating acquired particular patient parameters and laboratory test results of said particular patient and identifying a particular patient parameter or laboratory test result needing to be acquired prior to administration of said particular individual medication to said particular patient.
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Abstract
An integrated point of care medication administration system comprises a point of care medication administration system including an interface for communicating with the at least one repository and information sources and including a processor. The processor uses the information and the interface in automatically acquiring for a particular patient, data representing particular patient parameters and laboratory test results associated with a particular individual medication in response to user initiation of an order for the particular individual medication to be administered to the particular patient. A display device presents at least one display image indicating acquired particular patient parameters and laboratory test results of the particular patient and identifying a particular patient parameter or laboratory test result needing to be acquired prior to administration of the particular individual medication to the particular patient.
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15 Claims
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1. An integrated point of care medication administration system, comprising:
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at least one repository of information associating individual medications of a plurality of different medications with data identifying patient parameters and laboratory test results to be acquired and recorded prior to administration of an individual medication to a patient and identifying data sources for providing corresponding particular patient parameters and laboratory test results; and a point of care medication administration system including, an interface for communicating with said at least one repository and said sources, a processor for using said information and said interface in automatically acquiring for a particular patient data representing particular patient parameters and laboratory test results associated with a particular individual medication in response to user initiation of an order for said particular individual medication to be administered to said particular patient and a display device for presenting at least one display image indicating acquired particular patient parameters and laboratory test results of said particular patient and identifying a particular patient parameter or laboratory test result needing to be acquired prior to administration of said particular individual medication to said particular patient. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14)
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15. A method for documenting medication administration, comprising the activities:
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storing in at least one repository information associating individual medications of a plurality of different medications with data identifying patient parameters and laboratory test results to be acquired and recorded prior to administration of an individual medication to a patient and identifying data sources for providing corresponding particular patient parameters and laboratory test results; communicating with said at least one repository and said sources, using said information in automatically acquiring for a particular patient data representing particular patient parameters and laboratory test results associated with a particular individual medication in response to user initiation of an order for said particular individual medication to be administered to said particular patient; and presenting at least one display image indicating acquired particular patient parameters and laboratory test results of said particular patient and identifying a particular patient parameter or laboratory test result needing to be acquired prior to administration of said particular individual medication to said particular patient.
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