DEVELOPING AND MANAGING CARE TICKETS

• US 20120173286A1
• Filed: 12/30/2011
• Published: 07/05/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 12/30/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Cerner Innovation, Inc. (Oracle Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Cerner Innovation, Inc. (Oracle Corporation)
• Inventors: BRUSH, RYAN ALAN, SUTARIYA, BHARAT B., YATES, PETER HARRISON
• Application Number:
  US13/340,872
• Publication Number:
  US 20120173286A1
• 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
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 15/00 ICT specially adapted for medical reports, e.g. generation or transmission thereof
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 50/30 for calculating health indices; for individual health risk assessment

Abstract

Methods, computer storage media, systems and user interfaces for facilitating generation of care tickets are provided. In one embodiment, the method includes receiving context data associated with a clinical encounter at which a patient is seeking health care provided by a care provider. Clinical data associated with the patient is referenced. The clinical data includes historical health data for the patient. A care ticket is generated for the patient based on the context data and the clinical data. Such a care ticket including health information relevant to the clinical encounter at which the patient is seeking health care.

Claims

1. One or more computer storage media having computer-executable instructions embodied thereon for performing a method for facilitating generation of care tickets, the method comprising:

receiving context data associated with a clinical encounter at which a patient is seeking health care provided by a care provider;

referencing clinical data associated with the patient, wherein the clinical data comprises historical health data for the patient; and

generating a care ticket for the patient based on the context data and the clinical data, the care ticket including health information relevant to the clinical encounter at which the patient is seeking health care.

2. The media of claim 1 further comprising receiving an indication to generate the care ticket for the patient in association with the clinical encounter.

3. The media of claim 1 further comprising:

identifying risk data that indicates a potential health risk to the patient;

using the risk data to determine one or more potential health complications that may arise in association with the patient; and

using the risk data or the potential health complications in generating the care ticket for the patient.

4. The media of claim 1, wherein the context data comprises one or more of a reason the patient is seeking care, an indication of the care provider, an indication of a type of care provided by the care provider, a symptom, a question for the care provider, or a combination thereof.

5. The media of claim 1 further comprising:

referencing evidence-based data; and

using the evidence-based data to generate the care ticket.

6. The media of claim 1 further comprising presenting the care ticket.

7. The media of claim 1, wherein the clinical data is referenced from a personalized plan of health for the patient.

8. The media of claim 1, wherein the care ticket comprises one or more actions for the care provider to perform in association with the patient to improve or maintain the patient'"'"'s health.

9. One or more computer storage media having computer-executable instructions embodied thereon for performing a method for facilitating generation of care plans, the method comprising:

identifying a patient and a care provider associated with a clinical encounter;

identifying one or more healthcare actions to perform in association with the clinical encounter, the one or more healthcare actions to perform being identified based on the care provider and clinical data previously obtained in association with the patient; and

providing a care plan that includes the one or more healthcare actions to perform during the clinical encounter.

10. The media of claim 9, wherein the one or more healthcare actions are performed in association with the clinical encounter by initiating or completing the healthcare actions.

11. The media of claim 9 further comprising presenting the care plan within a care ticket that includes an input area for receiving one or more indications of performance completion.

12. The media of claim 11 further comprising receiving at least one indication of performance of at least one healthcare action.

13. The media of claim 11, wherein the care ticket further includes an input area for receiving one or more indications of performance results.

14. The media of claim 13 further comprising

receiving at least one indication of a performance result corresponding with at least one healthcare action;

and

aggregating the performance result with previously captured clinical data associated with the patient.

15. The media of claim 11, wherein the one or more healthcare actions are identified in association with a personalized plan of health for the patient.

16. A method for facilitating presentation of care tickets, the method comprising:

referencing context data for a clinical encounter, the context data indicating a reason a patient is seeking care and a care provider to provide care to the patient;

identifying clinical data that is relevant to the context data, the clinical data being identified from among a set of clinical data associated with the patient aggregated from a plurality of sources;

using the clinical data, the context data, and evidence-based data to determine one or more healthcare actions to perform in association with the patient at the clinical encounter;

generating a care ticket for the patient for the clinical encounter in accordance with the context associated with the clinical encounter, the care ticket including the one or more healthcare actions to perform in association with the patient at the clinical encounter; and

displaying the care ticket associated with the clinical encounter to provide guidance to the care provider as to healthcare actions to perform during the clinical encounter.

17. The method of claim 16, wherein the one or more healthcare actions selected for the care ticket are deemed acceptable and preapproved for reimbursement.

18. The method of claim 16, wherein the care ticket further includes an input area to receive one or more indications of performance of the one or more healthcare actions, one or more indications of results of the one or more healthcare actions, or a combination thereof.

19. The method of claim 18 further comprising:

receiving at least one indication of performance of at least one of the one or more healthcare actions; and

based on the at least one indication of performance, initiating a reimbursement to the care provider that corresponds with the healthcare actions performed in association with the clinical encounter.

20. The method of claim 16 further comprising:

receiving at least one indication of results of the one or more healthcare actions;

aggregating the at least one indication of results with the set of clinical data associated with the patient aggregated from the plurality of sources; and

utilizing the aggregated set of clinical data associated with the patient along with context data for a second clinical encounter to generate a second care ticket for the patient for the second clinical encounter, the second care ticket including a second set of healthcare actions to perform in association with the patient at the second clinical encounter.