IDENTIFYING A DEVIATION DURING CLINICAL PATHWAY EXECUTION

• US 20120221348A1
• Filed: 02/24/2012
• Published: 08/30/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 02/28/2011
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Cao, Feng, Hu, Gang, Li, Bo, Li, Jing, Wang, Xiao Yuan
• Application Number:
  US13/404,881
• Publication Number:
  US 20120221348A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/2
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/36 Creation of semantic tools, e.g. ontology or thesauri
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9038 Presentation of query results
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/67 for remote operation
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 70/20 relating to practices or guidelines

Abstract

A system and method for identifying a deviation during clinical pathway execution. The system comprises: a clinical pathway storage component configured to store a clinical pathway; a semantic relationship storage component configured to store a semantic relationship between activities; a receiver component configured to receive an activity inputted from a user; and an activity matching component configured to judge, based on the semantic relationship between activities, whether the inputted activity matches the requisite activity defined in the clinical pathway, and if it is determined that the inputted activity does not match the requisite activity defined in the clinical pathway, generate a first clinical pathway execution deviation report, wherein the first clinical pathway execution deviation report indicates that an undefined redundant activity is executed. This permits the precision of identifying deviation during clinical pathway execution to be improved.

Claims

1. A system for identifying a deviation during clinical pathway execution, comprising:

a receiver component configured to receive an activity inputted from a user;

a clinical pathway storage access component configured to access a stored clinical pathway which defines a requisite activity; and

an activity matching component configured to judge, based on a semantic relationship between activities, whether the inputted activity matches the requisite activity as defined in the clinical pathway, and generate, if it is determined that the inputted activity does not match the requisite activity defined in the clinical pathway, a clinical pathway execution deviation report to indicate that an activity not matching the requisite activity has been executed.

2. The system according to claim 1, further comprising:

a condition matching component configured to judge whether the execution of the inputted activity satisfies a precondition, and generate, if it is determined that the execution of the inputted activity does not satisfy the precondition, a clinical pathway execution deviation report to indicate that an activity not satisfying the precondition has been executed.

3. The system according to claim 2, further comprising:

a time matching component configured to judge whether an execution time of the inputted activity matches a requisite execution time of the corresponding requisite activity, and generate, if it is determined that the two execution times do not match, a clinical pathway execution deviation report to indicate that the execution time of the inputted activity does not match the requisite execution time of the corresponding requisite activity.

4. The system according to claim 1, further comprising:

a retrospect component configured to determine, when a time point arrives, a requisite activity defined in the clinical pathway that has not been completely executed until said time point, and generate, according to a result of determination, a clinical pathway execution deviation report to indicate that there is a requisite activity having not been completely executed.

5. The system according to claim 1, further comprising an output component configured to, in response to generating the clinical pathway execution deviation report, output the clinical pathway execution deviation report to the user.

6. The system according to claim 1, further comprising an output component configured to output the clinical pathway execution deviation report to the user after a phase of the clinical pathway ends.

7. The system according to any one of claims 1 to 6, wherein the semantic relationship is a subsumption relationship.

8. The system according to any one of claims 1 to 6, wherein the semantic relationship is a composition relationship.

9. A method of identifying a deviation during clinical pathway execution, the method comprising:

receiving an activity inputted from a user;

accessing a stored clinical pathway, the clinical pathway which defines a requisite activity; and

judging, based on a semantic relationship between activities, whether the inputted activity matches the requisite activity defined in the clinical pathway, and generating, if it is determined that the inputted activity does not match the requisite activity defined in the clinical pathway, a clinical pathway execution deviation report to indicate that an activity not matching the requisite activity has been executed.

10. The method according to claim 9, further comprising:

judging whether the execution of the inputted activity satisfies a precondition, and generating, if it is determined that the execution of the inputted activity does not satisfy the precondition, a clinical pathway execution deviation report to indicate that an activity not satisfying the precondition has been executed.

11. The method according to claim 9, further comprising:

judging whether an execution time of the inputted activity matches a requisite execution time of the corresponding requisite activity, and generating, if it is determined that the two execution times do not match, a clinical pathway execution deviation report to indicate that the execution time of the inputted activity does not match the requisite execution time of the corresponding requisite activity.

12. The method according to claim 9, further comprising:

when a time point arrives, determining a requisite activity defined in the clinical pathway that has not been completely executed until this time point, and according to a result of determination, and generating a clinical pathway execution deviation report to indicate that there is a requisite activity not having been completely executed.

13. The method according to claim 9, further comprising, in response to generating the clinical pathway execution deviation report, outputting the clinical pathway execution deviation report to the user.

14. The method according to claim 9, further comprising outputting the clinical pathway execution deviation report to the user after a phase of the clinical pathway ends.

15. The method according to claim 9, wherein the semantic relationship is a subsumption relationship.

16. The method according to claim 9, wherein the semantic relationship is a composition relationship.