TREATMENT PLAN CREATION WORKFLOW TRACKING

• US 20120303384A1
• Filed: 01/07/2011
• Published: 11/29/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 02/05/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V. (Koninklijke Philips N.V.), University of Chicago
• Original Assignee: Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V. (Koninklijke Philips N.V.)
• Inventors: Meinel, Lina Arbash, Stepaniak, Christopher, Al-Hallaq, Hania Abdulraouf
• Application Number:
  US13/575,311
• Publication Number:
  US 20120303384A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/2
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/00 Administration; Management
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 10/60 for patient-specific data, e.g. for electronic patient records
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/20 for the management or administration of healthcare resources or facilities, e.g. managing hospital staff or surgery rooms

Abstract

A method for tracking creation of a treatment plan for a patient includes obtaining an input indicative of a state of a task in the treatment plan creation workflow and generating a signal indicative of a set of tasks of the treatment plan creation workflow, including the state of the task corresponding to the received input. A system includes a processor (100) that generates a treatment plan for a patient based on a treatment plan creation workflow for the patient, wherein the treatment plan creation work-flow includes one or more tasks to be completed for generating the treatment plan and an apparatus (112, 116 and/or 118) that presents a signal indicative of a state of at least one of the treatment plan or the one or more tasks.

Claims

1. A method for tracking a treatment plan creation workflow for a patient, comprising:

obtaining an input indicative of a state of a task in the treatment plan creation workflow; and

generating, via a processor, a signal indicative of a set of tasks of the treatment plan creation workflow, including the state of the task corresponding to the received input.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

generating the set of tasks in response to an indication that the patient consents to the treatment.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

obtaining information for the treatment plan creation workflow from at least one of a hospital information system or a radiology information system.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the input is obtained from at least one or more of an image repository, a treatment planning system, or a record and verify system.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein the image repository, the treatment planning system, and the record and verify system transfer data over a same network using a same network protocol.

6. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

generating a notification that indicates at least one of a next task, of the set of tasks, to be performed or an update to the status of a task.

7. The method of claim 6, further comprising:

transmitting the notification to a remote device that displays the notification.

8. The method of claim 7, wherein the remote device includes one or more of a cell phone, a smartphone, a pager, telephone, a set-top box, or an email account.

9. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

presenting the signal in a human readable format.

10. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

presenting the signal via a web-based application.

11. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

generating data indicative of a dose delivered to the patient based on the treatment plan creation workflow; and

presenting the data indicative of the dose delivered to the patient.

12. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

retrospectively analyzing the treatment plan creation workflow.

13. The method of claim 1, wherein the treatment is one of radiation therapy, chemotherapy, particle therapy, high intensity focused ultrasound, ablation, surgery, or a combination thereof.

14. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

at least one of creating a treatment plan based on the treatment plan creation workflow or updating the treatment plan creation workflow based on a received input.

15. The method of claim 14, further comprising:

using information of the treatment plan for at least one of determining a subsequent diagnosis for the patient or determining a diagnosis for a different patient.

16. A system, comprising:

a processor that generates a treatment plan for a patient based on a treatment plan creation workflow for the patient, wherein the treatment plan creation workflow includes one or more tasks to be completed for generating the treatment plan; and

an apparatus that presents a signal indicative of a state of at least one of the treatment plan or the one or more tasks.

17. The system of claim 16, further comprising:

a notification component that sends a notification that indicates a next task of the set of task to be performed.

18. The system of claim 17, wherein the notification component sends the notification to a remote device that displays the notification.

19. The system of claim 16, wherein the processor receives an input indicative of at least one of a state or a change of state of a task of the treatment plan creation workflow from one or more of an image repository, a treatment planning system, or a record and verify system.

20. The system of claim 19, wherein two or more of the processor, the image repository, the treatment planning system, or the record and verify system communicate over a same network.

21. The system of claim 19, wherein the treatment planning system implements at least a portion of a treatment plan created based on the treatment plan creation workflow.

22. The system of claim 19, wherein at least one of the processor, the image repository, the treatment planning system, or the record and verify system communicate over a same network communicates information with one or more of a laboratory department, an admitting department, a billing department, an insurance department, pathology department, a radiology department, a surgery department, or an oncology department.

23. The system of claim 16, wherein the apparatus presents the signal in a human readable format via graphical user interface.

24. The system of claim 16, wherein the processor updates at least one of the treatment plan or the treatment plan creation workflow based on a received input.

25. The system of claim 16, further comprising:

a dose tracker that generates data indicative of a dose delivered to the patient based on tasks of the treatment plan creation workflow.

26. The system of claim 25, wherein the dose information is used for subsequent diagnoses of patients.

27. A computer readable storage medium encoded with instructions which, when executed by a computer, cause a processor of the computer to perform the step of:

tracking creation of a treatment plan, including dynamically presenting and updating states of tasks of a treatment plan creation workflow used to create the treatment plan.