VISUALIZATION OF CONCURRENTLY EXECUTING COMPUTER INTERPRETABLE GUIDELINES

• US 20130174084A1
• Filed: 08/16/2011
• Published: 07/04/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 08/18/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V. (Koninklijke Philips N.V.)
• Original Assignee: Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V. (Koninklijke Philips N.V.)
• Inventors: Lord, William Palmer, Van Zon, Cornelis Conradus Adrianus Maria
• Granted Patent: US 10,242,156 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/781
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/20 for the management or administration of healthcare resources or facilities, e.g. managing hospital staff or surgery rooms
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/60 for the operation of medical equipment or devices
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 50/00 ICT specially adapted for medical diagnosis, medical simulation or medical data mining; ICT specially adapted for detecting, monitoring or modelling epidemics or pandemics
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 50/20 for computer-aided diagnosis, e.g. based on medical expert systems
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 70/20 relating to practices or guidelines

Abstract

A method for visualizing concurrently executing clinical guidelines executed by a clinical decision support system for a subject includes presenting, on a display, a first guideline window in a graphical user interface, wherein the first guideline window presents information corresponding to a first of the concurrently executing clinical guidelines, and presenting, on the display and concurrently with the first guideline window, a second guideline window in the graphical user interface, wherein the second guideline window presents information corresponding to a second of the concurrently executing clinical guidelines.

Claims

1. A method for visualizing concurrently executing clinical guidelines for a subject executed by a decision support system, comprising:

presenting, on a display, a first guideline window in a graphical user interface, wherein the first guideline window presents information corresponding to a first of the concurrently executing clinical guidelines; and

presenting, on the display and concurrently with the first guideline window, a second guideline window in the graphical user interface, wherein the second guideline window presents information corresponding to a second of the concurrently executing clinical guidelines.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising

presenting, on the display and concurrently with at least one of the first or second guideline windows, one or more other guideline windows in the graphical user interface, wherein the one or more other guideline windows respectively presents information corresponding to one or more of the concurrently executing clinical guidelines.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

presenting, in connection with each guideline window, a unique identifier that represents the guideline window and the corresponding executing guideline.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein the unique identifier includes one or more of a color, a pattern, a symbol, or name of the executing guideline.

5. The method claim 1, further comprising:

presenting, on the display, for at least one of the guideline windows, an auxiliary window that presents further information corresponding to the executing guideline of the at least one of the guideline windows.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein the further information corresponds to a task in a flow diagram presented in the at least one of the guideline windows.

7. The method of claim 5, further comprising:

presenting, in connection with each auxiliary window, the unique identifier of the corresponding guideline window.

11. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

identifying an least one of a conflict, or redundancy amongst concurrently executing guidelines; and

providing a notification indicative of the conflict or redundancy.

12. The method of claim 11, wherein at least one of the conflict or redundancy is identified based on a comparison of at least one of a goal, an order, a treatment, or a diagnostic tool of two or more concurrently executing guidelines.

13. The method of claim 11, wherein at least one of the conflict or redundancy is identified by inferring at least one of relationships or purpose of at least one of a goal, an order, a treatment, or a diagnostic tool of two or more concurrently executing guidelines based on ontologies.

14. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

presenting, on the display, a to do window that presents at least one of a status of a task for one or more guidelines, a recommended next task, or a current tasks from among concurrently active guidelines, in a single window without showing a sequence of events to get to the displayed information.

8. The method of claim further comprising:

presenting, on the display, a persistent information region presenting at least one of data, an alert, a timer, a to do item, or user-selected parameter.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein the information presented in the persistent information region is always visible in the GUI.

10. The method of claim 8, wherein the information presented in the persistent information region alternatively corresponds to the subject associated with the executing guidelines or a different subject.

15. A system (100), comprising:

a display (112) for displaying information;

a storage medium (104) for storing computer executable instructions;

a knowledge base (106) including at least one guideline (108); and

a processor (102) that executes at least one computer executable instruction in the storage medium and, in response, concurrently presents a graphical user interface (202, 302) via the display, including multiple guideline windows (200), wherein each guideline window corresponds to a different guideline of the knowledge base that is concurrently executed by the processor.

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