Computerized file maintenance system for managing medical records including narrative reports
First Claim
1. In a computerized data processing system including a central processor with means for data storage, a keyboard for data entry and a screen display for data review, a file maintenance system for computerized processing of multiple files having record sets in a predefined organizational structure comprising:
- a plurality of discrete files, each file having a plurality of records in a record set associated with the file, wherein the record set includes;
standard, field-defined records, each with an identified data field in which field-defined data of limited character length forming the field-defined record is enterable, the standard, field-defined records being organized in different field-defined categories in the record set, wherein the data processing system includes means for entering field-defined data in an identified data field of a field-defined record and means for editing field-defined data entered in the identified data field of the field-defined record by reentry of field-defined data in the data field; and
,hybrid, extended-field records each with an identified data field in which extended-field data of virtually unlimited character length forming the extended field record is enterable, the hybrid, extended-field records being organized in different extended-field topical categories in the record set, wherein the data processing system included means for entering extended-field data in an identified data field of an extended-field record and means for editing extended-field data entered in the identified data field of the extended-field record without reentry of entered extended-field data in the identified data field.
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Abstract
A file maintenance system for computer processing of multiple files of a client/patient type, the files having record sets in an organizational structure combining a plurality of standard, categorical, field-defined records with identified text fields of fixed character length with a plurality of hybrid categorical, extended-field records of virtually unlimited character length with means for editing entered text without reentry of previously entered data in the extended field.
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1. In a computerized data processing system including a central processor with means for data storage, a keyboard for data entry and a screen display for data review, a file maintenance system for computerized processing of multiple files having record sets in a predefined organizational structure comprising:
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a plurality of discrete files, each file having a plurality of records in a record set associated with the file, wherein the record set includes; standard, field-defined records, each with an identified data field in which field-defined data of limited character length forming the field-defined record is enterable, the standard, field-defined records being organized in different field-defined categories in the record set, wherein the data processing system includes means for entering field-defined data in an identified data field of a field-defined record and means for editing field-defined data entered in the identified data field of the field-defined record by reentry of field-defined data in the data field; and
,hybrid, extended-field records each with an identified data field in which extended-field data of virtually unlimited character length forming the extended field record is enterable, the hybrid, extended-field records being organized in different extended-field topical categories in the record set, wherein the data processing system included means for entering extended-field data in an identified data field of an extended-field record and means for editing extended-field data entered in the identified data field of the extended-field record without reentry of entered extended-field data in the identified data field. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13)
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