Method and apparatus for clinical pathway order selection in a medical information system
First Claim
1. A method for clinical pathway order selection in a computer-based medical information system including a medical database and a user terminal having a display screen, said method comprising the steps of:
- defining clinical pathways in the medical database, each of said clinical pathways being associated with a patient condition and including a sequence of time intervals and a plurality of clinical pathway order sets, each being associated with a selected one of said time intervals;
associating a selected one of said clinical pathways with a patient in accordance with the patient'"'"'s condition;
in response to user selection of the patient'"'"'s clinical pathway order sets, determining a next order set comprising a first unused order set in the patient'"'"'s clinical pathway order sets; and
displaying on the display screen an identification of the next order set.
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Abstract
A medical information system manages clinical pathway order selection. The medical information system includes a medical database and a user terminal having a display screen. Clinical pathways are defined in the medical database. Each of the clinical pathways is associated with a patient condition and includes a sequence of time intervals and a plurality of clinical pathway order sets. Each of the clinical pathway order sets is associated with a selected one of the time intervals. A selected clinical pathway is associated with a patient in accordance with the patient'"'"'s condition. When a user selects the patient'"'"'s clinical pathway order sets, a next order set, which is the first unused order set in the patient'"'"'s clinical pathway order sets, is determined. A list of the clinical pathway order sets associated with the selected clinical pathway may be displayed on the display screen. The next order set is identified on the list. Clinical pathway order sets that have previously been used for the patient may also be indicated on the list of clinical pathway order sets.
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19 Claims
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1. A method for clinical pathway order selection in a computer-based medical information system including a medical database and a user terminal having a display screen, said method comprising the steps of:
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defining clinical pathways in the medical database, each of said clinical pathways being associated with a patient condition and including a sequence of time intervals and a plurality of clinical pathway order sets, each being associated with a selected one of said time intervals; associating a selected one of said clinical pathways with a patient in accordance with the patient'"'"'s condition; in response to user selection of the patient'"'"'s clinical pathway order sets, determining a next order set comprising a first unused order set in the patient'"'"'s clinical pathway order sets; and displaying on the display screen an identification of the next order set. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9)
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10. A method for clinical pathway order selection in a computer-based medical information system including a medical database and a user terminal having a display screen, said method comprising the steps of:
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defining clinical pathways in the medical database, each of said clinical pathways being associated with a patient condition and including a sequence of time intervals and a plurality of clinical pathway order sets, each being associated with a selected one of said time intervals; associating a selected one of said clinical pathways with a patient in accordance with the patient'"'"'s condition; in response to user selection at the user terminal of the patient'"'"'s clinical pathway order sets, displaying on the display screen a list of the patient'"'"'s clinical pathway order sets; indicating on the list of clinical pathway order sets a next order set comprising a first unused order set in the patient'"'"'s clinical pathway order sets; displaying the next order set on the display screen in response to user selection of the next order set; and processing orders selected by the user from the next order set. - View Dependent Claims (11, 12, 13)
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14. A medical information system comprising:
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a central processor, including a medical database, and at least one user terminal for entering data into said medical database, said user terminal including a display screen; means for defining clinical pathways in the medical database, each of said clinical pathways being associated with a patient condition and including a sequence of time intervals and a plurality of clinical pathway order sets, each being associated with a selected one of said time intervals; means for associating a selected one of said clinical pathways with a patient in accordance with the patient'"'"'s condition; means responsive to user selection of the patient'"'"'s clinical pathway order sets for determining a next order set comprising a first unused order set in the patient'"'"'s clinical pathway order sets; and means for displaying on the display screen an identification of the next order set. - View Dependent Claims (15, 16, 17, 18, 19)
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