Customized system for providing procedure-specific patient education
First Claim
1. A system for producing individualized patient educational documents for patients about to undergo medical procedures, such as surgery, said documents including data relating to said medical procedure to be undergone, the medical facility to be used, and the responsible physician, said system includinga computer having a medical procedure database, a medical facility database, and a physician database,said medical procedure database storing data about a plurality of medical procedures,said medical facility database storing data about how said medical procedures are carried out at at least one medical facility,said physician database storing data about how individual physicians vary said medical procedures,manual entry means associated with said computer for entering data about a prospective patient and for selecting from said databases said medical facility, said medical procedure and said physician to be used for said patient,software in said computer for taking from said databases data about said medical procedure to be undergone, said medical facility to be used, and said responsible physician, and organizing a document providing information for said patient about the said medical procedure said patient is about to undergo, anda printer associated with said computer for printing said document,whereby said patient is advised in writing as to what to anticipate and what is expected of him.
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Abstract
A system for producing individualized patient educational reports for patients about to receive medical procedures, such as surgery, the reports including data relating to the particular medical procedure, the particular medical facility, and the particular physician. The system includes a medical procedure database storing data as to a plurality of medical procedures, a medical facility database storing data as to how the medical procedures are carried out at that particular medical facility, a physician database storing data as to how individual physicians vary the medical procedures, a method for manually entering individual patient data and for selecting the particular medical procedure, the particular medical facility, and the particular physician to be used for the individual patient, a formatting technique for taking the selected medical procedure, the selected medical facility, and the selected physician and preparing a report providing information for the patient as to the medical procedure the patient is about to undergo, and a printer for printing out the report. The report advises the patient what to anticipate and what is expected of him.
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1. A system for producing individualized patient educational documents for patients about to undergo medical procedures, such as surgery, said documents including data relating to said medical procedure to be undergone, the medical facility to be used, and the responsible physician, said system including
a computer having a medical procedure database, a medical facility database, and a physician database, said medical procedure database storing data about a plurality of medical procedures, said medical facility database storing data about how said medical procedures are carried out at at least one medical facility, said physician database storing data about how individual physicians vary said medical procedures, manual entry means associated with said computer for entering data about a prospective patient and for selecting from said databases said medical facility, said medical procedure and said physician to be used for said patient, software in said computer for taking from said databases data about said medical procedure to be undergone, said medical facility to be used, and said responsible physician, and organizing a document providing information for said patient about the said medical procedure said patient is about to undergo, and a printer associated with said computer for printing said document, whereby said patient is advised in writing as to what to anticipate and what is expected of him.
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11. A system for producing individualized patient educational documents for patients about to undergo medical procedures, such as surgery, said documents including data relating to said medical procedure to be undergone, the medical facility to be used, and the responsible physician, said system including
a computer having one or more of the following databases: - a medical procedure database, a medical facility database, and a physician database,
said medical procedure database storing data about a plurality of medical procedures, said medical facility database storing data about how said medical procedures are carried out in at least one medical facility, said physician database storing data about how individual physicians vary said medical procedures, manual entry means associated with said computer for selecting at least one of said databases, software in said computer for taking selected data from said selected databases and organizing a document providing information for a patient about said medical procedure said patient is about to undergo and about said medical facility, said software including a default procedure requiring that said document include at least data on said medical facility and on said medical procedure, and a printer associated with said computer for printing said document, whereby said patient is advised in writing as to what to anticipate and what is expected of him. - View Dependent Claims (12, 13, 14)
- a medical procedure database, a medical facility database, and a physician database,
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15. Apparatus for preparing patient documents which provide a particular patient with an individualized patient information document relating to a prospective medical procedure, including
a computer having a database including templates of data on a plurality of medical procedures and templates of data on variations made to said medical procedures by particular doctors, a monitor associated with said computer, said computer being programmed to determine whether or not (1) that the user has specified said patient, (2) that the user has specified said medical procedure to be performed and the physician in charge of performing said medical procedure, and (3) that the user has specified any modifications in said templates of data for said prospective medical procedure as varied by said particular physician, software in said computer for formatting a patient document incorporating said templates, a printer associated with said computer for printing said patient document as so formatted means for changing said patient document before printing to make changes specific to said patient, and said computer programmed with a default setting which, if no changes are made to said patient document, causes said patient document to be formatted without modification of said templates for said medical procedure and said physician.
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16. Apparatus for preparing patient documents which provide a particular patient with an individualized patient information document relating to a prospective medical procedure, including
a computer having a database including templates of data on a plurality of medical procedures and templates of data on variations made to said medical procedures by particular doctors, a monitor associated with said computer, said computer being programmed to determine whether or not (1) that the user has specified said patient, (2) that the user has specified said medical procedure to be performed and the physician in charge of performing said medical procedure, and (3) that the user has specified any modifications in said templates of data for said prospective medical procedure as varied by said particular physician, software in said computer for formatting a patient document incorporating said templates, a printer associated with said computer for printing said patient document as so formatted, and said computer programmed not to print the patient document if the user has failed to indicate whether or not modifications to said templates should be made.
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17. Apparatus for preparing patient documents which provide a particular patient with an individualized patient information document relating to a prospective medical procedure, including
a computer having a database including templates of data on a plurality of medical procedures and templates of data on variations made to said medical procedures by particular doctors, a monitor associated with said computer, said computer being programmed to determine whether or not (1) that the user has specified said patient, (2) that the user has specified said medical procedure to be performed and the physician in charge of performing said medical procedures, and (3) that the user has specified any modifications in said templates of data for said prospective medical procedure as varied by said particular physician, software in said computer for formatting a patient document incorporating said templates, a printer associates with said computer for printing said patient document as so formatted, and said database including templates storing procedures used in differing medical facilities, said computer is programmed to require the use to identify the medical facility to be used, and the said template for said medical facility is included in the formatting of said patient document.
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18. Apparatus for preparing patient documents which provide a particular patient with an individualized patient information document relating to a prospective medical procedure, including
a computer having a database including templates of data on a plurality of medical procedures and templates of data on variations made to said medical procedures by particular doctors, a monitor associated with said computer, said computer being programmed to determine whether or not (1) that the user has specified said patient, (2) that the user has specified said medical procedure to be performed and the physician in charge of performing said medical procedure, and (3) that the user has specified any modification in said templates of data for said prospective medical procedure as varied by said particular physician, software in said computer for formatting a patient document incorporating said templates, a printer associated with said computer for printing said patient document as so formatted, and said computer is programmed to require identification of said patient'"'"'s age and sex, and said templates of medical procedures include said templates which incorporate said medical procedures which differ depending upon said age and/or sex.
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19. A method of preparing a patient document which provides a particular patient with an individualized document relating to the patient'"'"'s prospective medical procedure, including the steps of
storing information in a computer describing various medical procedures, the requirements of the medical facility to be used for said medical procedures, and the responsible doctor'"'"'s variations of said medical procedures, programming the computer (a) to receive information from the user about the patient to be treated, said medical procedures, (b) to select stored information about said medical procedures, said requirements of the medical facility, said responsible doctor'"'"'s variations of said medical procedures, and said responsible doctor to perform said medical procedures, and (c) to format a related document incorporating said procedures to conform to said responsible doctor'"'"'s said variations and to conform to said requirements of said medical facility, and (d) to print said document, and thereafter keying into said computer patient data, identification of the medical procedure to be performed and of the doctor in charge, and printing Out said document.
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