Apparatus and method for evaluating a client's condition and the concordance of a clinician's treatment with treatment guidelines
First Claim
1. A computer system for processing medical data, comprising:
- a first terminal that provides a question and receives data from a client in response to the question;
a second terminal that allows a clinician to review the entered client data and enter a clinician medical decision; and
,a computer that determines a medical recommendation from a guideline and the client-entered data, and compares the clinician medical decision with the medical recommendation determined by the guideline,wherein the computer provides a display of the medical recommendation determined from the guideline.
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Abstract
A system that can collect data, directly from a client and use this data both to diagnose and to establish the severity of a client'"'"'s condition. The system can also use this data to look-up one or more appropriate treatments according to treatment guidelines stored in its memory. It then uses this information to monitor if the treatment decisions made by the treating clinician or other medical provider is consistent with the stored treatment guidelines. The system can suggest treatments to the medical provider, inform the provider if the provider chooses a treatment or treatments that do not follow the treatment guidelines, require the provider to actively over-ride the treatment guidelines or require the provider to obtain agreement to over-ride from a supervisor. Additionally, the system can store information on treatments that do not follow the treatment guidelines for ongoing review of provider performance by provider supervisors.
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15 Claims
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1. A computer system for processing medical data, comprising:
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a first terminal that provides a question and receives data from a client in response to the question; a second terminal that allows a clinician to review the entered client data and enter a clinician medical decision; and
,a computer that determines a medical recommendation from a guideline and the client-entered data, and compares the clinician medical decision with the medical recommendation determined by the guideline, wherein the computer provides a display of the medical recommendation determined from the guideline. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7)
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8. A method for monitoring a medical decision entered into a computer system, comprising the steps of:
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a) displaying a question on a first terminal; b) entering data onto the first terminal in response to the question; c) displaying the entered data on a second terminal; d) entering a clinician medical decision through the second terminal by a clinician viewing the entered data; e) determining a medical recommendation from the data and a guideline; f) comparing the medical recommendation with the clinician medical decision; and
,g) displaying the medical recommendation on the second terminal to the clinician after the data is entered. - View Dependent Claims (9, 10, 11, 12)
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13. A method for determining psychiatric diagnosis and severity of a client'"'"'s condition by:
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a) displaying a quantitative set of questions on a first terminal; b) answering the questions through the first terminal; c) determining a psychiatric diagnosis of the patient condition and a severity of the patient condition from the answers in accordance with an algorithm; and
,d) displaying the diagnosis and the severity on a second terminal. - View Dependent Claims (14, 15)
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