Method and system for generation of medical reports from data in a hierarchically-organized database
First Claim
1. An automated method for generating a medical report based on results of a medical examination of a patient, said method comprising:
- a) providing a hierarchically-organized database view having a plurality of nodes capable of having further related nodes, fields, or attributes;
b) displaying on a user interface;
I) a first series of menu items representing a first series of nodes according to their position in the hierarchical database view; and
ii) a first series of shortcuts representing a second series of nodes in an arrangement facilitating global navigation of the hierarchical database view;
c) displaying a second series of menu items in place of the first series of menu items by selecting a shortcut, the second series of menu items representing a third series of nodes according to their position in the hierarchical database view;
d) entering data items based on results of the medical examination into the hierarchically-organized database view by selecting a menu item or entering data into the menu item;
e) displaying at least one of the entered data items; and
f) generating the medical report by electronically transferring data from the hierarchically-organized database view into a report-generating function.
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Abstract
Methods, systems, and user interfaces for navigating hierarchical database views are provided, that support the efficient entry, review, and updating of data using a navigation display. At any point in the navigation process, the navigation display consists of buttons corresponding to nodes of hierarchical database data. Buttons form series of menu items representing nodes that lie along the path to the last node visited (the set of previously made choices) and the children of this node (the set of current choices). Other buttons act as placeholders to facilitate global movement within the database and when selected, initiate new series of menu items. Reports are generated by creating and formatting text based on data entered into the database. Other features are provided for increasing the efficiency of entering data and created reports from data in a hierarchical database views. Information is separated regarding the organization of the knowledge base and user interface from information from the data-entering step and associating the entered data items with sections used to organize information in the report.
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28 Claims
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1. An automated method for generating a medical report based on results of a medical examination of a patient, said method comprising:
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a) providing a hierarchically-organized database view having a plurality of nodes capable of having further related nodes, fields, or attributes;
b) displaying on a user interface;
I) a first series of menu items representing a first series of nodes according to their position in the hierarchical database view; and
ii) a first series of shortcuts representing a second series of nodes in an arrangement facilitating global navigation of the hierarchical database view;
c) displaying a second series of menu items in place of the first series of menu items by selecting a shortcut, the second series of menu items representing a third series of nodes according to their position in the hierarchical database view;
d) entering data items based on results of the medical examination into the hierarchically-organized database view by selecting a menu item or entering data into the menu item;
e) displaying at least one of the entered data items; and
f) generating the medical report by electronically transferring data from the hierarchically-organized database view into a report-generating function. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21)
a) menu items from the second database are displayed in and among the menu items from the hierarchical database view; and
b) data can be entered by selecting menu items from the second database.
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19. The automated method of claim 18, comprising interface to data originated from a medical device, clinical information system, or hospital information system for the second database.
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20. The automated method of claim 1, wherein the method further comprises providing a query function wherein data and nodes of the hierarchically-organized database view are selected by a user to construct a database query.
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21. The automated method of claim 1, wherein the method uses Hypertext Markup Language code to generate the displaying steps, and wherein the Hypertext Markup Language code is derived from an Extensible Markup Language representation using Extensible Style Language Transformation.
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22. A medical report-generating system for the automated generation of a medical report based on a medical examination of a patient, the medical report-generating system comprising:
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a) a hierarchically-organized database representation of a medical information database, said hierarchically-organized database representation having a plurality of nodes capable of having further related nodes, fields, or attributes;
b) a user interface comprising;
I) a first series of displayed menu items representing a first series of nodes according to their position in the hierarchical database, said first series of menu items effective for entry of data into the hierarchically-organized database representation;
ii) a first series of displayed shortcuts representing a second series of nodes in an arrangement facilitating global navigation of the hierarchical database representation, said first series of displayed shortcuts effective for global navigation of the hierarchically-organized database representation; and
iii) a first series of placeholders effective for providing prompts for commonly entered data; and
c) a report-generating function effective for automatically generating a medical report based on data in the hierarchically-organized database representation. - View Dependent Claims (23, 24, 25, 26)
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27. A method for populating a medical information database, said method comprising:
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a) providing a hierarchically-organized database representation of a medical information database, said hierarchically-organized database representation having a plurality of nodes capable of having further related nodes, fields, or attributes;
b) displaying on a user interface;
I) a first series of menu items representing a first series of nodes according to their position in the hierarchical database representation;
ii) a first series of shortcuts representing a second series of nodes in an arrangement facilitating global navigation of the hierarchical database representation; and
iii) a first series of placeholders effective for providing prompts for commonly entered data;
c) displaying a second series of menu items in place of the first series of menu items by selecting a shortcut, the second series of menu items representing a third series of nodes according to their position in the hierarchical database representation;
d) entering data based on results of the medical examination into the hierarchically-organized database representation by selecting a menu item or entering data into the menu item; and
e) populating the medical information database by electronically transferring data from the hierarchically-organized database representation to the medical information database. - View Dependent Claims (28)
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