Method for operating active clinical guidelines
First Claim
1. In a computerized patient records system operated for a healthcare institution which maintains written clinical guidelines, a method of operating active guidelines comprising the steps ofa) on an active guidelines server, maintaining the clinical guidelines and also maintaining, associated with the clinical guidelines, active guideline tags containing information usable by the computerized patient records system to generate orders;
- b) at the station of a user, operating an active guidelines viewer in communication with the guidelines server, the active guidelines viewer including a web browser, an active guidelines interpreter and a URL router,i) the active guidelines interpreter receiving the active guidelines tags and converting the active guidelines tags into hyperlinks and passing the hyperlinks to the web browser,ii) the web browser receiving and displaying the hyperlink from the active guidelines interpreter for the user representing the active guideline; and
c) when the user accepts a clinical guideline by invoking a hyperlink, the URL router receiving the active guideline tag associated with the invoked hyperlink and creating an action item from the active guideline tag to be sent to the computerized patient records system for implementation, the action item being processed by the computerized patient record system to create an order.
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Abstract
An active guidelines capability or component is linked to a computerized patient record system to integrate the use of clinical guidelines in the workflow of clinicians treating patients. Many healthcare institutions maintain sets of clinical guidelines describing recommended treatment or analysis options for patients displaying sets of symptoms or for whom certain diagnoses have been made. The active guidelines feature adds an active guidelines tag to such clinical guidelines so that when the clinician accesses the clinical guidelines and wishes to follow the recommendation, the clinician merely has to click on a hypertext created from the tag which then transmits action orders, also contained in the tag, to be transmitted to the computerized patient record system for implementation.
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12 Claims
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1. In a computerized patient records system operated for a healthcare institution which maintains written clinical guidelines, a method of operating active guidelines comprising the steps of
a) on an active guidelines server, maintaining the clinical guidelines and also maintaining, associated with the clinical guidelines, active guideline tags containing information usable by the computerized patient records system to generate orders; -
b) at the station of a user, operating an active guidelines viewer in communication with the guidelines server, the active guidelines viewer including a web browser, an active guidelines interpreter and a URL router, i) the active guidelines interpreter receiving the active guidelines tags and converting the active guidelines tags into hyperlinks and passing the hyperlinks to the web browser, ii) the web browser receiving and displaying the hyperlink from the active guidelines interpreter for the user representing the active guideline; and c) when the user accepts a clinical guideline by invoking a hyperlink, the URL router receiving the active guideline tag associated with the invoked hyperlink and creating an action item from the active guideline tag to be sent to the computerized patient records system for implementation, the action item being processed by the computerized patient record system to create an order. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5)
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6. In a multiple server computer system to operate an electronic medical records software system and order entry in a healthcare institution, a method comprising the steps of
a) providing an active guidelines server, the active guidelines server maintaining a set of clinical guidelines and a set of active guidelines tags, each of the active guidelines tags being associated with at least one of the clinical guidelines and including information usable by the records system to generate orders; -
b) providing a workstation at the location of a clinician, the workstation operating an active guidelines viewer, the active guidelines viewer including a web browser, an active guidelines interpreter and a URL router, the active guidelines interpreter converting the active guidelines tags into a hyperlink with, the web browser displaying for the clinician the hyperlink associated with the clinical guidelines; and c) when the clinician chooses a hyperlink presented by the web browser, the URL router receiving the active guideline tag associated with the chosen hyperlink and, if the chosen hyperlink is for an active guidelines order, sending a communication to the electronic medical records software system to cause an order to be entered. - View Dependent Claims (7, 8)
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9. In a multiple server computer system to operate an electronic medical records software system and order entry in a healthcare institution, a method comprising the steps of
a) providing an active guidelines server, the active guidelines server maintaining a set of clinical guidelines and a set of active guidelines tags, each of the active guidelines tags being associated with at least one of the clinical guidelines and including information usable by an electronic medical records system to generate orders; -
b) providing a workstation at the location of a clinician, the workstation operating an active guidelines viewer, the active guidelines viewer including a web browser, an active guidelines interpreter and a URL router, the active guidelines interpreter and the URL router providing input to and monitoring output of the web browser, the active guidelines interpreter converting the active guidelines tags into a hyperlink for the web browser, the web browser displaying for the clinician the hyperlink associated with the clinical guideline; and c) when the clinician chooses a hyperlink presented by the web browser, the URL router receiving the active guideline tag associated with the chosen hyperlink and, if the chosen hyperlink is for an active guidelines order, sending a communication to the electronic medical records software system containing the stored order to cause an order to be entered. - View Dependent Claims (10)
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11. In a computerized patient records system operated for a healthcare institution which maintains written clinical guidelines, a method of operating active guidelines comprising the steps of:
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a) on an active guidelines server, maintaining the clinical guidelines and also maintaining, associated with the clinical guidelines, active guideline tags containing information usable by the computerized patient records system to generate orders; b) at the station of a user, operating an active guidelines viewer in communication with the guidelines server, the active guidelines viewer including a web browser; c) an active guidelines interpreter; d) a URL router; i) the active guidelines interpreter receiving the active guidelines tags and converting the active guidelines tags into hyperlinks and passing the hyperlinks to the web browser, ii) the web browser receiving and displaying the hyperlink representing the active guidelines from the active guidelines interpreter for the user representing the active guideline; and e) when the user accepts a clinical guideline by invoking a hyperlink, the URL router receiving the active guideline tag associated with the invoked hyperlink and creating an action item from the active guideline tag to be sent to the computerized patient records system for implementation, the action item being processed by the computerized patient record system to create an order.
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12. In a multiple server computer system to operate an electronic medical records software system and order entry in a healthcare institution, a method comprising the steps of
a) providing an active guidelines server, the active guidelines server maintaining a set of clinical guidelines and a set of active guidelines tags, each of the active guidelines tags being associated with at least one of the clinical guidelines and including information usable by an electronic medical records system to generate orders; -
b) providing a workstation at the location of a clinician, the workstation operating an active guidelines viewer, the active guidelines viewer including a web browser; c) an active guidelines interpreter; and d) a URL router, the active guidelines interpreter and the URL router providing input to and monitoring output of the web browser, the active guidelines interpreter converting the active guidelines tags into a hyperlink for the web browser, the web browser displaying for the clinician the hyperlink associated with the clinical guideline; and e) when the clinician chooses a hyperlink presented by the web browser, the URL router receiving the active guideline tag associated with the chosen hyperlink and, if the chosen hyperlink is for an active guidelines order, sending a communication to the electronic medical records software system containing the stored order to cause an order to be entered.
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