Electronic charting system

• US 7,849,400 B2
• Filed: 09/13/2001
• Issued: 12/07/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 09/13/2001
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Speech Products Incorporated
• Original Assignee: Speech Products Incorporated
• Inventors: Ritter, John David, Freymark, Peter Julius, Gatewood, Joseph Howard, Ginsburg, Michael Jed, Previs, John Robert, Indianer, Evan, Umbel, Christopher M.
• Primary Examiner(s): DESAI, RACHNA SINGH
• Application Number:
  US09/951,491
• Publication Number:
  US 20040205042A1
• Time in Patent Office: 3,372 Days
• Field of Search: 715/513, 715/505, 715/221, 715/234, 705/3
• US Class Current: 715/234
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/117 Tagging; Marking up details of markup languages G06F40/143; Designating a block; Setting of attributes style sheets, e.g. eXtensible Stylesheet Language Transformation [XSLT], G06F40/154

Abstract

In a document such as a patient chart that contains several types of information, a tag is applied to each type of collected information to identify the content or type of data. The information is also associated with at least one particular individual, event or other association member. The information is stored in a manner such that each type of information collected is associated with one of the assigned tags and an association member. Each user has an access code associated with at least some of the defined tags. When a user seeks to retrieve collected information, access is permitted to only that information having tags associated with the access code assigned to that user. The tags are preferably created by storing the information in XML format. A standard may be applied to information collected to determine whether the collected information corresponds to the standard.

Claims

1. An apparatus for recording and retrieving information in electronic form comprising at least one computer containing:

a first set of tables having information relating to a plurality of members of an association such that there are several types of information recorded for each member of the association and each type of information is tagged in a manner that each tag tells what kind of meaning is attached to information associated with that tag;

a second set of tables containing a list of users each user having an associated access privilege, each access privilege associated with at least one of the tags; and

a program that enables each user access to only those types of information having tags that are associated with the access privilege of that user;

wherein the at least one computer contains at least one standard applicable to at least some of the types of information in the first set of tables that ensures certain elements are entered into a table by a user.

2. An improved electronic patient chart system of the type having at least one computer containing a first set of tables containing patient information and a second set of tables containing a list of users, each user having an associated user identification, wherein the improvement comprises a third database and associated program that enables a user to create custom patient information entries and store those entries in the database, the program associating a user identification with each custom patient entry and enabling a user to access those entries associated with the user, modify those entries and associate those entries and modifications of those entries with at least one patient in the first set of tables.

3. The improved electronic patient system of claim 2 wherein the created custom patient information entries comprise entries that correspond to a particular chief complaint or patient condition.