Graphical user interface for displaying a radiology image for a patient and an associated laboratory report summary

• US 7,936,908 B2
• Filed: 03/09/2007
• Issued: 05/03/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 03/09/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Cerner Innovation, Inc. (Oracle Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Cerner Innovation, Inc. (Oracle Corporation)
• Inventors: Brackett, C. Cameron
• Primary Examiner(s): Strege; John B
• Application Number:
  US11/684,235
• Publication Number:
  US 20080219524A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,516 Days
• Field of Search: 382/128, 382/130, 382/131, 382/132, 715/700
• US Class Current: 382/128
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 10/40 for data related to laboratory analysis, e.g. patient specimen analysis
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 10/60 for patient-specific data, e.g. for electronic patient records
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 15/00 ICT specially adapted for medical reports, e.g. generation or transmission thereof
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 30/20 for handling medical images, e.g. DICOM, HL7 or PACS
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 30/40 for processing medical images, e.g. editing
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/63 for local operation
• CPC Class Codes: G16Z 99/00 Subject matter not provided for in other main groups of this subclass

Abstract

A user interface embodied on at least one computer readable medium for displaying a healthcare image for a patient and a clinical report for a patient simultaneously is provided. The interface comprises a first display area configured to display a healthcare image for a patient and a second display area configured to display a clinical report associated with the healthcare image simultaneously with the healthcare image for the patient, where the clinical report is created based on results other than the healthcare image.

Claims

1. A method for displaying a healthcare image for a patient and a clinical report for the patient simultaneously, the method comprising:

displaying on an interface a healthcare image for a patient;

receiving selection from the interface of at least one graphical indicia indicating a defined region of the healthcare image, wherein the defined region is a portion of the healthcare image;

in response to the selection of the one of the at least one graphical indicia, determining a clinical report associated with the defined region of the healthcare image, where the clinical report does not contain an interpretation of the healthcare image for the patient; and

simultaneously displaying the clinical report associated with the defined region of the healthcare image with the display of the healthcare image for the patient.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the graphical indicia is selected by a user hovering over or clicking on the graphical indicia.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein a different clinical report is associated with each region of the healthcare image.

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

accessing a data store to determine the clinical report for the patient associated with the region of the radiology image requested.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the clinical report is a laboratory report.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the healthcare image is a Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine (DICOM) image.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein the clinical report is not the interpretation of the DICOM image.

8. A graphical user interface embodied on at least one computer readable medium and executable by a computing device, for displaying a healthcare image for a patient and a clinical report simultaneously, the interface comprising:

a first display area configured to display a healthcare image for a patient; and

a second display area configured to display a clinical report associated with a defined region of the healthcare image simultaneously with the healthcare image for the patient, wherein the clinical report is created based on results other than the healthcare image, and further wherein the defined region is a portion of the healthcare image.

9. The interface of claim 8, wherein the clinical report is a laboratory report.

10. The interface of claim 9, wherein the healthcare image is a radiology image.

11. The user interface of claim 10, wherein an accession number of a specimen collected for the patient for the laboratory report is associated with the radiology image for the patient.

12. A graphical user interface embodied on at least one computer readable medium and executable by a computing device, for displaying a radiology image for a patient and an associated laboratory image, the interface comprising:

a first display area configured to display a radiology image for a patient;

a second display area configured to display one or more graphical indicia each indicating a defined region of the radiology image, wherein the defined region is a portion of the radiology image;

a third display area configured to display a laboratory report associated with the defined region of the radiology image; and

a fourth display area configured to display a laboratory image associated with the laboratory report.

13. The interface of claim 12, wherein the second display area is configured to display two graphical indicia each indicating a different defined region of the radiology image.

14. The interface of claim 12, wherein upon selection of the graphical indicia indicating a first defined region of the radiology image, the second display area is configured to display the laboratory report associated with the selected first defined region of the radiology image.

15. The interface of claim 12, wherein the second display area is visibly linked to the third and fourth display areas.

16. A graphical user interface embodied on at least one computer readable medium and executable by a computing device, for displaying a radiology image and a laboratory image associated with a patient, the interface comprising:

a first display area configured to display a radiology image for a patient; and

a second display area configured to display at least one laboratory image for the patient, the at least one laboratory image being associated with a defined region of the radiology image, wherein the defined region is a portion of the radiology image.

17. The user interface of claim 16, further comprising:

a third display area configured to display a summary of a laboratory report for a patient the laboratory report being associated with the radiology image for the patient and the at least one laboratory image for the patient.

18. The user interface of claim 16, wherein the radiology image is a Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine (DICOM) image.

19. The user interface of claim 18, wherein the at least one laboratory image is a non-DICOM image.

20. The user interface of claim 17, further comprising:

a fourth display area configured to display a link to the complete laboratory report for the patient, the complete laboratory report for the patient being associated with the radiology image.

21. The user interface of claim 19, wherein the at least one laboratory image is a digital image of a pathology slide.