User interface for presenting clinical order content based upon designated performance location

• US 8,150,712 B2
• Filed: 11/04/2008
• Issued: 04/03/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 11/04/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Cerner Innovation, Inc. (Oracle Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Cerner Innovation, Inc. (Oracle Corporation)
• Inventors: DeVerter, John Q., Ash, Michael A., Hanov, Yegor F.
• Primary Examiner(s): Koppikar, Vivek
• Application Number:
  US12/264,701
• Publication Number:
  US 20100114589A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,246 Days
• Field of Search: 705 2- 4
• US Class Current: 705/3
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/06 Resources, workflows, human or project management; Enterprise or organisation planning; Enterprise or organisation modelling
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/20 for the management or administration of healthcare resources or facilities, e.g. managing hospital staff or surgery rooms

Abstract

Computerized methods and systems for permitting clinicians and other healthcare providers to designate performance locations for clinical orders having one or more phases associated therewith, and for presenting order catalog content that is flexed based upon the designated performance location for the clinical order are provided. Further provided are computerized methods and systems for permitting clinicians and other healthcare providers to designate a performance location for each phase of a multi-phase clinical order, and for presenting order catalog content for each phase that is flexed based upon the designated performance location for the phase. User interfaces for presenting content associated with clinical orders based upon designated performance locations are also provided.

Claims

1. One or more tangible computer-readable storage media having computer-executable instructions embodied thereon for presenting a user interface for presenting content associated with clinical orders based upon designated performance locations, the user interface comprising:

a location-specification display area that receives and displays a designated performance location to be associated with a clinical order of a current encounter, wherein a current encounter is a clinical order that is currently selected in a patient'"'"'s chart, and wherein the clinical order comprises one or more phases and each phase of the one or more phases is associated with a performance location;

a selection options display area that presents selectable phase indicators associated with the one or more phases of the clinical order where at least one phase of the one or more phases is associated with a second location different from the designated performance location such that selection of the at least one phase associated with the second location results in an alert indicating that the location-specification display area requires a designation of a performance location to display content associated with the at least one phase associated with the second location, and wherein the one or more phases are sub-components of the clinical order of the current encounter, and wherein the location-specification display area is updated to display the content associated with the at least one phase associated with the second location upon receipt of the designation of the second location; and

a clinical order information display area that, based on the designated performance location, presents content associated with the at least one phase of the clinical order that was selected.

2. The media of claim 1, further comprising an encounter-type options display area that receives and displays an encounter type to be associated with the clinical order.

3. The media of claim 2, wherein the received encounter type is one of an encounter type indicative of a current encounter at a current time of performance or an encounter type indicative of a future encounter at a future time of performance.

4. The media of claim 1, wherein the location-specification display area receives and displays the designated performance location to be associated with a selected phase of the one or more phases of the clinical order.

5. The media of claim 4, wherein the clinical order information display area displays content associated with the selected phase of the one or more phases of the clinical order.

6. The media of claim 1, further comprising a plan initiation indicator that indicates whether the clinical order is capable of being initiated in association with a chart encounter, wherein the clinical order is capable of being initiated in association with the chart encounter when the clinical order is designated to be performed at a location associated with the chart encounter and all required preceding clinical orders have been completed.