Proactive and interactive clinical decision support
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1. A method in a clinical computing environment for providing clinical decision support, the method comprising:
- receiving, at a computing device, a clinical order for a patient;
after receiving the clinical order, determining that a clinical decision support event is associated with the clinical order, wherein the clinical decision support event is used to verify that the clinical order is appropriate for the patient;
accessing stored clinical information associated with the patient from a data store;
determining that certain elements of clinical information relevant to the clinical decision support event are not currently available in the stored clinical information;
determining that the stored information does not indicate that the clinical decision support event is needed by performing a preliminary calculation using only the stored information;
determining that initiating the clinical decision support event is appropriate by evaluating the preliminary calculation in combination with possible values for the certain elements that are not currently available in the stored clinical information;
proactively initiating the clinical decision support event based on the stored clinical information even through only partial clinical information for the clinical decision support event is available in the stored clinical information and even though the stored information alone does not indicate that the clinical decision support event is needed;
generating a user interface for the clinical decision support event, the user interface including the plurality of clinical information elements relevant to the clinical decision support event, at least a portion of the clinical information elements being populated with the stored clinical information and requests for the certain elements that are not currently available in the stored clinical information to be provided, wherein the clinical information elements are capable of being modified by a user;
presenting the user interface to a user;
receiving user-provided clinical information from a user via the user interface;
providing clinical advice related to whether the clinical order is appropriate based on the stored clinical information and the user-provided clinical information; and
storing the clinical order and the clinical advice in the patient'"'"'s electronic medical record.
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Abstract
Proactive and interactive clinical decision support events are provided. When a clinical decision support event is initiated for a patient, relevant stored clinical information associated with the patient is accessed. A user interface is generated using the stored clinical information. A clinician may interact with the user interface by providing user-provided clinical information that may add to and/or modify the stored clinical information in the user interface. Clinical advice is provided based on the stored clinical information and the user-provided clinical information.
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1. A method in a clinical computing environment for providing clinical decision support, the method comprising:
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receiving, at a computing device, a clinical order for a patient; after receiving the clinical order, determining that a clinical decision support event is associated with the clinical order, wherein the clinical decision support event is used to verify that the clinical order is appropriate for the patient; accessing stored clinical information associated with the patient from a data store; determining that certain elements of clinical information relevant to the clinical decision support event are not currently available in the stored clinical information; determining that the stored information does not indicate that the clinical decision support event is needed by performing a preliminary calculation using only the stored information; determining that initiating the clinical decision support event is appropriate by evaluating the preliminary calculation in combination with possible values for the certain elements that are not currently available in the stored clinical information; proactively initiating the clinical decision support event based on the stored clinical information even through only partial clinical information for the clinical decision support event is available in the stored clinical information and even though the stored information alone does not indicate that the clinical decision support event is needed; generating a user interface for the clinical decision support event, the user interface including the plurality of clinical information elements relevant to the clinical decision support event, at least a portion of the clinical information elements being populated with the stored clinical information and requests for the certain elements that are not currently available in the stored clinical information to be provided, wherein the clinical information elements are capable of being modified by a user; presenting the user interface to a user; receiving user-provided clinical information from a user via the user interface; providing clinical advice related to whether the clinical order is appropriate based on the stored clinical information and the user-provided clinical information; and storing the clinical order and the clinical advice in the patient'"'"'s electronic medical record. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14)
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15. A system including a computer processor and computer-executable instructions embodied on one or more computer-storage media in a clinical computing environment for providing a clinical decision support event, the system comprising:
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an order entry component for receiving a clinical order associated with the patient; a knowledge base having one or more rules associated with one or more types of clinical decision support events; an inference engine in communication with the knowledge base and a data store storing clinical information associated with a patient that determines that certain elements of clinical information relevant to a clinical decision support event are not currently available in the stored clinical information, that the stored information for the patient does not indicate that the clinical decision support event is needed by performing a preliminary calculation using only the stored information, and that initiating the clinical decision support event is appropriate by evaluating the preliminary calculation in combination with possible values for certain elements that are not currently available in the stored clinical information; and a user interface component that generates a user interface for a clinical decision support event even through only partial clinical information for the clinical decision support event is available in the stored clinical information and even though the stored information alone does not indicate that clinical advice is needed, the user interface including a plurality of clinical information elements relevant to the clinical decision support event, at least some of the plurality of clinical information elements being populated with clinical information accessed from the data store, and requests for the certain elements that are not currently available in the stored clinical information to be provided, the user interface being configured to receive user-provided clinical information via the clinical information elements and wherein elements of the user interface are capable of being modified by a user. - View Dependent Claims (16, 17)
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18. A method in a clinical computing environment for providing clinical decision support, the method comprising:
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accessing, at a computing device, stored clinical information associated with a patient from a data store; determining that certain elements of clinical information relevant to the clinical decision support event are not currently available in the stored clinical information; determining that the stored information does not indicate that the clinical decision support event is needed by performing a preliminary calculation using only the stored information; determining that initiating the clinical decision support event is appropriate by evaluating the preliminary calculation in combination with possible values for the certain elements that are not currently available in the stored clinical information; proactively initiating the clinical decision support event based on the stored clinical information even through only partial clinical information for the clinical decision support event is available in the stored clinical information and even though the stored information alone does not indicate that clinical decision support event is needed; generating a user interface for the clinical decision support event, the user interface including the plurality of clinical information elements relevant to the clinical decision support event, at least a portion of the clinical information elements being populated with the stored clinical information and requests for the certain elements that are not currently available in the stored clinical information to be provided, wherein the clinical information elements are capable of being modified by a user; receiving new clinical information relevant to the certain elements; determining preliminary clinical advice based on the stored clinical information and the new clinical information; presenting the stored clinical information and the preliminary clinical advice; receiving user-provided clinical information describing a medical condition in the patient; and updating the preliminary clinical advice to generate updated clinical advice based on the stored clinical information and the user-provided clinical information describing the medical condition in the patient; and presenting the updated clinical advice.
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19. A method in a clinical computing environment for providing a clinical decision support event associated with a patient, the clinical decision support event having a plurality of clinical information elements relevant thereto, the method comprising:
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monitoring, at a computing device, stored clinical information associated with the patient; determining that certain elements of clinical information relevant to the clinical decision support event are not currently available in the stored clinical information; determining that the stored information does not indicate that the clinical decision support event is needed by performing a preliminary calculation using only the stored information; determining that initiating the clinical decision support event is appropriate by evaluating the preliminary calculation in combination with possible values for the certain elements that are not currently available in the stored clinical information; proactively initiating the clinical decision support event based on the stored clinical information even through only partial clinical information for the clinical decision support event is available in the stored clinical information and even though the stored information alone does not indicate that the clinical decision support event is needed; generating a user interface for the clinical decision support event, the user interface including the plurality of clinical information elements relevant to the clinical decision support event, at least a portion of the clinical information elements being populated with the stored clinical information and requests for the certain elements that are not currently available in the stored clinical information to be provided, wherein the clinical information elements are capable of being modified by a user; and presenting the user interface to a user. - View Dependent Claims (20)
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