Patient activity coordinator

• US 8,355,924 B2
• Filed: 07/13/2007
• Issued: 01/15/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 10/06/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Cerner Innovation, Inc. (Oracle Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Cerner Innovation, Inc. (Oracle Corporation)
• Inventors: Hertel, Cheryl, Fahey, Nancy, Kelly, Lisa, Stafford, Cindy
• Primary Examiner(s): NGUYEN, HIEP VAN
• Application Number:
  US11/777,540
• Publication Number:
  US 20080086328A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,013 Days
• Field of Search: 705/2
• US Class Current: 705/2
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/06 Resources, workflows, human or project management; Enterprise or organisation planning; Enterprise or organisation modelling
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/109 Time management, e.g. calendars, reminders, meetings or time accounting
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/20 for the management or administration of healthcare resources or facilities, e.g. managing hospital staff or surgery rooms
• 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

Management of patient activities for a clinician is described herein. A patient activity list provides a common view of activities for patients assigned to a clinician for a given time period, such as a shift. The patient activity list provides a simplified view with critical indicators providing critical patient information. Patient activities may include ad hoc activities and scheduled activities presented in a timeline view based on the scheduled time period for each respective activity. Only activities relevant to the clinicians role are included and each activity is represented as a graphical icon representative of the type of activity. The patient activity list is fully navigable to allow the clinician to access further information and complete activities within context of the clinician'"'"'s activities.

Claims

1. One or more computer storage media having computer-useable instructions embodied thereon for presenting a graphical user interface for facilitating the management of clinical activities for a single clinician, the graphical user interface comprising:

an identification for a plurality of patients assigned to the single clinician, wherein each patient identified in the graphical user interface is assigned to the single clinician;

one or more critical indicators associated with at least one of the plurality of patients, wherein each critical indicator represents an item of critical information that is associated with a respective patient and comprises vitally important information associated with the treatment of the respective patient by the clinician, said vitally important information including one or more of information associated with allergies of the respective patient, information associated with a code status of the respective patient, information associated with isolation of the respective patient, and critical information related to release of information regarding the respective patient, and further wherein each critical indicator is presented in the graphical user interface using an icon representing a type for the critical indicator, wherein each icon representing a critical indicator is associated with a particular patient, and further wherein the graphical user interface facilitates selection of at least one of the one or more critical indicators causing the presentation of details of the at least one critical indicator;

one or more scheduled clinical activities associated with at least one of the plurality of patients, wherein each scheduled clinical activity is role relevant to the single clinician, and wherein each scheduled clinical activity is presented in a timeline view of the single clinician'"'"'s shift according to a scheduled time period for the scheduled clinical activity and is presented in the graphical user interface using an icon representing a type for the scheduled clinical activity, wherein each icon indicating a scheduled clinical activity is distinct from each icon representing a critical indicator, and further wherein the graphical user interface facilitates selection of at least one of the plurality of patients causing the presentation of a patient snapshot in conjunction with scheduled clinical activities for the at least one patient, wherein the patient snapshot includes patient information relevant for the single clinician;

one or more unscheduled clinical activities associated with at least one of the plurality of patients, wherein each unscheduled clinical activity is role relevant to the single clinician and does not have an associated time, and wherein each unscheduled clinical activity is presented in the graphical user interface using an icon representing a type for the unscheduled clinical activity; and

a key notification area for presenting a notification of time-sensitive items of patient information, wherein the time-sensitive items of patient information are role relevant to the single clinician;

wherein the identification for each of plurality of patients, the one or more critical indicators, the one or more scheduled clinical activities, the one or more unscheduled clinical activities, and the key notification area are substantially simultaneously presented in a common view within the graphical user interface.

2. The one or more computer storage media of claim 1, wherein the graphical user interface further comprises an indication of one or more overdue clinical activities associated with at least one of the plurality of patients.

3. The one or more computer storage media of claim 1, wherein the graphical user interface further comprises an indication of a total number of scheduled clinical activities for a given time period within the timeline view.

4. The one or more computer storage media of claim 1, wherein the graphical user interface further comprises an indication of the current time period within the timeline view.

5. The one or more computer storage media of claim 1, wherein the graphical user interface further comprises an indication that at least one of the plurality of patients is off the single clinician'"'"'s unit for a given time period.

6. The one or more computer storage media of claim 5, wherein the graphical user interface provides information regarding a location for the at least one of the plurality of patients that is off the single clinician'"'"'s unit for the given time period.

7. The one or more computer storage media of claim 1, wherein the graphical user interface further includes at least one legend providing information for at least one icon corresponding with at least one of a scheduled clinical activity, an unscheduled clinical activity, and a critical indicator.

8. The one or more computer storage media of claim 1, wherein the graphical user interface further includes patient information associated with each of the plurality of patients assigned to the single clinician, the patient information for each patient comprising at least one of an acuity score and a location for the patient.

9. The one or more computer storage media of claim 1, wherein the graphical user interface facilitates navigation to an electronic patient chart for at least one of the plurality of patients.

10. One or more computer storage media having computer-useable instructions embodied thereon for presenting a graphical user interface for facilitating the management of clinical activities for a single clinician, the graphical user interface comprising:

a timeline view area showing the single clinician'"'"'s shift divided by a plurality of time periods, wherein the timeline view area provides a two-dimensional representation in which a first dimension corresponds with a plurality of patients assigned to the single clinician and a second dimension corresponds with the plurality of time periods, wherein one or more scheduled clinical activities for each of the plurality of patients assigned to the single clinician are shown in the timeline view area based on a scheduled time for each of the scheduled clinical activities, and wherein each scheduled clinical activity is role relevant for the single clinician and is shown in the timeline view area using an icon representing a type for the scheduled clinical activity, wherein the graphical user interface facilitates selection of at least one of the plurality of patients causing the presentation of a patient snapshot in conjunction with scheduled clinical activities for the at least one patient, wherein the patient snapshot includes patient information relevant for the single clinician;

a graphical indication for each of one or more critical indicators for at least one patient, wherein the graphical indication for each critical indicator comprises an icon representing a type for the critical indicator and represents an item of critical information that is associated with a respective patient and comprises vitally important information associated with the treatment of the respective patient by the clinician, wherein the graphical user interface facilitates selection of at least one of the one or more critical indicators causing the presentation of details of the at least one critical indicator, wherein each icon indicating a scheduled clinical activity is distinct from each icon representing a critical indicator, and further wherein the graphical user interface facilitates selection of at least one of the one or more critical indicators causing the presentation of details of the at least one critical indicator;

a graphical indication for each of one or more unscheduled clinical activities for at least one patient, wherein the graphical indication comprises an icon representing a type for the unscheduled clinical activity, and wherein each unscheduled clinical activity is role relevant to the single clinician and does not have an associated time; and

a key notification area for presenting a notification of time-sensitive items of patient information, wherein the time-sensitive items of patient information are role relevant to the single clinician;

wherein the timeline view area, graphical indication for each critical indicator, graphical indication for each unscheduled clinical activity, and the key notification area are substantially simultaneously displayed in a common view.

11. The one or more computer storage media of claim 10, wherein the graphical user interface further comprises a graphical indication for each of one or more overdue clinical activities associated with at least one of the plurality of patients.

12. The one or more computer storage media of claim 10, wherein the graphical user interface further comprises an indication of a total number of scheduled clinical activities for a given time period within the timeline view area.

13. The one or more computer storage media of claim 10, wherein the graphical user interface further comprises an indication of the current time period within the timeline view.

14. The one or more computer storage media of claim 10, wherein the graphical user interface further includes at least one legend providing information for at least one icon corresponding with at least one of a scheduled clinical activity, an unscheduled clinical activity, and a critical indicator.

15. The one or more computer storage media of claim 10, wherein the length of time periods included in the timeline view area may be manually set by the single clinician.

16. One or more computer storage media storing computer-useable instructions that, when used by one or more computing devices, cause the one or more computing devices to perform a method in a clinical computing environment for facilitating the management of clinical activities for a single clinician, the method comprising:

presenting a timeline view area providing an indication for a plurality of patients assigned to the single clinician and showing one or more scheduled clinical activities corresponding with the plurality of patients assigned to the single clinician, wherein each scheduled clinical activity is presented in the timeline view area at a time period corresponding with a scheduled time for the scheduled clinical activity and corresponding with a patient, and wherein each clinical activity is role relevant to the single clinician and is presented in the timeline view area using an icon representing a type for the clinical activity, wherein at least one of the plurality of patients is selectable such that selection thereof causes the presentation of a patient snapshot in conjunction with scheduled clinical activities for the at least one patient, wherein the patient snapshot includes patient information relevant for the single clinician;

presenting one or more critical indicators for at least one of the patients, wherein each critical indicator represents an item of critical information that is associated with a respective patient and comprises vitally important information associated with the treatment of the respective patient by the clinician, said vitally important information including one or more of information associated with allergies of the respective patient, information associated with a code status of the respective patient, information associated with isolation of the respective patient, and critical information related to release of information regarding the respective patient, and further wherein each critical indicator is presented in the graphical user interface using an icon representing a type for the critical indicator, wherein each icon indicating a scheduled clinical activity is distinct from each icon representing a critical indicator, and further wherein each icon representing a critical indicator is selectable such that selection thereof provides a presentation of details associated with the selected critical indicator;

presenting one or more unscheduled clinical activities for at least one of the patients, wherein each unscheduled clinical activity is role relevant to the single clinician and does not have an associated time, and wherein each unscheduled clinical activity is presented in the graphical user interface using an icon representing a type for the unscheduled clinical activity;

presenting a key notification area providing a notification of time-sensitive items of patient information, wherein the time-sensitive items of patient information are role relevant to the single clinician; and

wherein the timeline view area, one or more critical indicators, one or more unscheduled clinical activities, and key notification area are substantially simultaneously displayed in a common view allowing the single clinician to view scheduled clinical activities, critical indicators, unscheduled clinical activities,

and notification of time-sensitive items for patients assigned to the single clinician in the common view.

17. The one or more computer-storage media of claim 16, wherein the method further comprises presenting a graphical indication for each of one or more overdue clinical activities associated with at least one of the plurality of patients.

18. The one or more computer-storage media of claim 16, wherein the method further comprises presenting an indication of a total number of scheduled clinical activities for a given time period within the timeline view area.

19. The one or more computer-storage media of claim 16, wherein the method further comprises providing an indication of the current time period within the timeline view.

20. The one or more computer-storage media of claim 16, wherein the method further comprises presenting at least one legend providing information for at least one icon corresponding with at least one of a scheduled clinical activity, an unscheduled clinical activity, and a critical indicator.