Template based filtering and summations flowsheet

• US 8,412,543 B2
• Filed: 01/30/2009
• Issued: 04/02/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 01/30/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: General Electric Company
• Original Assignee: General Electric Company
• Inventors: Murawski, David
• Primary Examiner(s): Cobanoglu, Dilek B
• Application Number:
  US12/363,161
• Publication Number:
  US 20100198617A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,523 Days
• Field of Search: 705/3, 705/2, 715/209, 715/214, 1/1, 710/52
• US Class Current: 705/3
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/217 Database tuning G06F16/2282 takes precedence; database performance monitoring G06F11/3409
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/18 of spreadsheets form-filling G06F40/174
• 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 40/63 for local operation

Abstract

A system and method are provided for providing a moveable summary column for a patient based medical flow sheet. The summary column can provide various summations of the patient'"'"'s data records for any time period depending on where the moveable summation column is placed. The summation of the various patient data depends on the summation parameters defined in the medical flow sheet. The summary column can be moved by the user to any spot in the patient data portion of the medical flow sheet to sum up different intervals of data. The moveable summation column will present summary data for each of the patient parameters as designated by the medical flow sheet developers depending on the placement of the summation column.

Claims

1. A electronic medical flow sheet system comprising:

a flow sheet application component to provide an electronic medical flow sheet including patient medical record information;

a flow sheet summation component to produce a moveable summation column in the electronic medical flow sheet, wherein the moveable summation column is to be positioned by a user with respect to the electronic medical flow sheet, the summation data of the moveable summation column to be determined by the flow sheet summation component based on the user placement of the moveable summation column with respect to the electronic medical flow sheet;

a user interface adapted to provide the electronic medical flow sheet from a database and to facilitate interaction with the electronic medical flow sheet.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the database contains a medical record for a medical event for a patient.

3. The system of claim 2, wherein the electronic medical flow sheet is presented in a column form wherein a plurality of patient information columns contain the medical record for the medical event for the patient associated with a time and a date.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein the user interface is connected to the database via a network.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein a medical parameter column in the electronic medical flow sheet contains a plurality of medical data parameters.

6. The system of claim 1, wherein the moveable summation column summarizes data based on a row in the moveable summation column summation criteria.

7. A computer-implemented method for displaying an electronic medical flow sheet with a floating summation column comprising:

selecting, in response to input, a patient;

selecting, in response to input, a type of electronic flow sheet;

providing patient data from a database to an electronic flow sheet generator to generate an electronic medical flow sheet based on the selected type and patient data;

displaying the selected electronic medical flow sheet at a user interface;

facilitating user positioning of a moveable summation column over a selected patient data column of the electronic medical flow sheet via the user interface; and

displaying summation data in the moveable summation column in the electronic medical flow sheet via the user interface, the summation data of the moveable summation column to be determined based on the user placement of the moveable summation column with respect to the electronic medical flow sheet.

8. The method of claim 7, wherein the type of the electronic medical flow sheet contains a set of medical event parameters for a particular medical team member.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein the medical team member is selected from the group consisting of doctor, nurse, pharmacist, administrator, insurance coordinator.

10. The method of claim 7, wherein the electronic medical flow sheet is presented in a column form wherein each column contains the medical record for the medical event for the patient associated with a time and a date.

11. The method in claim 7, wherein a medical parameter column in the electronic medical flow sheet contains a plurality of medical data parameters.

12. The method in claim 7, wherein the user interface is connected to the database via a network.

13. The method of claim 7, wherein the moveable summation column summarizes data based on summation criteria for a selected row.

14. The method of claim 13, wherein an interval for the summation data of the moveable summation column is automatically determined based on where a user places the moveable summation column in the electronic medical flow sheet.

15. The method of claim 14, wherein the interval for the summation data of the moveable summation column is configurable by a user.

16. A computer-readable medium including a set of instructions for execution on a computer, the set of instructions comprising:

a electronic medical flow sheet routine configured to create a display of an electronic medical flow sheet to a user, wherein the electronic medical flow sheet routine is further configured to display a moveable summation column routine to summarize a patient'"'"'s data depending on placement of the moveable summation column with respect to the electronic medical flow sheet, wherein the moveable summation column is to be positioned by a user with respect to the electronic medical flow sheet.