Providing multidisciplinary activities in context of clinician's role relevant activities

• US 8,423,384 B2
• Filed: 07/13/2007
• Issued: 04/16/2013
• 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, Karp, Eva
• Primary Examiner(s): Morgan, Robert
• Assistant Examiner(s): KANAAN, MAROUN P
• Application Number:
  US11/777,547
• Publication Number:
  US 20080086330A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,104 Days
• Field of Search: 705/2, 705/3
• 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: 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 40/67 for remote operation

Abstract

Management of patient activities for a clinician is provided by a patient activity list the may present the clinician'"'"'s role relevant activities in conjunction with multidisciplinary activities to be performed for a patient. A timeline view area is presented having role relevant scheduled activities for one or more patients assigned to the clinician. Each role relevant scheduled activity comprises an activity to be performed by the clinician and is presented in the timeline view area based on a scheduled time and in association with a corresponding patient. When a user selection of at least one of the patients is received, one or more multidisciplinary activities for the patient are presented within the timeline view area. The multidisciplinary activities include activities scheduled to be performed by other clinicians, and each multidisciplinary activity is presented in the timeline view area based on a scheduled time.

Claims

1. One or more computer storage media, not being a signal per se, 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 management of activities for a clinician, the method comprising:

presenting a timeline view area having role relevant scheduled activities for plurality of patients assigned to the clinician, wherein the role relevant scheduled activities comprises;

(1) a subset of role relevant scheduled activities for a first patient wherein the subset of role relevant scheduled activities for the first patient comprises a plurality of activities to be performed by the clinician for the first patient from the plurality of patients and

(2) a subset of other role relevant scheduled activities for one or more other patients assigned to the clinician, wherein the subset of other role relevant scheduled clinical activities for one or more other patients assigned to the clinician comprises a plurality of activities to be performed by the clinician for the one or more other patients assigned to the clinician,

wherein the subset of role relevant scheduled activities for the first patient is presented in a single timeline view based on a scheduled time and in association with other role relevant scheduled activities for the first patient and wherein the subset of other role relevant scheduled clinical activities for the one or more other patients assigned to the clinician is presented in the single timeline view based on a scheduled time and in association with other role relevant scheduled activities for the one or more other patients assigned to the clinician;

receiving a user selection of the first patient;

in response to receiving the user selection of the first patient, presenting one or more multidisciplinary activities for the first patient within the timeline view area, the one or more multidisciplinary activities comprising activities scheduled to be performed by one or more other clinicians for the first patient, each multidisciplinary activity being presented in the single timeline view based on a scheduled time and in association with other multidisciplinary activities for the first patient such that the single timeline view simultaneously presents both the subset of role relevant scheduled activities to be performed for the first patient by the clinician and the one or more multidisciplinary activities to be performed for the first patient by one or more other clinicians; and

in response to receiving the user selection of the first patient, removing other patients and the subset of other role relevant scheduled activities associated with the other patients from the timeline view area and simultaneously presenting both the subset of role relevant scheduled activities to be performed for the first patient by the clinician and the one or more multidisciplinary activities to be performed for the first patient by one or more other clinicians within the single timeline view.

2. The one or more computer storage media of claim 1, wherein each role relevant scheduled activity is displayed in the single timeline view using an icon representing a type for the role relevant scheduled activity.

3. The one or more computer storage media of claim 1, wherein each multidisciplinary activity is displayed in the single timeline view using an icon representing a type for the multidisciplinary activity.

4. The one or more computer storage media of claim 1, wherein the method further comprises receiving a user selection of at least one of the multidisciplinary activities;

and presenting information regarding the at least one multidisciplinary activity.

5. The one or more computer storage media of claim 4, wherein the information regarding the at least one multidisciplinary activity comprises at least one of an indication of the one or more other clinicians responsible for the multidisciplinary activity, a specific scheduled time for the at least one multidisciplinary activity, and a duration for the at least one multidisciplinary activity.

6. One or more computer storage media, not being a signal per se, having computer-useable instructions embodied thereon for presenting a graphical user interface for facilitating the management of activities for a clinician, the graphical user interface comprising:

a timeline view area presenting role relevant scheduled activities for a plurality of patients assigned to the clinician, wherein the role relevant scheduled activities comprises a subset of role relevant scheduled activities for a first patient and a subset of other role relevant scheduled activities for one or more other patients assigned to the clinician, wherein the subset of role relevant scheduled activities for the first patient comprises one or more activities to be performed by the clinician for a first patient from the plurality of patients, wherein the subset of role relevant scheduled activities for the first patient is presented in a single timeline view based on a scheduled time and in association with other role relevant scheduled activities for the first patient; and

wherein the timeline view area simultaneously presents one or more multidisciplinary activities for the first patient within the timeline view area in response to a user selection of the first patient, the one or more multidisciplinary activities comprising activities scheduled to be performed by one or more other clinicians for the first patient, each multidisciplinary activity being presented in the single timeline view based on a scheduled time and in association with other multidisciplinary activities scheduled for the first patient such that the timeline view simultaneously presents both the subset of role relevant scheduled activities to be performed for the first patient by the clinician and the one or more multidisciplinary activities to be performed for the first patient by one or more other clinicians, wherein other patients and the subset of other role relevant scheduled activities associated with the other patients are removed from the timeline view area in response to receiving the user selection of the first patient, and both the subset of role relevant scheduled activities to be performed for the first patient by the clinician and the one or more multidisciplinary activities to be performed for the first patient by one or more other clinicians are simultaneously presented within the single timeline view in response to the user selection.

7. The one or more computer storage media of claim 6, wherein each role relevant scheduled activity is displayed in the single timeline view using an icon representing a type for the role relevant scheduled activity.

8. The one or more computer storage media of claim 6, wherein each multidisciplinary activity is displayed in the single timeline view using an icon representing a type for the multidisciplinary activity.

9. The one or more computer storage media of claim 6, wherein in response to receiving a user selection of at least one of the multidisciplinary activities, information regarding the at least one multidisciplinary activity is presented in the graphical user interface.

10. The one or more computer storage media of claim 9, wherein the information regarding the at least one multidisciplinary activity comprises at least one of an indication of the one or more other clinicians responsible for the multidisciplinary activity, a specific scheduled time for the at least one multidisciplinary activity, and a duration for the at least one multidisciplinary activity.

11. One or more computer storage media, not being a signal per se, 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 management of activities for a clinician, the method comprising:

presenting a timeline view area having role relevant scheduled activities for a plurality of patients assigned to the clinician, wherein the role relevant scheduled activities comprises a subset of role relevant scheduled activities for a first patient and a subset of other role relevant scheduled activities for one or more other patients assigned to the clinician, wherein the subset of role relevant scheduled activities for the first patient comprises one or more activities to be performed by the clinician for the first patient from the plurality of patients, wherein the subset of role relevant scheduled activities for the first patient is presented in single timeline view based on a scheduled time and in association with other role relevant scheduled activities for the first patient;

upon receiving a first user selection of the first patient, presenting one or more multidisciplinary activities for the first patient within the timeline view area, the one or more multidisciplinary activities comprising activities scheduled to be performed by one or more other clinicians for the first patient, each in the single timeline view based on a scheduled time and in association with other multidisciplinary activities scheduled for the first patient such that the single timeline view simultaneously presents both the subset of role relevant scheduled activities to be performed for the first patient by the clinician and the one or more multidisciplinary activities to be performed for the first patient by one or more other clinicians;

in response to receiving the first user selection of the first patient, removing other patients and the subset of scheduled activities associated with the other patients from the timeline view area such that the timeline view area simultaneously presents the subset of role relevant scheduled activities to be performed for the first patient by the clinician and the one or more multidisciplinary activities to be performed for the first patient by one or more other clinicians;

receiving a second user selection of at least one of the one or more multidisciplinary activities; and

upon receiving the second user selection of the at least one multidisciplinary activity, presenting information regarding the selected at least one multidisciplinary activity, the information comprising at least one of an indication of the one or more other clinicians responsible for the at least one multidisciplinary activity, a specific scheduled time for the at least one multidisciplinary activity, and a duration for the at least one multidisciplinary activity.

12. The one or more computer storage media of claim 11, wherein each role relevant scheduled activity is displayed in the single timeline view using an icon representing a type for the role relevant scheduled activity.

13. The one or more computer storage media of claim 11, wherein each multidisciplinary activity is displayed in the single timeline view using an icon representing a type for the multidisciplinary activity.