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System for identifying and addressing concerns of medical patients

  • US 8,538,780 B1
  • Filed: 11/26/2012
  • Issued: 09/17/2013
  • Est. Priority Date: 11/26/2012
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. One or more non-transitory tangible computer-readable media having computer-executable instructions for performing a method by running a software program on a computer, the computer operating under an operating system, the method including issuing instructions from the software program comprising:

  • authenticating a user through a login interface generated by the software program;

    responsive to authentication, querying a patient database for a patient identifier inputted by the authenticated user, the patient identifier associated with a current patient;

    querying the computer for a medical procedure linked to the patient identifier;

    querying the computer for demographic information of the current patient stored in the patient database;

    applying a query against a matrix of pre-authored concerns associated with the medical procedure, wherein the pre-authored concerns are based on concerns that have previously arisen in other patients undergoing the medical procedure and require no input from the current patient;

    retrieving a query response that includes both a plurality of pre-authored concerns related to the medical procedure and a plurality of pre-authored answers addressing the pre-authored concerns, each pre-authored concern weighted against a plurality of demographic factors;

    automatically generating a list of the pre-authored concerns from the query response, the list filtered and pre-sorted according to the demographic information of the current patient as applied to the plurality of demographic factors for each pre-authored concern retrieved from the query;

    presenting the list of the pre-authored concerns to the user, wherein the list may be resorted and filtered by the user interactively;

    in response to the presented list of the pre-authored concerns, confirming relevance of the presented pre-authored concerns to the current patient responsive to a user input;

    presenting the pre-authored answers to the confirmed pre-authored concerns;

    in response to the presented pre-authored answers, receiving the user input on whether the presented pre-authored answers have effectively addressed the concerns of the current patient; and

    notifying an authorized third party of an up-to-date health status of the current patient.

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