Acknowledgement of previous results for medication administration

• US 8,589,185 B2
• Filed: 07/13/2007
• Issued: 11/19/2013
• 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, Gannon, Mary
• Primary Examiner(s): Pauls, John
• Assistant Examiner(s): NGUYEN, TRANG T
• Application Number:
  US11/777,561
• Publication Number:
  US 20080086331A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,321 Days
• Field of Search: 705/2, 705/3
• US Class Current: 705/3
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 10/60 for patient-specific data, e.g. for electronic patient records
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 20/10 relating to drugs or medications, e.g. for ensuring correct administration to patients

Abstract

Document of medication administration is provided by a clinician acknowledging previous clinical results such that the previous clinical results are used for documentation purposes. A command is received to document the administration of a medication to patient. Based on the command, it is determined that documentation of the medication administration requires entry of information regarding at least one clinical result for the patient. Additionally, it is determined that a previous clinical result is available for documentation. The medication administration is then documented using the previous clinical result.

Claims

1. One or more non-transitory 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 documenting administration of a medication to a patient, the method comprising:

providing for display an activity view medication administration record (MAR) user interface on a computing device, the activity view MAR user interface comprising

     1) a timeline view of one or more times when a medication is scheduled to be administered to a patient and

     2) a results and documentation area;

receiving a command to document the administration of the medication to the patient, wherein the command to document the administration of the medication is received from the activity view MAR;

prior to documenting the administration of the medication, determining that documentation of the administration of the medication requires entry of information regarding at least one clinical result relevant to the administration of the medication for the patient;

determining that at least one previous clinical result is available for documenting the administration of the medication, wherein determining that at least one previous clinical result is available for documenting the administration of the medication comprises;

(1) determining that the at least one previous clinical result is stored in an electronic record associated with the patient, wherein the at least one clinical result was stored in the electronic record prior to the received command to document the administration of the medication; and

(2) determining that the at least one previous clinical result is sufficiently recent to be used for medication administration purposes, wherein the at least one previous clinical result is determined to be sufficiently recent for documentation of the administration of the medication such that a subsequent clinical result is not required prior to documenting the administration of the medication;

receiving user input acknowledging the at least one previous clinical result for documenting the administration of the medication to the patient, wherein the user input acknowledging the at least one previous clinical result for documenting the administration of the medication is received from the activity view MAR; and

based on receiving the user input acknowledging the at least one previous clinical result, providing for display the activity view MAR for using the acknowledged at least one previous clinical result to document the medication administration, wherein using the acknowledged at least one previous clinical result for documenting comprises simultaneously presenting the timeline view and the acknowledged at least one previous clinical result and receiving user input regarding documenting the medication administration.

2. The one or more non-transitory computer storage media of claim 1, wherein using the acknowledged at least one previous clinical result for documentation comprises accessing the at least one previous clinical result from the electronic store.

3. The one or more non-transitory computer storage media of claim 1, wherein presenting the acknowledged at least one previous clinical result comprises providing a time corresponding with the at least one previous clinical result.

4. The one or more non-transitory computer storage media of claim 1, wherein the method further comprises presenting a trend of previous clinical results related to the at least one previous clinical result.

5. One or more non-transitory computer storage media embodying computer-useable instructions for providing for display an activity view medication administration record (MAR) user interface for documenting the current administration of medication to a patient, the activity view MAR user interface comprising:

a documentation area allowing the entry of information regarding the current administration of the medication to the patient;

a related results area providing for display at least one previous clinical result related to the current administration of the medication, wherein the at least one previous clinical result may be acknowledged by a clinician prior to documenting the current administration of medication and used for documentation of the current administration of the medication to the patient, wherein acknowledging the at least one previous clinical result comprises providing for display the at least one clinical result prior to documenting the current administration of medication such that the acknowledged at least one previous clinical result is used for documentation of the current administration of the medication; and

a timeline view area indicating when the medication is scheduled to be administered to the patient based on a corresponding time, wherein the timeline view area comprises one or more indications of an amount of the medication previously administered to the patient and a corresponding clinical result associated with the amount of the medication that was previously administered;

wherein the documentation area, related results area, and timeline view area are simultaneously presented to a user during entry of information regarding the current administration of the medication.

6. One or more non-transitory computer storage media embodying computer-useable instructions for performing a method for documenting administration of a medication to a patient, the method comprising:

providing for display an activity view medication administration record (MAR) user interface on a computing device, the activity view MAR user interface comprising

     1) a timeline view of one or more times when a medication is scheduled to be administered to a patient and

     2) a results and documentation area;

receiving a command to document the administration of the medication to the patient, wherein the command to document the administration of the medication is received from the activity view MAR;

based on receiving the command to document the administration of the medication, determining that documentation of the administration of the medication requires entry of information regarding at least one clinical result for the patient;

determining that at least one previous clinical result is available for documentation, wherein determining that at least one previous clinical result is available includes determining that the at least one previous clinical result is stored in an electronic record associated with the patient and determining that at least one previous clinical result is sufficiently recent to be used for medication administration purposes, wherein the at least one previous clinical result is determined to be sufficiently recent for documentation of the administration of the medication such that a subsequent clinical result is not required prior to documenting the administration of the medication;

providing for display on the activity view MAR the at least one previous clinical result that is determined to be available for documentation, wherein providing for display the at least one previous clinical result determined to be available for documentation comprises accessing the at least one previous clinical result from the electronic store;

receiving user input acknowledging the at least one previous clinical result for documenting the administration of the medication to the patient, wherein the user input acknowledging the at least one previous clinical result for documenting the administration of the medication is received from the activity view MAR; and

using the acknowledged at least one previous clinical result for documentation, wherein using the acknowledged at least one previous clinical result for documentation comprises providing for display the acknowledged at least one previous clinical result.

7. The one or more non-transitory computer storage media of claim 6, wherein providing for display on the activity view MAR the at least one previous clinical result comprises providing a time corresponding with the at least one previous clinical result.

8. The one or more non-transitory computer storage media of claim 6, wherein the method further comprises presenting a trend of previous clinical results related to the at least one clinical result.