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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
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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.

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