Document creation and management systems and methods

• US 8,595,620 B2
• Filed: 09/27/2010
• Issued: 11/26/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 09/29/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Kwatros Corporation
• Original Assignee: Kwatros Corporation
• Inventors: Larsen, Glen A., Rich, Justin B., Mimnaugh, Steven R., Wyman, Dennis J., Rothfeder, Robert K.
• Primary Examiner(s): Hutton, Jr., Doug
• Assistant Examiner(s): Smith, Tionna
• Application Number:
  US12/891,740
• Publication Number:
  US 20110078570A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,156 Days
• Field of Search: 715/254
• US Class Current: 715/254
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/166 Editing, e.g. inserting or deleting
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 10/60 for patient-specific data, e.g. for electronic patient records

Abstract

Systems and methods for document creation and management to facilitate creation of documents. An example document creation and management system is configured with an input component, a processing component, and a document creation component. A document creation and management systems can allow input of data in a customizable manner via talking (or recording), touching, typing, and/or clicking. A document creation and management system may use customizable templates, so that a user, for example a physician, may more efficiently enter and review data, such as data related to a patient encounter. A navigator may import information, such as formatting and structure information, from a template to guide a user as to the input to be provided to generate a document according to the template. Document entries may be automatically sent for processing, which may include editing, transcription, encryption, etc, in a parallel or serial fashion. For example, dictation information may be automatically transcribed and/or processed.

Claims

1. A document creation and management system comprising:

an input subsystem to receive input from a given user via one or more input devices to generate content of a document, the content comprising one or more discrete entries, the input subsystem including a processor to receive the input and compose the input as an entry of the content of the document, the input subsystem comprising;

a navigator component presenting, on a display, prompts and corresponding input controls organized according to a predefined template, the prompts and corresponding input controls to guide collection of input and guide composing of the one or more discrete entries to create the content of the document, wherein the predefined template comprises formatting rules defined by the given user;

an auto-insertion component to compose preconfigured data into an entry in response to activation of a click input control;

a recorder to record input to compose into an entry in response to activation of a record input control; and

a composer configured to receive and compose data into an entry in response to activation of a type input control;

a document creation subsystem configured to generate the document using the one or more discrete entries composed by the input subsystem; and

a document storage subsystem configured to store the document on a nontransitory computer readable storage medium, wherein the document is stored as an association of the one or more discrete entries.

2. The document creation and management system of claim 1, wherein the composer is further configured to present a second click input control and compose preconfigured data into an entry in response to activation of the second click input control and further configured to present a second record input control to activate the recorder to record input and to compose the recorded input into an entry in response to activation of the second record input control.

3. The document creation and management system of claim 1, wherein the auto-insertion component is further configured to also compose preconfigured data into an entry in response to activation of a touch input control.

4. The document creation and management system of claim 1, wherein the document creation subsystem is further configured to manage and automate processing of the one or more discrete entries of the document by automatically sending the one or more discrete entries to an external processing subsystem, wherein processing includes one or more of transcription, editing, coding, encrypting, speech recognition and optical character recognition.

5. The document creation and management system of claim 1, further comprising a processing subsystem configured to process the one or more discrete entries of the document, wherein the document creation subsystem manages processing of the one or more discrete entries of the document by sending the one or more discrete entries to the processing subsystem.

6. The document creation and management system of claim 5, wherein the processing subsystem comprises speech recognition to transcribe spoken audio input to text, and wherein the document creation subsystem receives the transcribed text of the audio input and composes the text into an entry of the document at an appropriate position in the content of the document.

7. The document creation and management system of claim 1, wherein the navigator component of the graphical user interface of the input subsystem orders the prompts and corresponding input controls according to rules of the predefined template.

8. The document creation and management system of claim 7, wherein the predefined template outlines a structure of the document, including an arrangement of the one or more discrete entries and outlining a structure of the one or more discrete entries to be composed to populate the content of the document, the arrangement of the one or more discrete entries comprising one or more of ordering and formatting.

9. The document creation and management system of claim 8, wherein the predefined template is customized to mirror a document creation thought process of the given user creating the document.

10. The document creation and management system of claim 1, wherein the input subsystem further comprises a viewer to display in real-time the contents of the document according to formatting as an output document.

11. The document creation and management system of claim 1, wherein, after the input subsystem composes each entry of the document, the document creation subsystem produces an output document and the document storage subsystem stores the output document.

12. The document creation and management system of claim 1, wherein the input subsystem comprises a web server configured to serve a graphical user interface of the subsystem over a network to a client computer for viewing in a web browser and to receive input from the client computer via the network.

13. The document creation and management system of claim 1, wherein the recorder records audio.

14. The document creation and management system of claim 1, wherein the recorder records video.

15. The document creation and management system of claim 1, wherein the recorder records output of a monitoring system.

16. A document creation and management system comprising:

a processor;

a display in communication with the processor;

a plurality of input devices in communication with the processor, the plurality of input devices including at least a keyboard and a microphone;

a memory in communication with the processor, the memory comprising;

an input subsystem module to receive input from a given user via the plurality of input devices to generate the content of a document, the content comprising one or more discrete entries, the input subsystem to present on the display a graphical user interface configured to receive the input and compose the input into an entry of the content of the document, the graphical user interface comprising;

a navigator component presenting prompts and corresponding input controls organized according to a predefined template, the prompts and corresponding input controls to guide collection of input and guide composing of entries to create the content of the document, wherein the template comprises formatting rules defined by the given user, the input controls including a record input control and a type input control;

a recorder to record input to compose into an entry in response to activation of the record input control; and

a composer configured to receive data to compose the data into an entry in response to activation of the type input control;

a document creation subsystem configured to generate the document using the one or more discrete entries created by the input subsystem; and

a document storage subsystem configured to store the document, wherein the document is stored as the one or more discrete entries stored associated together.

17. The document creation and management system of claim 16, wherein the navigator further comprises an auto-insertion component to compose preconfigured data into an entry in response to activation of a click input control.

18. The document creation and management system of claim 1, wherein the composer is further configured to present a second click input control and compose preconfigured data into an entry in response to activation of the second click input control and further configured to present a second record input control to activate the recorder to record input and to compose the recorded input into an entry in response to activation of the second record input control.

19. The document creation and management system of claim 16, further comprising a processing subsystem configured to process the one or more discrete entries of the document, wherein the document creation subsystem manages processing of the one or more discrete entries of the document by sending the one or more discrete entries to the processing subsystem.

20. A method of document creation and management comprising:

receiving input via one or more input devices to generate the content of a document, the content comprising one or more discrete entries, receiving input comprising;

presenting a navigator component having prompts and corresponding input controls organized according to a predefined template, the prompts and corresponding input controls to guide collection of input to create the content of the document, wherein the predefined template comprises formatting rules defined by the given user;

recording input in response to activation of a record input control; and

receiving typed data into an entry in response to activation of a type input control;

composing the received input as an entry of the content of the document,

storing the document as an association of discretely stored entries.

21. The method of claim 20, wherein receiving input further comprises inserting preconfigured data into an entry in response to activation of a click input control.

22. The method of claim 20, further comprising processing entries of the document by sending the entries to a processing subsystem.

23. The method of claim 20, wherein the processing entries further comprises receiving back from the processing subsystem processed data and associating the processed data with a corresponding document entry previously sent for processing.

24. The method of claim 20, further comprising presenting in real-time the contents of the document according to formatting rules as an output document.

25. The method of claim 20, wherein the navigator component orders the presentation of the prompts and corresponding input controls according to a predefined template.

26. A non-transitory computer readable storage medium having recorded thereon instructions that, if executed by a computer, cause the computer to perform a method of document creation and management, the method comprising:

receiving input via one or more input devices to generate the content of a document, the content comprising one or more discrete entries, receiving input comprising;

presenting a navigator component having prompts and corresponding input controls organized according to a predefined template, the prompts and corresponding input controls to guide collection of input to create the content of the document, wherein the template comprises formatting rules defined by the given user;

recording input in response to activation of a record input control; and

receiving typed text into an entry in response to activation of a type input control;

composing the received input as an entry of the content of the document; and

storing the document as an association of discretely stored entries.

27. A document creation and management system comprising:

a plurality of input devices to enable input by a given user;

a display to present a graphical user interface to a user;

an input subsystem to receive input via the plurality of input devices to generate content of a document, the content comprising one or more discrete entries, the input subsystem to receive the input and compose the input as an entry of the content of the document, the input subsystem comprising;

a navigator component presenting, on the display, prompts and corresponding input controls organized according to a predefined template that is customizable by the given user, the prompts and corresponding input controls to guide collection of input to create the content of the document, wherein the predefined template comprises formatting rules defined by the given user;

a document creation subsystem configured to generate the document using entries composed by the input subsystem; and

a document storage subsystem configured to store the document on a computer readable storage medium, wherein the document is stored as an association of the one or more discrete entries.