System and method for ordering patient specific healthcare services

• US 8,676,599 B2
• Filed: 01/24/2011
• Issued: 03/18/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 10/17/2001
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Cerner Innovation, Inc. (Oracle Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Siemens Medical Solutions USA Incorporated (Siemens AG)
• Inventors: Brandt, Samuel I.
• Primary Examiner(s): Gilligan, Luke
• Application Number:
  US13/011,991
• Publication Number:
  US 20110119084A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,149 Days
• Field of Search: 705 2- 3, 600/300
• US Class Current: 705/2
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 10/60 for patient-specific data, e.g. for electronic patient records
• 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 40/63 for local operation
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/67 for remote operation
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 50/20 for computer-aided diagnosis, e.g. based on medical expert systems
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 70/00 ICT specially adapted for the handling or processing of medical references

Abstract

A system and method for ordering healthcare services wherein a list of selectable orders for medical services for a given patient is dynamically generated based on medical information of the patient (e.g., the patient'"'"'s condition or set of conditions) and presented to a user (e.g., a physician). In one aspect, a system for ordering patient specific healthcare services comprises a user interface that enables a user to input a medical condition of a patient and to select desired medical services from a list of orderable medical services presented to the user; a services database comprising a plurality of predetermined medical services that are each associated with a medical condition; and an engine for compiling the list of orderable medical services from one or more predetermined medical services in the services database that are associated with the input medical conditions of the patient. A clinical knowledge model is used by the engine to identify a medical condition that is potentially associated with a known or identified medical condition of the patient, based upon potential etiology, potential complication, clinical associations, or any combination thereof.

Claims

1. A method for ordering healthcare services, comprising the steps of:

employing at least one computer for,

acquiring medical information of a patient identifying a medical condition and an associated medical sub-condition of said patient;

searching a database comprising predetermined medical services to identify a plurality of order sets comprising candidate medical services for order that are associated with the input medical information of the patient, said candidate medical services for order comprising an order set for treating a diagnosed medical condition and a different order set for treating an associated medical sub-condition, wherein said database associates said diagnosed medical condition with a cause and said cause with said sub-condition;

automatically compiling a list of orderable medical services by aggregating and organizing the identified order sets for treating said diagnosed medical condition and said associated medical sub-condition; and

presenting the list of orderable medical services to a user.

2. The method of claim 1, including the step of

aggregating and organizing orderable clinical services within the individual order sets for treating said diagnosed medical condition and said associated medical sub-condition into a single collection that is specific for said patient for presentation as said list of orderable medical services.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising the step of presenting a list of selected orderable medical services that are selected by the user and wherein said database associates sub-conditions with an identified medical condition based upon at least one of, etiology and potential complication.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the step of presenting the list of orderable medical services comprises the steps of:

presenting a reminder of said diagnosed medical condition of the patient based on the medical information of the patient; and

presenting a selectable medical service associated with said diagnosed medical condition.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the step of compiling a list of orderable medical services further comprises compiling the list of orderable medical services based on user preference information of the user and reducing list redundancy so that orders that are common to one or more conditions are listed once.

6. A program storage device readable by a machine, tangibly embodying a program of instructions executable by the machine to perform method steps for ordering healthcare services, the method steps comprising:

receiving as input, medical information identifying a medical condition and an associated medical sub-condition of a patient;

searching a database comprising predetermined medical services to identify a plurality of order sets comprising candidate medical services for order that are associated with the input medical information of the patient, said candidate medical services for order comprising an order set for treating a diagnosed medical condition and a different order set for treating an associated medical sub-condition, wherein said database associates said diagnosed medical condition with a cause and said cause with said sub-condition;

automatically compiling a list of orderable medical services by aggregating and organizing the identified order sets for treating said diagnosed medical condition and said associated medical sub-condition; and

presenting the list of orderable medical services to a user.

7. The program storage device of claim 6, including the step of

aggregating and organizing orderable clinical services within the individual order sets for treating said diagnosed medical condition and said associated medical sub-condition into a single collection that is specific for said patient for presentation as said list of orderable medical services.

8. The program storage device of claim 6, further comprising instructions for performing the step of presenting a list of selected orderable medical services that are selected by the user and wherein said database associates sub-conditions with an identified medical condition based upon at least one of, etiology and potential complication.

9. The program storage device of claim 6, wherein the instructions for performing the step of presenting the list of orderable medical services comprise instructions for performing the steps of:

presenting a reminder of said diagnosed medical condition of the patient based on the medical information of the patient; and

presenting a selectable medical service associated with said diagnosed medical condition.

10. The program storage device of claim 6, wherein the instructions for performing the step of compiling a list of orderable medical services comprise instructions for compiling the list of orderable medical services based on user preference information of the user and reducing list redundancy so that orders that are common to one or more conditions are listed once.

11. A system for ordering patient specific healthcare services, comprising:

at least one computer system including,

a user interface that enables a user to input data indicating a medical condition of a patient and to select desired medical services from a list of orderable medical services presented to the user;

a services database comprising a plurality of order sets comprising predetermened medical services that are each associated with a medical condition and associating sub-conditions with identified medical condition based upon at least one of, etiology and potential complication; and

an engine for,

searching said database to identify a plurality of order sets comprising candidate medical services for order that are associated with the input data indicating said medical information of the patient, said candidate medical services for order comprising an order set for treating a diagnosed medical condition and a different order set for treating an associated medical sub-condition, wherein said database associates said diagnosed medical condition with a cause and said cause with said sub-condition and

automatically compiling the list of orderable medical services from one or more predetermined medical services in the services database that are associated with the input medical conditions of the patient by aggregating and organizing the identified order sets for treating said diagnosed medical condition and said associated medical sub-condition; and

presenting the list of orderable medical services to a user.

12. The system of claim 11, wherein the system is distributed over a communications network.

13. The system of claim 11, further comprising a patient database comprising medical information of one or more patients, wherein the user interface enable a user to input medical conditions of the patient directly from the patient database.

14. The system of claim 11, wherein the user interface comprises a graphical user interface.

15. The system of claim 11, further comprising a clinical knowledge model that is used by the engine to identify a medical condition that is potentially associated with a known or identified medical condition of the patient based upon one of potential etiology, potential complication, clinical associations, and a combination thereof.