Drill down clinical information dashboard

• US 8,924,881 B2
• Filed: 02/24/2008
• Issued: 12/30/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 02/24/2008
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Vesselin Zlatev
• Original Assignee: Regents of the University of California (University of California), Vesselin Zlatev
• Inventors: Martin, Neil, Buxey, Farzad, Zlatev, Vesselin
• Primary Examiner(s): Hur, Ece
• Application Number:
  US12/036,281
• Publication Number:
  US 20090217189A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,501 Days
• Field of Search: 715/772, 715/792, 715/803, 715/804, 715/805, 715/783
• US Class Current: 715/772
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 34/25 User interfaces for surgical systems
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 6/4405 the apparatus being movable or portable, e.g. handheld or mounted on a trolley
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/048 Interaction techniques based on graphical user interfaces [GUI]
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 10/60 for patient-specific data, e.g. for electronic patient records
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/63 for local operation
• CPC Class Codes: G16Z 99/00 Subject matter not provided for in other main groups of this subclass

Abstract

A method for providing a first dashboard that includes a first several window panes for providing information about a first set of aspects of a patient'"'"'s condition. The method also provides a second dashboard that includes a second several window panes for providing information about a second set of aspects of a patient'"'"'s condition. The method further defines a link that causes the second dashboard to be opened when an item is selected in at least one of the first several window panes.

Claims

1. A method for displaying patient information on a clinical information system, the method comprising:

providing a clinical data manager, the clinical data manager collecting objective patient information and subjective patient information, wherein the clinical data manager receives, normalizes and aggregates the objective and subjective patient information;

identifying a user of the clinical information system;

identifying, based on the identified user and a location of the user, a subset of information about a patient that is relevant to the identified user from a set of information stored in a database, the clinical data manager being in communication with the database;

providing a first dashboard comprising a first plurality of window panes for displaying a first portion of said subset of patient information;

configuring the first portion of said subset of patient information to the first dashboard having the first plurality of window panes based upon the identified user and the location of the identified user, wherein the first plurality of window panes are able to be modified;

providing a second dashboard comprising a second plurality of window panes for displaying a second portion of said subset of patient information; and

defining a link that causes the second dashboard to be opened when an item is selected in at least one of the first plurality of window panes,

wherein the first dashboard has a predefined configuration based upon the identified user and the location of the identified user.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the first and second portions of said subset of said patient information are different.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein a portion of the information provided in the second plurality of window panes is the same as the information provided in the first plurality of window panes.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the link further causes the first dashboard to be automatically minimized, hidden, or closed.

11. The method of claim 1, wherein when the second dashboard is opened, the first dashboard is arranged in a manner so that both dashboards can be viewed concurrently.

12. The method of claim 1, wherein the second dashboard is a recommended dashboard related to the selected item.

14. The method of claim 1, wherein the database receives information from different servers across the internet.

17. The method of claim 1, wherein the first dashboard is preconfigured based upon the identified user.

20. The method of claim 1, wherein the objective patient data consists of data collected from monitors monitoring patients, lab reports, and medical images.

21. The method of claim 1, wherein the subjective data consists of data from physicians'"'"' assessments, physicians'"'"' diagnosis or physician treatment plans.

22. The method of claim 1, wherein the clinical data manager provides data in real-time to the various dashboards.

23. The method of claim 1, wherein the first dashboard and the second dashboard are able to be modified by the user having permission.

5. A graphical user interface (“

GUI”

) of a device, said GUI comprising;

an electronic display;

a clinical data manager, the clinical data manager collecting objective patient information and subjective patient information, wherein the clinical data manager receives, normalizes and aggregates the objective and subjective patient information;

software executing on one or more processors on said device for identifying a user of said device and a location of the user;

software executing on one or more processors on said device for identifying, based on the identified user and the location of the user, a first subset and a second subset of data related to a patient that is relevant to the identified user from a set of data stored in a database;

a first collection of panes that includes the first subset of data related to the patient, the first collection of panes having a configuration based upon the identified user and the location of the identified user, the first collection of panes being customizable;

a second collection of panes that includes the second subset of data related to the patient, wherein at least some of the data in the first and second sets differ, wherein a selection of a link in one of said first collection of panes initiates the display of said second collection of panes,

wherein the first and second sets of data are data related to a condition of the patient, and

wherein said first collection of panes and said second collection of panes are displayed on the electronic display based upon the user and the location of the user,

wherein the first dashboard has a predefined configuration based upon the identified user and the location of the identified user.

6. The GUI of claim 5, wherein the selection of said link further causes said first collection of panes to be not displayed.

7. The GUI of claim 5, wherein the selection of said link causes said second collection of panes to be displayed concurrently.

8. The GUI of claim 5, wherein the second collection of panes includes information specific to the data in the one pane in which the link is selected from.

9. The GUI of claim 5, wherein the second collection includes at least one pane with a graphical representation that is specific to the data in the one pane in which the link is selected from.

15. The GUI of claim 5, wherein the database receives information from different servers across the internet.

10. A method for configuring dashboards, the method comprising the following steps:

providing a clinical data manager, the clinical data manager collecting objective patient information and subjective patient information, wherein the clinical data manager receives, normalizes and aggregates the objective and subjective patient information;

identifying a user of a clinical information system and a location of the user;

identifying, based on the identified user and the location of the user, a subset of information about a patient that is relevant to the identified user from a set of information stored in a database, the clinical data manager being in communication with the database;

configuring a first dashboard comprising a plurality of window panes for providing views for a first portion of said subset of patient information, each view for displaying a set of data in a format, the first dashboard having a predefined configuration based upon the identified user and the location of the identified user;

allowing a separate user to create a second dashboard by modifying a view of at least one of the window panes of the first dashboard, the second dashboard having a second portion of said subset of patient information;

creating a set of rules to determine if the separate user can display or modify the second dashboard;

storing the second dashboard;

storing the set of rules; and

displaying the second dashboard instead of the first dashboard for the patient, the second dashboard being displayed based upon the separate user and the location of the separate user.

13. The method of claim 10, further comprising allowing the user to change one or more window panes of the first dashboard or the second dashboard.

16. The method of claim 10, wherein the database receives information from different servers across the internet.

18. A method for displaying patient information on a clinical information system, the method comprising:

providing a clinical data manager, the clinical data manager collecting objective patient information and subjective patient information, wherein the clinical data manager receives, normalizes and aggregates the objective and subjective patient information;

identifying a user of the clinical information system;

identifying, based on the identified user, a subset of information about a patient that is relevant to the identified user from a set of information stored in a database;

providing a first dashboard comprising a first plurality of window panes for displaying a first portion of said subset of patient information, the first plurality of window panes having a predefined configuration based upon the identified user and the location of the identified user, wherein the first plurality of window panes are able to be modified by the user having permission;

providing a second dashboard comprising a second plurality of window panes for displaying a second portion of said subset of patient information which is different from the first portion of said subset of patient information; and

defining a link that causes the second dashboard to be opened when an item is selected in at least one of the first plurality of window panes,

wherein the first dashboard is reconfigurable as the second dashboard.

19. The method of claim 18, wherein the user creates a set of rules to determine who can display or modify the first dashboard and the second dashboard.