Systems and methods for management of information among medical providers and facilities

• US 10,769,739 B2
• Filed: 04/25/2011
• Issued: 09/08/2020
• Est. Priority Date: 04/25/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Teladoc Health, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Touch Technologies Incorporated
• Inventors: Southard, Jonathan, Ross, Scott, Wright, Timothy C, Habecker, Dan, Neisse, Jennifer, Thomas, Elizabeth E, Grujovski, Andre
• Primary Examiner(s): Lam, Eliza A
• Application Number:
  US13/093,386
• Publication Number:
  US 20120271648A1
• Time in Patent Office: 3,424 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 10/20 for electronic clinical trials or questionnaires
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 10/60 for patient-specific data, e.g. for electronic patient records
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 15/00 ICT specially adapted for medical reports, e.g. generation or transmission thereof
• 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 40/67 for remote operation

Abstract

Disclosed herein are various embodiments of the systems and methods for management of information among various medical providers and/or facilities. According to various embodiments, the systems and methods disclosed herein may facilitate the completion of location specific forms in a variety of formats by medical professionals. Certain embodiments may be employed by remotely located medical professional utilizing telemedicine technologies. Such systems may provide medical professionals utilizing telemedicine technologies with a consistent interface for gathering and inputting patient information, while continuing to allow for the use of a wide variety of forms by different medical providers and facilities. In addition to facilitating the use of location-specific forms, the systems and methods for management of information disclosed herein may also be used for the collection of patient care metrics.

Claims

1. A method performed by a telemedicine system for generating, by a remote medical professional using a single interface, a plurality of forms complying with different respective requirements of one of a plurality of geographically dispersed medical facilities at which the remote medical professional is authorized to practice without knowledge by the remote medical professional of said different requirements, wherein the telemedicine system comprises at least one processor and at least one non-transitory computer-readable storage medium communicatively coupled to the at least one processor, the at least one non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing instructions that, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the at least one processor to perform the method, the method comprising:

storing a plurality of location-specific forms in a form database on a server that is coupled to a network, each location-specific form complying with requirements of a different one of the plurality of geographically dispersed medical facilities, the plurality of location-specific forms being organized into categories, wherein storing includes storing at least first and second location-specific forms, wherein a first location-specific form is associated with a first form category and a first medical facility, and wherein a second location-specific form is associated with said first form category and a second medical facility, and wherein said first and second location-specific forms are different;

determining a location for each of a plurality of patients, the location including an identification of one of the plurality of geographically dispersed medical facilities at which each patient is located;

storing, in patient database, patient information on the plurality of patients, the patient information including identifying information for each patient and the location of each patient;

transmitting a patient work list for display at a remote station coupled to the network, the patient work list including information identifying the plurality of patients;

receiving, from the remote station, a selection by the remote medical professional of one of the plurality of patients identified in the patient work list;

receiving, from the remote station, a request by the remote medical professional to generate a form associated with the selected patient, the request including an identification of a form category, and automatically identifying, by the patient database, a medical facility based on the location of the patient;

automatically selecting, by the server, a location-specific form from the form database in response to the request based on the identified medical facility, wherein the server selects said first location-specific form when the requested form category is said first form category and the patient location corresponds to said first medical facility and the server selects said second location-specific form when the requested form category is said first category and the patient location corresponds to said second medical facility;

automatically populating, by the server, at least a subset of the selected location-specific form using the patient information stored in the patient database;

transmitting the selected location-specific form to the remote station for display to the remote medical professional on a display device of the remote station;

prompting the remote medical professional to supply any information in the selected location-specific form not populated using the patient information; and

in response to the medical professional electronically signing the selected location-specific form, transmitting the selected location-specific form to the identified medical facility at which the patient is located.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

selecting a default method of transmission for the electronically signed location-specific form based on the patient location.

3. The method of claim 2, further comprising:

transmitting the electronically signed location-specific form via facsimile.

4. The method of claim 2, further comprising:

collecting a subset of the patient information related to a metric.

5. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

controlling access to at least one user action based on a role of a user.

6. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

customizing at least one aspect of a patient work list based on input received from a user.

7. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

generating a location-specific form associated with a chargeable event based on the patient location.

8. The method of claim 6, wherein customizing at least one aspect of the work list comprises selectively adding or removing information displayed for a patient in the patient work list.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein transmitting the patient work list comprises:

determining one or more medical facilities at which the remote medical professional is authorized to practice; and

transmitting the patient work list including each patient of the remote medical professional associated with the determined one or more medical facilities.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein the patient work list includes a list of all patients at each of a plurality of medical facilities associated with the remote medical professional.

11. The method of claim 1, wherein the remote medical professional is associated with a role, and wherein transmitting the selected location-specific form to the identified medical facility comprises restricting one or more transmission options based on the role of the remote medical professional.