System and method for collecting, organizing, and presenting date-oriented medical information

• US 20060293920A1
• Filed: 01/26/2006
• Published: 12/28/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 06/27/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Children's Mercy Hospital
• Original Assignee: Children's Mercy Hospital
• Inventors: Lofland, Garry K, Dennis, Pamela A, O'Brien, James E Jr., Grist, Gary E, Tarrants, Marcy L, Stroup, Richard
• Granted Patent: US 8,468,030 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/2
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/0637 Strategic management or analysis, e.g. setting a goal or target of an organisation; Planning actions based on goals; Analysis or evaluation of effectiveness of goals
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/1095 Meeting or appointment
• 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 40/63 for local operation
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 50/70 for mining of medical data, e.g. analysing previous cases of other patients

Abstract

A method and computer program collects hospital patient and administrative information and presents the information to a user via an interactive user interface (34) that includes a plurality of activity windows. The activity windows list patients according to admission to a hospital department (36), scheduled surgical procedures (38), scheduled clinical appointments (40), rounds (44), consults (46), and scheduled catheterization conference (48). A daily schedule activity window (42) lists presents the user'"'"'s schedule for a given day, and a personal notes activity window (50) presents notes previously submitted by the user. The patient lists can be presented according to service, team, or attending physician. The user can drill down to acquire more detailed information by selecting a patient from a list and requesting the information.

Claims

1. A computer-readable medium encoded with a computer program for organizing and presenting patient information, the computer program comprising:

an inpatients code segment for presenting a list of patients who are currently receiving services at a health providing facility;

a procedures code segment for presenting a list of patients who have had or will have a medical procedure performed on a first user-designated date;

a clinics code segment for presenting a list of patients who have had or will have a non-surgical appointment on the first user-designated date; and

a patient overview code segment for retrieving and presenting patient overview information relating to a particular patient when a user selects the patient from any one of the lists of patients and requests the overview information.

2. The computer-readable medium as set forth in claim 1, wherein the health providing facility is selected from the group consisting of a hospital, a doctor'"'"'s office, a nursing home, an outpatient facility, and a dentist'"'"'s office.

3. The computer-readable medium as set forth in claim 1, wherein the inpatients code segment automatically adds patients to the list who begin receiving services from the health providing facility and automatically removes patients from the list who no longer receive services from the facility.

4. The computer-readable medium as set forth in claim 1, wherein the procedures code segment further retrieves and presents information about a particular procedure of a particular patient when the user selects the procedure and requests the procedure information.

5. The computer-readable medium as set forth in claim 4, wherein the procedures code segment enables the user to add, remove, and modify the procedure information only if the user has been assigned a particular predetermined role.

6. The computer-readable medium as set forth in claim 5, wherein the role is chosen from the group consisting of system administrator, administrator, and doctor.

7. The computer-readable medium as set forth in claim 1, further comprising a rounds code segment for presenting a list of patients who are included in the rounds of a particular medical team or a particular doctor.

8. The computer-readable medium as set forth in claim 7, wherein the rounds code segment automatically adds patients to the list upon being assigned to the team or doctor and automatically removes patients from the list upon request by a member of the team or the doctor and upon being discharged from the hospital.

9. The computer-readable medium as set forth in claim 8, wherein the rounds code segment automatically adds patients to the list by receiving round information from a hospital information system.

10. The computer-readable medium as set forth in claim 9, wherein the rounds code segment enables a user to define a team and to add patients to the rounds of that team.

11. The computer-readable medium as set forth in claim 1, further comprising a consults code segment for presenting a list of patients with whom the user is associated only as a consulting physician, and for enabling the user to add patients to the list and remove patients from the list.

12. The computer-readable medium as set forth in claim 11, wherein the consults code segment further presents a list of patients with whom a team is associated as a consulting team.

13. The computer readable medium as set forth in claim 1, further comprising a daily schedule code segment for presenting a daily schedule of the user corresponding to the first user-selected date.

14. The computer readable medium as set forth in claim 1, further comprising a catheterization conference code segment for presenting a list of patients who are scheduled to be presented for a catheterization conference on a second user-selected date.

15. The computer readable medium as set forth in claim 14, further comprising a code segment for generating a first interactive user interface tool for enabling the user to choose the first user-selected date, and for generating a second interactive user interface tool for enabling the user to choose the second user-selected date.

16. The computer-readable medium as set forth in claim 1, wherein the patient overview information includes medical history, demographic, imaging, studies, epidemiology, and genetic information.

17. The computer-readable medium as set forth in claim 1, further comprising a patient clinical information code segment for retrieving and presenting a particular patient'"'"'s clinical information when the user selects the patient from any of the lists and requests the clinical information, wherein the clinical information includes information about the patient'"'"'s current inpatient visit.

18. The computer-readable medium as set forth in claim 17, wherein the clinical information includes information from a period that includes the current date and begins a user-determined number of days prior to the current date.

19. The computer-readable medium as set forth in claim 1, wherein the code segments present the lists of patients simultaneously.

20. The computer-readable medium as set forth in claim 1, wherein each code segment enables a user to organize its respective list of patients according to service, team, or attending physician.

21. The computer-readable medium as set forth in claim 1, wherein the procedures code segment automatically updates the list of patients who have had or will have a surgical procedure by receiving procedure information from a hospital information system, and the clinics code segment automatically updates the list of patients who have had or will have a non-surgical appointment by receiving procedure information from a hospital information system.

22. A computer-readable medium encoded with a computer program for organizing and presenting patient information, the computer program comprising:

an inpatients code segment for creating an inpatients user interface window that presents a list of patients who are currently admitted to the hospital and assigned to a particular hospital department, and for automatically adding patients to the list who are admitted to the department and automatically removing patients from the list who are discharged from the department;

a procedures code segment for creating a procedures user interface window that presents a list of patients within the department who have had or will have a surgical procedure performed on a first user-designated date, and for retrieving and presenting detailed information about a particular procedure of a particular patient when the user selects the procedure;

a clinics code segment for creating a clinics user interface window that presents a list of patients within the department who have had or will have a non-surgical appointment on the first user-designated date;

a rounds code segment for creating a rounds user interface window that presents a list of patients who are included in the rounds of a particular medical team or particular doctor, and for automatically adding patients to the list upon being assigned to the team or doctor and automatically removing patients from the list upon being removed by a member of the team or the doctor and upon being discharged from the hospital;

a consults code segment for creating a consults user interface window that presents a list of patients with whom the user or the user'"'"'s team is associated only as a consulting physician or team, and for enabling the user to add patients to the list and remove patients from the list; and

a patient overview code segment that retrieves and presents patient overview information relating to a particular patient when a user selects the patient from any one of the lists of patients and requests the overview information.

23. The computer readable medium as set forth in claim 22, further comprising a daily schedule code segment for presenting a daily schedule activity window with the user'"'"'s schedule, wherein the schedule corresponds to the first user-selected date.

24. The computer readable medium as set forth in claim 22, further comprising a catheterization conference code segment for creating a catheterization user interface window that presents a list of patients who are scheduled to be presented for a catheterization conference on a second user-selected date.

25. The computer readable medium as set forth in claim 24, further comprising a code segment for generating a first interactive user interface tool for enabling the user to choose the first user-selected date, and for generating a second interactive user interface tool for enabling the user to choose the second user-selected date.

26. The computer-readable medium as set forth in claim 22, wherein the procedures code segment further enables the user to add, remove, and modify the procedure information only if the user has been assigned a particular predetermined role.

27. The computer-readable medium as set forth in claim 26, wherein the role is chosen from the group consisting of system administrator, administrator, and doctor.

28. The computer-readable medium as set forth in claim 22, wherein the patient overview information includes medical history, demographic, imaging, studies,. epidemiology, and genetic information.

29. The computer-readable medium as set forth in claim 22, wherein the program retrieves and presents patient clinical information relating to a particular patient when the user selects the patient from any of the user interface windows and requests the clinical information, wherein the clinical information includes information about the patient'"'"'s current inpatient visit.

30. The computer-readable medium as set forth in claim 22, wherein the clinical information includes information from a period that includes the current date back a user-determined number of days.

31. The computer-readable medium as set forth in claim 22, wherein the code segments present the activity windows simultaneously.

32. A computer-readable medium encoded with a computer program for organizing and presenting information relating to hospital patients, the computer program comprising:

an inpatients code segment for creating an inpatients user interface window that presents a list of patients who are currently admitted to the hospital and assigned to a particular hospital department, and for automatically adding patients to the list who are admitted to the department and automatically removing patients from the list who are discharged from the department;

a procedures code segment for creating a procedures user interface window that presents a list of patients within the department who have had or will have a surgical procedure performed on a first user-designated date, and for retrieving and presenting detailed information about a particular procedure of a particular patient when the user selects the procedure;

a clinics code segment for creating a clinics user interface window that presents a list of patients within the department who have had or will have a non-surgical appointment on the first user-designated date;

a rounds code segment for creating a rounds user interface window that presents a list of patients who are included in the rounds of a particular medical team or particular doctor, and for automatically adding patients to the list upon being assigned to the team or doctor and automatically removing patients from the list upon being removed by a member of the team or the doctor and upon being discharged from the hospital;

a consults code segment for creating a consults user interface window that presents a list of patients with whom the user or the user'"'"'s team is associated only as a consulting physician or team, and for enabling the user to add patients to the list and remove patients from the list;

a catheterization conference code segment for creating a catheterization user interface window that presents a list of patients who are scheduled to be presented for a catheterization conference on a second user-selected date;

a date-selection code segment for generating a first interactive user interface tool for enabling the user to choose the first user-selected date, and for generating a second interactive user interface tool for enabling the user to choose the second user-selected date;

a patient overview code segment for retrieving and presenting patient overview information relating to a particular patient when a user selects the patient from any one of the lists of patients and requests the overview information; and

a patient clinical information code segment for retrieving and presenting a particular patient'"'"'s clinical information when the user selects the patient from any of the lists and requests the clinical information, wherein the clinical information includes information about the patient'"'"'s current inpatient visit.

33. The computer-readable medium as set forth in claim 32, wherein the activity windows and the user interface tools are presented simultaneously.