System and Method for Providing Optimized Medical Order Sets

• US 20090018862A1
• Filed: 07/11/2007
• Published: 01/15/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 07/11/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Intercede Health
• Original Assignee: Intercede Health
• Inventors: Sanger, Philip A., Robertson, Charles, Weathersby, Robert
• Granted Patent: US 7,966,195 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/2
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/00 Administration; Management
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 20/00 ICT specially adapted for therapies or health-improving plans, e.g. for handling prescriptions, for steering therapy or for monitoring patient compliance
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 70/20 relating to practices or guidelines

Abstract

System and method for preparing patient order sets by an attending physician include optimization of orders particularly when multiple diagnoses are being treated.

Claims

1. An electronic system for providing medical orders for a patient, wherein the system comprises:

a user interface comprising a processor, a monitor and a user input device;

a memory storage device connected to the user interface processor and comprising a computer readable database, wherein the database comprises current protocols for medical treatments organized by diagnoses;

computer readable media containing instructions for providing an interactive display of a list of diagnoses contained in the protocol database, wherein one or more diagnoses are selectable by a user, and wherein when multiple diagnoses are selected, the elements within the protocols for the multiple diagnoses are ranked by frequency of appearance and by selection order, and repeated elements are removed;

wherein selection of a diagnosis by a user results in an interactive display of protocols related to the selected diagnosis on the monitor, wherein individual protocols are selectable by a user; and

computer readable media containing instructions for providing an interactive display for selecting generation of an order set, wherein selecting generation of an order set by a user provides a unique set of medical orders for one or more selected diagnoses.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the instructions for prioritizing the orders within a set of diagnoses includes the algorithm:

DISPLAY RANK=APPEARANCE COUNT*1000+USER SELECTION SEQUENCE*100

and displaying orders in descending order of display rank.

3. An electronic system for providing medical orders for a patient, wherein the system comprises:

a server computer connectable to a user interface;

a computer readable memory connected to the server computer comprising one or more databases for storing client information;

a computer readable memory connected to the server computer comprising one or more databases for storing patient information; and

a computer readable memory comprising a database connected to the server computer, wherein the database comprises current protocols for medical treatments organized by diagnoses, wherein each protocol comprises a plurality of orders;

wherein the server comprises;

computer readable media with embedded instructions for receiving user information from the user interface and for sending or retrieving information about a user to or from the client information database;

computer readable media with embedded instructions for receiving patient information from the user interface and for sending or retrieving information about a patient to or from the patient information database;

computer readable media with embedded instructions for receiving a request to display a list of diagnoses to the user interface upon receipt of a request for diagnoses from the user interface;

computer readable media with embedded instructions for receiving selections of one or more diagnoses from the user interface, for retrieving protocols for the selected one or more diagnoses from the current protocol database, prioritizing the orders within the set of selected diagnoses such that the orders are ranked by number of occurrences within the set of selected diagnoses and by order of selection of diagnosis, and wherein repeated orders are removed, and transmitting the prioritized unique orders to the user interface;

computer readable media with embedded instructions for receiving selections and modifications of orders from the user interface, removing non-selected orders, and transmitting an order set to the user interface.

4. The system of claim 3, wherein the server is connected to the user interface by an intranet connection.

5. The system of claim 3, wherein the server is connected to the user interface by an internet connection.

6. The system of claim 3, wherein the system resides in a stand alone computer.

7. The system of claim 3, wherein the instructions for prioritizing the orders within a set of diagnoses includes the algorithm:

DISPLAY RANK=APPEARANCE COUNT*1000+USER SELECTION SEQUENCE*100

and displaying orders in descending order of display rank.

8. The system of claim 3, wherein the patient is hospitalized.

9. The system of claim 3, wherein the patient is being released from a hospital.

10. The system of claim 3, wherein the current protocol database include support material associated with at least one diagnosis, wherein the support material includes information about the diagnosed condition and its treatment, coding information about the diagnosis or a combination thereof, and wherein the embedded instruction include.

11. A computerized system for providing medical orders for a patient, wherein the system comprises:

an application server connectable to an interactive user interface, and to one or more computer readable memory storage devices comprising one or more databases for storing client information, patient information, and medical protocol information, the application server comprising a computer readable memory media comprising embedded information comprising;

means for receiving patient information from the user interface and for sending or retrieving information about a patient to or from a patient information database;

means for receiving user selections of one or more diagnoses for a patient, and providing a medical order set to the user based on the selected diagnoses, wherein the order set includes protocols prioritizing the orders within the set of selected diagnoses such that the orders are ranked by number of occurrences within the set of selected diagnoses and by order of selection of diagnosis, and wherein repeated orders are removed, modifying orders within the set based on client specific information retrieved from the client database, and transmitting the prioritized unique orders to the user interface;

means for receiving selections and modifications of orders from the user interface, removing non-selected orders, and transmitting an order set to the user interface.