Systems And Methods For A Decision Support Alert Feed

• US 20090187419A1
• Filed: 01/21/2008
• Published: 07/23/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 01/21/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: General Electric Company
• Original Assignee: General Electric Company
• Inventors: Wilcox, Darin Ford, Harris, John Alan, Secrist, Randy Kent, Randazzo, Michael Thomas, Renganathan, Karthikeyan
• Application Number:
  US12/017,190
• Publication Number:
  US 20090187419A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/2
• CPC Class Codes: G06N 20/00 Machine learning
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 50/20 for computer-aided diagnosis, e.g. based on medical expert systems
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 70/20 relating to practices or guidelines

Abstract

Certain embodiments of the present invention provide a clinical decision support system comprising a clinical decision support processing component adapted to determine the occurrence of an event based at least in part on at least one message received by the clinical decision support processing component and an alert feed server adapted to publish a clinical alert to an alert feed based at least in part on the event. The alert feed is in a standard syndication format.

Claims

1. A clinical decision support system comprising:

a clinical decision support processing component adapted to determine the occurrence of an event based at least in part on at least one message received by the clinical decision support processing component; and

an alert feed server adapted to publish a clinical alert to an alert feed based at least in part on the event, wherein the alert feed is in a standard syndication format.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the alert feed is in the Atom format.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the alert feed is in RSS format.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein the clinical decision support processing component determines the occurrence of the event using a rules engine.

5. The system of claim 1, further including an alert feed client adapted to receive the clinical alert from the alert feed server.

6. The system of claim 5, wherein the alert feed client is provided by a third party.

7. The system of claim 5, wherein the alert feed client is a rich client.

8. The system of claim 5, wherein the alert feed client is a web browser.

9. The system of claim 1, wherein the alert feed requires a user to be authenticated before the alert feed is accessed.

10. The system of claim 9, wherein the alert feed is encrypted with an encryption key specific to the user.

11. The system of claim 1, wherein at least part of the clinical alert includes encrypted data.

12. A method for providing a clinical decision support alert feed comprising:

receiving a message at a clinical decision support processing component;

processing the message to determine whether an event has occurred; and

publishing a clinical alert to an alert feed based at least in part on the event, wherein the alert feed is in a standard syndication format.

13. The method of claim 12, wherein the alert feed is in the Atom format.

14. The method of claim 12, wherein the alert feed is in RSS format.

15. The method of claim 12, wherein the alert feed requires a user to be authenticated before the alert feed is accessed.

16. The method of claim 15, wherein the alert feed is encrypted with an encryption key specific to the user.

17. The method of claim 12, wherein at least part of the clinical alert includes encrypted data.

18. A computer-readable medium including a set of instructions for execution on a computer, the set of instructions comprising:

a clinical decision support processing routine configured to determine the occurrence of an event based at least in part on at least one message received by the clinical decision support processing routine; and

an alert feed server routine adapted to publish a clinical alert to an alert feed based at least in part on the event, wherein the alert feed is in a standard syndication format.

19. The computer-readable medium of claim 18, wherein the alert feed is in the Atom format.

20. The computer-readable medium of claim 18, wherein the alert feed is in RSS format.