Intelligent Dashboards

• US 20090217194A1
• Filed: 02/24/2008
• Published: 08/27/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 02/24/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Vesselin Zlatev
• Original Assignee: Vesselin Zlatev
• Inventors: Zlatev, Vesselin, Buxey, Farzad, Martin, Neil
• Application Number:
  US12/036,287
• Publication Number:
  US 20090217194A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/783
• 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 40/63 for local operation
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 50/20 for computer-aided diagnosis, e.g. based on medical expert systems
• CPC Class Codes: G16Z 99/00 Subject matter not provided for in other main groups of this subclass

Abstract

Some embodiments of the invention provide an intelligent method for displaying patient data. The method identifies a medical or non-medical condition. Based on the identified condition, the method then identifies a user interface for displaying patient data to a user.

Claims

1. A computer readable storage medium storing a computer program comprising sets of instructions for implementing a graphical user interface (GUI) on a device, said GUI comprising:

a) a patient selection list;

b) a plurality of dashboards; and

c) a list of at least one dashboard recommended for displaying a detected condition of a selected patient.

2. The computer readable storage medium of claim 1, wherein a first dashboard of said plurality of dashboards comprises at least one window pane for displaying patient information relating to said condition.

3. The computer readable storage medium of claim 2, wherein the GUI further comprises a control for adding a window pane to said first dashboard for displaying patient information not already displayed in said first dashboard.

4. The computer readable storage medium of claim 3, wherein the GUI further comprises a control for saving a second dashboard that comprises the window panes of said first dashboard and said added window pane.

5. The computer readable storage medium of claim 2, wherein the GUI further comprises controls for modifying said first dashboard and saving said modified dashboard.

6. The computer readable storage medium of claim 5, wherein saving said modifications comprises replacing said first dashboard with said modified dashboard.

7. The computer readable storage medium of claim 5, wherein replacing said first dashboard requires authorization to replace said first dashboard.

8. The computer readable storage medium of claim 2, wherein said first dashboard comprises a window pane for displaying at least two variables as a graph.

9. The computer readable storage medium of claim 8, wherein said two variables comprise time and a vital statistic.

10. The computer readable storage medium of claim 2, wherein said first dashboard comprises a window pane for displaying a table.

11. The computer readable storage medium of claim 1, wherein said list of at least one recommended dashboard comprises a plurality of dashboards based on different hospital departments.

12. The computer readable storage medium of claim 1, wherein the GUI further comprises a set of security controls to limit user access.

13. The computer readable storage medium of claim 12, wherein said security controls limit a subset of users to using and modifying said plurality of dashboards without saving modifications.

14. The computer readable storage medium of claim 12, wherein said security controls limit a subset of users to using said plurality of dashboards without modifying them.

15. The computer readable storage medium of claim 1, wherein the GUI further comprises an alert when a user defined condition occurs.

16. The computer readable storage medium of claim 1, wherein the GUI further comprises a set of controls for adding a new condition to a database and connecting said new condition to a recommended dashboard for that new condition.

17. A method of displaying patient data, said method comprising:

a) identifying a patient condition based on a rules engine; and

b) identifying a dashboard for displaying patient information to a user.

18. The method of claim 17 further comprising displaying said dashboard to the user automatically upon identification of said patient condition.

19. The method of claim 17 further comprising listing said dashboard in a list of recommended dashboards.

20. The method of claim 19 further comprising receiving a user selection of a dashboard of said list of recommended dashboards.

21. The method of claim 20 further comprising displaying said selected dashboard and patient information in said selected dashboard according to parameters of said selected dashboard.

22. The method of claim 20 further comprising receiving from said user a modification of said user selected dashboard, and modifying said dashboard accordingly.

23. The method of claim 22 further comprising saving said modified dashboard.

24. The method of claim 22 further comprising saving said modified dashboard with a flag that excludes at least one other user from using said modified dashboard.

25. The method of claim 22 further comprising saving said modified dashboard with a flag that excludes at least one other user from making further modifications of said modified dashboard, but allows said other user to use said modified dashboard.

26. The method of claim 22 further comprising saving said modified dashboard with a flag that excludes at least one other user from saving further modifications of said modified dashboard, but allows said other user to use and modify said modified dashboard.

27. The method of claim 17, wherein said rules engine is an external rules engine.

28. The method of claim 17, wherein said rules engine comprises rules received from a user authorized to add rules for identifying a condition.

29. The method of claim 17 further comprising receiving a command to modify a rule in said rules engine.

30. The method of claim 29 further comprising saving said modified rule.

31. A computer readable storage medium storing a computer program for execution on one or more processors, said computer program comprising sets of instructions for:

a) receiving a selection of a patient;

b) identifying a condition of said patient based on medical data associated with said patient and a set of conditions in a database; and

c) displaying said condition and a recommendation of a dashboard relating to said condition for displaying medical data associated with said patient upon matching said medical data to a condition in said database.