Single Select Clinical Informatics

• US 20100083164A1
• Filed: 07/27/2009
• Published: 04/01/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 07/30/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Regents of the University of California (University of California)
• Original Assignee: Regents of the University of California (University of California)
• Inventors: Martin, Neil A., Buxey, Farzad D.
• Granted Patent: US 8,381,124 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/781
• 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

Abstract

Some embodiments of the invention provide a single-select method and system for launching clinical information in multiple dashboards based on a selection of a single piece of clinical information (e.g., based on a cursor-click selection of a patient name in a patient list). In some embodiments, each launched dashboard is a single “flat” dashboard that cannot be “drilled down” to another dashboard. In other embodiments, each launched dashboard can be a drilldown dashboard, i.e., a dashboard that is several dashboards that are linked together so that a user can navigate between them by selecting items displayed in the dashboards (e.g., by traversing from a first dashboard to a second dashboard through a selection of an item in a window pane of the first dashboard). Accordingly, some embodiments use the single-select method of some embodiments in lieu of drill-down dashboards, while other embodiments use the single-select method in conjunction with drill-down dashboards.

Claims

1. A system for presenting clinical information, comprising:

a computer system;

a user interface in communication with said computer system;

software executing on said computer system for displaying a first component of clinical information on said interface;

software executing on said computer system for launching a plurality of dashboards in response to a selection of said first component of clinical information;

software executing on said computer system for displaying a selectable icon for each of said plurality of dashboards, wherein a selection of a particular icon causes the display of the dashboard associated with the particular icon.

2. The system of claim 1, further comprising:

software executing on the computer system for displaying at least one of said dashboards in a first display area of said interface prior to the selection of any of the plurality of icons,

wherein said plurality of icons are displayed in a second display area.

3. The system of claim 2, wherein the second display area overlaps the first display area.

4. The system of claim 2, wherein the second display area is adjacent to said first display area.

5. The system of claim 2, further comprising:

software executing on said computer system for displaying a second dashboard in said first display area in response to a selection of the icon associated with said second dashboard.

6. The system of claim 5, wherein one said dashboard displayed in the first display area is displayed at a high resolution, while the icons in the second display area are displayed as low resolution representations of the dashboards.

7. The system of claim 1, wherein said plurality of dashboards do not comprise a drill-down dashboard or a component a drill down dashboard.

8. The system of claim 1, wherein at least one of said plurality of dashboards is not a drill-down dashboard or a component of a drill down dashboard.

9. The system of claim 1, further comprising:

software executing on said computer system for displaying a mechanism on said interface for navigating through said plurality of launched dashboards.

10. A method for presenting clinical information, comprising:

displaying a first component of clinical information;

receiving a selection of said first component of clinical information;

launching a plurality of dashboards in response to said selection;

displaying a selectable icon for each of said plurality of dashboards,

displaying a dashboard associated with a selectable icon in response to a selection of the icon.

11. The method of claim 10, further comprising:

displaying at least one of said dashboards in a first display area prior to the selection of any of the plurality of icons,

wherein displaying said plurality of icons comprises displaying said plurality of icons in a second display area.

12. The method of claim 11, further comprising:

software executing on said computer system for displaying a second dashboard in said first display area in response to a selection of the icon associated with said second dashboard.

13. The method of claim 12, wherein a dashboard displayed in the first display area is displayed at a high resolution, while the icons displayed in the second display area are low resolution representations of the dashboards.

14. The method of claim 10, wherein said plurality of dashboards do not comprise a drill-down dashboard or a component of a drill down dashboard.

15. The method of claim 10, wherein at least one of said plurality of dashboards is not a drill-down dashboard or a component of a drill down dashboard.

16. A method for presenting clinical information, the method comprising:

receiving a selection of a single piece of clinical information;

launching multiple dashboards in response to said selection, each dashboard comprising a set of window panes, each window pane for providing at least one view of clinical information;

providing a mechanism outside of the window panes of the dashboards for navigating through the launched dashboards.

17. The method of claim 16, further comprising:

displaying one of the launched dashboards in a first display area;

wherein providing the mechanism comprises providing a mechanism to switch the dashboards displayed in the first display area.

18. The method of claim 17, wherein providing the mechanism to switch the dashboards comprises providing a set of user interface tools to allow a user to switch the dashboards displayed in the first display area.

19. The method of claim of claim 18, wherein the set of user interface tools comprises a plurality of icons, each of said plurality of icons representing one of the launched dashboards.

20. The method of claim 18, wherein the set of user interface tools includes a plurality of icons, each icon representing one of the launched dashboards.

21. A method of specifying a dashboard, the method comprising:

defining a plurality of window panes, each window pane for displaying at least one view of at least one piece of clinical information;

wherein said defining comprises specifying a plurality of window panes as single parameter, single-view panes that each display only one view for only one parameter.

22. The method of claim 21 further comprising optimizing the layout of the single parameter, single-view panes in order to maximize the amount of content displayed in the dashboard.

23. The method of claim 22, wherein at least two different single-parameter, single-view panes provide two different views of the same clinical information.

24. A method of configuring a clinical information display comprising a dashboard, the dashboard comprising a set of window panes for providing information about a first set of parameters, each parameter representing an aspect of a patient'"'"'s condition, the method comprising:

receiving a selection of a type of events that trigger a display of the dashboard;

receiving a selection of a layout of the dashboard, the layout comprising a number of the window panes and an arrangement of the window panes on the dashboard;

for each window pane in said layout, selecting a particular parameter for display in the window pane; and

storing said layout of the dashboard.

25. The method of claim 24 further comprising:

for each parameter selected for a window pane, receiving a selection of a data element for displaying the parameter.

26. The method of claim 25, wherein a data element is one of a graph trend over a particular length of time, minimum and maximum value over a particular length of time, a running average over a particular length of time, a variability coefficient of a parameter, and a graph showing a variation from an ideal value of a parameter.

27. The method of claim 26, wherein the parameter is one of a vital sign and an element of a lab report.