METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR INFORMED CONSENT

• US 20160110832A1
• Filed: 02/16/2015
• Published: 04/21/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 10/20/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Rational Surgical Solutions, LLC
• Original Assignee: Rational Surgical Solutions, LLC
• Inventors: Fialkov, Jonathan
• Granted Patent: US 10,366,463 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/00 Administration; Management
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 40/08 Insurance
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/22 Social work or social welfare, e.g. community support activities or counselling services
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 10/20 for electronic clinical trials or questionnaires
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 10/60 for patient-specific data, e.g. for electronic patient records
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 80/00 ICT specially adapted for facilitating communication between medical practitioners or patients, e.g. for collaborative diagnosis, therapy or health monitoring

Abstract

A method for documenting informed consent includes obtaining a video recording of a patient indicative of informed consent, communicating the video recording across a network for data storage, and storing the video recording in a computer readable data storage medium. The video may include additional portions of a patient encounter. A software application for executing on a computing device may provide a user interface for obtaining video evidencing informed consent for the procedure, administering a quiz to the individual, presenting a document for signature to the individual, receiving a signature for the document from the individual.

Claims

1. A method for obtaining and documenting informed consent, the method comprising:

providing a software application to a computing device for executing on the computing device;

receiving a selection of an individual into the software application executing on the computing device;

receiving a selection of a procedure for which informed consent is desired into the software application executing on the computing device;

capturing video evidencing informed consent for the procedure using the software application executing on the computing device;

making available a quiz for the individual using the software application executing on the computing device, the quiz including a plurality of questions about the procedure for assessing informed consent;

documenting administration of the quiz to the individual using the software application executing on the computing device;

presenting a document for signature to the individual using the software application executing on the computing device, the documenting indicative of informed consent for the procedure;

receiving a signature on the document from the individual using the software application executing on the computing device; and

sending to a server from the computing device the video, the document with the signature, and storing the video in a non-transitory computer readable data storage medium associated with the server to thereby provide for documenting the informed consent of the individual for the procedure.

2. The method of claim 1 wherein the capturing video is performing using a camera integrated into the computing device.

3. The method of claim 1 further comprising receiving a selection of an option to bypass the quiz and documenting a reason for bypassing the quiz by sending the reason to the server.

4. The method of claim 1 wherein the procedure is a medical procedure and wherein the individual is a patient.

5. The method of claim 4 wherein the video includes video of the patient acknowledging that they are providing informed consent.

6. The method of claim 1 further comprising making the video available to the individual through a portal associated with the server.

7. The method of claim 1 further comprising making the video available to a service provider of the individual through a portal associated with the server.

8. The method of claim 1 wherein the video includes video of the individual and a service provider interacting with the individual.

9. The method of claim 1 further comprising receiving through the software application setting information identifying a plurality of procedures and one more procedure types.

10. The method of claim 9 further comprising receiving through the software application the document associated with the procedure.

11. The method of claim 1 further comprising receiving through the software application the plurality of questions about the procedure.

12. The method of claim 1 wherein the software application is a mobile app and wherein the computing device is a mobile computing device.

13. A method for obtaining and documenting informed consent for a procedure from an individual, the method comprising:

providing a software application to a computing device for executing on the computing device wherein the software application provides a user interface for obtaining video evidencing informed consent for the procedure, administering a quiz to the individual, presenting a document for signature to the individual, receiving a signature for the document from the individual;

receiving a selection of a procedure for which informed consent is desired into the software application executing on the computing device;

capturing the video evidencing informed consent for the procedure using the software application executing on the computing device;

presenting the document for signature to the individual using the software application executing on the computing device, the documenting indicative of informed consent for the procedure;

receiving the signature on the document from the individual using the software application executing on the computing device; and

sending to a server from the computing device the video, the document with the signature, and storing the video in a non-transitory computer readable data storage medium associated with the server to thereby provide for documenting the informed consent of the individual for the procedure.

14. The method of claim 13 further comprising:

administering the quiz for the individual using the software application executing on the computing device, the quiz including a plurality of questions about the procedure for assessing informed consent;

documenting administration of the quiz to the individual using the software application executing on the computing device;

sending a record of the administration of the quiz to the server from the computing device.

21. The method of claim 14 further comprising making the video recording available to the patient through a portal.

15. A method for documenting informed consent, the method comprising:

obtaining a video recording of an individual indicative of informed consent;

communicating the video recording across a network for data storage; and

storing the video recording in a computer readable data storage medium associated with a server.

16. The method of claim 15 further comprising positioning at least one video camera in a room associated with a health care provider in which the patient provides the informed consent.

17. The method of claim 15 further comprising retrieving the video recording of the patient indicative of informed consent over the network and from the computer readable storage medium.

18. The method of claim 15 further comprising providing a user interface to the health care provider for accessing the video recording.

19. The method of claim 15 further comprising combining data from a health care information system with the video recording.

20. The method of claim 15 wherein the video recording further comprises at least a portion of a patient encounter.

22. The method of claim 15 further comprising making the video available to the patient by placing the video on a USB drive.