Decision support response systems and methods

• US 8,510,272 B2
• Filed: 04/20/2007
• Issued: 08/13/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 04/20/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: General Electric Company
• Original Assignee: General Electric Company
• Inventors: Randazzo, Michael Thomas, Secrist, Randy Kent
• Primary Examiner(s): Vital, Pierre
• Assistant Examiner(s): Kim, Taelor
• Application Number:
  US11/738,055
• Publication Number:
  US 20080263050A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,307 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 707/687
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9535 Search customisation based on user profiles and personalisation
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 10/60 for patient-specific data, e.g. for electronic patient records
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 50/20 for computer-aided diagnosis, e.g. based on medical expert systems
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 50/70 for mining of medical data, e.g. analysing previous cases of other patients
• CPC Class Codes: G16Z 99/00 Subject matter not provided for in other main groups of this subclass

Abstract

A computer-implemented method for managing data for a clinical decision support system includes providing a computer management system including a server and a database, and downloading the decision support system onto the computer management system. The decision support system includes a plurality of rules and receives data. The method also includes accessing the decision support system and issuing an alert associated with a predetermined data pattern to at least one client system according to the rules, receiving a request for additional information from the at least one client system in response to the issued alert, determining additional data that has been requested, and retrieving the additional information associated with the issued alert.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented method to manage data using a clinical decision support system, said method comprising:

analyzing clinical data arranged according to one or more information categories within a patient medical record and stored in a content management system database to detect a predetermined data pattern for a patient;

issuing an alert associated with the predetermined data pattern, the issued alert associated with an alert identifier and a patient identifier and sent as a first message to at least one authorized user;

receiving, from at least one authorized user receiving the alert, a second message in reply to the first message, the second message to trigger a request for information relating to the patient and the predetermined data pattern;

based on the alert identifier and the patient identifier;

parsing the second message to determine one or more predetermined keywords to identify the information requested by the at least one requesting user in the second message;

retrieving, based on the one or more predetermined keywords and in response to the second message, the information requested by the at least one requesting user; and

transmitting the information requested in a third message to only the at least one requesting user, wherein the information requested is reviewable by the at least one requesting user via the third message,

wherein the at least one requesting user interacts with the clinical decision support system via the messages without opening a clinical decision support system application.

2. A method in accordance with claim 1, wherein at least one of the first, second and third messages comprises an email message.

3. A method in accordance with claim 1, wherein the clinical decision support system is to provide rules to track, identify, and retrieve clinically related information based on detected data patterns and messages.

4. A method in accordance with claim 1, wherein issuing further comprises coding the alert based on the alert identifier that identifies the issued alert and associates the issued alert with the patient identifier.

5. A clinical decision support system, including processor and memory, to manage data, the decision support system configured to:

analyze clinical data arranged according to one or more information categories within a patient medical record and stored in a content management system database to detect a predetermined data pattern for a patient;

issue an alert associated with the predetermined data pattern, the issued alert associated with an alert identifier and a patient identifier and sent as a first message to at least one authorized user;

receive, from at least one authorized user receiving the alert, a second message in reply to the first message, the second message to trigger a request for information relating to the patient and the predetermined data pattern;

based on the alert identifier and the patient identifier;

parse the second message to determine one or more predetermined keywords to identify the information requested by the at least one requesting user in the second message;

retrieve, based on the one or more predetermined keywords and in response to the second message, the information requested by the at least one requesting user; and

transmit the information requested in a third message to only the at least one requesting user, wherein the information requested is reviewable by the at least one requesting user via the third message,

wherein the at least one requesting user interacts with the clinical decision support system via the messages without opening a clinical decision support system application.

6. A system in accordance with claim 5, wherein at least one of the first, second and third messages comprises an email message.

7. A system in accordance with claim 5, wherein the clinical decision support system is to provide rules to track, identify, and retrieve clinically related information based on detected data patterns and messages.

8. A system in accordance with claim 5, wherein issuing further comprises coding the alert based on the alert identifier that identifies the issued alert and associates the issued alert with the patient identifier.

9. A non-transitory computer readable storage medium including a set of instructions which, when executed, implement a content management system to manage clinically related data, the content management system configured to:

analyze clinical data arranged according to one or more information categories within a patient medical record and stored in a content management system database to detect a predetermined data pattern for a patient;

issue an alert associated with the predetermined data pattern, the issued alert associated with an alert identifier and a patient identifier and sent as a first message to at least one authorized user;

receive, from at least one authorized user receiving the alert, a second message in reply to the first message, the second message to trigger a request for information relating to the patient and the predetermined data pattern;

based on the alert identifier and the patient identifier;

parse the second message to determine one or more predetermined keywords to identify the information requested by the at least one requesting user in the second message;

retrieve, based on the one or more predetermined keywords and in response to the second message, the information requested by the at least one requesting user; and

transmit the information requested in a third message to only the at least one requesting user, wherein the information requested is reviewable by the at least one requesting user via the third message,

wherein the at least one requesting user interacts with the content management system via the messages without opening a content management system application.

10. A non-transitory computer readable storage medium in accordance with claim 9, wherein at least one of the first, second and third messages comprises an email message.

11. A non-transitory computer readable storage medium in accordance with claim 9, wherein the content management system is to provide rules to track, identify, and retrieve clinically related information based on detected data patterns and messages.

12. A non-transitory computer readable storage medium d in accordance with claim 9, wherein issuing further comprises coding the alert based on the alert identifier that identifies the issued alert and associates the issued alert with the patient identifier.