Generation and dissemination of automatically pre-populated clinical notes

• US 8,805,703 B2
• Filed: 10/08/2008
• Issued: 08/12/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 10/08/2007
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Vesselin Zlatev
• Original Assignee: Regents of the University of California (University of California), Vesselin Zlatev
• Inventors: Martin, Neil A., Buxey, Farzad D., Nenov, Valeriy I., Hu, Xiao, Zlatev, Vesselin
• Primary Examiner(s): Nguyen, Hiep V
• Assistant Examiner(s): WOODS, TERESA S
• Application Number:
  US12/247,987
• Publication Number:
  US 20090182580A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,134 Days
• Field of Search: 705/2, 705/3, 600/300, 600/301, 707/10, 707/770
• US Class Current: 705/3
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/0002 Remote monitoring of patients using telemetry, e.g. transmission of vital signals via a communication network A61B5/07 takes precedence; transmission systems for measured values G08C; transmission H04B; transmission of digital information H04L; wireless communication networks H04W
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 40/08 Insurance
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 40/12 Accounting
• 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 40/20 for the management or administration of healthcare resources or facilities, e.g. managing hospital staff or surgery rooms
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/67 for remote operation

Abstract

Some embodiments provide a system and method for automatedly aggregating medically related data and disseminating different sets of the aggregated data to two or more different members of a medical care provider. Some embodiments automatedly and intelligently disseminate the aggregated data such that the data that is written once to the data storage solution is usable for a multitude of purposes within the functions of the medical care provider. Some embodiments intelligently disseminate the aggregated data by disseminating only relevant sub-components of the data to different members of the medical care provider based on the needs of the members such that different members receive different subsets of the data.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

a) receiving medically related data via software executing on a computing processor from at least one medical data source in an automated manner, said data comprising a plurality of data components;

b) organizing the plurality of data components, in an automated manner via software executing on a computing processor, into different subsets of the data components, wherein a plurality of the subsets of the data components comprise only a portion of the received data components but not all of the data components; and

c) disseminating the different sets of the data components to a plurality of medical care providing members via software executing on a computing processor to facilitate operations performed by said members, wherein disseminating involves a plurality of dissemination scripts, each dissemination script defining rules for determining the relevancy of said data to said members;

wherein disseminating involves the steps of;

d) automatically pre-populating clinical notes of the plurality of medical care providing members with the data components related to patients under the care of the medical care providing members;

e) identifying data components that are relevant to the purposes of the medical care providing members and supplying the relevant data components identified for each particular medical care providing member to the particular medical care providing member; and

f) sending the pre-populated clinical notes to an electronic device of each particular medical care providing member.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein a medical care providing member is a physician of a hospital.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the step of receiving the medically related data comprises aggregating the medically related data from a plurality of medical data sources into a particular data item, each medical data source supplying a set of the received data components for the particular data item.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein disseminating the different sets of the data components comprises identifying data components of the particular data item that are relevant to the purposes of each member and supplying the relevant data components identified for each particular member from the particular data item to the particular member.

5. The method of claim 1 further comprising verifying completeness of said data prior to dissemination.

6. The method of claim 5 further comprising notifying at least one data source to provide additional data to complete said data when said data is incomplete.

7. The method of claim 6 wherein notifying the at least one data source comprises dynamically generating an editable form to send to the at least one data source, wherein said data form comprises data fields to specify incomplete data components.

8. The method of claim 6 wherein notifying the at least one data source comprises modifying a user interface of the at least one data source in order to specify data fields for incomplete data components.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein operations performed by a first member are different from operations performed by a second member and a first set of data components to disseminate to the first member is different than a second set of data components to disseminate to the second member.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein the medically related data comprises objective medical data and subjective medical data.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein the objective medical data comprises vital statistics and laboratory results provided by various electronic monitors monitoring a patient.

12. The method of claim 1, wherein disseminating the sets of data components comprises wirelessly transmitting said sets of data components to the plurality of medical care providing members.

13. The method of claim 1 further comprising storing said medically related data within a non-transitory data storage, wherein disseminating different sets of the data components comprises processing the medically related data stored in the non-transitory data storage.

14. A method comprising:

a) receiving medically related data via software executing on a computing processor for a particular patient from a medical data source, said medical data comprising a plurality of data components;

b) processing the medical data, in an automated manner via software executing on a computing processor, to identify a plurality of subsets of the data components relevant to a plurality of medical care providing members;

c) disseminating the different sets of the data components to the plurality of medical care providing members via software executing on a computing processor to facilitate operations performed by said members, wherein disseminating involves a plurality of dissemination scripts, each dissemination script defining rules for determining the relevancy of said data to said of members;

wherein disseminating involves the steps of;

d) automatically pre-populating clinical notes of the plurality of medical care providing members with the data components related to the particular patient;

e) identifying data components that are relevant to the purposes of each of the medical care providing members and supplying the relevant data components identified for each particular medical care providing member to the particular medical care providing member; and

f) sending the pre-populated clinical notes to an electronic device of each particular medical care providing member.

15. The method of claim 14, wherein the processing of the medical data comprises identifying data components relevant to the different members based on different functionalities performed by each of the members.

16. The method of claim 14, wherein the processing of the medical data comprises identifying values of data components that are within a set of threshold values as relevant data components to disseminate.

17. The method of claim 14 further comprising organizing the different sets of data components prior to providing the data components to the members such that data components most relevant to functionalities of the member are presented first.

18. The method of claim 14, wherein processing the medical data occurs according to the rules of the dissemination script.

19. The method of claim 14, wherein the different sets of data components comprise at least one shared data component.

20. The method of claim 14, wherein the processing of the medical data comprises determining whether the received data is complete.

21. The method of claim 20 further comprising sending an electronic data acquisition form for acquiring additional data to at least one particular medical data source prior to providing the different the different sets of data components when the received data is incomplete.

22. The method of claim 21, wherein the electronic data acquisition form is dynamically created to cure the incomplete data from the particular medical data source.

23. The method of claim 14, wherein receiving the medical data comprises automatically aggregating medical data from a plurality of medical data sources.

24. The method of claim 23, wherein the plurality of medical data sources comprise a plurality of healthcare monitoring devices, each device for monitoring different healthcare specific parameters.

25. The method of claim 14, wherein the plurality of members comprise different databases of a medical care provider.

26. The method of claim 25, wherein the different databases comprises a quality reporting database, a research database, and a billing database.

27. A method comprising:

a) receiving medical data via software executing on a computing processor from at least one medical data source, said data comprising a plurality of data components;

b) tagging, in an automated manner via software executing on a computing processor, each data component of the medical data with identification information including metadata tags;

c) indentifying via software executing on a computing processor, based on said tags associated with the data components, a plurality of subsets of the data components relevant to different members of a medical care provider; and

d) distributing via software executing on a computing processor said subsets of the data components to a plurality of members based on the tags associated with the data components,

wherein the tags specify access permissions to the data components by the plurality of members.

28. The method of claim 27, wherein the identification information associated with the tags specifies a source of the received data and a timestamp indicating when the data was received.

29. A system comprising:

a data aggregator for aggregating medically related data from a plurality of medical data sources in an automated manner via software executing on a computing processor, said data comprising a plurality of data components;

a dissemination engine for identifying via software executing on a computing processor,in an automated manner, a plurality of subsets of the data components relevant to different members of a medical care provider and for disseminating the subsets of the data components to said members to facilitate operations performed by said members, wherein said dissemination engine defines rules for determining the relevancy of the data components;

wherein said dissemination engine automatically pre-populates clinical notes of a plurality of medical care providing members with the data components related to patients under the care of the medical care providing members, identifies data components that are relevant to the purposes of the medical care providing member and supplying the relevant data components identified for each particular medical care providing member from to the particular medical care providing member and sends the pre-populated clinical notes to an electronic device of each particular medical care providing member.