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Patent application number | Title | Published |
20150379236 | DYNAMIC CRITICAL ACCESS OVERRIDE FOR MEDICATION DISPENSING APPARATUSES - A critical access override list may be generated dynamically based on patient profile information for a single patient or a group of patients. A single patient or group of patients is initially identified. Patient profile information for the patient or group of patients is accessed. The patient profile information is analyzed, and medications are selected for critical access override. The selected medications are added to a critical access override list available to a medication dispensing apparatus to provide quicker access to the medications for emergency situation purposes via critical access override dispensing in which fewer steps are performed than normal medication dispensing events. | 12-31-2015 |
20150317393 | PATIENT SEARCH WITH COMMON NAME DATA STORE - Computerized systems and methods facilitate patient searches by identifying instances in which search input includes a common name that may return a large number of search results. A common name data store is generated that includes common names identified in a patient database. When a user enters search input into a patient search tool, the common name data store is queried to determine if the search input matches a common name. If so, a notification may be provided to the user to indicate the search input matches a common name. In some instances, a search may not be allowed on the patient database if the search input matches a common name. | 11-05-2015 |
20150317311 | PATIENT SEARCH QUALITY INDICATOR - Computerized systems and methods facilitate patient searches by providing a search quality indicator for presentation to a user entering a patient search input to indicate to the user the likelihood the search input will return search results that will allow the user to identify a search result corresponding with a desired patient. When a user enters search input, a search quality score is generated. The search quality score may be determined based on the amount of search input provided and/or the type of search criteria provided. A search quality indicator is presented to the user based on the search quality score. | 11-05-2015 |
20150302153 | REVERSE DOCUMENT QUALITY REVIEW - Computerized systems and methods identify diagnoses that impact payments to hospitals and verify whether the diagnoses are properly supported. When a diagnosis is identified that impacts payment for services rendered to a patient, patient data for the patient is analyzed to determine if clinical indicators are present to support the diagnosis. If the diagnosis is not supported by the necessary clinical indicators, a notice is sent to a clinician that indicates a diagnosis that impacts payment is not supported, allowing the clinician to supplement the patient data to support the diagnosis. | 10-22-2015 |
20150302147 | Synchronization of Heatlhcare Data Across Disparate Data Centers - Methods, systems, and computer-readable media are provided for synchronizing healthcare data across disparate data centers. Healthcare data from healthcare data sources is received by a collector service that operates in a cloud computing platform. The data is sent to a staging platform associated with a first data center that is hosting the collector service. From here, the data is stored in association with a long-term storage data store associated with the first data center. As well, it is communicated to processing nodes associated with the first data center that subscribe to the data. The staging platform also communicates the data to a staging platform associated with a second data center. This staging platform also stores the data in association with a long-term storage data store located at the second data center and communicates the data to processing nodes located at the second data center that subscribe to the data. | 10-22-2015 |
20150228042 | INTEGRATING VIDEO INTO PATIENT WORKFLOWS - Embodiments of the present invention are directed to methods, systems, and computer storage media for providing embedded video communication within a clinician workflow. Chart requests provide clinician workflows associated with patients. Video requests initiate video communications between clinicians and interested parties. Embedded video communication windows are fully integrated with the clinician workflows and facilitate video communication via mobile devices between care teams, specialties, patients, and other interested parties. Clinicians may perform actions within the workflows while the video communications are in progress and available for viewing by the clinicians. | 08-13-2015 |
20150187035 | SUPPLY MANAGEMENT IN A CLINICAL SETTING - Aspects of the present invention provide a supply chain system to get to a just-in-time inventory. Aspects of the invention generate a suggested reorder quantity by comparing the item's reorder point (quantity at which to reorder the item from the vendor) to the dynamic inventory level for the item. The dynamic inventory level=(Quantity in inventory+Quantity on Order−(Forecast Usage)). The forecast usage comprises anticipated consumption of the item derived from one or more presently scheduled clinical events. Presently scheduled events have not yet taken place and are scheduled to take place in the future. The event takes place when a clinician provides a clinical service to a patient. For example, a surgery may be scheduled to occur three days from the present time. The items scheduled for use in the surgery form part of the forecast usage for the item. The forecast usage may comprise items from multiple scheduled clinical events. | 07-02-2015 |
20150185972 | DYNAMIC PRESENTATION OF ACTIONABLE CONTENT ITEMS - Methods, systems, and computer-readable media are provided for determining and generating content items that provide patient information and content provided by, for example, a third-party content provider that is relevant to information associated with an open healthcare application. The content items are displayed in a separate display space from the healthcare application's user interface and dynamically change and update in response to changes in the information being displayed on the healthcare application's user interface. Additionally, the content items are actionable thereby enabling healthcare providers to address alerts, take actions, view supporting documentation, and the like. | 07-02-2015 |
20150182712 | VENTILATOR MANAGEMENT - Methods, computer systems and computer readable media for communicating data to and receiving data from ventilators in a healthcare setting and displaying the data on a user device are provided. A ventilator order is communicated to a ventilator associated with a patient. A continuous data feed is received from the ventilator. In embodiments, the continuous data feed includes a ventilator rate, a respiratory rate, a positive inspiratory rate, a positive end expiratory rate, and a mean airway pressure. Discrete information associated with the ventilator is received. In embodiments, the discrete information includes endotracheal tube (ETT) size, ETT placement, ETT mode changes, ETT events, and ETT status. Additional information including blood gas results, sedation/paralytic medication information, and calculations, the calculations determined by ventilator data from the continuous data feed and/or electronic medical record (EMR) data received from the EMR is received. Data received from the ventilator is displayed. In embodiments, the data includes the continuous data feed, the discrete information, the additional data, ventilator pressure waveforms, patient-ventilator system check information, and diagnostic images. | 07-02-2015 |
20150182696 | AUTOMATICALLY DISASSOCIATING MEDICAL DEVICES FROM PATIENTS - Systems, methods, computer storage media, and user interfaces are provided for automatically disassociating medical devices from patients. An indication that a medical device is associated with a patient and is online is received. A disruption in the communication with the medical device that has not been disassociated with the patient is identified. In embodiments, the disruption indicates the medical device has lost a wireless connection, is associated with a scheduled downtime, has been powered off, or is offline. Once it is determined that a predetermined period of time has elapsed since the disruption, the medical device is automatically disassociated from the patient. In embodiments, the medical device is retroactively re-associated to the patient if it is determined the medical device should not have been automatically disassociated from the patient. | 07-02-2015 |
20150120757 | Contact Management and Valuation for Inter-Organizational Relationships - Contacts between organizations with large numbers of individuals associated with the organization can be managed by scoring communications between the individuals within the scope of their work with their organization. The types of communications scored may be emails, cell phone calls, VoIP phone calls, conventional telephone calls, instant messages, social media platforms, and face-to-face meetings. One or more type of communication may be scored higher or lower than other types of communication based upon the value different types of communication bring to the relationship between the organizations. A score for a communication may also be determined based upon the role of individuals involved within their respective organizations, the timing of the communication, the number of recipients of the communication, or any other criteria that impacts the value of the communications to the relationship between the organizations. | 04-30-2015 |
20150120324 | INTEGRATING PRE-HOSPITAL ENCOUNTERS INTO AN ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD - Methods, computer systems, and computer storage media are provided for integrating pre-hospital encounters into an electronic medical record (EMR). An electronic Situation-Background-Assessment-Recommendation (SBAR) tool is provided that guides a clinician to gather demographic information and encounter information. The demographic information associated with one or more patients is received via the SBAR tool. The encounter information is received via the SBAR tool. At least a portion of the demographic information and the encounter information is communicated via the SBAR tool, while in transit via an emergency vehicle, to a healthcare facility. The demographic information and the encounter information are integrated into an EMR associated with each patient. | 04-30-2015 |
20150100327 | MAINTAINING CONTEXT BETWEEN APPLICATIONS UTILIZING A PRIORITIZED PATIENT LIST - Methods, computer systems, and computer-storage medium are provided for maintaining context between applications utilizing prioritized patient lists. A selection of patients is received from a clinician. A patient list is prioritized. A preview of information from more than one application is provided without requiring each application to launch. A selection of a patient from the patient list is received. More than one application is launched for the patient based on context passed from the patient list to each application. | 04-09-2015 |
20150095050 | DENORMALIZATION OF HEALTHCARE DATA - Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for denormalizing healthcare data are provided. An indication a patient has been added to a tracking list is received. The tracking list is determined to be associated with a primed view. Data is retrieved for the patient. The data for the patient is cached into the primed view before a clinician requests the data. | 04-02-2015 |
20150080652 | LESION DETECTION AND IMAGE STABILIZATION USING PORTION OF FIELD OF VIEW - Images with an overall field of view (FOV) may be captured during an endoscopic procedure but only a portion of the overall FOV displayed to an endoscopist. The overall FOV may be analyzed to identify an area of interest of a patient's organ based on the presence of a possible lesion during the endoscopic procedure. The endoscopist may be notified of the identified area of interest. After an area of interest is identified, the location of the area of interest may be tracked. Image stabilization may be provided by changing the displayed portion of the overall FOV to maintain the area of interest within the displayed portion as the area of interest moves relative to the endoscope. | 03-19-2015 |
20150078615 | MARKING AND TRACKING AN AREA OF INTEREST DURING ENDOSCOPY - An area of interest of a patient's organ may be identified based on the presence of a possible lesion during an endoscopic procedure. The location of the area of interest may then be tracked relative to the camera view being displayed to the endoscopist in real-time or near real-time during the endoscopic procedure. If the area of interest is visually marked on the display, the visual marking is moved with the area of interest as it moves within the camera view. If the area of interest moves outside the camera view, a directional indicator may be displayed to indicate the location of the area of interest relative to the camera view to assist the endoscopist in relocating the area of interest. | 03-19-2015 |
20150066521 | EMERGENCY DEPARTMENT STATUS DISPLAY - Methods, computer systems, and computer-storage medium are provided for providing an emergency department centralized interactive display. A segmentable summary of patients within an ED allows a clinician to view a specific area within the ED or a summary of patients assigned to the clinician including unassigned patients sorted by acuity and length of stay. A throughput summary for a patient indicates throughput and whether actions are pending for the patient. A patient summary for the patient that includes information collected at triage, links to documentation from previous visits, care plans, a do not resuscitate order, home medications, and/or history. A provider summary provides information regarding providers for the patient and allows the clinician to designate an attending physician to the patient. In various embodiments, additional summary information is provided giving the ED clinician an efficient one-stop shop for performing ED duties. | 03-05-2015 |
20150012887 | CLINICAL DOCUMENT SPEED VIEWER - Methods, systems, and computer-storage media are provided for searching a plurality of clinical documents associated with a patient. A searchable timeline is presented on a graphical user interface; the searchable timeline has a plurality of icons representing clinical documents created for the patient. The icons overlay the timeline at points in time corresponding to when the icon's respective document was created. Selection of an icon initiates the presentation of the icon's respective document. Preference and filter options enable a user to filter the clinical documents based on, for example, health concepts that have been identified for the patient. | 01-08-2015 |
20150012298 | MULTI-DISCIPLINARY TEAM WORKSPACE - Methods, systems, and computer-storage media are provided for facilitating the care of a patient by a multi-disciplinary care team. A graphical user interface presents one or more clinical problems associated with a patient. For each clinical problem, actionable care team icons are presented that, among other things, identify care teams responsible for caring for the clinical problem and any actions taken by the care teams to address the clinical problem. | 01-08-2015 |
20150012297 | DYNAMIC ASSOCIATION AND DOCUMENTATION - Methods, systems, and computer-storage media are provided for enabling a user to dynamically create associations and take actions with respect to a clinical finding associated with a patient. After selecting a clinical finding that is of interest in a first workflow application, a graphical user interface is automatically presented. The graphical user interface includes trending information for the clinical finding as well as information related to the clinical finding. The graphical user interface enables a clinician to associate the clinical finding with a current patient problem or a possible diagnosis related to the clinical finding. Additionally, the graphical user interface enables the clinician to take actions with respect to the clinical finding. | 01-08-2015 |
20140337050 | GRAPHICALLY DISPLAYING FAMILY MEDICAL CONDITIONS FOR A PATIENT - Methods, systems, and computer-storage media are directed at determining one or more medical conditions of a patient, based on a family tree of the patient. The family tree of the patient incorporates one or more medical conditions of family members and non-biological persons in contact with the patient. A graphical representation of the family tree is displayed on a graphical user interface (GUI) of a computing system, along with a list of medical conditions suffered by the individual persons within the family tree of the patient. A user can select one or more medical conditions from the list, and based on the selection, those family tree members suffering from the one or more selected medical conditions are then highlighted within the graphical representation of the family tree. | 11-13-2014 |
20140310012 | CENTRALIZING PROTOCOL GUIDANCE AND DOCUMENTATION FOR A HEALTHCARE EVENT - Systems, methods, computer-readable media, and graphical user interfaces for centralizing protocol guidance and documentation for a healthcare event are provided. In embodiments, protocols corresponding to healthcare events are received. Upon determining a particular healthcare event has occurred for a patient, a clinician is prompted to perform an action in accordance with the protocol. Information associated with the patient is received and, based on the information, a next action is selected. The clinician is prompted to perform the next action. In embodiments, an inventory of items used for the protocol is maintained and compared against a stock of items to determine when the stock of items needs to be restocked. | 10-16-2014 |
20140278539 | GRAPHICAL REPRESENTATIONS OF TIME-ORDERED DATA - Methods, systems, and computer-storage media are provided for generating graphical representations of audit events. A party-of-interest is represented by a central node, and one or more peripheral nodes surrounding the central node represent parties having electronic records accessed by the party-of-interest during a selected time frame. The size of the peripheral nodes represents a frequency of access of the node's respective electronic record. Each of the peripheral nodes is actionable enabling a user to view information related to the audit event. | 09-18-2014 |
20140278527 | LARGE SCALE IDENTIFICATION AND ANALYSIS OF POPULATION HEALTH RISKS - Methods, systems, and computer-storage media are provided for facilitating the management of population health. A parallel processing architecture receives patient population health data from healthcare facilities along with any updated data. A high-level clinical logic is executed against the data to identify, among other things, patients in the population who qualify for health intervention programs. Using this information, healthcare facilities can implement management programs to help care for these patients. | 09-18-2014 |
20140278524 | ASSOCIATING PATIENTS AND MEDICAL DEVICES WITH A MOBILE DEVICE VIA BLUETOOTH - Systems, methods, computer storage media, and user interfaces are provided for associating patients and medical devices with a mobile device via Bluetooth. A signal associated with a patient communicated via a Bluetooth personal area network is received. The patient associated with the signal is recognized. An association request to associate the patient to a medical device is initiated and communicated to a mobile device associated with a clinician when the mobile device is in range. Once the clinician has provided an indication that the association request is approved, the patient is associated to the medical device. Data may be automatically logged in a shift log associated with the clinician while the mobile device is communicating with the medical device or the signal associated with the patient via the Bluetooth personal area network. | 09-18-2014 |
20140278523 | DYNAMICALLY ASSOCIATING AND DISASSOCIATING PATIENTS AND MEDICAL DEVICES - Systems, methods, computer storage media, and user interfaces are provided for dynamically associating and disassociating patients and medical devices. A signal communicated via a Bluetooth personal area network is received when a patient is in proximity to a medical device. In various embodiments, the signal originates with a patient wristband or the medical device. The medical device is automatically associated to the patient. When the signal is no longer being received, the medical device may be automatically disassociated from the patient. Data associated with the medical device may be communicated to an EMR associated with the patient. A mobile device associated with a clinician may be communicated with via the Bluetooth personal area network. | 09-18-2014 |
20140278522 | RIGHT PATIENT SITUATIONAL AWARENESS SYSTEM - Methods, computer systems, and computer storage media are provided for notifying a clinician that he or she may be accessing incorrect health information. Based on inputs received from a plurality of healthcare systems, a determination is made that health information being accessed is incorrect because it fails to include patient-identifying information for a particular patient, or it fails to include a patient encounter code associated with a particular ongoing patient encounter. Upon determining that the health information is incorrect, a notification is communicated to the clinician accessing the incorrect health information. | 09-18-2014 |
20140278519 | Expression of Clinical Logic with Positive and Negative Explainability - Methods, systems, and computer-storage media are provided for providing explainability to an end-user on why a particular patient failed to qualify for a health-related measure. High-level clinical logic explainability rules are generated on top of high-level clinical logic used to identify members of a population who qualify and who do not qualify for the health-related measure. The explainability rules are designed to identify which components in the high-level clinical logic are not satisfied by the patient's health data, and, more specifically, which of the components' sub-criteria disqualified the patient from the health-related measure. The output of the explainability rules is structured into an easy-to-understand format that is presented on a user interface associated with an end-user such as a clinician. | 09-18-2014 |
20140278481 | LARGE SCALE IDENTIFICATION AND ANALYSIS OF POPULATION HEALTH RISKS - Methods, systems, and computer-storage media are provided for facilitating the management of population health. A parallel processing architecture receives patient population health data from healthcare facilities along with one or more documents that are in human-readable form. From the human-readable document, computer-readable code is generated that includes high-level clinical logic is executed against the population health data to identify, among other things, patients in the population who qualify for health intervention programs. Using this information, healthcare facilities can implement management programs to help care for these patients. | 09-18-2014 |
20140244308 | HIPAA-COMPLIANT THIRD PARTY ACCESS TO ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORDS - Methods, computer systems, and computer storage media are provided for providing a third-party user HIPAA-compliant access to an electronic medical record system at a clinical site. A request for a clinical study participant list is received from the third-party user, and it is determined that the third-party user has viewing and access rights with respect to the clinical study participant list. The third-party user can select a participant on the clinical study participant list and access the participant's electronic medical record within the electronic medical record system. The electronic medical record is presented to the third-party user in a read-only view, and the third-party user is prevented from searching the EMR system for other electronic medical records. | 08-28-2014 |
20140236634 | MOBILE DISCRETE DATA DOCUMENTATION - Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for transferring data from a medical device to a patient's electronic medical record are provided. Initially, a medical device and a patient are identified, such as by scanning a barcode or searching in an electronically-searchable database. Once identified, the medical device and the patient area associated, and data from the medical device is acquired and sent to a form that allows a user to edit the data or add other information. The user may then indicate that the data is ready to be transmitted to the patient's electronic medical record. The medical device and the patient may now be disassociated. The disassociation may be implicit, so that it is not required that a user provide an indication that the patient and medical device are to be disassociated. Rather, the disassociation may occur upon transmittal of the data to the patient's EMR. | 08-21-2014 |
20140222446 | REMOTE PATIENT MONITORING SYSTEM - Methods, computer systems, and computer storage media are provided for remotely monitoring health metrics for a patient. An indication of health metrics to monitor for the patient and information related to the health metrics is received. The criticality of each health metric is determined based on recognizing that the information associated with each health metric falls into a predetermined range of values that are associated with a defined criticality for the health metric. A health alert status is assigned to each of the health metrics based on the determined criticalities. If the information related to the health metric indicates that the health metric has reached a predefined level of criticality, an alert is provided to a healthcare provider associated with the patient. The health alert status is presented on a graphical user interface. | 08-07-2014 |
20140213845 | AMBIENT SENSING OF PATIENT DISCOMFORT - Methods, computer systems, and computer-readable storage media for monitoring and managing patient discomfort are provided. Inputs are received from ambient sensors located in a clinical care room. Based on a determination that the inputs exceed predetermined thresholds, it is determined that the patient is experiencing discomfort. Various measures are automatically initiated to help diminish the patient's discomfort. The measures include aromatherapy, visual relaxation therapy, audio therapy, and automatic administration of pain relief. | 07-31-2014 |
20140200915 | READMISSION RISK ASSESSMENT - Readmission risks of patients admitted to a healthcare facility are determined using a generic readmission risk algorithm. The readmission risk assessment of patients may be based on portions of a patient's profile and may be performed before, during, and after their index admission. Based on the readmission risk assessment of patients, those patients that are at a greater risk for readmission may be identified. A readmission prevention worklist may be provided that identifies those patients and facilitates managing the risk of readmission for those patients. | 07-17-2014 |
20140188496 | KNOWLEDGE AWARE CASE CART MANAGER SYSTEM - Methods, computer systems, and computer storage media are provided for managing one or more case carts in a healthcare setting. Information associated with a case cart is received at a case cart manager system. Based on the information, at least one action is determined for the case cart, and the action is communicated to the case cart. The case cart or a user of the case cart is directed to perform the at least one action. Additionally, the case cart can detect its own status and generate status information that is communicated to and received at the case cart manager system. | 07-03-2014 |
20140184408 | ALERT MANAGEMENT UTILIZING MOBILE DEVICES - Methods, computer systems, and computer-storage medium are provided for managing patient alerts using a mobile device. A mobile device associated with a patient caregiver receives a critical alert related to the patient, and the alert is presented on the mobile device. The alert includes important contextual information that enables the caregiver to make a quick assessment of how to effectively address the alert. The alert includes options for accepting the alert or rejecting the alert. Acceptance of the alert enables the caregiver to communicate the alert to selected caregivers that can assist in managing the alert. Rejecting the alert causes the alert to be automatically communicated to additional caregivers associated with patient. | 07-03-2014 |
20140180699 | ADVANCED RISK STRATIFICATION FOR CLINICAL DECISION SUPPORT - Systems, methods, and user interfaces for providing dynamic risk stratification for clinical decision support are provided. Selections of patient types are received for patients. Assessments to utilize are determined in accordance with the patient types. The assessments are displayed to facilitate first clinicians assessing risk factors and contraindications for the patients. Information associated with the patients is received. Second clinicians may be alerted if risk factors for the patients are identified and the assessments have not been completed. Pharmacologic and/or mechanical prophylaxis is recommended and overall risk levels associated with the patients are indicated. | 06-26-2014 |
20140136227 | READMISSION RISK ASSESSMENT - A readmission risk prediction model is generated and used for identifying patients having elevated risk of readmission and determining inpatient treatment and outpatient activities based on readmission risk. Readmission risk prediction models may be generated for a variety of different clinical conditions using logistic regression techniques. When a patient is admitted to a hospital, the patient's condition is identified and a corresponding readmission risk prediction model is employed to identify the patient's risk of readmission. The readmission risk may be presented to a clinician and employed to recommend interventions intended to treat the patient and reduce the probability of readmission for the patient. The patient's readmission risk may also be calculated after the patient has been discharged and used for planning outpatient activities for the patient. | 05-15-2014 |
20140122570 | ZERO FOOTPRINT APPLICATION VIRTUALIZATION - Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for delivering an interactively updated application to a browser without requiring end users to install software locally are provided. Browser capabilities are detected. Bi-directional communication is established between a browser and server based on the capabilities. Representations of images are streamed to the browser. Human input device events associated with the representations are received. The representations are interactively updated. | 05-01-2014 |
20140122113 | PROVIDING INDICATIONS OF CLINICAL-TRIAL CRITERIA MODIFICATIONS - Systems and method for providing indications of trial-related attributes are provided. In embodiments, the method includes providing an indication to view a suggested clinical-trial criteria modification(s) that, if implemented, is expected to increase a number of patients eligible for a clinical trial. Thereafter, a suggested criterion modification for a clinical-trial criterion is received. The suggested criterion modification is based on a comparison of aggregated patient data associated with the clinical-trial criterion to the clinical-trial criterion. The indication of the suggested criterion modification for the clinical-trial criterion can be displayed. | 05-01-2014 |
20140121550 | COMPUTERIZED SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR STABILITY-THEORECTIC PREDICTION AND PREVENTION OF SUDDEN CARDIAC DEATH - Systems, methods and computer-readable media are provided for automatic identification of patients according to near-term risk of ventricular arrhythmias and sudden cardiac death (SCD). Embodiments of the invention are directed to event prediction, risk stratification, and optimization of the assessment, communication, and decision-making to prevent SCD, and in one embodiment take the form of a platform for wearable, mobile, unteathered monitoring devices with embedded decision support. Thus embodiments relate to automatically identifying persons at risk for arrhythmias and SCD through the use of noninvasive, portable, wearable electronic device and sensors equipped with signal-processing software and statistical predictive algorithms that calculate stability-theoretic measures derived from the digital electrocardiogram timeseries acquired by the device. The measurements and predictive algorithms embedded within the device provide for unsupervised use in the home or in general acute-care and chronic-care venues and afford a degree of robustness against variations in individual anatomy and sensor placement. | 05-01-2014 |
20140114688 | LOCATION-BASED MANAGEMENT OF HEALTHCARE ENVIRONMENTS - Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for managing healthcare environments are provided. In embodiments, a real-time status of a clinical device, along with a location, is received. The location of the clinical device is obtained via a clinical device identifier that is tracked by a plurality of sensors in a healthcare environment. A clinical device may be identified as inappropriate for use and an alert presented to a clinician including the problem of the clinical device and the location thereof. A replacement clinical device may be located, using clinical identifiers, and presented to the clinician. Such monitoring and location awareness facilitates efficient responses to healthcare situations. | 04-24-2014 |
20140114681 | LOCATION-BASED MANAGEMENT OF HEALTHCARE ENVIRONMENTS - Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for managing healthcare environments are provided. In embodiments, a real-time status of a clinical device, along with a location, is received. The location of the clinical device is obtained via a clinical device identifier that is tracked by a plurality of sensors in a healthcare environment. A clinical device may be identified as inappropriate for use and an alert presented to a clinician including the problem of the clinical device and the location thereof. A replacement clinical device may be located, using clinical identifiers, and presented to the clinician. Such monitoring and location awareness facilitates efficient responses to healthcare situations. | 04-24-2014 |
20140114583 | PREDICTING NEONATAL HYPERBILIRUBINEMIA - A multi-variable statistical predictive leading-indicator approach is employed for identifying newborns at risk of clinically significant hyperbilirubinemia and for determining to administer interventions to at-risk newborns. In embodiments, a multi-variable logistic regression statistical model capable of calculating a probability of clinically significant hyperbilirubinemia is generated. Using an input data set for a newborn and the multi-variable logistic regression statistical model, a probability of clinically significant hyperbilirubinemia is determined for the newborn and presented to a clinician. | 04-24-2014 |
20140114474 | DYNAMIC REFILL LEVEL FOR MEDICATION DISPENSING APPARATUS - A dynamic refill level is used for determining medication refill requirements for a medication at a medication dispensing apparatus. A quantity of medication likely needed from the medication dispensing apparatus until a next scheduled refill is determined. A dynamic refill level is set for the medication based on the quantity of medication likely needed. A current count for the medication in the medication dispensing apparatus is compared against the dynamic refill level. If the current count satisfies the dynamic refill level, there is no need to refill the medication. However, if the current count does not satisfy the dynamic refill level, there is a need to refill the medication. | 04-24-2014 |
20140108041 | REDUCING DISRUPTION DURING MEDICATION ADMINISTRATION - Methods, computer systems, and computer readable media for transitioning a clinical care room from a first scene to a second scene in order to facilitate completion of a medication-administration process. The first scene in the clinical care room is presented where the clinical care room has one or more zones. The first scene is associated with a first group of setting for components within the one or more zones. An input indicating that the medication-administration process has been initiated is received. Incident to receiving the input, the second scene is provided. The second scene is associated with a second group of settings for the components. The second group of settings is optimized to facilitate completion medication-administration process. | 04-17-2014 |
20140100884 | OUTREACH PROGRAM - Methods, systems, and computer-readable media are provided for automatically and without human intervention identifying providers and/or patient population segments eligible for one or more outreach events and executing the outreach event. An outreach event is an action or communication by a healthcare organization or its providers to contact providers or patients regarding one or more quality measures. | 04-10-2014 |
20140100883 | CONTRACTS AND ORGANIZATION MANAGEMENT PROGRAM - Methods, systems, and computer-readable media are provided for healthcare organizations to manage financial and clinical objectives between payers, providers, and patients. A healthcare organization's organizational data is accessed to identify quality measure contract objectives contained in contracts between the healthcare organization and its payers. Patient data of patients in scorable patient groups is accessed to determine if the patients meet the quality measure contract objectives. If so, a financial incentive is determined. If the patients do not meet the quality measure contract objectives, recommendations are automatically generated to increase the likelihood of the patients meeting the quality measure contract objectives | 04-10-2014 |
20140100882 | PROVIDER AND PATIENT ATTRIBUTION PROGRAMS - Methods, systems, and computer-readable media are provided for attributing patients to various healthcare providers within a healthcare organization. Attribution is geared towards pairing a patient with an optimal set of healthcare providers to effectively manage the patient while keeping costs down. Organizational data associated with the healthcare organization is accessed to identify at least provider information, and patient data is accessed to determine preference information and previous and current provider relationships associated with the patients. The organizational data and the patient data are used to attribute each patient to one or more providers. | 04-10-2014 |
20140100880 | ORGANIZATIONAL POPULATION HEALTH MANAGEMENT PLATFORM AND PROGRAMS - Methods, systems, and computer-readable media are provided for organizational management of population health. A network management service builds and maintains data stores of organizational data associated with one or more healthcare organizations. A population health management service receives raw data from disparate sources, creates a reference record for each raw data source, and generates patient-centric longitudinal population records using the reference records. Programs for managing population health utilize both the organizational data and the population records to generate condition-specific or objective-specific solutions. | 04-10-2014 |
20140100873 | ATTACHING PATIENT CONTEXT TO A CALL HISTORY ASSOCIATED WITH VOICE COMMUNICATION - Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for declining, attaching, and editing patient context to mobile voice communication are provided. Patient demographic or alert information is attached to items within call histories associated with voice communication which are stored in the EMR and utilized for later analysis (e.g., analytics, patient progress, billing, reimbursement, staff scheduling, patient acuity, and the like). In embodiments, the context is declined, attached, or edited to items from the call history. In embodiments, the context is attached to items in the call history when the voice communication is initiated. | 04-10-2014 |
20140100866 | SCORE CARDS - Methods, systems, and computer-readable media are provided for building a score plan for a healthcare organization, its providers, its payers, and/or its patients and presenting the results of the score plan on one or more score card user interfaces. Score cards graphically display an entity's progress towards meeting quality measure objectives. The score cards provide information on percentage completion of one or more quality measure objectives by the entity and/or quality measure objectives that may be difficult for the entity to achieve. | 04-10-2014 |
20140099929 | ATTACHING PATIENT CONTEXT TO A CALL HISTORY ASSOCIATED WITH VOICE COMMUNICATION - Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for declining, attaching, and editing patient context to mobile voice communication are provided. Patient demographic or alert information is attached to items within call histories associated with voice communication which are stored in the EMR and utilized for later analysis (e.g., analytics, patient progress, billing, reimbursement, staff scheduling, patient acuity, and the like). In embodiments, the context is declined, attached, or edited to items from the call history. In embodiments, the context is attached to items in the call history when the voice communication is initiated. | 04-10-2014 |
20140097961 | MULTI-ACTION BUTTON FOR MOBILE DEVICES - Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for providing a multi-action button for mobile devices are provided. Alerts are received and multi-action buttons are determined corresponding to the alerts and clinicians associated with mobile devices. The multi-action buttons are displayed on the mobile devices. | 04-10-2014 |
20140095180 | AUTOMATED WORKFLOW ACCESS BASED ON CLINICAL USER ROLE AND LOCATION - Systems, methods, computer-readable media for automating displays based on admissions, transfers, and discharges are provided. In embodiments, a location associated with a clinician is detected. A role associated with the clinician authenticated to a first device is determined. One or more applications associated with the clinician based on the location and the role is automatically launched on the first device. In embodiments, authentication requests from the clinician are received for a second device. A session associated with the one or more applications is suspended on the first device and resumed on the second device. | 04-03-2014 |
20140081654 | SMART CLINICAL CARE ROOM - Methods, computer systems, and computer readable media for transitioning a clinical care room from a first scene to a second scene in order to facilitate completion of a real-world activity are provided. The first scene in the clinical care room is presented where the clinical care room has one or more zones. The first scene is associated with a first group of setting for components within the one or more zones. An input corresponding to the real-world activity is received. Incident to receiving the input, the second scene is provided. The second scene is associated with a second group of settings for the components. The second group of setting is optimized to facilitate completion of the real-world activity. | 03-20-2014 |
20140081092 | PREDICTING NEAR-TERM DETERIORATION OF HOSPITAL PATIENTS - Methods, systems, and computer storage media are provided for predicting a probability of acute deterioration for a specific patient. Various discrete measurements are taken regarding the patient's current health. Those measurements are used to determine a PPOD score, which is displayed for clinicians. | 03-20-2014 |
20140058757 | ADJUDICATING INTEGRATED TRANSACTIONS - A method for adjudicating and reimbursing a care provider for services provided for a clinical event is provided. The method includes referencing an integrated transaction including a number of clinical data elements, wherein the clinical data elements include clinical event details and electronic medical record data elements associated with a patient. Clinical data elements are used to select medical appropriateness criteria from an appropriateness knowledge base. Thereafter, it is determined that an electronic medical record data element affects the selected medical appropriateness criteria. As a result, the medical appropriateness criteria is adjusted in accordance with the electronic medical record data elements determined to affect the medical appropriateness criteria. The adjusted medical appropriateness criteria is used to determine whether the clinical data element(s) satisfy the adjusted medical appropriateness criteria. | 02-27-2014 |
20140058748 | POPULATING CUSTOM PATIENT WORKLISTS USING DEMOGRAPHIC AND CLINICAL CRITERIA - Systems, methods, computer-readable media, and graphical user interfaces for creating custom patients worklists are provided. In embodiments, demographic and clinical criteria are used to create custom patient worklists. Patient lists and units associated with healthcare facilities are selected. Names of views associated with the custom patient worklists are received. Criteria are selected and sequences for displaying selected criteria are received. Custom patient worklists are built based on the selections. | 02-27-2014 |
20140047384 | INTEGRATED DATA CAPTURE WITH ITEM GROUP KEY - Systems, methods, computer-readable media, and graphical user interfaces for facilitating integrated data capture with an item group key are provided. Integrated data capture workflows are initiated from within an electronic medical record (EMR). Selections of groups of items from the EMR are received. Item group keys are assigned to at least one item for the groups of items. Available data associated with the item group keys is gathered from the EMR. Selections of available data to include in case report forms are received. The case report forms are populated with the selections of available data and the item group keys. | 02-13-2014 |
20140046689 | AUDIT TRAIL FOR INTEGRATED DATA CAPTURE - Systems, methods, computer-readable media, and graphical user interfaces for facilitating an audit trail are provided. Integrated data capture workflows are initiated from within an electronic medical record (EMR). Selections of data from the EMR are received to make available to case report forms. The case report forms are populated with the selections of data and associated audit information. Selections of alternate results are received. The case report forms are populated with the alternate results and associated alternate result audit information. The case report forms are stored. | 02-13-2014 |
20140046688 | FILTERING VALUES IN A CLOSED MENU FOR INTEGRATED DATA CAPTURE - Systems, methods, computer-readable media, and graphical user interfaces for facilitating filtering values in a closed menu for integrated data capture are provided. Integrated data capture workflows are initiated from within an electronic medical record (EMR). Time ranges associated with data from the EMR are received. Data is gathered from the EMR to make available to case report forms. Values associated with the data are presented in closed menu for the time ranges. Selections of the values are received. Case report forms are populated with the selected values. | 02-13-2014 |
20140046687 | SELECTING ALTERNATE RESULTS FOR INTEGRATED DATA CAPTURE - Systems, methods, computer-readable media, and graphical user interfaces for selecting alternate results for integrated data capture are provided. Integrated data capture workflows are initiated from within an electronic medical record (EMR). Data is gathered from the EMR to make available to a case report form. Case report forms are populated with the most recently collected values of data. Indicators are displayed if alternate results for items are available. Selections of indicators are received and closed menus of alternate results for the items are presented. | 02-13-2014 |
20140040454 | CLOUD RULES AND ALERTING FRAMEWORK - Systems, methods, and computer-readable media having computer-executable instructions embodied thereon for providing cloud rules and an alerting framework are provided. In embodiments, one or more rules associated with one or more healthcare information systems are received. The one or more rules each designate an initiating and at least one target application. One or more actions are associated to each target application. The initiating application is monitored for a trigger associated with the one or more rules. In embodiments, the trigger causes the one or more actions to be communicated to each target applications. In embodiments, the one or more actions initiate various changes in a display associated with each target application. | 02-06-2014 |
20140039926 | PRESENTING MEDICATION INFORMATION BY BODY SYSTEM - Methods, computer systems, and computer storage media are provided for sorting and presenting a patient's medication order information by body system. A selection of a body system filter directed to a body system is received, and the patient's medication order information is accessed. The selected body system filter is applied to the patient's medication order information to generate a set of body-system specific medication order information. The body-system specific medication order information is presented on a body system view user interface | 02-06-2014 |
20140039925 | PRESENTING PATIENT INFORMATION BY BODY SYSTEM - Methods, computer systems, and computer storage media are provided for sorting and presenting a patient's medical information by body system. A selection of a body system filter directed to a body system is received, and the patient's medical information is accessed. The selected body system filter is applied to the patient's medical information to generate a set of body-system specific patient information. The body-system specific patient information is presented on a body system view user interface. | 02-06-2014 |
20140035925 | DYNAMIC PRESENTATION OF WAVEFORM TRACINGS IN A CENTRAL MONITOR PERSPECTIVE - Methods, computer systems, and computer storage media are provided for automatically populating a central monitor perspective with waveform tracings having a predetermined aspect ratio. A selection of a unit location is received, and monitoring devices connected to patients at the unit location are detected. Waveform tracings associated with the active monitoring devices are presented in a predetermined aspect ratio in the central monitor perspective. As new monitoring devices are connected to patients, or as monitoring devices are disconnected from patients, the central monitor perspective is automatically refreshed to reflect currently active waveform tracings having the predetermined aspect ratio. | 02-06-2014 |
20140033032 | MULTI-ACTION ROWS WITH INCREMENTAL GESTURES - Methods, computer systems, and computer storage media are provided for initiating clinical actions associated with a clinical object on a touch screen interface using incremental gestures. A clinical object is presented in an object row on the touch screen interface, and clinical actions associated with the clinical object are determined. A user gesture comprising an incremental gesture of the object row in a first direction is detected; the incremental gesture reveals an indicator associated with one of the clinical actions. The indicator is revealed after the incremental gesture has traveled a first distance. The action is initiated upon release of the incremental gesture. | 01-30-2014 |
20140012597 | AUTOMATICALLY POPULATING A WHITEBOARD WITH AGGREGATE DATA - Systems, methods, computer-readable media, and graphical user interfaces for automatically populating a dashboard with aggregate data are provided. In embodiments, a dashboard associated with a plurality of rooms in a hospital unit is displayed on a touchscreen monitor. Unit data associated with the plurality of rooms including unit description, current shift, charge nurse, clinician names, and clinician numbers is received. Patient data associated with a patient in each of the plurality of rooms is received. The patient data includes location, name, sex, age, and length of stay. The dashboard is automatically populated in real-time with the unit data and the patient data. One or more alerts associated with a patient in one of the plurality of rooms are received. One or more visual cues associated with one or more alerts are displayed on the dashboard. | 01-09-2014 |
20130346105 | COLLABORATIVE MANAGEMENT OF NURSING RISK ASSESSMENTS - Methods, computer systems, and computer storage media are provided for using patient information stored in association with the patient's electronic medical record at a first healthcare facility to generate a comprehensive nursing risk assessment for the patient. The comprehensive nursing risk assessment includes nursing risk scenarios for which the patient is at risk and nursing risk prevention measures designed to reduce that risk. The comprehensive nursing risk assessment can be utilized by clinicians other than clinicians in a nursing-type role. The comprehensive nursing risk assessment can also be communicated to other healthcare facilities that are either concurrently caring for the patient with the first healthcare facility or scheduled to care for the patient after the patient is discharged from the first healthcare facility. | 12-26-2013 |
20130346103 | HIPAA-COMPLIANT THIRD PARTY ACCESS TO ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORDS - Methods, computer systems, and computer storage media are provided for providing a third-party user HIPAA-compliant access to an electronic medical record system at a clinical site. A request for a clinical study participant list is received from the third-party user, and it is determined that the third-party user has viewing and access rights with respect to the clinical study participant list. The third-party user can select a participant on the clinical study participant list and access the participant's electronic medical record within the electronic medical record system. The electronic medical record is presented to the third-party user in a read-only view, and the third-party user is prevented from searching the EMR system for other electronic medical records. | 12-26-2013 |
20130339057 | COMPUTERIZED METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR INFERRING GENETIC FINDINGS FOR A PATIENT - A method and system in a computing environment for inferring genetic findings for a patient is provided. The method includes receiving a request for genetic findings for a person from another application or a user. The method further includes inquiring as to whether the person has the genetic findings. If not, the method automatically provides inferred genetic findings for the person. The inferred genetic findings are calculated using genetic findings for family members of the patient, linkage analysis, haplotype analysis, semantic test results for the person and/or population genetics information. | 12-19-2013 |
20130338929 | COMPUTERIZED METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR INFERRING GENETIC FINDINGS FOR A PATIENT - A method and system in a computing environment for inferring genetic findings for a patient is provided. The method includes receiving a request for genetic findings for a person from another application or a user. The method further includes inquiring as to whether the person has the genetic findings. If not, the method automatically provides inferred genetic findings for the person. The inferred genetic findings are calculated using genetic findings for family members of the patient, linkage analysis, haplotype analysis, semantic test results for the person and/or population genetics information. | 12-19-2013 |
20130332191 | IDENTIFYING PATIENT ELIGIBILITY FOR CLINICAL TRIALS - Systems and method for facilitating clinical-trial referrals are provided. In embodiments, the method includes searching clinical-trial data associated with a plurality of clinical trials to identify one or more clinical trials for which a patient is eligible to participate based on patient data associated with the patient. Such clinical-trial data associated with the plurality of clinical trials can be aggregated in a centralized data store. Thereafter, an indication of the one or more clinical trials for which the patient is eligible is provided. | 12-12-2013 |
20130332190 | PROVIDING INDICATIONS OF CLINICAL-TRIAL CRITERIA MODIFICATIONS - Systems and method for providing indications of trial-related attributes are provided. In embodiments, the method includes providing an indication to view a suggested clinical-trial criteria modification(s) that, if implemented, is expected to increase a number of patients eligible for a clinical trial. Thereafter, a suggested criterion modification for a clinical-trial criterion is received. The suggested criterion modification is based on a comparison of aggregated patient data associated with the clinical-trial criterion to the clinical-trial criterion. The indication of the suggested criterion modification for the clinical-trial criterion can be displayed. | 12-12-2013 |
20130317857 | PREPOPULATING CLINICAL EVENTS WITH IMAGE BASED DOCUMENTATION - Systems, methods, and computer-readable media having computer-executable instructions embodied thereon for protocol driven image acquisition are provided. In embodiments, a protocol is received by an image capturing device. The protocol comprises orders from a clinician, a workflow for capturing at least one image, or a combination thereof. At least one field for receiving metadata to be associated with the at least one image allows structured documentation to begin on the image capturing device. The at least one image and associated metadata are communicated to a medical information system. A patient is identified by the metadata or an existing patient to device association and the at least one image is associated with an electronic medical record for the patient. | 11-28-2013 |
20130317834 | CUSTOMIZED AND INTUITIVE ANTIBIOGRAMS - Methods, computer systems, and computer storage media are provided for utilizing a healthcare facility's antibiogram information to generate customized antibiograms. One or more user-selected filters are applied to the information in the antibiogram data store. Filters include organism type, antimicrobial type, date range, encounter type, healthcare facility unit, and end-user role. Using the selected filters, a customized antibiogram is generated and presented on a user interface. | 11-28-2013 |
20130290020 | REAL-TIME AGGREGATION AND PROCESSING OF HEALTHCARE RECORDS - Methods, computer systems, and computer storage media are provided for utilizing clinical information in disparate formats or structures to generate multiple derived representations of the clinical information, each derived representation structured to meet a particular clinical need. Clinical information is aggregated from multiple, disparate data sources; the clinical information is in a first format. The information is restructured to generate a derived representation of the information; the derived representation is in a second format. The derived representation is communicated to a clinical application that meets the particular clinical need. | 10-31-2013 |
20130282397 | PROVIDER MANAGEMENT OF REFERRAL ORDERS - Methods, computer systems, and computer-readable storage media are provided for creating a provider-specific unified patient referral worklist that helps the provider manage incoming and outgoing referral orders. The unified patient referral worklist is generated by aggregating referral orders for patients from different medical organizations and determining which of the referral orders are associated with the provider. The unified patient referral worklist enables the provider to easily create new referral orders by presenting a plurality of referral order options. | 10-24-2013 |
20130282391 | PATIENT MANAGEMENT OF REFERRAL ORDERS - Methods, computer systems, and computer-readable storage media are provided that help a patient manage his or her referral orders. One or more referral orders for the patient are received. Patient-appropriate information is identified and extracted from the one or more referral orders. The patient-appropriate information is used to generate one or more modified referral orders; the modified referral orders are subsequently presented on a user interface of a computing device associated with the user. | 10-24-2013 |
20130275361 | ASSOCIATING MULTIPLE DATA SOURCES INTO A WEB-ACCESSIBLE FRAMEWORK - Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for associating multiple data sources into a web-accessible framework. Health data is received from multiple data sources and is used to populate a framework comprising at least one topic focused data mart. Each topic focused data mart has a common structure and is associated with a web service providing standard features supported by each topic focused data mart and custom features specific to a topic associated with each topic focused data mart. In various embodiments, demographic information is received from a clinician and is utilized to present context-specific data derived from the topic focused data mart. | 10-17-2013 |
20130268286 | PROVIDING PROTOCOL VARIANCES FROM STANDARD PROTOCOLS - Systems and method for identifying and providing protocol variances are provided. In embodiments, the method includes referencing an ordered protocol associated with a health condition for a patient. Such an ordered protocol includes a plan for a course of health or medical treatment for the health condition of the patient. A standard protocol that corresponds with the ordered protocol is also referenced. Thereafter, the ordered protocol is compared to the standard protocol to identify at least one protocol variance that indicates a portion of the ordered protocol has been adjusted as compared to the standard protocol. Any identified protocol variances are presented, for example, to a user computing device for display to a user. | 10-10-2013 |
20130262147 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PREEMPTIVE DETERMINATION OF THE POTENTIAL FOR AN ATYPICAL CLINCIAL EVENT RELATED TO THE ADMINISTERING OF MEDICATION - Systems and methods provide for the preemptive determination of the potential of atypical clinical event occurrence related to administering of medications to a person. One method involves receiving a list of possible medications that may be administered to the person during a medical procedure. Subsequently, the medication list is compared to information in the person's medical record. Based on this comparison, a determination is made as to whether one or more matches exist between any of the medications included in the list and the medical record information, the match relating to the potential of an atypical clinical event occurring if the associated medication were to be administered to the person. If a match in fact exists, a response is outputted relating to each match. | 10-03-2013 |
20130218329 | DYNAMIC CRITICAL ACCESS OVERRIDE FOR MEDICATION DISPENSING APPARATUSES - A critical access override list may be generated dynamically based on patient profile information for a single patient or a group of patients. A single patient or group of patients is initially identified. Patient profile information for the patient or group of patients is accessed. The patient profile information is analyzed, and medications are selected for critical access override. The selected medications are added to a critical access override list available to a medication dispensing apparatus to provide quicker access to the medications for emergency situation purposes via critical access override dispensing in which fewer steps are performed than normal medication dispensing events. | 08-22-2013 |
20130178977 | MEDICATION DISPENSING APPARATUS - A medication dispenser provides automation to the steps of locating and acquiring medications or supplies to be administered to a patient. The medication dispenser includes one or more modules housing one or more compartmentalized drawers. Access to each drawer is controlled by a lockable door, and each the drawer may only be slid from the module housing the drawer in response to a signal. A series of lights direct the user to the appropriate drawer and the appropriate compartment of the relevant drawer to remove the appropriate medication or supply. | 07-11-2013 |
20130174073 | HEALTH FORECASTER - Methods, computer systems, and computer-readable storage media are provided for utilizing health-related variables to generate a current health state of a user along with a most-likely future health state of the user and an ideal future health state of the user. Graphical representations of these health states are generated and presented on a graphical user interface. The user is able to interact with the graphical representations to see the impact of the user's choices on the user's future health. | 07-04-2013 |
20130173291 | MULTIDEVICE COLLABORATION - Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for multidevice collaboration are provided. In embodiments, indications are provided on a device that a wrong chart is open for a location. A clinician is prompted to synchronize a chart with a dashboard associated with the location. Control of the dashboard is transferred to the clinician utilizing the device. | 07-04-2013 |
20130173290 | LEVERAGING CENTRALIZED MAPPING BETWEEN ORGANIZATIONS - Computerized systems, methods, and graphical user interfaces are provided to facilitate communication between physician offices and reference laboratories. A reference laboratory content manager provides a centralized conduit for interfacing clients placing orders for reference laboratory testing and reference laboratories performing testing. The reference laboratory content manager leverages centralized mapping across organizations by managing associations for procedures between reference laboratory aliases and client aliases. The centralized mapping enables the reference laboratory content manager to manage updates from reference laboratories and facilitate clients wishing to modify utilization of reference laboratories. | 07-04-2013 |
20130173289 | FACILITATING MODIFYING REFERENCE LABORATORIES - Computerized systems, methods, and graphical user interfaces are provided to facilitate communication between physician offices and reference laboratories. A reference laboratory content manager provides a centralized conduit for interfacing clients placing orders for reference laboratory testing and reference laboratories performing testing. The reference laboratory content manager leverages centralized mapping across organizations by managing associations for procedures between reference laboratory aliases and client aliases. The centralized mapping enables the reference laboratory content manager to manage updates from reference laboratories and facilitate clients wishing to modify utilization of reference laboratories. | 07-04-2013 |
20130173278 | MANAGING UPDATES FROM REFERENCE LABORATORIES - Computerized systems, methods, and graphical user interfaces are provided to facilitate communication between physician offices and reference laboratories. A reference laboratory content manager provides a centralized conduit for interfacing clients placing orders for reference laboratory testing and reference laboratories performing testing. The reference laboratory content manager leverages centralized mapping across organizations by managing associations for procedures between reference laboratory aliases and client aliases. The centralized mapping enables the reference laboratory content manager to manage updates from reference laboratories and facilitate clients wishing to modify utilization of reference laboratories. | 07-04-2013 |
20130158968 | GRAPHIC REPRESENTATIONS OF HEALTH-RELATED STATUS - Methods, computer systems, and computer-readable storage media for generating graphical representations of health-related variables are provided. The graphical representations include a first body-image representation of a user at a current period of time. The graphical representations also include a second body-image representation that represents the user at a future period of time, the user in a simulated clinical “what-if” scenario, or members of the population-at-large that share similar demographic traits with the user. | 06-20-2013 |
20130127620 | MANAGEMENT OF PATIENT FALL RISK - Methods, computer systems, and computer-storage media are provided for facilitating the management of a patient's fall risk. It is determined that the patient has previously been classified as a fall risk. Inputs are automatically received from fall risk sensors located in the patient's clinical care room, and, based on the inputs received from the fall risk sensors, it is determined that the patient is currently at risk for falling. Alerts are initiated and settings for components within the clinical care room are adjusted to decrease the patient's fall risk. | 05-23-2013 |
20130117816 | ACCESSING MULTIPLE CLIENT DOMAINS USING A SINGLE APPLICATION - Methods, computer systems, and computer-readable storage media for using a single application on a mobile device to access a plurality of client domain sites are provided. The single application on the mobile device receives from a user of the mobile device a set of authorization credentials. Based on the set of authorization credentials, the single application receives a first client domain uniform resource locator from a third-party directory service. The first client domain uniform resource locator is used to access a client gateway service; the client gateway service provides a secure access point to a number of different service solutions hosted by a client. Upon the user inputting a set of authentication credentials, the user is able to access information from one or more of the different service solutions. | 05-09-2013 |
20130110543 | TIMELINE FOR MULTI-IMAGE VIEWER | 05-02-2013 |
20130110541 | SOCIAL HEALTH NETWORKING | 05-02-2013 |
20130110535 | PROVIDING CLINICAL INFORMATION TO CLINICIANS | 05-02-2013 |
20130108126 | MULTI-IMAGE VIEWER FOR MULTI-SOURCED IMAGES | 05-02-2013 |
20130085776 | CLINICAL FRAMEWORK APPLICATION FOR MOBILE DEVICES - Methods, computer systems, and computer-storage media for presenting third-party clinical information on a mobile device are provided. A request for clinical information is received from a user of the mobile device. After the user is authenticated, a number of plug-in applications are determined for the user. The request for clinical information is communicated to the plug-in applications. The clinical information is received from the plug-in applications in the form of one or more generic hierarchical structures populated with the clinical information. The populated hierarchical structures are rendered for display on the mobile device. | 04-04-2013 |
20130085764 | CLINICAL PLUG-IN APPLICATION - Methods, computer systems, and computer-storage media for accessing clinical information on a mobile device are provided. A plug-in application receives from a mobile device a set of authorization credentials and a request for clinical information. A set of clinical information is determined based on the set of authorization credentials. The set of clinical information is retrieved from clinical information servers, and the set of clinical information is parsed and populated into a generic hierarchical structure. The populated hierarchical structure is communicated to the mobile device where it is subsequently rendered for display. | 04-04-2013 |
20130054262 | RECREATING A TIME-ORDERED SEQUENCE OF EVENTS - A method, system and medium are provided for enabling re-creation of a time-ordered sequence of clinical data. Sets of data elements for a patient are received in sequence from a clinical system, and for each data element a time stamp is attached. For any given set of data elements, a maximum time stamp is determined, implying that all events in a clinical system resulting in modifications to data elements contained in the set occurred on or before the maximum time stamp. A subsequent retrieval from a clinical system yields a set of data elements in which the time stamp for each data element occurs after the maximum time stamp from the previous set. | 02-28-2013 |
20130042194 | INFUSION MANAGEMENT - Methods, computer systems and computer readable media for receiving data from infusion pumps in a healthcare setting and displaying the data on a user device are provided. Centralized clinician views are provided to manage individual and multiple patient infusions. Embodiments provide near real-time graphical displays of infusion data to clinicians on separate user devices. In addition, near real-time graphical displays of patient physiologic data is displayed simultaneously to a clinician along with the infusion data. | 02-14-2013 |
20130041687 | RECREATING THE STATE OF A CLINICAL SYSTEM - A method, system and medium are provided for enabling re-creation of a state of a computing system as it existed at a selected time. A plurality of data elements are tracked including functions and reference information employed in calculating one or more of the data elements. Versions of functions and reference information are also tracked. Thereby, a time at which to recreate the state of the system is selectable and the data elements that were available at or before the selected time are identifiable. And the versions of functions and reference information that were available at the selected time are identifiable. The state of the system at the selected time can thus be reviewed or analyzed as desired. | 02-14-2013 |
20130030837 | ONLINE PATIENT AND HEALTH CARE PROVIDER COMMUNICATION - A graphical user interface provides clinical information in the form of a first health feed and patient-generated information in the form of a second health feed. The graphical user interface may provide improved access to patient-generated information to the provider and improved access to clinical information to the patient or caretaker for the patient. Additional health feeds may include data from peripheral devices, third-party sponsored applications, or other forms of health feedback. | 01-31-2013 |
20130030836 | THIRD-PARTY SITE CONNECTIONS FOR ONLINE HEALTH CARE COMMUNICATION - A graphical user interface provides clinical information in the form of a first health feed and patient-generated information in the form of a second health feed. The graphical user interface also provides third party generated information and assessments in the form of a third health feed. The graphical user interface may provide improved access to patient-generated information to the provider and improved access to clinical information to the patient or caretaker for the patient. Additional health feeds may include data from peripheral devices or other forms of health feedback. | 01-31-2013 |
20130030835 | HEALTH CARE BIOMETRIC SURVEILLANCE AND ONLINE PROVIDER COMMUNICATION - A graphical user interface provides clinical information in the form of a first health feed, patient-generated information in the form of a second health feed, and biometric surveillance from a peripheral device in a third health feed. The graphical user interface may provide improved access to patient-generated information to the provider and improved access to clinical information to the patient or caretaker for the patient. Additional health feeds may include data from peripheral devices, third-party sponsored applications, or other forms of health feedback. | 01-31-2013 |
20130030834 | HEALTH CARE ASSESSMENT AND ONLINE PROVIDER COMMUNICATION - A graphical user interface provides clinical information in the form of a first health feed, patient-generated information in the form of a second health feed, and health care assessments in a third health feed. The graphical user interface may provide improved access to patient-generated information to the provider and improved access to clinical information to the patient or caretaker for the patient. Additional health feeds may include data from peripheral devices, third-party sponsored applications, or other forms of health feedback. | 01-31-2013 |
20130006651 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PREEMPTIVE DETERMINATION OF THE POTENTIAL FOR AN ATYPICAL CLINICAL EVENT RELATED TO THE ADMINISTERING OF MEDICATION - Systems and methods provide for the preemptive determination of the potential of atypical clinical event occurrence related to administering of medications to a person. One method involves receiving a list of possible medications that may be administered to the person during a medical procedure. Subsequently, the medication list is compared to information in the person's medical record. Based on this comparison, a determination is made as to whether one or more matches exist between any of the medications included in the list and the medical record information, the match relating to the potential of an atypical clinical event occurring if the associated medication were to be administered to the person. If a match in fact exists, a response is outputted relating to each match. | 01-03-2013 |
20120330680 | MEDICAL DEVICE INTERFACING USING A CAMERA - Methods, computer systems, and computer readable media for interfacing a medical device with an electronic medical record are provided. An image of an output of the medical device is received from a camera associated with the medical device. The image is analyzed to generate a result. The result is stored in the electronic medical record. | 12-27-2012 |
20120330672 | DYNAMIC BLIND COUNT FOR MEDICATION DISPENSING APPARATUS - A dynamic blind count setting is provided for dispensing medications from medication dispensing apparatuses. In some embodiments, when a dynamic blind count setting is provided for a medication at a medication dispensing apparatus, a blind count may be required at intervals of medication dispensing events such that a blind count is not required each time the medication is dispensed from the medication dispensing apparatus. The intervals may be random or scheduled. In some embodiments, a set point may be established for a medication such that blind counts are required when the system count for the medication reaches the set point. | 12-27-2012 |
20120330460 | DYNAMIC REFILL LEVEL FOR MEDICATION DISPENSING APPARATUS - A dynamic refill level is used for determining medication refill requirements for a medication at a medication dispensing apparatus. When a medication refill report process for a medication dispensing apparatus is triggered, a quantity of medication likely needed to fulfill orders for a medication from the medication dispensing apparatus until a next scheduled refill is determined. A dynamic refill level is set for the medication based on the quantity of medication likely needed. A current count for the medication in the medication dispensing apparatus is compared against the dynamic refill level. If the current count satisfies the dynamic refill level, there is no need to refill the medication. However, if the current count does not satisfy the dynamic refill level, there is a need to refill the medication. | 12-27-2012 |
20120323602 | PHARMACY WORK QUEUE - Methods, computer systems, and computer-readable media for generating a pharmacy work queue are provided. Clinical parameters are received along with a request for the pharmacy work queue. Patients at a healthcare facility who satisfy the clinical parameters are identified, and the pharmacy work queue is generated. The pharmacy work queue comprises an indication of the patients who satisfy the clinical parameters. | 12-20-2012 |
20120323592 | MINIMIZING DISRUPTION DURING MEDICATION ADMINISTRATION - Methods, computer systems, and computer readable media for reducing disruptions to a clinician during medication administration are provided. An input is received indicating that the medication-administration process has been initiated by the clinician. The medication-administration process is associated with one patient in a clinical care room. Incident to receiving this input, the clinician is prevented from receiving messages concerning patients and other matters not related to the one patient in the clinical care room. In addition, one or more visual indicators are provided to alert other clinicians, patients, and visitors that the clinician has begun the medication-administration process. | 12-20-2012 |
20120323591 | SMART CLINICAL CARE ROOM - Methods, computer systems, and computer readable media for transitioning a clinical care room from a first scene to a second scene in order to facilitate completion of a real-world activity are provided. The first scene in the clinical care room is presented where the clinical care room has one or more zones. The first scene is associated with a first group of setting for components within the one or more zones. An input corresponding to the real-world activity is received. Incident to receiving the input, the second scene is provided. The second scene is associated with a second group of settings for the components. The second group of setting is optimized to facilitate completion of the real-world activity. | 12-20-2012 |
20120323588 | AUTOMATING DISPLAYS BASED ON ADMISSIONS, DISCHARGES, AND TRANSFERS - Systems, methods, computer-readable media, and graphical user interfaces for automating displays based on admissions, transfers, and discharges are provided. In embodiments, admission notifications that patients have been admitted to rooms in a healthcare facility are received. Information is accessed for the patients admitted to the rooms. The information for the patients is automatically displayed, without user intervention, to clinicians in the corresponding rooms. | 12-20-2012 |
20120323090 | AMBIENT SENSING OF PATIENT DISCOMFORT - Methods, computer systems, and computer-readable storage media for monitoring and managing patient discomfort are provided. Inputs are received from ambient sensors located in a clinical care room. Based on a determination that the inputs exceed predetermined thresholds, it is determined that the patient is experiencing discomfort. Various measures are automatically initiated to help diminish the patient's discomfort. The measures include aromatherapy, visual relaxation therapy, audio therapy, and automatic administration of pain relief. | 12-20-2012 |
20120296674 | MEDICAL RECORD CARD AND INTEGRATION OF HEALTH CARE - Systems and methods for updating a user's health record and integrating medical care are provided. A user identification card is associated with the user's health record, and this user identification card may be employed by the user to transmit user identification information to an authenticated terminal. The identification information may be used by the authenticated terminal and a central data store to select a portion of the user health record for access by the authenticated terminal. A user health record connection may be established at one or more of a plurality of authenticated terminals. The user identification card may facilitate maintenance and updating of the user health record from the plurality of authenticated terminals. The user identification card provides seamless integration of the user's health record with a plurality of facilities having authenticated terminals, such as hospitals, clinics, pharmacies, fitness centers, grocery stores, schools, etc. | 11-22-2012 |
20120296673 | MEDICAL RECORD CARD AND INTEGRATION OF HEALTH CARE - Systems and methods for updating a user's health record and integrating medical care are provided. A user identification card is associated with the user's health record, and this user identification card may be employed by the user to authorize a user health record connection between an authenticated terminal and a user health record at a central data store. The user health record connection may be established at one or more of a plurality of authenticated terminals. The user health record connection may facilitate maintenance and updating of the user health record from the plurality of authenticated terminals. The user identification card provides seamless integration of the user's health record with a plurality of facilities having authenticated terminals, such as hospitals, clinics, pharmacies, fitness centers, grocery stores, schools, etc. | 11-22-2012 |
20120295676 | HEALTH SCORING AND COMPETITION - Systems and methods for collaborating health goals between members of a user group are provided. Collaborating health goals may include appointing a commissioner to determine the parameters of a health goal competition. The commissioner may invite one or more group members to participate in a health goal competition. To add motivation and interest to the competition, the health goal competition may be organized as teams of users with a team winning the competition. Health goal competitions may include weight loss competitions, fitness challenges, activity level challenges, smoking cessation challenges, healthy eating challenges, etc. | 11-22-2012 |
20120290328 | SEARCHING AN ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD - A method, system, and medium are provided for searching an electronic medical record. Search results are returned in response to a search query. The search query may be one or more designated medical concepts. The search results may be displayed according to a ranking that determines which search results are likely to be the most responsive to a query submitted by a particular clinician based on matching the most important clinical concepts in each document to the most important clinical concepts in the search query. | 11-15-2012 |
20120278099 | MONITORING, CAPTURING, MEASURING AND ANNOTATING PHYSIOLOGICAL WAVEFORM DATA - Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for managing healthcare environments are provided. In embodiments, signals are received from more than one lead corresponding to a measurement associated with a patient. Real-time waveforms or physiologic data is displayed representing each signal. Events are detected for at least one of the waveforms or physiologic data. Temporary queues store the waveforms or physiologic data corresponding to the events, where they may be reviewed, measured, annotated, or saved to the patient's electronic medical record. | 11-01-2012 |
20120271656 | GENETIC PROFILING AND BANKING SYSTEM AND METHOD - A method is provided for determining whether a third party is authorized to access information representative of genetic data. This information representative of genetic data is associated with a physical sample and is provided in an accessible format. A set or access rights is received that define which third parties can access the information and how the information can be used. A third party requests to access the information for the purposes of performing a test. The request is compared to the access rights. If the third party is authorized, the test is performed on the information. If, however, the third party is not authorized, access is denied. | 10-25-2012 |
20120197538 | AUTOMATED CLINICAL SYSTEM TO FACILITATE SECONDARY REVIEW AND AUTHENTICATION OF CLINICAL LABORATORY RESULT VALUES - A method in a computer system for the review and authentication of clinical laboratory result values is provided. The method includes receiving patient data. The method also includes accessing review criteria. The method further includes comparing the patient data and the review criteria to determine if the patient data should be routed for review. The method further includes routing qualified patient data to a review hierarchy including at least one review queue defined by at least one user. | 08-02-2012 |
20120174018 | Patient Care Cards - Methods, computer systems, and computer readable media for a patient care card graphical user interface are provided. The patient care card graphical user interface comprises a requirements display area configured to display one or more clinical measures relating to a patient, and a visual indicator that changes depending on whether the at least one or more clinical measures has been met. | 07-05-2012 |
20120174014 | Provider Care Cards - Methods, computer systems, and computer readable media for a provider care card graphical user interface are provided. The provider care card comprises a requirements display area configured to display at least one or more clinical measures relating to at least one patient, a measurements display area configured to display one or more measurements completed for one or more clinical measures relating to at least one patient, a first plurality of microdisplays configured to display a first visual indicator for each of the clinical measures that has been met, and a second plurality of microdisplays configured to display a second visual indicator for each of the clinical measures that has not been met. | 07-05-2012 |
20120173478 | CUSTOM DATA MART CREATION - Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for creating custom data marts are provided. A selection of at least one table from a data source stored within a data warehouse is received. A selection of at least one column from the at least one table is received. Joins are created based on the selections, metadata is created and stored, and physical schema is generated to store the data mart data. The custom data mart fact table is populated with data from the selected columns. Facilities are provided for the end-user to create an abstraction layer for business intelligence reporting needs. | 07-05-2012 |
20120173475 | Health Information Transformation System - Methods, computer systems, and computer readable media for transforming raw healthcare data into relevant healthcare data are provided. Transformation of raw healthcare data into relevant data is accomplished by receiving raw data from a plurality of data collectors, where the plurality of data collectors extract the raw data from a plurality of raw data sources, and sorting the raw data into unstructured raw data, structured data of non-standard nomenclature, and structured data of standard nomenclature. The data is transformed into relevant data through the use of natural language processing, nomenclature and ontology mapping, and adaptive knowledge processing. The relevant data is stored in a plurality of data repositories, and computer applications and services are allowed access to the plurality of data repositories. | 07-05-2012 |
20120173286 | DEVELOPING AND MANAGING CARE TICKETS - Methods, computer storage media, systems and user interfaces for facilitating generation of care tickets are provided. In one embodiment, the method includes receiving context data associated with a clinical encounter at which a patient is seeking health care provided by a care provider. Clinical data associated with the patient is referenced. The clinical data includes historical health data for the patient. A care ticket is generated for the patient based on the context data and the clinical data. Such a care ticket including health information relevant to the clinical encounter at which the patient is seeking health care. | 07-05-2012 |
20120173279 | CONSOLIDATION OF HEALTHCARE-RELATED SCHEDULES ACROSS DISPARATE SYSTEMS - Subject matter described herein is related to providing a consolidated schedule having event entries that originate from disparate systems. For example, a central repository receives event entries from a plurality of disparate systems and aggregates entries associated with a particular clinician. The aggregated entries are transformed into a consolidated schedule, which is provided to a client device (e.g., mobile computing device or desktop computing device) used by the healthcare clinician (e.g., doctor, nurse, physician assistant, nurse practitioner, etc.). The consolidated schedule includes events scheduled to take place at different healthcare facilities or different departments within a healthcare facility. When viewing the consolidated schedule, the clinician can request patient information (e.g., vital statistics) relevant to a selected entry and execute other actions (e.g., rescheduling, note entry, event creation, etc.) relevant to the entry. | 07-05-2012 |
20120173278 | PREPOPULATING CLINICAL EVENTS WITH IMAGE BASED DOCUMENTATION - Systems, methods, and computer-readable media having computer-executable instructions embodied thereon for protocol driven image acquisition are provided. In embodiments, a protocol is received by an image capturing device. The protocol comprises orders from a clinician, a workflow for capturing at least one image, or a combination thereof. At least one field for receiving metadata to be associated with the at least one image allows structured documentation to begin on the image capturing device. The at least one image and associated metadata are communicated to a medical information system. A patient is identified by the metadata or an existing patient to device association and the at least one image is associated with an electronic medical record for the patient. | 07-05-2012 |
20120173277 | Healthcare Quality Measure Management - Methods and systems for managing healthcare quality measure data are provided. Relevant quality measure data relating to a patient with a particular condition is identified, and it is determined if patient qualifies for a standardized quality measure related to that condition. If the patient qualifies, the relevant quality measure data is populated into a work queue associated with a computing device and displayed to a user. The relevant quality measure may be approved and sent to a quality clearinghouse. If the relevant quality measure data is not approved, additions, deletions, or changes are made to generate a revised set of relevant quality measure data which is then sent to the quality clearinghouse. The approved relevant quality measure data is received by the quality clearinghouse, and a recipient is selected to receive the relevant quality measure data. The relevant quality measure data is reformatted to the specifications of the recipient and is sent to the recipient. | 07-05-2012 |
20120173276 | Optimizing Workflows - Methods, systems, and computer storage media are provided for optimizing workflows by monitoring a healthcare environment. Data may be compiled from various sources to monitor interactions within the healthcare environment. Both interactions with individuals and interactions with a healthcare system may be monitored. Each of location data, clinical data, and system data, among others, may be combined to monitor the healthcare environment. By combining the data from various sources, a user is able to get a complete picture of the healthcare environment. | 07-05-2012 |
20120173266 | REIMBURSING CARE PROVIDERS BASED ON PERFORMED ACTIONS - Methods, computer storage media, systems and user interfaces for reimbursing care providers using care tickets are provided. In embodiments, the method includes identifying a medically appropriate action(s) to perform during a clinical encounter for a patient that, if performed, results in a reimbursement to a care provider. The medically appropriate action(s) to perform during the clinical encounter for the patient is provided. An indication that the medically appropriate action(s) has been performed during the clinical encounter is received. Based on the performance of the medically appropriate action(s), reimbursement to the care provider is automatically initiated. | 07-05-2012 |
20120173265 | DEVELOPING AND MANAGING PERSONALIZED PLANS OF HEALTH - Methods, computer storage media, systems and user interfaces for facilitating development of personalized plans of health are provided. In one embodiment, the method includes referencing clinical data associated with a patient that was previously captured from a plurality of sources at corresponding clinical encounters. The clinical data can include static data that does not change over the lifetime of the patient and dynamic data that does change over the lifetime of the patient. The clinical data and evidence-based data are used to develop a personalized plan of health for the patient. Such a personalized plan of health provides a plan of health care for the patient in accordance with aggregate healthcare history of the patient. | 07-05-2012 |
20120173264 | FACILITATING IDENTIFICATION OF POTENTIAL HEALTH COMPLICATIONS - Methods, computer storage media, systems and user interfaces for facilitating avoidance of potential health complications are provided. In one embodiment, the method includes identifying risk data that indicates a potential health risk to a patient. The risk data is used to determine a potential health complication that may arise in association with the patient. A plan of care is generated for the patient based on the potential health complication that may arise in association with the patient. Such a plan of care may include an action(s) to perform in association with the patient in an effort to avoid the potential health complication. | 07-05-2012 |
20120173261 | PRESENTING AGENT ORDER SUGGESTIONS TO CLINICIANS - Computerized systems and methods are provided for automatically providing order and details suggestions to healthcare users. Healthcare users such as physicians often place the same small number of orders with the same details over and over again. A usage pattern warehouse may be employed to track and determine the user's order patterns. The usage pattern warehouse may assign a weighted score to the agent orders based upon volume and recency. User text input is matched to agent orders within the historical order information and a listing of most likely agent orders is provided to the user. | 07-05-2012 |
20120173215 | Real-Time Predictive Simulation Modeling - Methods, systems, and computer storage media are provided for generating simulation graphs using real-time clinical data. A user may indicate one or more scenario variables to apply to an area of interest. A simulation graph is then generated that includes at least an indication of a scenario status. The scenario status indicates an expected result based on the one or more scenario variables selected by the user. The simulation graph may also include a baseline status indicating an expected result should no changes be made to a current environment. Multiple simulation graphs for varying areas of interest may be generated and compared to one another such that a user is able to quickly identify efficient solutions. | 07-05-2012 |
20120173137 | Optimal Route Solution - Methods, systems, and computer storage media are provided for identifying an optimal route to a destination for a user. The optimal route is customized for the user based on one or more route factors. The route factors may include a physical limitation of the user or a restricted area of a healthcare environment. The route factors may also include obstacles within the route or user preferences. An optimal route is identified as such when no route factors conflict with the optimal route. | 07-05-2012 |
20120171649 | USER INTERFACE FOR GENERATING PHYSICAL ACTIVITY INDICATORS - Methods, computer storage media, systems and user interfaces for generating physical activity indicators are provided. The user interface includes an activation button that prompts physical activity data associated with a user to be retrieved from a user device on which the physical activity data is stored. Information such as the current amount of physical activity logged by the user for a particular day, including the number of steps taken by a user for the day and/or the amount of minutes of physical activity the user has logged for the day is presented to the user via various aspects of the user interface. Users may compare their physical activity performance to other users of the system. Users may also challenge other users to participate in physical activity contests. | 07-05-2012 |
20120168492 | PROTOCOL DRIVEN IMAGE ACQUISITIION - Systems, methods, and computer-readable media having computer-executable instructions embodied thereon for protocol driven image acquisition are provided. In embodiments, a protocol is received by an image capturing device. The protocol comprises orders from a clinician, a workflow for capturing at least one image, or a combination thereof. At least one field for receiving metadata to be associated with the at least one image allows structured documentation to begin on the image capturing device. The at least one image and associated metadata are communicated to a medical information system. A patient is identified by the metadata or an existing patient to device association and the at least one image is associated with an electronic medical record for the patient. | 07-05-2012 |
20120166223 | Online Identity Proofing Using Eligibility Based Criteria - Methods, computer systems and computer readable media for online authentication of an organization are provided. Authentication is accomplished by receiving a first set of patient specific attributes from an organization. This first set of attributes is obtained from an eligibility transaction between the organization and a payor for the patient. The first set of attributes is compared to a second set of attributes involving the same patient, where the second set of attributes is obtained from an eligibility transaction between the online service provider and the payor. If the first set of attributes matches the second set of attributes, the secure online service provider will be notified that the organization is authentic. | 06-28-2012 |
20120166222 | CONSOLIDATING INFORMATION FOR MANAGEMENT OF ANTICOAGULANT PATIENTS - A method, system, medium, and graphical user interface are provided for managing treatment of patients on anticoagulant medications. Patients undergoing anticoagulant treatment are identified. A consolidated list of anticoagulant patients is generated. The list includes patient information, prescribed anticoagulant medications, reasons for treatment, and laboratory test values, among other data. It is determined that a laboratory test result associated with an anticoagulant medication is outside of a desired range. Guidelines associated with provision of the medication are identified and provided to a clinician via a graphical user interface. The GUI provides a centralized consolidated presentation of anticoagulant patient information that allows clinicians to more easily access the information and to more quickly identify activities to be performed for anticoagulant patients. Clinicians may also enter or change orders, document treatment, and receive alerts regarding treatment of anticoagulant patients. | 06-28-2012 |
20120166220 | PRESENTING QUALITY MEASURES AND STATUS TO CLINICIANS - Methods, systems, and computer-readable medium are provided for generating a user interface that presents quality measures to a clinician in a healthcare system. Quality measures are identified that are applicable to a medical condition of a patient. Data elements that indicate completion of one or more quality measures are also identified in the patient's electronic medical record. A completion status of each of the quality measures is determined based on the data elements. A user interface is generated that provides an indication of the medical condition(s) of the patient, applicable quality measures, and the completion status thereof. The user interface may be presented to a clinician accessing the patient's EMR and may allow the clinician to provide additional data to document completion of a quality measure. | 06-28-2012 |
20120159316 | MULTI-MODAL ENTRY FOR ELECTRONIC CLINICAL DOCUMENTATION - Methods, computer-readable media, and systems for populating an electronic clinical document capable of receiving multiple types of data are provided. In one embodiment, dictation audio input is embedded directly into one or more sections of an electronic clinical document along with other data types, such as structured user input, free-text input, or system-generated input. An electronic clinical document having embedded dictation audio and other data types can receive transcribed text corresponding to the embedded dictation audio. | 06-21-2012 |
20120123799 | INTERACTIVE ORGAN DIAGRAMS - An interactive organ diagram facilitates that input of clinically-related data regarding the condition of a patient's organ and storage of the clinically-related data in a patient's electronic medical record. The interactive organ diagram includes a graphical depiction of an organ with data entry elements that allow for the entry of data directly within the graphical depiction of the organ. After a pathologist or other clinician enters data directly within the graphical depiction of the organ, data from the interactive organ diagram may be stored in the patient's electronic medical record. | 05-17-2012 |
20120116800 | CLINICAL COLLABORATION USING AN ONLINE NETWORKING SYSTEM - Methods are provided for sharing patient information by way of an online collaboration system. A requesting clinician, through an online networking system, identifies one or more clinicians with whom the requesting clinician wishes to collaborate by sending at least one patient-focused clinical data element. For the clinicians who have been identified as not being authorized to access patient-identifying data, the at least one patient-focused clinical data element is de-identified such that it no longer includes any patient-identifying data. The de-identified patient-focused clinical data element is then communicated to the clinicians not allowed access to the patient-identifying information. | 05-10-2012 |
20120109685 | LINKING HEALTH RECORDS - Methods, systems, and computer storage media are provided for linking health records. A patient document may be received from a provider and confirmed by a patient to be linked to their health record. To confirm a document, a connection between a provider and a health record is established. Once the connection is initially established between the provider and the health record, subsequent patient documents received from the approved provider may be automatically linked to the health record. Connections may be established with multiple providers such that a single health record includes patient documents for multiple patient encounters with different providers. | 05-03-2012 |
20120095781 | COMPUTERIZED METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR INFERRING GENETIC FINDINGS FOR A PATIENT - A method and system in a computing environment for preventing atypical clinical events associated with clinical agent administration to a person is provided. Clinical agent information is received. A data structure is accessed to determine if genetic findings are known to be associated with atypical events for the clinical agent. An electronic medical record is accessed to determine if a person has a stored genetic test result value for the genetic finding. Upon determining that the person does not have a stored genetic test result value, a population genetics inference based solely on demographic information is calculated indicating a likelihood the person has the genetic finding. An output is generated that includes a risk associated with atypical events for the clinical agent; the risk is based solely on the population genetics inference. | 04-19-2012 |
20120095780 | ASSESSING CONSISTENCY OF A PATIENT'S CONTINUITY-OF-CARE RECORDS - Methods, systems, and computer storage media are provided for monitoring of the internal consistency and reliability of health information about a patient that is generated by a plurality of respondents and exchanged between more than two users of systems that store and maintain such health information. | 04-19-2012 |
20120095300 | PREDICTING NEAR-TERM DETERIORATION OF HOSPITAL PATIENTS - Methods, systems, and computer storage media are provided for predicting a probability of acute deterioration for a specific patient. Various discrete measurements are taken regarding the patient's current health. Those measurements are used to determine a PPOD score, which is displayed for clinicians. | 04-19-2012 |
20120089421 | MULTI-SITE CLINICAL DECISION SUPPORT FOR SEPSIS - Methods are provided for the surveillance and monitoring of a patient's medical care when the patient is treated at two or more medical organizations having different medical record systems. Patient information is received from a first medical organization and populated into an active risk assessment array that monitors the patient's risk for developing Sepsis. Patient information is then received from a second medical organization and populated into the array. It is determined that actionable criteria have been met, and in response, a notification or alert is sent to the medical organizations indicating that the patient is at risk for developing Sepsis. | 04-12-2012 |
20120089420 | MULTI-SITE CLINICAL DECISION SUPPORT - Methods are provided for the surveillance and monitoring of a patient's medical care when the patient is treated at two or more medical organizations having different medical record systems. Patient information is received from a first medical organization and populated into an active risk assessment array that monitors the patient's risk for developing a particular disease or condition. Patient information is then received from a second medical organization and populated into the array. It is determined that actionable criteria have been met, and in response, a notification or alert is sent to the medical organizations indicating that the patient is at risk. | 04-12-2012 |
20120046965 | READMISSION RISK ASSESMENT - Readmission risk of patients admitted to a healthcare facility are determined using a generic readmission risk algorithm. The readmission risk assessment of patients may be based on portions of a patient's profile and may be performed before, during, and after their index admission. Based on the readmission risk assessment of patients, those patients that are at a greater risk for readmission may be identified. A readmission prevention worklist may be provide that identifies those patients and facilitates managing the risk of readmission for those patients. | 02-23-2012 |
20120041774 | PATIENT-SPECIFIC CLINICAL DECISION SUPPORT - Patient-specific clinical decision support is provided. When drug information is received, its relevance is determined based on received clinical information. If the drug information is relevant, an alert is communicated to the clinician. The alert may be a warning or may direct the clinician to perform an action related to patient care. A user interface is generated using the received drug and clinical information. A clinician may interact with the user interface by acknowledging or responding to various alerts. Clinical decision support is provided based on the relevancy of the drug information to the patient's clinical situation. | 02-16-2012 |
20120016686 | INPATIENT BLOOD MANAGEMENT - Methods, systems, and computer storage media are provided for enabling management of a patient's blood when the patient has been admitted to a healthcare facility but does not have a scheduled procedure. A patient who is admitted to the healthcare facility is identified and based on the patient's red blood cell measurements, it is determined that the patient is anemic. It is determined that the patient requires blood treatment based on these red blood cell measurements. Blood treatment instructions are determined by way of algorithms, and these instructions are displayed in the patient's electronic medical record such that a clinician can determine, based on the recommended instructions, which interventions to administer to the patient. | 01-19-2012 |
20120016685 | BLOOD MANAGEMENT FOR OUTPATIENT PROCEDURES - Methods, systems, and computer storage media are provided for enabling management of a patient's blood when the patient has a scheduled elective procedure. Blood test results are received for the patient and are recorded in the patient's electronic medical record (EMR). It is determined that the elective procedure is associated with a high risk of blood loss. Based on the blood test results, it is determined that the patient requires blood treatment prior to the elective procedure. Blood treatment instructions are automatically determined and are displayed on the patient's EMR such that the clinician associated with the patient can review the instructions and determine if the patient will receive any or all of the recommended blood treatment prior to the elective procedure. | 01-19-2012 |
20120010905 | ADJUDICATING AND REIMBURSING CARE PROVIDERS - A method for adjudicating and reimbursing a care provider for services provided for a clinical event is provided. The method includes referencing a transaction including a number of clinical event details electronically documented by a care provider at a point of care for a clinical event for which reimbursement is sought. A first knowledge base comprising a number of quality criterion for assessing quality of health care provided to patients is accessed. Quality criterion are selected based on the clinical event details, and an analysis of the clinical event details against the selected quality criterion is performed to determine the quality of health care provided to a patient. A level of reimbursement is determined based on the quality of health care provided to the patient using electronic health record data elements associated with the patient and using corresponding clinical event details electronically documented by the care provider at the point of care for the clinical event for which reimbursement is sought. The provider is reimbursed in real-time. | 01-12-2012 |
20110313788 | READMISSION RISK ASSESMENT - A readmission risk prediction model is generated and used for identifying patients having elevated risk of readmission and determining inpatient treatment and outpatient activities based on readmission risk. Readmission risk prediction models may be generated for a variety of different clinical conditions using logistic regression techniques. When a patient is admitted to a hospital, the patient's condition is identified and a corresponding readmission risk prediction model is employed to identify the patient's risk of readmission. The readmission risk may be presented to a clinician and employed to recommend interventions intended to treat the patient and reduce the probability of readmission for the patient. The patient's readmission risk may also be calculated after the patient has been discharged and used for planning outpatient activities for the patient. | 12-22-2011 |
20110258008 | BUSINESS PROCESS MODEL DESIGN MEASUREMENT - Systems and methods are provided for aiding in the development of Business Process Model (BPM) design. A BPM Design is created by a design editor, and contains model data that describes the design. The design is stored in a datastore. Sets of measurements are derived from the model data that express measures such as complexity, maintainability, or productivity of the design. A measurement calculator derives sets of measurements based on model data from designs. A design planner accesses the datastore and makes use of measurements as an aid to BPM Design. A display generator receives measurements and processes them so that they may be displayed to a user and readily interpreted as an aid to BPM Design, development, or management. | 10-20-2011 |
20110238443 | COMPUTERIZED METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR INFERRING GENETIC FINDINGS FOR A PATIENT - A method and system in a computing environment for inferring genetic findings for a patient is provided. The method includes receiving a request for genetic findings for a person from another application or a user. The method further includes inquiring as to whether the person has the genetic findings. If not, the method automatically provides inferred genetic findings for the person. The inferred genetic findings are calculated using genetic findings for family members of the patient, linkage analysis, haplotype analysis, semantic test results for the person and/or population genetics information. | 09-29-2011 |
20110225003 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ORCHESTRATING CLINICAL COLLABORATION SESSIONS - A system and associated methods for orchestrating a collaboration session are disclosed. One method involves orchestrating a collaboration session between a requesting clinician and another clinician where information is exchanged electronically. According to the method, requests for collaboration sessions are received by a computer system from the requesting clinician, with a given request related to a piece of patient-focused clinical data. Each request is analyzed to build a roster of potentially available clinicians for collaboration. A collaboration session is then facilitated between the requesting clinician and one or more of the potentially available clinicians on the roster. | 09-15-2011 |
20110190650 | Computerized Systems and Methods for Stability-Theoretic Prediction and Prevention of Sudden Cardiac Death - Systems, methods and computer-readable media are provided for automatic identification of patients according to near-term risk of ventricular arrhythmias and sudden cardiac death (SCD). Embodiments of the invention are directed to event prediction, risk stratification, and optimization of the assessment, communication, and decision-making to prevent SCD, and in one embodiment take the form of a platform for wearable, mobile, unteathered monitoring devices with embedded decision support. Thus embodiments relate to automatically identifying persons at risk for arrhythmias and SCD through the use of noninvasive, portable, wearable electronic device and sensors equipped with signal-processing software and statistical predictive algorithms that calculate stability-theoretic measures derived from the digital electrocardiogram timeseries acquired by the device. The measurements and predictive algorithms embedded within the device provide for unsupervised use in the home or in general acute-care and chronic-care venues and afford a degree of robustness against variations in individual anatomy and sensor placement. | 08-04-2011 |
20110190593 | Computerized Systems and Methods for Stability-Theoretic Prediction and Prevention of Falls - A system, methods and computer-readable media are provided for the automatic identification of patients according to near-term risk of sudden kinematic injury (falling). Embodiments of the invention are directed to event prediction, risk stratification, and optimization of the assessment, communication, and decision-making to prevent falling in humans, and in one embodiment take the form of a platform for wearable, mobile, unteathered monitoring devices with embedded decision support. Thus the aim of embodiments of the present invention relates to automatically identifying persons who are at risk for falls through the use of an inexpensive, noninvasive, portable, wearable electronic device and sensors equipped with signal-processing software and statistical predictive algorithms that calculate stability-theoretic measures derived from the digital accelerometer and gyroscope timeseries acquired by the device. The measurements and predictive algorithms embedded within the device provide for unsupervised use in the home or in general acute-care and chronic-care venues and afford a degree of robustness against variations in individual anatomy and sensor placement. In some embodiments, the present invention provides a leading indicator of near-term future abnormalities, proactively alerting the user, for example, 2 hours or more in advance, and providing the wearer and/or care providers with sufficient advance notice to enable effective preventive maneuvers to be undertaken. In one exemplary embodiment, the device is equipped with radiofrequency telecommunication capabilities that enable integration with case-management software, electronic health record decision-support systems, and consumer personal health record systems. | 08-04-2011 |
20110179063 | DOCUMENTING AND PRESENTING MUTATION OBSERVATIONS - A method and system in a computing environment for documenting mutation observations is provided. The method includes receiving mutation information, disassembling the mutation information into discrete elements and storing the discrete elements A method and system for presenting mutations is also provided. The method includes obtaining discrete elements for a mutation, obtaining a standard for presenting the mutation and assembling the mutation presentation utilizing the discrete elements and the standard of presentation. | 07-21-2011 |
20110173704 | EFFECTUATING CLINICAL ORDERS UPON RECEIPT OF AUTHORIZATION FROM TWO PRIVILEGED CLINICIANS - Computerized methods and systems methods and systems in a clinical computing environment for effectuating clinical orders only upon receipt of an authorization from at least two privileged clinicians, i.e., two clinicians having appropriate ordering privileges, are provided. Upon receipt of an order from a privileged clinician that requires authorization by at least two privileged clinicians, such order is assigned a non-effectuated status until such time as the required review by one or more other privileged clinicians is completed. While in the non-effectuated status, the order is not exposed to clinicians or others that do not have appropriate ordering privileges to prescribe and/or authorize the order. | 07-14-2011 |
20110173261 | USING USER-ATTRIBUTE ONTOLOGIES TO CALCULATE USER-ANONYMITY DEGREES - Computerized methods and systems for using user-attribute ontologies to calculate anonymity levels are provided. A semi-automated mechanism permits selective and optionally progressive exposure of demographic and clinical information to other members of a medical social network group that a member has joined. When a user decides to join a medical social network group (which may be based upon system suggestion or initiated of the user's own accord), he or she selects or creates a profile that has a statistically validated degree of anonymity, ranging from fully anonymous to fully transparent. Based upon a user's elected level of exposure, only certain data is exposed to the rest of the group's membership. Thus, the user is permitted to personally balance the tension between exposing a level of information that may render him or her personally identifiable and exposing enough information to obtain meaningful advice and/or camaraderie. | 07-14-2011 |
20110173029 | RECURRING TIME ZERO - Computerized methods and systems in a clinical computing environment are provided for methods and systems in a clinical computing environment for collectively ordering recurring orders. Each treatment period (that is, each instance of a recurring order or group of orders) is permitted to be activated independently even though the ordering activity for the treatment schedule takes place only once. Relationships between orders within a recurring group or phase, as well as relationships between different instances of the group or phase (e.g., between treatment periods included in a treatment schedule wherein the same group of orders is to be executed on two different days) are established utilizing time offsets. Each time that a treatment period is activated, a new time zero is established and future administration times are calculated utilizing the time offsets with respect to the new time zero. Additionally, each time that a treatment period is activated and a new time zero is established, future treatment periods included in the treatment schedule are scheduled for future initiation based upon the time offsets. | 07-14-2011 |
20110166874 | SCREENING INTEREST MANAGER - Methods, systems, and computer storage media are provided for managing the availability of health record data of a pool of individuals by use of default rules and authorizations. | 07-07-2011 |
20110166873 | PATIENT-SPECIFIC RESEARCH CONSENT MANAGER - Methods, systems, and computer storage media are provided for managing patient-specific research consents. In embodiments, the present invention gives health care providers the ability to view a participant's up to date consent information and documentation within their clinical workflow. | 07-07-2011 |
20110161857 | Graphic for Displaying Multiple Assessments of Critical Care Performance - Systems and methods for rendering a graphic that describes multiple dimensions of performance for a subject intensive care unit (ICU) over a predefined period of time are provided. One method involves measuring the performance of the subject ICU against various metrics and displaying the measured performance as a graphic constructed of data strips placed adjacent to a 2-dimensional plot. The lengths of the data strips visually represent a percentage of patients that did not receive active treatment in the subject ICU, a rate of readmission to an ICU, and a median of the acute physiological scores (APS's) extracted from patients admitted to the subject ICU, respectively. The 2-dimensional plot includes an X-axis that represents a ratio of a hospital predicted mortality rate value over the measured mortality rate, while a Y-axis represents a difference between a predicted mean length of stay value and the measured mean length of stay value. | 06-30-2011 |
20110161239 | PROVIDING EMERGENCY PLANS FOR A FACILITY - Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for generating emergency plans for a facility are provided. In embodiments, an emergency plan is generated for a designated area of a facility. An alert is received that includes an alert type. The alert type is identified and a plurality of emergency plans associated with the alert type are provided. The plurality of emergency plans includes a primary emergency plan and an alternate emergency plan. A determination is made whether any factors that affect the primary emergency plan are present. If no factors that affect the primary emergency plan are present, the primary emergency plan is displayed to a user. If factors that affect the primary emergency plan are present, the alternate emergency plan is displayed to the user. | 06-30-2011 |
20110161207 | Biological Reagent Catalog - Embodiments relate to providing one or more recommended biological reagents in response to receiving a biological reagent order. An exemplary embodiment includes identifying biological reagents based on a biological reagent order that has been received. Characteristic data of the identified biological reagents may then be evaluated to identify a characteristic conflict among the identified biological reagents. Similarly, inventory data of the identified biological reagents may then be evaluated to identify an inventory conflict among the identified biological reagents. If a conflict, either characteristic or inventory, is identified, a recommendation for an alternative biological reagent may be provided that is free from conflict. Additionally, historical use data may be maintained and referenced to aid in identifying a biological reagent as either a potential biological reagent based on a suspected biological condition or as a substitute biological reagent. | 06-30-2011 |
20110145012 | GENERATING A HEALTHCARE TIMELINE - Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for generating healthcare timelines are provided. In embodiments, healthcare timelines are generated based on a clinical condition identified for a patient and a patient care plan associated with the clinical condition. Evidence-based best practice standards are evaluated to generate the healthcare timeline as well as a patient history that may affect the healthcare timeline and best practice standards that are appropriate for the patient. The healthcare timeline includes an onset time of the clinical condition, one or more tasks to complete for the clinical condition, and a timer that illustrates an amount of time remaining to complete the one or more tasks before expiration of the timer and administration of a critical treatment. | 06-16-2011 |
20110119612 | INTEGRATING ACTION BOXES FOR INFUSION MANAGEMENT - Methods, computer systems and computer readable media for receiving data from infusion pumps in a healthcare setting and displaying the data on a user device are provided. Centralized clinician views are provided to enable clinician to provide additional information for infusion data within selected time ranges. Embodiments provide near real-time graphical displays of infusion data to clinicians on separate user devices. In addition, near real-time graphical displays of patient physiologic data is displayed simultaneously to a clinician along with the infusion data. | 05-19-2011 |
20110106565 | Proximity-Based Task Lists - Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for providing proximity-based task lists to clinicians are provided. In embodiments, a task is identified as well as a clinician that is near a location associated with the task. In addition to identifying clinicians that are near the location associated with the task, clinicians authorized to complete the task and available to complete the task are identified. If all criteria are met, a clinician may be assigned to the task and notified of the task. Additionally, a task may be reassigned to a different clinician should any of the criteria fail to be satisfied at any point. | 05-05-2011 |
20110106561 | LOCATION-BASED MANAGEMENT OF HEALTHCARE ENVIRONMENTS - Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for managing healthcare environments are provided. In embodiments, a real-time status of a clinical device, along with a location, is received. The location of the clinical device is obtained via a clinical device identifier that is tracked by a plurality of sensors in a healthcare environment. A clinical device may be identified as inappropriate for use and an alert presented to a clinician including the problem of the clinical device and the location thereof. A replacement clinical device may be located, using clinical identifiers, and presented to the clinician. Such monitoring and location awareness facilitates efficient responses to healthcare situations. | 05-05-2011 |
20110106560 | PROVIDING CLINICAL INFORMATION TO CLINICIANS - Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for providing clinical information to clinicians are provided. In embodiments, a patient's electronic health record is accessed to identify that a first clinician has requested a consult with a second clinician. Each clinician is associated with a clinician identifier that is identified by a plurality of sensors. A location for both the first and second clinician is received from the plurality of sensors. A determination is made whether the first and second clinicians are near one another. Upon determining that the first and second clinicians are near one another, a notification is presented to the first clinician. Such tracking of clinician location helps avoid missed opportunities and provides efficient communication among clinicians. | 05-05-2011 |
20110106559 | OPTIMIZATION OF A CLINICAL EXPERIENCE - Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for optimizing a clinical experience are provided. Individuals may be approved by a patient to receive notifications of clinical events. The notifications may be accessed from the patient's electronic health record. In embodiments, a location of a clinician associated with a patient and a location of the patient are received. A determination whether the clinician is near the patient is made. Upon determining that the clinician is near the patient, a notification is sent to a non-present party (e.g., a family member) via a mobile device. Such notifications include individuals in the clinical process and avoid missed opportunities for interactions with clinicians. | 05-05-2011 |
20110106558 | INFECTION CONTROL SOLUTION - Described herein are embodiments directed to electronically managing infections in healthcare facilities. A treating infection preventionist (“IP”) uses a remote computer to access patients assigned to the IP. A server analyzes healthcare data associated with patients and groups the patients into different infection control categories (“IC categories”) for treatment or further monitoring. The IP can view assigned patients by their IC categories, receive alerts for potentially dangerous conditions in patients, and access real-time patient records from a remote computer. | 05-05-2011 |
20110099034 | COMPUTERIZED METHODS FOR DISPLAYING CLINICALLY-RELATED IN-PATIENT INFORMATION - Methods for use in, e.g., in-patient care computing environment, for displaying clinically-related in-patient information on at least one patient-viewable display device are provided. A method in accordance with one embodiment of the present invention may include receiving a clinical order associated with an in-patient, automatically generating one or more tasks based on the clinical order received, and automatically displaying the task(s) on the patient-viewable display device. If desired, the method may additionally include associating the clinical order and the task(s) with an electronic record associated with the in-patient (e.g., an electronic medical record), and accessing the electronic record to obtain the one or more tasks for display on the patient-viewable display device. | 04-28-2011 |
20110099030 | DEFINING PRIVILEGES IN ASSOCIATION WITH THE AUTOMATED CONFIGURATION, IMPLEMENTATION AND/OR MAINTENANCE OF A HEALTHCARE INFORMATION SYSTEM - Systems, methods and computer-readable media having computer-executable instructions embodied thereon, for automated configuration, implementation and/or maintenance of a healthcare information system are provided. The systems, methods and computer-readable media of embodiments described herein utilize a number of information sources prior to initiation of configuration, implementation and/or maintenance to tailor or flex the process in a manner that is facility- and/or personnel-specific, thus alleviating solicitation of unnecessary information. Such information sources may include, by way of example only, one or more of facility- and/or personnel-specific content, facility and personnel profiles, site profiles, help and knowledge assistance information, and pre-configured content options. The more information to which the system has access prior to initiation of the configuration, implementation and/or maintenance process, the more tailored the configuration, implementation and/or maintenance may be and, accordingly, the less time and effort will be required by a user. | 04-28-2011 |
20110099029 | AUTOMATED ORDER ENTRY SYSTEM AND METHOD - A computer-implemented method for facilitating placement of health care order entry is provided. The method includes receiving input indicative of a desired healthcare order. The order has certain terms therein that are normalized. The method also finds possible order matches for the normalized terms, and calculates a rough score for the possible order matches. The method refines the rough score with a rough score adjustment, and then ranks the found possible order matches from the most-likely to match the desired order to the least-likely based upon the refined rough score. These possible order matches can then be displayed to the user for selection. | 04-28-2011 |
20110078608 | INTEGRATING PROTOCOLS FOR INFUSION MANAGEMENT - Methods, computer systems and computer readable media for receiving data from infusion pumps in a healthcare setting and displaying the data on a user device are provided. Centralized clinician views are provided to manage individual patient infusions according to selected protocols. Embodiments provide near real-time graphical displays of infusion data to clinicians on separate user devices. In addition, near real-time graphical displays of patient physiologic data is displayed simultaneously to a clinician along with the infusion data. | 03-31-2011 |
20110077968 | GRAPHICALLY REPRESENTING PHYSIOLOGY COMPONENTS OF AN ACUTE PHYSIOLOGICAL SCORE (APS) - Systems and methods for rendering a graphical object that visually represents those physiological components that account for a patient's acute physiology are provided. The method includes performing an acute physiology score (APS) calculation using diagnostic parameters to realize points associated therewith. The diagnostic parameters individually provide a measure of the patient's complete acute physiology. These points are combined to generate body-system scores that are values associated with each of the physiological components, respectively. Typically, the physiological components are predefined in number and each correspond with a respective body system. The method further includes the step of generating a graphical object that visually represents the body-system scores in an intuitive format, such as a pie graph. The graphical object is then rendered on a display device, and is presented in a bed gadget associated with a particular patient staying in the ICU. | 03-31-2011 |
20110077965 | PROCESSING EVENT INFORMATION OF VARIOUS SOURCES - An embodiment of the present invention is directed to providing event information that is received from various sources in a healthcare environment. The information that is received from the various sources is converted to a standardized format and is filtered according to various criteria (e.g., source device, recipient component, event type, source location, etc.). After filtering, the information is compared to a rules engine to determine whether additional processing or routing is appropriate. | 03-31-2011 |
20110077954 | THERAPY RECONCILIATION FOR VENUE TRANSITION - The present invention is directed to selecting a therapy designation that is usable to identify a therapy when the therapy is implemented in a treatment venue. A therapy designation is received that identifies the therapy (e.g., administration of a medication) when the therapy is administered in a first treatment venue. Alternative therapy designations are referenced that are usable to identify the therapy when the therapy is implemented in a second treatment venue. An equivalent therapy designation is selected that, based on one or more rules, is most similar to the first therapy designation. | 03-31-2011 |
20110072381 | INTEGRATING QUICK SIGN FOR INFUSION MANAGEMENT - Methods, computer systems and computer readable media for receiving data from infusion pumps in a healthcare setting and displaying the data on a user device are provided. Centralized clinician views are provided to sign multiple items of infusion data within selected time ranges. Embodiments provide near real-time graphical displays of infusion data to clinicians on separate user devices. In addition, near real-time graphical displays of patient physiologic data is displayed simultaneously to a clinician along with the infusion data. | 03-24-2011 |
20110072379 | INFUSION MANAGEMENT - Methods, computer systems and computer readable media for receiving data from infusion pumps in a healthcare setting and displaying the data on a user device are provided. Centralized clinician views are provided to manage individual and multiple patient infusions. Embodiments provide near real-time graphical displays of infusion data to clinicians on separate user devices. In addition, near real-time graphical displays of patient physiologic data is displayed simultaneously to a clinician along with the infusion data. | 03-24-2011 |
20110071844 | PHARMACY INFUSION MANAGEMENT - Methods, computer systems and computer readable media for receiving data from infusion pumps in a healthcare setting and displaying the data on a user device at a pharmacy location are provided. Centralized pharmacy views are provided to manage individual and multiple patient infusions. Embodiments provide near real-time graphical displays of infusion data to pharmacies on separate user devices and allow for entry and communication of dispensing status of replacement fluids for patient infusions. | 03-24-2011 |
20110071414 | ELECTRONIC FETAL MONITORING APPLICATIONS AND DISPLAY - Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for managing healthcare environments are provided. In embodiments, a first waveform tracing for data received from one or more medical devices for a first individual is displayed. A second waveform tracing for data received from one or more medical devices for a second individual is displayed. In response to the determination to hide the first waveform tracing, only displaying the second waveform tracing. | 03-24-2011 |
20110054936 | PATIENT INTERACTIVE HEALING ENVIRONMENT - Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for providing an interactive healing environment to a patient are provided. Servers in a network may operate a set of modules to communicate with a client device of the patient. The set of modules may operate to enhance communication between the patient and the healthcare providers of patient in the healthcare facility. The modules may also interact with medical devices associated with the patient. The medical devices may be connected to a component, such as a bus, that receives data from the medical devices and determines where the data should be sent. | 03-03-2011 |
20110047176 | CENTRALIZED DATA MAPPING FOR SITE-SPECIFIC DATA EXTRACTION - Methods, systems, and computer storage media are provided for tuning extraction scripts to extract particular summary data from site systems. Categories of summary data are determined based on the summary data desired to be retrieved. Site-specific codes that correspond to the categories are received and are mapped to standard codes to provide a common nomenclature. Extraction scripts are tuned and are executed by a site system to query for summary data. The extraction scripts identify the site-specific codes associated with the summary data to be retrieved. Summary data is received in response to the execution of the extraction scripts, and the data is formatted for presentation. | 02-24-2011 |
20110046975 | DYNAMICALLY ADJUSTED RULES-BASED DECISION SUPPORT USING SITE-SPECIFIC MAPPED VALUES - Methods, systems, and computer storage media are provided for determining and communicating dynamic threshold values to a particular site system. Upon initiation of one or more rules, a request is received for one or more dynamic threshold values, which are dynamically changeable values associated with healthcare data. The dynamic threshold values are determined and are communicated. One or more rules are updated to reflect the received dynamic threshold values. The rules are used in association with patient care or healthcare data extraction. | 02-24-2011 |
20110041164 | GENETIC PROFILING AND BANKING SYSTEM AND METHOD - A method is provided for determining whether a third party is authorized to access information representative of genetic data. This information representative of genetic data is associated with a physical sample and is provided in an accessible format. A set or access rights is received that define which third parties can access the information and how the information can be used. A third party requests to access the information for the purposes of performing a test. The request is compared to the access rights. If the third party is authorized, the test is performed on the information. If, however, the third party is not authorized, access is denied. | 02-17-2011 |
20110035690 | COMPUTERIZED SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MANAGING CONSUMABLES AND ATTACHMENTS - A system method for determining whether a location on a patient's body is available for an attachment and/or consumable is provided. A patient identifier is received and the patient's electronic medical record is accessed. An interactive graphical representation of at least a portion of a human body may be displayed. A selection of a location of the patient's body from the interactive graphical human body representation may be received and it is determined whether the location is available for an attachment and/or consumable. | 02-10-2011 |
20110004529 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CREATING A VISUALIZATION INDICATING RELATIONSHIPS AND RELEVANCE TO AN ENTITY - A system and method for generating interactive visualizations of clinical relationships is provided. The method includes determining what entities have had some clinical contact with an entity of interest and collecting data regarding each entity and each entity's contacts with the entity of interest. The collected data can be filtered to remove unwanted entities and properties. Algorithms are applied to generate clinical relevance scores, which represent the relationship between the entities and the entity of interest. In addition, each entity is assigned components that allow for some executable behavior when an entity is selected in a display. Finally, the appropriate visualization is selected and a display of the relationships is generated. | 01-06-2011 |
20100324417 | MATCHING OF VIBRATORY INHALERS TO PATIENT VOCAL TRACT FOR OPTIMIZATION OF PARTICLE DISPERSION - An optimization methodology is employed to match vibratory inhaler devices having certain characteristics to the particular anatomical and acoustic properties of a patient's vocal tract, in order to achieve the most effective dispersion of a dry powder medicament using inspiratory effort of a user of the inhaler. In embodiments, optimization involves employing one or more measurements of acoustic frequency spectrum properties as well as one or more anatomical/geometric measurements of the structures comprising the particular patient's mouth, pharynx, and upper respiratory tract and matching a vibratory inhalation device that corresponds thereto. | 12-23-2010 |
20100299159 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR MANAGING INFORMED CONSENT PROCESSES - The systems and methods provide a dynamic process for obtaining and managing informed consent documentation. In general, the dynamic informed consent process (DICP) makes use of an intermediary organization, e.g., a trusted intermediary, which: (a) provides ICFs which have been dynamically generated for a specified trial or medical procedure and based on particular state or federal requirements, if any; and (b) archives copies of signed ICFs. In certain preferred embodiments, there may also be a procedure to provide training materials, such as audio or video presentations, to be viewed by prospective participants. In certain preferred embodiments, the process also includes contacting subjects who have signed ICFs in the event that there is a change of circumstance which the subject may deem material to whether s/he would continue to consent, or whether the participant needs to provide a different type of consent to participate in particular event or trial. | 11-25-2010 |
20100287006 | CLINICIAN TO DEVICE ASSOCIATION - Embodiments of the invention are directed to methods of providing data feeds from medical devices associated with patients to computing devices associated with clinicians. A computing device for each of a number of clinicians is registered as being associated with the clinician. An identification of a patient is received. A list of medical devices related to the patient is retrieved. An identification of a number of clinicians is received. The medical devices are associated with the computing devices of the clinicians. Data feeds are provided to the computing devices from the medical devices. | 11-11-2010 |
20100198611 | PERSON CENTRIC INFECTION RISK STRATIFICATION - Invoking of one or more clinical orders for a particular patient is driven by an infection risk stratification. According to an associated method, infection risk factors for a patient are assessed. The method also includes determining correlations between patient data and two or more particular categories of infection risk associated with the infection risk factors, stratifying infection risk for the patient based on the correlations determined, and determining specific clinical orders relevant for the particular patient based on the stratification. | 08-05-2010 |
20100196911 | AUTOMATED IDENTIFICATION OF GENETIC TEST RESULT DUPLICATION - The present invention relates to a method and system for determining whether an ordered genetic test will duplicate at least one existing genetic test result. The method includes receiving an ordered genetic test that is for a particular genetic sequence or variant thereof for an individual. The method further includes determining whether the individual has at least one existing genetic test result for the particular genetic sequence or variant thereof. Upon determining that the individual has at least one existing genetic test result for the particular genetic sequence or variant thereof, a notification of the existence of the at least one existing genetic test result is provided. | 08-05-2010 |