Automatic retrospective review of electronic medical records
AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorMark Bronkalla
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Abstract
Retrospective review of electronic medical records is provided. In some embodiments, a retrospective review of a plurality of electronic medical records is performed. The retrospective review includes searching for electronic medical records relevant to a medical condition. Based on the retrospective review, a plurality of studies most relevant to a present study is determined. Each of the plurality of studies are flagged for supplemental review in a worklist.
Claims18
A method comprising:
- receiving a current study from a remote server, the current study relating to a medical condition of a patient;
- performing a retrospective review of a plurality of electronic medical records in the remote server for the patient, the retrospective review comprising applying a learning system to the plurality of electronic medical records to search for prior studies relevant to a medical condition;
- based on the retrospective review, determining a plurality of prior studies from the plurality of electronic medical records relevant to the current study;
- determining measurements of the medical condition in each of the plurality of prior studies and the current study, wherein determining comprises retrieving the measurements from a Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine (DICOM) structured report;
- determining a trend in the measurements;
- flagging the plurality of prior studies illustrating the trend;
- inserting the trend from the flagged plurality of prior studies into a current report;
- linking the inserted trend to one or more images within the flagged plurality of prior studies via a link;
- loading each of the plurality of prior studies from the remote server into a picture archiving and communications system (PACS) worklist for supplemental review;
- receiving, from a user, a selection of the link within the current report;
- and
- navigating from the report to the one or more images.
A computer program product for retrospective review of electronic medical records, the computer program product comprising a computer readable storage medium having program instructions embodied therewith, the program instructions executable by a processor to cause the processor to perform a method comprising:
- receiving a current study from a remote server, the current study relating to a medical condition of a patient;
- performing a retrospective review of a plurality of electronic medical records in the remote server for the patient, the retrospective review comprising applying a learning system to the plurality of electronic medical records to search for prior studies relevant to the medical condition;
- based on the retrospective review, determining a plurality of prior studies from the plurality of electronic medical records relevant to the current study;
- determining measurements of the medical condition in each of the plurality of prior studies and the current study, wherein determining comprises retrieving the measurements from a Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine (DICOM) structured report;
- determining a trend in the measurements;
- flagging the plurality of prior studies illustrating the trend;
- inserting the trend from the flagged plurality of prior studies into a current report;
- linking the inserted trend to one or more images within the flagged plurality of prior studies via a link;
- loading each of the plurality of prior studies from the remote server into a picture archiving and communications system (PACS) worklist for supplemental review;
- receiving, from a user, a selection of the link within the current report;
- and
- navigating from the report to the one or more images.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.