Optimizing data flow and display in an electronic medical record (EMR) system

A computer-implemented method for improving a physician's workflow by optimizing a physician's access to data of patients during visits of the patients to a medical facility, comprising:

• an electronic medical record (EMR) processor implementing a Health Value Analytics (HVA) component;
• the EMR processor receiving inputs from EMR/HVA access devices, and in response to the received inputs:
• creating value baselines, the value baselines comprising health metric values for approved medical treatment plans for patient visits to the medical facility,
• generating a health care value continuum based on a visit of a first patient to the medical facility, the first patient visit denoted by a unique Visit ID, and
• generating a running comparison of the health care value continuum to a value baseline based on the unique Visit ID, the value baselines, value continuum, and comparison each comprising one or more HVA data objects;
• detecting a location, on a display screen of the EMR/HVA access device, of an EMR record for the first patient;
• providing the comparison in an HVA page for display on the display screen of the EMR/HVA access device in a location adjacent to the displayed EMR record for the first patient without overlapping the EMR record;
• detecting replacement on the display screen of the EMR record for the first patient with an EMR record for a second patient;
• and
• in response to the replacement, automatically and autonomously discontinuing display of the HVA page.

A computer-implemented method for optimizing a physician's workflow during execution of a medical treatment plan for a patient at a medical facility, comprising:

• a processor entering information of the patient into an electronic medical records (EMR) system of the medical facility;
• assigning the patient a diagnosis;
• recording the medical treatment plan;
• generating a portal for accessing and displaying the medical treatment plan;
• accessing and using historical data, generating a value baseline for approved medical treatments of medical conditions addressed by the medical treatment plan;
• generating one or more HVA data objects that provide a running comparison of the medical treatment plan and the value baseline;
• and
• providing the HVA data objects for display through the portal onto an EMR/HVA access device, comprising:
• detecting a location of an EMR page on a display screen of the physician's computing device;
• detecting an activity related to medical treatment of the patient;
• receiving HVA page data and the HVA data objects for the patient;
• displaying and maintaining displayed the HVA data objects on the HVA page adjacent to the EMR page during display of the electronic medical record of the patient;
• detecting a navigation away event consisting of a request to display a second electronic medical record for a second patient;
• and
• automatically discontinuing display of the HVA data objects for the patient and the HVA page upon discontinuance of displaying the electronic medical record of the patient and displaying the second electronic medical record for the second patient.