System and method for facilitating clinical care
OwnerEric S. Paulinventor
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Abstract
A system and method for facilitating a clinical intervention involving a healthcare provider and a patient is disclosed. A window enables healthcare personnel to access a plurality of reference codes for documenting the clinical intervention. Each of the plurality of reference codes are pre-defined by a healthcare facility and include at least one parameter. Healthcare personnel document the clinical intervention by selecting among the pre-defined parameters to characterize the clinical intervention.
Claims9
A system for documenting a clinical intervention involving a healthcare provider and a patient comprising:
- a memory for storing a documented clinical intervention.
- a window enabling access to a plurality of reference codes for documenting the clinical intervention, each of the plurality of reference codes being stored within the system and include at least one pre-defined parameter, the plurality of reference codes including:
- problem, severity, recommendation, outcome, and status;
- the problem reference code comprising a list of clinical intervention problem descriptions;
- the severity reference code comprising a table of clinical intervention severity descriptions.
- the recommendation reference code comprising a table of clinical intervention recommendation descriptions;
- the outcome reference code comprising a table of clinical intervention outcome descriptions;
- and,
- the status reference code comprising a table of clinical intervention status descriptions;
- wherein the healthcare provider selects among the pre-defined parameters to characterize the clinical intervention.
A method of documenting a clinical intervention involving a healthcare provider and a patient, the method comprising the steps of:
- defining a list of reference codes;
- storing the list of reference codes;
- displaying the list of reference codes on a screen;
- enabling the reference codes to be selected for inclusion during clinical intervention documentation;
- and,
- storing the documented clinical intervention.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.