Electronic health record system with nursing records
OwnerLuann Whittenburg, Peter S. Goltrainventors
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Abstract
An electronic health records system stores medical data and nursing data. The medical data is associated with a physician's findings for an encounter with a patient. The nursing data is associated with nursing care provided to the patient. The electronic health records system generates separate or linked physician and nurse interfaces that can be used to enter and review the medical and nursing data as desired. The electronic health records system also manages nurse scheduling.
Claims24
A system comprising:
- a data store encoded on at least one memory device, the data store comprising:
- medical terminology including medical terms;
- nursing terminology including nursing terms;
- relationship data defining hierarchical relationships between the nursing terms, and further defining relationships between at least some of the nursing terms and at least some of the medical terms;
- and
- at least one medical record associated with a patient, the medical record including medical terms from the medical terminology that identify at least one medical finding for the patient;
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- a computing device in data communication with the data store, wherein the computing device is programmed to retrieve the at least one medical finding from the medical record and to automatically identify at least one nursing term from the nursing terminology associated with the medical finding.
A method of generating a user interface for use in providing nursing care to a patient, the method comprising:
- automatically identifying, with a computing device, a category of nursing care based on at least one element of a patient's medical record;
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- generating a user interface including a nursing order associated with the category of nursing care, the nursing order defining at least one nursing order protocol to be performed by at least one nurse to care for a patient.
A method of displaying health information associated with a patient, the method comprising:
- generating data defining a user interface with a computing device, the user interface including a physician window and a nursing window, the physician window configured to display medical data associated with a patient, and the nursing window configured to display nursing data associated with the patient, wherein the physician window and the nursing window are synchronized such that the medical data displayed in the physician window is associated with the nursing data displayed in the nursing window.
A system comprising:
- a data store encoded on at least one memory device, the data store comprising nurse schedule data, wherein the nurse schedule data identifies procedures to be performed by nurses and an estimated time required to perform each procedure;
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- a computing device in data communication with the data store, wherein the computing device is programmed to retrieve the nurse scheduling data and to generate a report displaying a workload for one or more nurses utilizing the nurse scheduling data.
A method of evaluating a nurse staffing level, the method comprising:
- determining a set of procedures to be performed by one or more nurses over a period of time;
- computing, with a computing device, a scheduled nurse time, wherein the scheduled nurse time is an estimated duration of time required to complete the set of procedures;
- computing an available nurse time, wherein the available nurse time is a combined duration of time that the one or more nurses are expected to work over the period of time;
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- comparing the scheduled nurse time to the available nurse time.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.