# US 2013/0218596 A1 · Method And System For Facilitating User Navigation Through A Computerized Medical Information System > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 2013/0218596 A1 - Document ID: US20130218596A1 - Status: Published application - Kind: A1 - Application number: 13/766,988 - Filed: 2013-02-14 - Published: 2013-08-22 - Earliest claimed: 2012-02-16 - Assignees: Dbmotion Ltd. - Inventors: Ziv GOME; Ziv OFEK; Robert WARTENFELD; Shiri BEN-TAL; Eyal GREENBERG - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US20130218596A1 ## CPC - G16H 70/20: relating to practices or guidelines - G06Q 10/06: Resources, workflows, human or project management; Enterprise or organisation planning; Enterprise or organisation modelling - G16H 10/60: for patient-specific data, e.g. for electronic patient records - G16H 50/20: for computer-aided diagnosis, e.g. based on medical expert systems - G16H: HEALTHCARE INFORMATICS, i.e. INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY [ICT] SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR THE HANDLING OR PROCESSING OF MEDICAL OR HEALTHCARE DATA - G06Q: INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY [ICT] SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR ADMINISTRATIVE, COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL OR SUPERVISORY PURPOSES; SYSTEMS OR METHODS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR ADMINISTRATIVE, COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL OR SUPERVISORY PURPOSES, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR ## Abstract System and method for facilitating clinician-user navigation through a computerized medical information repository including utilizing a clinically ontological hierarchy of clinical semantic elements, the system/method comprising generating an ontology of suggested data requests defined in terms of said ontological hierarchy of clinical semantic elements; and, responsive to an individual clinician-user's navigation through the medical information repository, presenting suggested data requests to the clinician-user based on pre-defined rules defined over the ontology of suggested data requests. ## Claims ### Claim 1 A method for facilitating clinician-user navigation through a computerized medical information repository including utilizing a clinically ontological hierarchy of clinical semantic elements, the method comprising: generating an ontology of suggested data requests defined in terms of said ontological hierarchy of clinical semantic elements; and Responsive to an individual clinician-user's navigation through the medical information repository, presenting suggested data requests to the clinician-user based on pre-defined rules defined over the ontology of suggested data requests. ### Claim 2 (depends on 1) A method according to claim 1 and also comprising: Responsive to an individual clinician-user's navigation through the medical information repository, thereby to define a current user location disposed within the medical information repository and pertaining to at least one individual related element within said clinically ontological hierarchy of clinical semantic elements: from among a multiplicity of suggested data requests, selecting at least one individual suggested data request which is defined in terms of an ancestor of an individual son-element within said clinically ontological hierarchy of clinical semantic elements, plugging medical information pertaining to said individual son-element into said suggested data request thereby to generate a son-specific suggested data request, and presenting the son-specific suggested data request to the clinician-user, and Responsive to a clinician-user's selection of an individual son-specific suggested data request from among those presented: presenting, to the clinician user, at least one response to said individual son-specific suggested data request. ### Claim 3 (depends on 2) A method according to claim 2 and also comprising, responsive to a clinician-user's selection of an individual son-specific suggested data request from among those presented, plugging individual medical information pertaining to an additional son-element of said ancestor into said individual suggested data request thereby to generate at least one additional son-specific suggested data request instance, and presenting the additional son-specific suggested data request instance to the clinician-user. ### Claim 4 (depends on 3) A method according to claim 3 wherein the current user location is located within an individual patient record within the computerized medical information repository and wherein the additional son-element is selected to be a son-element which is defined for said ancestor within said individual patient record. ### Claim 5 (depends on 1) A method according to claim 1 wherein, responsive to the individual clinician-user's selection of said individual suggested data request, a plurality of responses to said individual suggested data request are presented to the clinician user corresponding to a plurality of pre-defined response formats respectively. ### Claim 6 (depends on 5) A method according to claim 5 and also comprising: Receiving the individual clinician-user's selection of an individual response, from among the plurality of responses, which is formatted according to an individual response format from among the plurality of pre-defined response formats; and learning the individual clinician-user's expected response to at least one suggested data request including: upon future selection by the individual clinician-user, of a suggested data request instance of the same individual suggested data request, prioritizing presentation of a response formatted according to the individual response format previously selected by the individual clinician-user, over presentation of responses formatted according to response formats other than the individual response format previously selected by the individual clinician-user. ### Claim 7 (depends on 1) A method according to claim 1 and also comprising: Pre-generating a multiplicity of suggested data requests; and Pre-generating responses including at least one response for each of the multiplicity of suggested data requests respectively. ### Claim 8 (depends on 7) A method according to claim 7 and wherein said presenting comprises: Responsive to an individual clinician-user's navigation through the medical information repository: selecting at least one individual suggested data request from among the multiplicity of suggested data requests for presentation to the clinician user; and presenting, to the clinician user, a plurality of responses to said individual suggested data request corresponding to a plurality of pre-defined response formats respectively; Receiving the individual clinician-user's selection of an individual response, from among the plurality of responses, which is formatted according to an individual response format from among the plurality of pre-defined response formats; and learning the individual clinician-user's expected response to the at least one suggested data request including: upon future selection by the individual clinician-user, of a suggested data request instance of the same individual suggested data request, prioritizing presentation of a response formatted according to the individual response format previously selected by the individual clinician-user, over presentation of responses formatted according to response formats other than the individual response format previously selected by the individual clinician-user. ### Claim 9 (depends on 2) A method according to claim 2 and also comprising Pre-generating the multiplicity of suggested data requests. ### Claim 10 (depends on 9) A method according to claim 9 and also comprising pre-generating responses including at least one response for each of the multiplicity of suggested data requests respectively. ### Claim 11 (depends on 1) A method according to claim 1 wherein the clinically ontological hierarchy of elements includes at least one of: a SNOMED-based clinically ontological hierarchy of clinical semantic elements; a LOINC-based clinically ontological hierarchy of clinical semantic elements; an RxNorm-based clinically ontological hierarchy of clinical semantic elements; and an NDC-based clinically ontological hierarchy of clinical semantic elements. ### Claim 12 (depends on 7) A method according to claim 7 wherein said pre-generating is characterized to facilitate: responsive to an individual clinician-user's navigation through the medical information repository, thereby to define a current user location disposed within the medical information repository and pertaining to at least one individual son-element within said clinically ontological hierarchy of clinical semantic elements: Selection of at least one individual suggested data request from among the multiplicity of suggested data requests which is defined in terms of an ancestor of said son-element within said clinically ontological hierarchy of clinical semantic elements, Plugging of medical information pertaining to said individual son-element into said suggested data request thereby to generate a son-specific suggested data request, and Presentation of the son-specific suggested data request to the clinician-user. ### Claim 13 (depends on 12) A method according to claim 12 wherein said pre-generating is also characterized to facilitate, responsive to a clinician-user's selection of an individual son-specific suggested data request from among those presented: presentation, to the clinician user, at least one response to said individual son-specific suggested data request. ### Claim 14 (depends on 1) A method according to claim 1 wherein said ontology of suggested data requests is also defined so as to ontologically relate data requests pertaining to aspects of patient compliance even if the ontological hierarchy of clinical semantic elements does not ontologically relate clinical semantic elements pertaining to patient compliance. ### Claim 15 (depends on 1) A method according to claim 1 wherein said ontology of suggested data requests is also defined so as to ontologically relate data requests pertaining to aspects of patient life-style even if the ontological hierarchy of clinical semantic elements does not ontologically relate clinical semantic elements pertaining to patient life-style. ### Claim 16 A computerized system for facilitating clinician-user navigation through a computerized medical information repository including utilizing a clinically ontological hierarchy of clinical semantic elements, the system comprising: a computerized ontology of suggested data requests defined in terms of said ontological hierarchy of clinical semantic elements; and a processor operative, responsive to an individual clinician-user's navigation through the medical information repository, for presenting suggested data requests to the clinician-user based on pre-defined rules defined over the ontology of suggested data requests. ### Claim 17 A computer program product, comprising a non-transitory tangible computer readable medium having computer readable program code embodied therein, said computer readable program code adapted to be executed to implement a method for facilitating clinician-user navigation through a computerized medical information repository including utilizing a clinically ontological hierarchy of clinical semantic elements, the method comprising: generating an ontology of suggested data requests defined in terms of said ontological hierarchy of clinical semantic elements; and Responsive to an individual clinician-user's navigation through the medical information repository, presenting suggested data requests to the clinician-user based on pre-defined rules defined over the ontology of suggested data requests. ### Claim 18 (depends on 16) A system according to claim 16 wherein, responsive to the individual clinician-user's selection of said individual suggested data request, the processor is operative for presenting a plurality of responses to said individual suggested data request to the clinician user corresponding to a plurality of pre-defined response formats respectively. ### Claim 19 (depends on 16) A system according to claim 16 wherein said ontology of suggested data requests is also defined so as to ontologically relate data requests pertaining to aspects of patient compliance even if the ontological hierarchy of clinical semantic elements does not ontologically relate clinical semantic elements pertaining to patient compliance. ### Claim 20 (depends on 16) A system according to claim 16 wherein said ontology of suggested data requests is also defined so as to ontologically relate data requests pertaining to aspects of patient life-style even if the ontological hierarchy of clinical semantic elements does not ontologically relate clinical semantic elements pertaining to patient life-style.