Right patient situational awareness system
AssigneeCerner Innovation, Inc.
InventorsKAREN RAMSEY, KRISTINE MARIE NESSA
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Abstract
Methods, computer systems, and computer storage media are provided for notifying a clinician that he or she may be accessing incorrect health information. Based on inputs received from a plurality of healthcare systems, a determination is made that health information being accessed is incorrect because it fails to include patient-identifying information for a particular patient, or it fails to include a patient encounter code associated with a particular ongoing patient encounter. Upon determining that the health information is incorrect, a notification is communicated to the clinician accessing the incorrect health information.
Claims20
One or more computer storage media having computer-executable instructions embodied thereon that, when executed, perform a method of determining that correct health information is being accessed for a patient, the method comprising:
- receiving one or more inputs indicating a location associated with a first patient;
- receiving one or more inputs indicating that one or more clinicians are at the location associated with the first patient;
- receiving an indication that at least one clinician of the one or more clinicians is accessing an electronic medical record (EMR) associated with a second patient;
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- communicating a notification to the at least the one clinician, wherein the notification comprises an indication that the at least one clinician is accessing the EMR associated with the second patient.
One or more computer storage media having computer-executable instructions embodied thereon that, when executed, perform a method of determining that correct health information is being accessed during a patient encounter, the method comprising:
- receiving one or more inputs indicating a location associated with a first patient during a first patient encounter;
- receiving one or more inputs indicating that one or more clinicians are at the location associated with the first patient;
- receiving an indication that at least one clinician of the one or more clinicians is accessing at least a portion of an electronic medical record (EMR) associated with the first patient;
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- determining whether the at least the portion of the EMR accessed by the at least one clinician corresponds to the first patient encounter, wherein:
- (A) if the at least the portion of the EMR corresponds to the first patient encounter, not taking any further action, and wherein
- (B) if the at least the portion of the EMR fails to correspond to the first patient encounter, communicating a notification to the at least one clinician.
One or more computer storage media having computer-executable instructions embodied thereon that, when executed by one or more computing devices, perform a method of determining that correct health information is being accessed during a patient encounter, the method comprising:
- receiving an indication of an ongoing first patient encounter associated with a first patient;
- receiving an indication that one or more clinicians are assigned to care for the first patient;
- receiving an indication that at least one clinician of the one or more clinicians is accessing at least a portion of an electronic medical record (EMR) associated with the first patient;
- determining that the at least the portion of the EMR corresponds to a second patient encounter;
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- communicating to the at least one clinician a notification that the at least the portion of the EMR corresponds to the second patient encounter.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.