Healthcare practice management systems and methods
AssigneeBreg, Inc.
InventorSteven Robert Romeo
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Abstract
Healthcare practice management systems and methods can be provided for managing the data flow and operation of healthcare practices. One or more applications running on client devices can be provided to facilitate the sharing of information between data storage repositories and the healthcare practice. For example, data stored in multiple different data storage systems can be retrieved and provided to the applications in a unified fashion. Likewise, data in different formats, data stored with different encryption protocols and otherwise disparate data types can be gathered, translated, and presented to the applications in a form and format readable by the application.
Claims27
A non-transitory computer readable medium comprising executable instructions, the executable instructions being executable by a processor in a hand-held computing device to perform a method, the method comprising:
- receiving a set of records, the records comprising patient identification for a plurality of patients scheduled for to visit a healthcare practice;
- building a schedule, the schedule showing the patient identifications for the plurality of patients scheduled and an appointment time corresponding to each patient;
- displaying the schedule on the hand-held computing device, wherein the schedule is sorted based on a sort order;
- accepting a first user input from a health care practitioner, the first user input selecting a patient or a selected patient's corresponding appointment, and providing to the health care practitioner additional information corresponding to the selected patient, wherein the additional information comprises a health record of the selected patient;
- accepting a second user input from a health care practitioner, the second user input entering treatment information, the treatment information comprising information pertaining to an examination of the selected patient by the health care practitioner;
- accepting a third user input from a health care practitioner, the third user input entering prescription information for the selected patient;
- updating the records for the selected patient, the updates comprising the treatment information and the prescription information entered by a health care professional;
- accepting fourth user input confirming fulfillment of the prescription;
- and
- sending the updated records to update a central file repository.
A non-transitory computer readable medium comprising executable instructions, the executable instructions being executable by a processor in a client computing device to perform a method, the method comprising:
- receiving a set of records, the set of records comprising patient identification for a plurality of patients scheduled for appointments at a healthcare facility in a time window;
- displaying a schedule on a display of the hand-held computing device, the displayed schedule including a listing of entries for a subset of the appointments scheduled at the healthcare facility in the time window;
- linking a schedule entry for a first appointment to a subset of the set of records that corresponds to a patient associated with the first appointment;
- displaying the subset of records to a healthcare practitioner in response to a request from the healthcare practitioner for that subset of records;
- and
- accepting from the healthcare practitioner an order for a prescribed item for the patient associated with the first appointment.
A system in a medical office for managing a records associated with a plurality of patients, each patient being scheduled for an appointment at the medical office, the system, comprising:
- a first client computing device having a first processor, a first user interface, and a first non-transitory computer readable medium comprising executable instructions, the executable instructions being executable by the first processor to perform a first method;
- a second client computing device having a second processor, a second user interface, and a second non-transitory computer readable medium comprising executable instructions, the executable instructions being executable by the second processor to perform a second method;
- the first method comprising:
- linking a schedule entry for a first appointment to a subset records that corresponds to a patient associated with the first appointment;
- displaying the subset of records to a healthcare practitioner in response to a request from the healthcare practitioner for that subset of records;
- and
- accepting from the healthcare practitioner an order for a prescribed item for the patient associated with the first appointment;
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- the second method comprising:
- accepting a third user input from a health care practitioner, the third user input entering prescription information for the selected patient;
- updating the records for the selected patient, the updates comprising the treatment information and the prescription information entered by a health care professional;
- accepting fourth user input confirming fulfillment of the prescription;
- and
- sending the updated records to update a central file repository.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.