Operating room checklist system

A processor-driven method of generating a medical checklist for a terminal device, the method comprising:

• receiving notification of a trigger event, the notification identifying a patient;
• accessing patient health record data associated with the patient identified by the notification;
• selecting, using at least one processor, a checklist template from amongst a plurality of checklist templates based on the patient health record data, wherein the selected checklist template comprises a first sequence of prompts that each indicate one or more actions and that each require user input to be provided in response to the one or more actions;
• creating, using the at least one processor, a medical checklist from the selected checklist template, said creating comprising selecting a subset of the first sequence of prompts to produce a second sequence of prompts, wherein at least one of the first sequence of prompts is excluded from the second sequence of prompts based on the patient health record data;
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• providing the medical checklist comprising the second sequence of prompts to a terminal device.

A system configured to generate a medical checklist for a terminal device, the system comprising:

• at least one processor;
• and
• at least one computer readable medium comprising instructions that, when executed, cause the at least one processor to perform a method comprising:
• receiving notification of a trigger event, the notification identifying a patient;
• accessing patient health record data associated with the patient identified by the notification;
• selecting, using at least one processor, a checklist template from amongst a plurality of checklist templates based on the patient health record data, wherein the selected checklist template comprises a first sequence of prompts that each indicate one or more actions and that each require user input to be provided in response to the one or more actions;
• creating, using the at least one processor, a medical checklist from the selected checklist template, said creating comprising selecting a subset of the first sequence of prompts to produce a second sequence of prompts, wherein at least one of the first sequence of prompts is excluded from the second sequence of prompts based on the patient health record data;
• and
• providing the medical checklist comprising the second sequence of prompts to a terminal device.