Clinical information reporting system

A clinical ion reporting system for use with an electronic database for health care facility, said electronic database containing records for a group of patients, there being at lest one record for each patient of said group of patients, said database also containing operationl information which is accessed and used during the course of operation of the facility, said records containing clinical information for said group of patients, said reporting system comprising:

• an electrocardiograph mans for generating ECG-related data for each of the patients of the group of patients;
• a predictive instrument means or receiving from said electrocardiograph means ECG data for each patient of said group of patients and computing a probability for each patient therefrom, said computed probability for each patient being a probability that patient is experiencing a cardiac problem;
• a database application means for incorporating said ECG-related data for said group of patients and the computed probability for each patient into the records for the patients of said group of patients;
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• a report generating means for generating a process of care report from the information stored in said database, said process of care report presenting selected process of care information derived from said database as a function of the computed probabilities supplied by said predictive instrument means.

A method of reporting clinical information about a group of patients in a health care facility, said method comprising:

• storing records for the group of patients in an electronic database, there being a record for each patient of said group of patients, each of said records containing clinical information for a corresponding patient of said group of patients;
• storing operational information for said facility in said electronic database, said operational information relating to operation of the facility;
• generating ECG-related data for each of the patients of the group of patients;
• incorporating the ECG-related data for said group of patients into the records for the patients of said group of patients;
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• generating a process of care report from the information stored in aid database, said process of care report presenting selected process of care information derived from said database as a function of a clinically meaningful class of said group of patients, wherein said clinically meaningful class is defined at least in part in terms of the ECG-related data stored within said database.