US 5,946,659 AGranted

System and method for notification and access of patient care information being simultaneously entered

AssigneeCliniComp International, Inc.

InventorsJean F. Lancelot, Jon J. Burford, David S. Gardner

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Abstract

A multiple user computerized clinical care system and method of using it, include the use of a group of terminals communicating with a central computer system for sending and receiving patient information for storage and retrieval purposes. The system and method includes managing patient information variance requests, by storing the variance information in the order in which the variance requests are received. The terminals are then supplied with the stored variance information to enable the terminals of the computer system to receive current updated patient information for a given patient substantially concurrently as the updated information is being entered at a plurality of the terminals, without causing any user to wait for the current variance information.

Claims23

Dependent claims

A multiple user computerized clinical care system, comprising:

computer means for storing patient care information;
a group of terminal means coupled in communication with said computer means for sending patient information to said computer means for storage therein and for retrieving stored patient information therefrom so that health care providers can utilize the terminals to retrieve current patient information;
each one of said terminal means having means for generating patient information variance requests to cause selected portions of the patient information to be updated;
managing means for receiving temporarily and managing said patient information variance requests received from said terminals to facilitate modifying current patient information to update said patient care information;
said managing means including means for storing the received variance requests in the order in which the variance requests are received from said terminal means for a given patient, without denying at any time any terminal means access to the patient care information;
said managing means for selecting and sending simultaneously one of the stored patient information variance requests to all terminal means currently accessing the patient care information for said given patient in a concurrent manner to facilitate updating said patient care information for said given patient;
means for enabling the terminal means to receive the selected one of said variance requests substantially concurrently for said given patient, without causing any user to wait for the current variance information;
each one of said terminal means having means responsive to the received one of said variance requests for causing concurrently the accessed patient information for said given patient to be updated in accordance with the received one of said variance requests;
and
wherein no terminal means is locked for use at any time and no terminal means is ever denied access at any time to the patient care information, whereby all terminal means are updated substantially simultaneously.

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A method of using a multiple user computerized clinical care system, comprising:

storing patient care information in a computer means and retrieving the stored patient care information therefrom so that health care providers can utilize terminal means to retrieve current patient information at any time so that the patient care information is always accessible to the terminal means;
generating at the terminal means patient information variance requests indicative of requested modifications to selected portions of the patient care information;
receiving with the use of managing means the patient information variance requests received from the terminal means to modify the current patient information and permit the terminal means to access the current patient information at any time without any lockout delay;
storing temporarily in the managing means the variance information in the order in which the variance requests are received for a given patient;
selecting with the use of the managing means one of the stored variance requests;
sending simultaneously with the use of the managing means the selected variance request to all of the terminal means currently accessing the patient care information for the given patient to facilitate the updating of the patient care information in a concurrent manner;
enabling the terminal means to receive the selected one of the variance requests for a given patient substantially concurrently for said given patient, without causing any user to wait for the current variance information;
causing concurrently the accessed patient information for said given patient to be updated in each terminal means in accordance with the received one of said variance requests;
and
wherein no terminal means is locked for use at any time and no terminal means is ever denied access at any time to the patient care information, whereby all terminal means are updated substantially simultaneously.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 08/903,537Filed 30 Jul 1997 · continuation in part
Priority: 28 Feb 1995
Granted: 31 Aug 1999
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification6 codes

G06Q 10/06
Administration; Management: resources, workflows, human or project management; Enterprise or organisation planning; Enterprise or organisation…
G16H 10/60
ICT specially adapted for the handling or processing of patient-related medical or healthcare data: for patient-specific data, e.g. for electronic…
G16H 40/20
ICT specially adapted for the management or administration of healthcare resources or facilities; ICT specially adapted for the management or…:…
G16H 80/00
Ict specially adapted for facilitating communication between medical practitioners or patients