Method and system for supporting clinical decision-making
AssigneeGeneral Electric Company
InventorsChristopher Reynolds Hammond, Brion Daryl Sarachan, Matthew David Kelly, Rachel Susannah Midgley, John Michael Brady, Mark Robert Austin, David J. Kerr
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Abstract
A method and system are provided for facilitating decision making, such as in a clinical setting. In accordance with this technique, a set of encoded guidelines are executed to identify information that may be used to generate patient management options. The information is acquired, if available. Based on the encoded guidelines and the acquired information, a set of patient management options are generated and provided to one or more reviewers for review and selection of a patient management option.
Claims17
A computer-implemented method for generating patient management options, the method implemented on a physical computer, said method comprising:
- encoding, using a processor, a set of clinical guidelines and a set of local preferences to generate a set of encoded guidelines;
- identifying information to be obtained, wherein the information is identified based at least on the set of encoded guidelines;
- electronically acquiring, using a processor, the information that is available and noting information that is unavailable;
- generating, using a processor, one or more patient management recommendations by executing the set of encoded guidelines and analyzing the acquired information and the unavailable information;
- providing the one or more patient management recommendations to one or more decision makers, said patient management recommendations comprising options and argument evaluations for or against the patient management options;
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- providing an indication of the unavailable information and an indication of a potential impact on the one or more patient recommendations of the unavailable information.
A computer program encoded on one or more non-transitory computer readable media, the computer program executed on a computer and implementing a method comprising:
- forming a set of encoded guidelines to identify information to be obtained, wherein the set of encoded guidelines comprises at least one encoded set of clinical guidelines and an encoded set of local preferences;
- acquiring the information that is available and noting information that is unavailable;
- generating one or more patient management recommendations based upon the set of encoded guidelines, the available information, and the unavailable information;
- providing the one or more patient management recommendations to one or more decision makers, said patient management recommendations comprising options and argument evaluations for or against the patient management recommendations;
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- providing an indication of the unavailable information and an indication of a potential impact on the one or more patient recommendations of the unavailable information.
A processor-based system, comprising:
- one or more memory or storage components configured to store routines, wherein the routines execute a set of encoded guidelines identifying information to be obtained, said set of encoded guidelines comprising at least one encoded set of clinical guidelines and an encoded set of local preferences, electronically acquiring information that is available and noting information that is unavailable, executing the set of encoded guidelines and generating one or more patient management recommendations based upon the set of encoded guidelines, the available information and the unavailable information, and providing the one or more patient management recommendations along with an indication of the unavailable information and an indication of a potential impact on the one or more patient recommendations of the unavailable information to a multidisciplinary panel of reviewers;
- one or more communication interfaces allowing communication between the processor-based system and other devices connected directly to the processor-based system or connected via one or more networks;
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- one or more processors executing the routines stored on the one or more memory components and communicating with the other devices for acquiring the information and/or and for providing the one or more patient management recommendations for display.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.