Informatics platform for integrated clinical care

Abstract

An informatics platform provides an architecture to integrate information from relevant patient information systems. The informatics platform may include: a workflow tool that can be used to prepare and review information at multi-disciplinary board meetings; a visual timeline of patient events; a search engine to search for patients with specific attributes; a graphing tool that can display disparate clinical variables in a single chart; a virtual Pin Board for users to identify relevant patient information for board meetings; an image viewing application that can provide for comparison of images from different information systems; structured reporting functionality that incorporates system aggregated patient information and board recommendations; an application interface that integratesclinically relevant tools to provide patient specific references; a collaboration interface that facilitates communication of patient specific information and documents the discussion threads as independent reference points; and a default display of relevant patient information customized for each clinical specialty.

Description

technical field [0001] The present application generally relates to systems and methods for integrating patient information from disparate information systems for use by medical personnel in patient care. Background technique [0002] Patient information can be stored in many individual information systems that can perform analysis and reporting on that very specific data. These systems include, for example, EMR (Electronic Medical Record) system, PACS (Picture Archiving and Communication System), Digital Pathology (DP) system, LIS (Laboratory Information System), RIS (Radiology Information System), etc. Due to the lack of integration, these individual information systems do not have the ability to leverage data across information systems, nor can they provide intelligent aggregation and information display. Instead, medical personnel have to search for information kernels in heterogeneous information systems, where the required information may be located many levels below ...

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Problems solved by technology

Reading such a list is time consuming, and it often requires the user to memorize a list of items that may be easily forgotten, without readily available mnemonics to aid in remembering the patient's "whole picture"

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