Treatment management system

Abstract

A system and a method for managing patient treatment stores in the database a patient history for each patient including data related to observations, test results, diagnoses, treatment regimen(s) and a treatment plan associated with the patient. The treatment plan is administered to the patient and medical device operating data related to the tasks of the associated treatment regimen is stored in the database. A reminder is issued if a task associated with the treatment regimen is not completed on time and the effectiveness of the treatment regimen is evaluated based upon the data stored in the database so that only effective treatment regimens are retained in the system. The system performs treatment planning, treatment monitoring, hospital monitoring, healthcare insurance billing, patient billing, research and analysis support, supply chain management and personnel scheduling.

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CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATION [0001] This application claims the benefit of U.S. provisional patent application Ser. No. 60 / 692,627 filed Jun. 21, 2005.BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION [0002] The present invention relates generally to an apparatus and a method for managing the treatment of hospital patients. [0003] The U.S. Pat. No. 4,839,806 discloses a computerized dispensing of medication that provides automated direction and guidance for nurses and allows for data entry regarding whether or not medication was dispensed (See Abstract). [0004] The U.S. Pat. No. 4,857,716 discloses a patient identification and verification system and method that include an overdue drug alert system (Col. 16, lines 28-50) in conjunction with a patient data entry and recording system. The system also includes checks for drug incompatibility (Col. 14, lines 40-43). [0005] The U.S. Pat. No. 4,916,441 discloses a portable handheld terminal 22 having a display screen 40 and a bar code reader 42 that ...

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[0021] The patient treatment management system according to the present invention comprises: at least one network; a treatment management system database in communication said at least one network; and at least one module in communication with said management system database through said at least one network, said at least one module being one of a treatment planning module; a treatment monitoring module; a hospital performance monitoring module; a healthcare insurance billing module; a patient billing module; a research and analysis module; a supply chain management module; and a personnel scheduling module.

[0022] A patient treatment management system for a hospital according to the present invention comprises: at least one database for storing data related to a patient including observations, test results, diagnosis and treatment regimen; at least one healthcare provider terminal for use by healthcare providers to exchange said data with said database; at least one monitoring device for sending medical device operating data related to the patient during the treatment regimen to said database; and a computer connected to said at least one database, said at least one healthcare provider terminal and said at least one monitoring device and generating an evaluation of the treatment regimen based upon said data. The system also can include at least one visual control connected to said computer for communicating to the healthcare providers information related to a potential problem associated with the treatment regimen. The system further can include at least one administration terminal connected to said computer for use by administrators to select and monitor performance measures of the treatment regimen. The system includes a software program operated by said computer and having at least one of a treatment planning module, a treatment monitoring module, a hospital monitoring module, a healthcare insurance billing module, a patient billing module, a research and analysis support module, a supply chain management module and a personnel scheduling module.

[0023] A method for managing patient treatment according to the present invention comprises the steps of: providing a database; storing in the database standard treatment regimens indexed by diagnosis and applicable to a wide variety of patients; storing in the database data related to patients including observations, test results, diagnoses and tre

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