68 results about "Patient Encounter" patented technology

A system uses aggregated healthcare encounter service, billing, and claim data to enable an authorized patient to access healthcare encounter related information. A system supports patient access to healthcare encounter related information including information concerning an event involving interaction of a patient with a healthcare enterprise. The system includes an interface processor for receiving patient identification information and a request for encounter related information. The system also includes a database linking a patient identifier with, a record identifying at least one patient encounter and data identifying at least one healthcare provider organization associated with the at least one patient encounter and a record containing encounter information related to the at least one patient encounter. A data processor accesses the database to provide encounter related information for a patient and processes the encounter related information to be suitable for output communication for presentation to the patient in response to the patient identification information and the request.

A method and system for automated medical records processing. The method and system includes plural electronic medical templates specifically designed such that they reduce the complexity and risk associated with collecting patient encounter information, creating a medical diagnosis and help generate the appropriate number and type medical codes for a specific type of medical practice when processed. The medical codes and other types of processed patient encounter information are displayed in real-time on electronic medical records and invoices immediately after a patient encounter.

A system monitors in real-time multiple organization patient healthcare financial and clinical encounter related information by automatically recognizing and evaluating complex data patterns to identify statistically significant patterns and clusters using user created data pattern templates to detect fraud, disease outbreaks and cost reduction opportunities. A system monitors healthcare encounter related information derived from patient interaction with a healthcare provider to detect irregular data patterns. The system includes an interface processor for receiving patient encounter related information comprising clinical and financial information from a plurality of different sources for storage in a database. A search processor searches the database to identify a predetermined data pattern and determines whether an identified data pattern meets predetermined criteria. A data processor processes the identified encounter related information to be suitable for output communication.

A medical management system is provided that integrates all aspects of healthcare provider practice management and managed care, including schedule management, patient registration, insurance information, EMR and billing and collections. The system integrates a central framework module, a scheduling module, a registration module, an account management module and an electronic record module to provide a seamless exchange of information. A clinical module provides template builder which allows the users to define a customized template. The custom and standard templates are used by a document builder to generate documents, such as progress notes and H&P notes, which are retained in the patient's electronic chart. The progress note template allows the clinician to record a patient encounter by presenting the clinician with predefined sections and sentences that are easily completed by the clinician during or after the patient encounter. The templates and documents generated are designed to closely resemble a paper chart. Information gathered during patient scheduling and triage are referenced to pre-populate the templates to avoid having the clinician entering redundant information. The documents are relied upon to automatically generate patient superbills and electronic requests are sent to a claims clearinghouse.

A method and system for automated medical records processing with cloud computing including patient tracking for actual and virtual encounters. The method and system includes plural electronic medical templates specifically designed such that they reduce the complexity and risk associated with collecting patient encounter information, creating a medical diagnosis, tracking the patient through the medical processes at the medical facility and generate the appropriate number and type medical codes for a specific type of medical practice when processed. The medical codes and other types of processed actual or virtual patient encounter information are displayed in real-time on electronic medical records and invoices immediately after an actual or virtual patient encounter via a cloud computing network.

A method and system for automated medical records processing. The method and system includes plural paper and electronic templates specifically designed such that they reduce the complexity of collecting patient encounter information and help generate the appropriate number and type medical codes for a specific type of medical practice when processed. The method and system also includes processing applications that allow easy and automated collection, processing, displaying and recording of medical codes (e.g., diagnosis codes, billing codes, insurance codes, etc.). The medical codes and other types of processed patient encounter information are displayed in real-time on electronic templates immediately after a patient encounter.

Written reports are composed using a terminal during or between patient encounters. Selections made on the terminal invoke standard text segments and a narrative comment is recorded, by dictation or otherwise. After a series of patient encounters, such as at the end of the day, automatically generated draft reports are reviewed, revised and dispatched by the practitioner or staff, in a batch process. The terminal accepting selections and comment can be a wireless Web-capable smart-phone or another terminal running an application to interface with the practitioner. The application presents selections for each of a menu of categories, for example common conditions and maladies encountered in specialized practices. The practitioner distinguishes between normal entries that populate the report with standardized comments (or optionally go unreported), versus noteworthy entries that populate the report with preferably speech-recognized text.

A method and system for managing customer service processes for individual customers and populations of customers. In a specific embodiment within the health care field, a clinician creates or updates a draft care plan for a patient using generic or locally-adapted template metadata and tailors the draft care plan to the particular patient. The draft care plan includes a list of specific services (health care interventions) to be provided to the patient. The draft care plan can be routed to members of an inter-disciplinary team for input. Once finalized, workflow processes are instantiated for each intervention on the care plan. An itinerary is created for any required patient encounters, optimized using an algorithm that considers pre-existing process instances. A workflow automation server manages the execution of each workflow process instance, invoking resources according to workflow process specification metadata and workflow task type metadata. Care plans and encounter itineraries are automatically translated to a patient-understandable form and made available to patients online and via printed copy. Clinical practice and outcomes data are analyzed to identify opportunities for improvement of the metadata. The method and system also allows for the selection of a population of patients, the analysis of population data to identify opportunities for interventions (needed services), and the initiation of population interventions through batch updates to individual care plans.

A system supports creation and modification of a flexible and comprehensive location structure model able to track patients and identify suitable patient locations and location availability via a user friendly display interface. A method provides a user interface system facilitating movement of a patient in a healthcare enterprise. The method involves receiving search criteria information for use in identifying at least one suitable location for occupation by a patient. The search criteria is employed in searching a profile comprising information identifying a hierarchical organization of locations available to accommodate a patient for different purposes within a healthcare enterprise. The different purposes include, (a) for hosting a patient encounter with a healthcare enterprise involving patient and healthcare enterprise interaction, or (b) for accommodating a patient. The search result information is processed to provide location availability information suitable for presentation to a user via a displayed image in response to user command.

A patient encounter documentation and analytics system includes a mobile computing platform and a server-based host platform. A mobile application in tandem with a wireless microphone collects voice signals during a patient-caregiver encounter, transforms the voice signals into audio data files, and uploads the audio data files to the server. A speech recognition software module digitally transcribes the audio data file into text. A text processing module extracts and organizes relevant clinical data based on keyword, key phrase and question/answer analysis. Relevance of words and phrases may be determined in view of, e.g., their presence, frequency and context. A diagnostic decision support module enables the healthcare provider to review the determined clinical information and provide a diagnosis associated with the encounter. A documentation skeleton module extracts diagnosis-specific text components from the transcribed text file and assembles an electronic medical document based on the diagnosis and the diagnosis-specific text components.

A method and system for automated medical records processing with cloud computing The method and system includes plural electronic medical templates specifically designed such that they reduce the complexity and risk associated with collecting patient encounter information, creating a medical diagnosis and help generate the appropriate number and type medical codes for a specific type of medical practice when processed. The medical codes and other types of processed patient encounter information are displayed in real-time on electronic medical records and invoices immediately after a patient encounter via a cloud computing network.

A probabilistic medical billing system and method using contextual data and inferential logic for use in screening accuracy of medical bill coding and for presenting results as probabilities or predictions of correctness. The probabilistic medical billing system and method is accomplished using the contextual information contained in a care givers' patient encounter notes, a set of rules and keywords, and an inferential, logic, engine based on Bayesian mathematics or similar disciplines. The inventive device includes an input device to capture care giver's encounter notes or other information, a lexical engine that extracts information while preserving the contextual order of the information, a relational database that contains keywords, phrases and rules and a statistical/probabilistic engine that uses Bayesian mathematics or similar disciplines to create the output. The lexical engine parses a document into words and is capable of extracting keywords or phrases as listed or defined in a master list. Further, the lexical engine would preserve the relative position of discovered keywords or phrases as the keywords or phrases and relative positions were encountered. The Bayesian engine is a mathematical algorithm that uses inferential logic to analyze historical data and shows the results as a predictive level as to the accuracy of a medical bill produced from the source documents. The inherent nature of Bayes like algorithms allows them to learn and improve their predictive capability through the use of a feedback system which is also part of the invention. Variations in algorithms and data flow can be easily made to support other predictive output related to billing or for the purposes of data mining and statistical evaluation.

A patient flow management system includes a means for identifying a patient as the patient approaches an examination area. When the patient is identified, a patient encounter screen, which provides both patient data and medical procedure data, is provided in the examination area, thereby decreasing the need for paper charts and increasing the efficiency of the facility. The system can also include a timer for determining an amount of time that a patient has been left in an examination room, and kiosks for checking into an appointment and providing identifying tokens to the patient.

A patient encounter electronic medical record system, method, and computer product includes pre-populated, diagnosis specific templates, selective, specialty-specific master databases, and anatomic specific databases and templates to achieve comprehensive, accurate and compliant medical documentation that captures patient data concurrently with the clinical patient encounter session. The system is enabled for a distributed computing environment including graphical user interfaces and voice, text, and digital image and x-ray input.

An example system includes a virtual emergency medical record (vEMR) to be dynamically generated for a patient encountered by emergency medical services personnel, the vEMR created to store and organize patient information obtained from the patient at an emergency site to be transferred to an electronic medical record for the patient at a healthcare facility. The example system includes an image recognition and search service to identify the patient based on one or more obtained images and to provide information to the vEMR. The example system includes a prior history service to search for prior clinical information for the patient and to provide information to the vEMR. The example system includes triage decision support to process patient information and prior clinical information via the vEMR to provide a) at least one of a treatment guideline and a diagnosis protocol and b) an instruction for transfer priority to a healthcare facility.

An example an integrated patient information viewer includes a header portion to be arranged to convey identification information for a patient to a user at a glance; a timeline arranged to provide a longitudinal visualization of a patient's record; a user viewspace to display a chronological view of patient encounters and associated documents; and a document workspace to store one or more patient documents based on user placement. The timeline is to be navigable to display different portions of the patient's record based on user input, is to provide visual indicators of clusters of patient encounters, and is to expand to provide further detail on a patient encounter based on user input. The viewspace is to enable a user to one or more documents for display and comparison. The one or more patient documents are to be retrievable for display and comparison in the user viewspace.

A system enables interested software applications, AKA subscribers, which are loosely coupled to a HIM (Healthcare Information Management) system, to receive interface transactions/notifications when one or more specific documents types are present in a patient's encounter folder. The system enables a named group of minimum content rules to be defined, assigned and adapted to the needs of a specific subscriber. Software applications of Interest include Coding Management systems, Clinical applications, workflow software or any other system that that can benefit from triggering workflow based on specific types of electronic documents being present in a patients encounter folder.

A client-server based electronic medical record replaces paper records in outpatient clinics. The Internet provides physicians with the ability to use a Java-based client program to generate legible, complete notes for patient encounters that comply with HCFA guidelines. A pen-like input device for entering data into an electronic medical record is provided with one end which serves as a stylus or pointing device for being placed in contact with a touch screen and another end which has a microphone element for receiving speech signals. A microphone activation button or lever is provided to enable and disable speech recognition.

The business performance management platform system and method enables the capture, extraction, data auditing and data validation processes, combined cost accounting and analytical reporting of data required for certain combined financial, clinical operations, physician encounter, patient encounter, electronic health record, and quality of patient care measures; provides close to real-time data access and performance results; provides financial, operational, clinical, physician encounter, patient encounter, electronic health record, and quality performance dashboards and scorecards, summary level reports, Ad hoc reporting, alerting, emailing, and automated reporting and email distribution, alerting, and modeling functions. The results generated from the business performance management platform provide users of the system critical understanding of detailed and summary level data and information, such as: profit/loss characteristics across the longitudinal data elements associated with patient and physician level detail; cost at patient and physician level; expected revenues; payer performance from payer sources and clinical operations performance.

Methods, systems, and computer storage media are provided for linking health records. A patient document may be received from a provider and confirmed by a patient to be linked to their health record. To confirm a document, a connection between a provider and a health record is established. Once the connection is initially established between the provider and the health record, subsequent patient documents received from the approved provider may be automatically linked to the health record. Connections may be established with multiple providers such that a single health record includes patient documents for multiple patient encounters with different providers.