Clinical Key Notes for Patient Data Snapshotting
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Solution Overview
Problem
Clinicians face a time-consuming task in reviewing large amounts of demographic and clinical data from previous patient visits, even with electronic medical records, to understand the background for current visits, requiring patients to provide numerous documents and sort through extensive data.
Innovation Solution
The creation and interaction with 'key notes' that provide snapshots of critical clinical and non-clinical information, allowing clinicians to easily access and organize patient data by type, reducing the need to sift through extensive EMR systems, with features like customizable sections and hyperlinks to original notes.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of information
If clinicians review all previous patient visit data in EMR systems, then they gain complete understanding of patient background, but the time required increases significantly
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts critical information from extensive EMR data and presents it in condensed summary formats. Clinicians can view key patient background information without reviewing all original documents, thereby reducing review time while maintaining essential information access.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent segments patient information into organized categories and summaries. By dividing complex EMR data into structured segments, clinicians can efficiently locate and review specific relevant information without being overwhelmed by the complete dataset.
2Loss of information
If patients provide numerous documents for each visit, then complete medical history is available, but the complexity of data management increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges multiple patient documents and data sources into unified patient summaries. By combining scattered information from various documents into integrated summaries, the system maintains complete medical history while simplifying data management structure.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent creates multi-functional data structures that serve multiple purposes. Patient summaries can be generated in various formats and levels of detail, allowing the same underlying data to fulfill different clinical needs without requiring separate management systems.
3Loss of information
If clinicians access detailed EMR data, then comprehensive patient information is available, but system resource requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements partial action by providing clinicians with summarized information that covers essential clinical needs without loading complete detailed EMR data. This approach maintains adequate clinical information availability while significantly reducing system resource consumption.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent transforms data presentation from a single detailed dimension to multiple hierarchical dimensions. Clinicians can access information at different levels of granularity, allowing the system to optimize resource usage by loading only the appropriate level of detail needed for each clinical scenario.
Data Source
AI summary
Methods, computer systems, and computer storage media are provided that enables clinicians to create and interact with snapshots of critical clinical/non-clinical information that is readily accessible in future visits. Initially, an indication to create a key note corresponding to a clinical note of a patient encounter for a patient is received. A selection of a key note section that will be associated with the key note is also received. Upon the clinical note being signed, the key note is created and saved. Upon receiving a request from a user, a key note window is provided in a user interface. The user interface enables the user to expand a header corresponding to a particular key note to display details associated with the corresponding encounter. A hyperlink to original summary notes from which the particular key note was created may be provided by the user interface.