Method for operating active clinical guidelines
US7383196B1 · kind B1 · utility
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| Filing date | Mar 14, 2000 |
| Grant date | Jun 3, 2008 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Mar 14, 2020 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG16H70/20
- WIPO fieldMedical technology
- WIPO sectorInstruments
Abstract
An active guidelines capability or component is linked to a computerized patient record system to integrate the use of clinical guidelines in the workflow of clinicians treating patients. Many healthcare institutions maintain sets of clinical guidelines describing recommended treatment or analysis options for patients displaying sets of symptoms or for whom certain diagnoses have been made. The active guidelines feature adds an active guidelines tag to such clinical guidelines so that when the clinician accesses the clinical guidelines and wishes to follow the recommendation, the clinician merely has to click on a hypertext created from the tag which then transmits action orders, also contained in the tag, to be transmitted to the computerized patient record system for implementation.
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