Patent ID: 7523042
Filing Date: 2009-04-21
Classification: G06F,G06Q,G16H,G16Z

Abstract:
1. A process for enhancing the health care of patients which comprises: receiving a selection of an existing or threatened health related condition; automatically extracting patient information electronically from an existing electronic medical record database, the electronic medical record database containing patient-specific data elements stored in a retrievable manner, where the data is entered in routine patient care documentation by healthcare providers, by staff, or through interfaces with other information systems; querying extracted patient information based on criteria, wherein the criteria correlate to the selected existing or threatened health related condition; identifying a population of patients having the selected existing or threatened heath related condition in common based on the query; retrieving selected information from the extracted patient information for said identified population of patients to assist a health care provider in treatment of said identified patients; determining, in a computer having a processor, values of a group of standardized and/or published medical treatment guidelines, the values appropriate for the selected condition or disease; formatting the retrieved information to enable analysis of the selected existing or threatened health care condition of said identified population of patients, said formatting including identifying patient-specific data elements for the identified population of patients that fall outside the determined values of the standardized and/or published medical treatment guidelines for the selected condition or disease; providing electronic accessibility of the formatted information to the health care provider to enable said health care provider to utilize the formatted information to improve patient outcome, said providing including displaying the identified patient-specific data elements for the identified population of patients, the data elements concurrently displayed for the identified patients in an aggregate view; and generating alerts for patients within said population of patients, said alerts including at least each of the following alerts: