Patent ID: 8095378
Filing Date: 2012-01-10
Classification: G06Q,G16H

Abstract:
1. A method in a computer system for preparing for a clinical event associated with a patient, comprising the steps of: identifying, through a first computing process, a preference card that is associated with an individual patient, a particular clinician, and a particular type of clinical event, wherein the particular clinician is scheduled to perform the particular type of clinical event on the individual patient, the preference card including a list of predefined clinical item values associated with one or more clinical items to be gathered for use for the clinical event, wherein the one or more clinical items include a plurality of non-medications; accessing, a second computing process, at least one patient-specific demographic value associated with the individual patient; determining, through a third computing process, whether at least one of the predefined clinical item values is incompatible with the at least one patient-specific demographic value; and without user intervention, updating, through a fourth computing process, the preference card by substituting, without user intervention, a compatible clinical item value for the at least one incompatible clinical item value if the at least one of the predefined clinical item values is incompatible with the at least one patient-specific demographic value, wherein the first, second, third, and fourth computing processes are performed on one or more computing devices.