Patent ID: 6401072
Filing Date: 2002-06-04
Classification: G16H

Abstract:
A system for facilitating the management of the care of a group of patients by a health care provider, comprising:a central computer for storing critical care information for a plurality of different patient diagnoses for different maladies for a given patient; remote computers means coupled to said central computer for creating and storing a first active care path information corresponding to a specific one of said patient diagnoses for a given one of said patients; said remote computers for creating and storing a second active care path information corresponding to a different specific one of said patient diagnoses for said given one of the patients; said central computer being responsive to said remote computers means for causing said first active care path information to be added to said second active care path information to establish a customized critical care information for the given patient and for causing the customized multiple customized diagnoses critical care information to be stored to enable said customized critical care information to be retrieved by said remote computer to facilitate patient care management; and means for arranging said first and said second active care path information adjacent to one another to facilitate determining potential conflicts between said first active care path information and said second active care path information for said given patient; wherein said first active care path information and said second active care path information are presented adjacent to one another when said customized critical care information for said given patient is retrieved by said remote computers means for enabling the health care provider to adjust said customized multiple diagnoses critical care information for resolving any potential conflicts so that a customized multiple diagnoses treatment information can then be entered and stored for a given patient.