Patent ID: 8478609
Filing Date: 2013-07-02
Classification: G16H

Abstract:
1. A method in a computing system for preemptive determination of the potential for atypical clinical event occurrence related to the administering of at least one medication to a person having an electronic medical record, the method comprising the steps of: accessing medication-procedure tables that maintain specific sets of medications and dosages thereof that are administered for each of a plurality of medical procedures, wherein the medication-procedure tables include a universal set of medications that are particularly dangerous when administered in a variety of medical procedures; selecting a list of medications from the medication-procedure tables that are to be administered to the person for a medical procedure scheduled for the person, wherein the medication list includes a specific set of medications and dosages thereof that correspond to the medical procedure and the universal set of medications; employing a control server to compare the medication list directly against information extracted from the person's electronic medical record (EMR); determining that at least one match exists between any of the selected medications included in the medication list and the EMR information, wherein the at least one match indicates the potential of drug-allergy reactions occurring when the matching medication is administered to the person; employing the control server to compare the medication list against the information in the person's EMR a drug-drug association table and a drug-food association table, wherein the drug-drug association table includes information regarding adverse affects caused by medications interacting with each other, and wherein the drug-food association table includes information regarding adverse affects caused by a medication and a food interacting with each other; determining that at least one match exists between any of the selected medications included in the medication list and the EMR information upon employing the drug-drug and the drug-food association tables, wherein the match indicates the potential of drug-drug or drug-food reactions occurring upon the selected medication being administered to the person; and outputting a response relating to each match.