Patent ID: 8898106

Claim:
A computer program product for facilitating an emergency room medical professional/patient encounter workflow, the computer program product including a computer-readable medium having instructions stored thereon, which when executed the computing device is configured to: receive a selection of a chief medical complaint for a patient, wherein the selection of a chief medical complaint generates a selection of a template based on that specifically selected chief medical complaint; present a plurality of screen presentations of the template to a medical professional, wherein the plurality of screen presentations includes multiple screens having selectable clinical items which are pre-identified to be of particular concern to the selected chief medical complaint, wherein a first screen in the multiple screens having selectable clinical items which are pre-identified to be of particular concern to the selected chief medical complaint is configured for a first clinical phase of the medical professional/patient encounter, wherein a second screen in the multiple screens having selectable clinical items which are pre-identified to be of particular concern to the selected chief medical complaint is configured for a second clinical phase of the medical professional/patient encounter, wherein at least one selectable clinical item in the selectable clinical items includes a textual representation of the selectable clinical item, the textual representation being the actual textual label representing the selectable clinical item; and receive yes/no data entries for the selectable clinical items, wherein the yes/no data entries are entered primarily without the use of conventional check boxes/radio buttons, wherein a first type of yes/no data entry indicates a positive finding, and a second type of yes/no data entry indicates a negative finding, wherein a selection of a positive finding of the at least one selectable clinical item and a selection of the negative finding of the at least one selectable clinical item require an affirmative selection from the medical professional, wherein the selection of the positive finding of the at least one selectable clinical item is performed on the textual representation of the at least one selectable clinical item, and the selection of the negative finding of the at least one selectable clinical item is performed on the textual representation of the at least one selectable clinical item, wherein the selection of the positive finding of the at least one selectable clinical item causes a first visual indicator to be displayed on the textual representation of the at least one selectable clinical item, and the selection of the negative finding of the at least one selectable clinical item causes a second visual indicator to be displayed on the textual representation of the at least one selectable clinical item, the first visual indicator being different than the second visual indicator.