Patent ID: 8438041

Claim:
A system for tracking and reporting clinical events over an extended computer network, the system comprising: a plurality of Electronic Health Record (EHR) systems that are built on the same architecture and configured to capture patient data for a plurality of patients at a plurality of healthcare provider sites during a plurality of encounters with those patients, said plurality of EHR systems being configured to capture and transmit the patient data in a common data format that specifies information to be collected and a format for the information to be collected; and an enhanced services server built on the same architecture as the plurality of EHR systems and that is in electronic data communication with the plurality of EHR systems via a network connection and configured to transmit and receive the patient data in the common data format, the enhanced services server including: clinical event functionality configured to actively track the patient data in real time as it is captured at the plurality of EHR systems and identify any clinical events experienced by any of the plurality of patients, said client event functionality operating in response to triggering events at the plurality of healthcare provider sites that create a need for data to flow among the plurality of EHR systems or one of the plurality of EHR systems and the enhanced services server; form retrieval functionality configured to retrieve electronic clinical event forms in the common data format from one or more form managers via the network connection, each of the electronic clinical event forms having a plurality of fields to be completed with patient data for the plurality of patients that experience clinical events, and the one or more form managers being one or more organizations responsible for maintaining forms used by healthcare providers to report clinical events; and form filler functionality configured to fill in the plurality of fields in each of the electronic clinical event forms using the patient data captured in the common data format by the plurality of EHR systems, each of the adverse event forms being completed for a single patient from among the plurality of patients that experience a clinical event, wherein each of the electronic clinical event forms is automatically transmitted to one or more form receivers via the network connection after its plurality of fields are filled in, the one or more form receivers being one or more organizations that process clinical event data to keep track of clinical events.