Patent ID: 8050944

Claim:
A system for assisting healthcare providers in entering patient visit data in a database comprising: a database holding patient visit data providing clinical information about a patient visit to a healthcare provider and at least one of other patient information and healthcare provider information; a set of section-definition templates defining at least one section for an entry of patient visit data by the healthcare provider; a visit template engine communicating with the set of section-definition templates and operating to: (1) automatically select section-definition templates from the set of section-definition templates to create a visit template having sections; (2) monitor entry of patient visit information by the healthcare provider into the sections of the visit template; and (3) automatically modify the selection of the section templates contemporaneously with the entry of patient visit information into the sections to modify the sections forming the visit template in response to patient visit information entered into sections of the visit template by a user to provide different sections in the visit template for the entry of patient visit data.