Patent ID: 8670992

Claim:
A method for processing clinical protocol document information comprising chart information and text information, the chart information for displaying drug dosage information and medical assessment activity information in a time-activity chart format, the text information for describing the drug dosage information and medical assessment activity information in a text format, the method comprising: storing source text and one or more templates comprising predetermined text for generating said drug dosage information and medical assessment activity information in at least one data store; generating a charting user interface on a display device, wherein the charting user interface is configured to allow a user to enter said drug dosage information and medical assessment activity information; providing, via said charting user interface, both an automatic mode and a semi-automatic mode, and receiving said medical drug dosage information and medical assessment activity information via said charting user interface, wherein: when said charting user interface is configured to execute in the automatic mode, based on the received medical drug dosage information and medical assessment activity information, automatically generating text describing the received medical drug dosage information and medical assessment activity information by using said source text and said one or more templates in said at least one data store, wherein changes to the received medical drug dosage information and medical assessment activity information cause a corresponding change to the text without manually entering the the text; and when said charting user interface is configured to execute in the semi-automatic mode, based on the received medical drug dosage information and medical assessment activity information, automatically generating a first portion of the text describing the received medical drug dosage information and medical assessment activity information by using said source text and said one or more templates in said at least one data store, prompting the user to select or enter additional information, and using the additional information to generate a second portion of the text describing the received medical drug dosage information and medical assessment activity information, wherein changes to the received medical drug dosage information and medical assessment activity information cause a corresponding change to the first and second portions of the text without manually entering the first and second portions of the text; displaying said clinical protocol document information on the display device by displaying the medical drug dosage information and medical assessment activity information in the time-activity chart format; and displaying the text in the text format, wherein the text is displayed in accordance with at least one of said templates and said predetermined text is displayed in a different format from other text.