Patent ID: 7966195

Claim:
An electronic system for providing medical orders for a patient, wherein the system comprises: a user interface comprising a processor, a monitor and a user input device; a memory storage device connected to the user interface processor and comprising a computer readable database, wherein the database comprises protocols for medical orders; wherein the database is organized in a hierarchical structure comprising: (i) medical order items, each mapped to one or more medical item categories; (ii) medical item categories, each comprising medically related items, wherein each item category is mapped to one or more modules; and (iii) medical modules, wherein each module is mapped to one or more diagnoses, and wherein each module comprises groups of medical item categories; computer readable media containing instructions for providing an interactive display of a list of diagnoses contained in the database, wherein one or more diagnoses are selectable by a user, and including instructions to respond to selection of one or more diagnoses by a user to query the database and retrieve all modules associated with each selected diagnosis and to provide an interactive display of item categories and items within the categories related to each selected diagnosis on the monitor, wherein individual items are selectable by a user; and said computer readable media containing instructions for providing an interactive display that, responsive to multiple diagnoses being selected, assigns a display rank to the items for each of the multiple diagnoses by multiplying the sum of each appearance for an item ill all the selected item categories by a first weighting factor and multiplying the number order in which the diagnosis that contains that item was selected by a second, smaller weighting factor; and computer readable media containing instructions for providing an interactive display for selecting generation of an order set, wherein selecting generation of an order set by a user provides a unique set of medical orders for one or more selected diagnoses in which the items are listed in display rank order and repeated items are removed.