Patent ID: 7251610

Claim:
A system for documenting patient information from multiple caregivers comprising: a health record system including a plurality of data elements, the data elements including patient note data acquired from multiple caregivers, the patient note data including at least a first patient note and a second patient note related to the care of a given patient; and a first interface and a second interface coupled to the health record system each including a graphic display, the first interface and second interface operable to retrieve, based upon information received from a first and second user, patient note data associated with a specified patient, and to graphically depict the patient note data in list form and text form within the graphic displays, each of the first and second interfaces further including an editor operable with the interface to facilitate editing of the patient notes within the graphic display; wherein the first interface is adapted to lock the first patient note when the first user is editing the first patient note such that the second interface maintains view access to the patient notes but is denied write access to the first patient note while the first user is editing the first patient note, and wherein the second interface is adapted to simultaneously lock the second patient note when the second user is editing the second patient note such that the first interface maintains simultaneous view access to the patient notes but is denied write access to the second patient note while the second user is editing the second patient note; and wherein each interface further includes a role-based security scheme that limits at least one of the first and second user's viewing and editing access to the patient note data associated with the specified patient to only limited types of information based on a role of the user.