Patent ID: 7742931

Claim:
A computer implemented automated method for providing a form for display to a user for ordering particular services supporting healthcare delivery to a patient, comprising the steps of: acquiring data identifying order types and associated parameter types; automatically analyzing said acquired data to provide collated data suitable for presentation in a display form for use in placing an order for a particular type of service to be provided to a patient, said analyzing including parsing said acquired data to determine: (a) type of display fields for incorporation in said display form, (b) a sequence of presentation of said display fields in said display form, and (c) placement of said display fields in said display form; and automatically processing said collated data to prepare data, representing said display form, for use in placing said order for said particular type of service to be provided to a patient and presenting a user with allowable values for a parameter associated with a particular order type for said particular type of service by deriving said allowable values from memory.