Patent ID: 7992105

Claim:
A process for creating and managing an application framework for a patient medical chart, comprising the steps of: Generating at least one GUI (graphical user interface) structure simulating the appearance of a medical chart including at least one separate form for medical charting items and at least one separate form for non-medical charting items, and including a notebook GUI structure emulating a physical folder for maintaining electronic forms; Simultaneously with said generating at least one GUI structure, generating at least one corresponding composite pattern data structure, Associating at least one node of the at least one composite data structure with an element of the at least one GUI structure based on charting item data contained in the at least one node, and visually indicating the association and charting item data type on the GUI; Generating a copy of the at least one composite pattern data structure and producing at least one instance of the at least one copy of the at least one composite data structure, and representing the instance of the copy on the GUI indicating which specific instance it is, wherein the at least one copy of the at least one composite pattern data structure and the corresponding instance thereof are modified using the GUI without affecting the original version of the at least one composite pattern data structure as it existed prior to the modification while still visually changing the indication of the association and data type of the node on the GUI based on the modification; and Generating at least one list data structure corresponding to the at least one composite pattern data structure using an ordered sequence procedure, and recording the list data structure in a database.