Patent ID: 8027846

Claim:
A patient treatment and progress monitoring system comprising: A. a display device responsive to display signals for generating text in an image field, B. a memory including: i. problem data representative of one or more possible problems associatable with a patient, ii. treatment goal data representative of one or more treatment goals associated with each of said possible problems, iii. treatment plan data representative of one or more treatment plans associated with each of said possible problems, iv. patient data representative of a. said patient, b. contemporary information related to one or more conditions of said patient being provided from at least one monitor in communication with the patient, c. one or more unresolved problems associated with said patient, each of said unresolved problems corresponding to one or more of said possible problems, and d. zero, one, or more of said treatments associated with each of said unresolved problems, C. a display controller for generating said display signals, said display controller including a user screen entry device configured to accept from a user text data for selecting at least one condition on which said contemporary information is being provided, the display controller selectively responsive to user action to: i. generate a display signal representative of the identity of a patient for whom treatment and progress information is to be displayed, and ii. generate a display signal representative of: a. selected problem data corresponding to said unresolved problems for said patient, b. treatment goal data associated with said selected problem data for said patient, and c. treatment plan data associated with said selected problem data for said patient; and wherein said display device generates a split-screen region having a first subregion and a second subregion, and wherein said display controller causes said display device to display said contemporary information as text in said first subregion and display a graphical plot of said contemporary information related to said selected at least one condition as a function of time in said second subregion.