Patent ID: 7703042

Claim:
An electronic healthcare system, comprising: a graphical user-interface; at least one electronic computer communicating with the graphical user interface to provide: (a) at least one electronic healthcare database including medical records; (b) a set of different software applications usable in any order by a single user on the electronic computer, the different software applications allowing a user to access different records of the electronic healthcare database for each of different patients; (c) a provider program running on the at least one electronic computer to: (i) receive input from a user through the graphical user-interface identifying multiple software applications to be initialized and opened for at least two different patients; (ii) provide multiple graphical workspaces each defining an area holding initialized and opened software applications, each graphical workspace visually linking only the multiple software applications accessing records of a single patient of the at least two different patients; (iii) require first user actions to switch among software applications within a workspace and second user actions distinct from the first user actions to switch among workspaces of the at least two different patients; and (iv) require a user to switch between workspaces before and in order to switch between a first and second initialized and opened software application accessing different patients; whereby confusion between records of different patients is reduced; wherein the provider program further provides multiple different graphical indications each associated with applications accessing different common patients, the different graphical indications visually distinguishing among the multiple software applications accessing records of different patients.