Patent Document ID: 8447778
Application ID: 12268776
Patent Status: 1

Claim One:
1. A method for adaptively updating template candidate clinical documents, comprising the activities of: employing at least one computer for, monitoring user selection of candidate items from a candidate clinical document template; recording candidate item usage data identifying items selected by a user for use in individual particular candidate clinical document templates for a plurality of different candidate clinical document templates; determining parameters from compiled statistics derived from the recorded candidate item usage data, said compiled statistics comprising at least one of, (i) data indicative of the number or proportion of candidate items of a particular candidate clinical: document template that were selected by a user during data entry and (ii) data indicative of the number or proportion of candidate items of a particular candidate clinical document template that were not selected by a user during data entry; identifying a candidate clinical document template to be updated in response to the determined parameters; and adaptively updating the identified candidate clinical document template by at least one of, (a) removing a candidate item, (b) adding a candidate item and (c) modifying a candidate item.