Spacelabs Medical, Inc.

Tom Marlin

Timothy L Smokoff

Herbert J Uhrig

A method and system for constructing formulae for processing medical data is provided by a formula construction facility. In a preferred embodiment, the facility displays a list of time-indexed medical values. A user selects the name of a time-indexed medical value from the displayed list. The facility also displays a list of time intervals for qualifying individual values of the identified time-indexed medical value. The user similarly selects an interval from the displayed list of time intervals. The facility further displays a list of functions for reducing the individual values of the selected time-indexed medical value whose effective times are within the identified time interval to a single value. In response, the user selects a function from the displayed list of functions. The facility then stores a formula for applying the selected function to individual values of the selected time-indexed medical value whose effective times are within the selected time interval in order to reduce the individual values to a single value.

Method and system for constructing formulae for processing medical data

A method and system for flexibly organizing, recording, and displaying medical patient care information is provided. In a preferred embodiment, a patient information management facility enables users to customize a patient information hierarchy, which defines and organizes the information that may be stored about each patient, as well as patient data flowsheets, which define views in which the patient data stored according to the hierarchy may be entered and viewed, in a way that is optimized for the structure and procedures of the particular health care organization. The facility enables users to add, modify, and rearrange global or local patient information parameters that make up the hierarchy. Users may define the parameters to be any of a number of types. The user may also customize flowsheets used for entering and displaying result values of parameters defined in the hierarchy for particular patients. The user may expand and contract overview encapsulating parameters to display or hide the encapsulated parameters encapsulated therein. The facility also allows the user to link a result value of one parameter to other parameters, causing the linked-to parameters to be displayed when the result value is entered.

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Tom Marlin