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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 06, 2001
Filed:
Aug. 24, 1999
Brian C. DeBusk, Clinton, TN (US);
Michael C. Cofer, Knoxville, TN (US);
Mark W. Shanks, Knoxville, TN (US);
Wil Francis Lukens, Knoxville, TN (US);
DeRoyal Business Systems, LLC, Powell, TN (US);
Abstract
A health care information management system that utilizes modular and reusable software objects to allow for user configuration. The disclosed information management system allows for the creation by the user of software objects representative of specific events and resources which will occur or be utilized during the provision of health care to patients. These user configured software modules then allow the user to track the provision of health care, the utilization of resources during the provision of health care, the allocation of resources to perform medical procedures and identify opportunities for enhancing efficiencies in the provision of health care services. In one embodiment of the invention described, the system allows for the user to create, manage and maintain software modules representing specific procedural pathways to be performed in a health care institution. The user creates these modules using user configurable software objects that function to represent containers, resources and data. The software objects are modular and re-usable and allow the user to select components for creation of the modules. The created modules may then be used to provide information management relating to the provision of the medical procedures represented by the procedural pathway modules.