PROCEDURE FLOW ADMINISTRATION SYSTEM AND METHOD

摘要

A method and system for collaboration between users for editing and reviewing a live procedure flow comprising at least one decision step and at least one action step is disclosed. Each step is interconnected with at least one other step by at least one flow arrow indicating a direction of flow. There is disclosed a method of displaying a live version and an edited version of a procedure flow on a display device side-by-side and highlighting the edited portions in both the live version and an edited version while providing for synchronised scrolling of both versions. There is disclosed a method of navigating between procedure flows of a given procedure comprising rendering a graphical representation of a procedure flow, comprising steps, on a display, anchoring a hyperlink on one of the steps wherein when the hyperlink is selected, a sub procedure flow is displayed.

主权项

1. A collaborative method between an editing user and a reviewing user different from the editing user, the method for editing and reviewing a live procedure flow comprising at least one decision step and at least one action step, wherein each of the at least one steps is interconnected with at least one other of said steps by at least one flow arrow indicating a direction of flow, the method comprising:
the editing user retrieving the live procedure flow from a repository and making a copy of the live procedure flow as a draft procedure flow; the editing user modifying said draft procedure flow by introducing modifications wherein said modifications comprise at least one of adding an additional decision step, adding an additional action step, modifying a text of said at least one decision step, modifying a text of said at least one action step, adding a flow arrow between two of said steps, rerouting one of the at least one flow arrows, and deleting at least one of the at least one flow arrows; storing said draft procedure flow in said repository; the editing user displaying a graphical representation of said modified draft procedure flow and a graphical representation of the live procedure flow side by side on a display device of the editing user and highlighting said modifications in said graphical representation of said modified draft procedure flow; the editing user submitting said modified draft procedure flow to the reviewing user for one of approval and rejection; the reviewing user retrieving said modified draft procedure flow and the live procedure flow from said repository and displaying a graphical representation of said modified draft procedure flow and a graphical representation of the live procedure flow side by side on a display device of the reviewing user wherein said modifications are highlighted in both said graphical representation of said modified draft procedure flow and said graphical representation of said live procedure flow; wherein the reviewing user one of approves of said modifications by replacing the live procedure flow in said repository with said modified draft procedure flow and rejects said modifications by notifying the editing user of said rejection.