MEDICAL PATIENT DATA COLLABORATION SYSTEM

摘要

Systems and methods for mitigating breakdowns in communications among healthcare providers are described, among other features. A communications system can be provided for communicating patient information among health care providers, who may include clinicians, doctors, interns, residents, physician's assistants, nurses, or any other health care personnel. The communications system can enable tracking of the responsibility relationships between changing providers and patients. In addition, the communications system can allow rapid and reliable messaging between any provider and the provider responsible for the patient at any one time.

主权项

1. A system for making patient care messages available to healthcare providers on different shifts, the system comprising:
a patient handoff component configured to provide a patient handoff user interface that provides functionality for care of a patient to be handed off from a first team of healthcare providers initially assigned to care for the patient to a second team of healthcare providers subsequently assigned to care for the patient; and a messaging component comprising computer hardware, the messaging component configured to:
provide the first team of healthcare providers with access to a patient messaging user interface while the first team of healthcare providers is assigned to care for the patient, the patient messaging user interface configured to enable members of the first team of healthcare providers to post messages regarding care of the patient for access by each other and by the second team of healthcare providers, without the first healthcare provider having to know an identity of the second healthcare provider;receive a first message posted by a first healthcare provider of the first team;automatically construct a list of recipients of the first message by taking into account on and off duty status of the first and second teams of healthcare providers;send the first message to the list of recipients;post the first message to the user interface; andin response to care of the patient being transferred from the first team of healthcare providers to the second team of healthcare providers, automatically provide the second team of healthcare providers with access to the posted messages, including the first message, regarding the patient posted by the first team of healthcare providers.