Clinical decision support system for guideline selection and knowledge/location indication with the guideline

摘要

A clinical decision support system ( 30 ) displays a patient treatment guideline ( 20 ) for a given patient in response to a query from a medical practitioner along with an indicator ( 21 ) as to what state in the patient treatment guideline ( 20 ) the current patient is. According to one aspect of the present invention, an exemplary embodiment of a method ( 40 ) for interacting with a medical record of a patient includes: entering a patient identification ( 43 ) into a user interface ( 33 ) along with a care provider identification; selecting a patient treatment guideline ( 45 ) based on the entered information; and displaying the patient treatment guideline ( 46 ) on the user interface ( 33 ) along with an indicator ( 21 ) identifying a current point in the patient treatment guideline (20 ). An exemplary embodiment of an apparatus ( 30 ) for interacting with a medical record of a patient includes storage ( 32 ), a user interface ( 33 ) and a processor ( 31 ). The storage ( 32 ) stores one or more patient treatment guidelines ( 20 ). The user interface ( 33 ) accepts a command from a user identifying a patient and context information and displays a selected patient treatment guideline ( 20 ) from among the one or more patient treatment guidelines ( 20 ). The processor ( 31 ) searches the storage ( 32 ) for the selected patient guideline ( 20 ) that matches the identified patient and the context information.