Treatment management system

Title: Treatment management system

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The Patent Description & Claims data below is from USPTO Patent Application 20080275739, Treatment management system.

1. A patient treatment management system for a hospital comprising: at least one database for storing data related to a patient including observations, test results, diagnosis, at least one treatment regimen and a treatment plan; at least one healthcare provider terminal for use by healthcare providers to exchange said data with said database; at least one monitoring device for sending medical device operating data related to the patient during the administration of the treatment plan to said database; and a computer connected to said at least one database, said at least one healthcare provider terminal and said at least one monitoring device and generating an evaluation of the treatment regimen based upon said data.

2. The system according to claim 1 including at least one visual control connected to said computer for communicating to the healthcare providers information related to a potential problem associated with the treatment regimen.

3. The system according to claim 1 including at least one administration terminal connected to said computer for use by administrators to select and monitor performance measures of the treatment regimen.

4. The system according to claim 1 including a software program operated by said computer and having at least one of a treatment planning module, a treatment monitoring module, a hospital monitoring module, a healthcare insurance billing module, a patient billing module, a research and analysis support module, a supply chain management module and a personnel scheduling module.

5. A method for managing patient treatment comprising the steps of: a. providing a database; b. storing in the database data related to patients including observations, test results, diagnoses and treatment regimens; c. storing in the database medical device operating data related to the treatment regimens; and d. evaluating effectiveness of the treatment regimens based upon the data stored in the database.

6. The method according to claim 5 including determining a diagnosis for a patient based upon the stored observations and test results data, identifying all of the stored treatment regimens associated with the diagnosis, either customizing one of the identified treatment regimens or creating a new treatment regimen, and storing in the database the customized treatment regimen or the new treatment regiment.

7. The method according to claim 5 including monitoring the administration of the treatment regimen and issuing a reminder if a task associated with the treatment regimen is not completed on time.

8. The method according to claim 5 including monitoring the administration of the treatment regimen and issuing an alert if a success indicator associated with the treatment regimen is not achieved.

9. The method according to claim 8 including identifying other patients undergoing the same treatment regimen.

10. The method according to claim 5 including monitoring the selected performance measures associated with the treatment regimens.

11. The method according to claim 10 including generating visual controls to enable healthcare providers to anticipate problems associated with administration of the treatment regimens.

12. The method according to claim 5 including evaluating the treatment regimens and storing in the database only those treatment regimens that are effective.

13. The system according to claim 5 including using the data in the database to perform at least one of treatment planning, treatment monitoring, hospital monitoring, healthcare insurance billing, patient billing, research and analysis support, supply chain management and personnel scheduling.

14. A method for managing patient treatment comprising the steps of: a. providing a database; b. storing in the database a patient history for each patient including data related to observations, test results, diagnoses and treatment regimens associated with the patient; c. administering to each patient at least one of the treatment regimens based upon the diagnosis; d. storing in the patient histories in the database medical device operating data related to the administration of the treatment regimens; e. issuing a reminder if a task associated with one of the treatment regimens is not completed on time; and f. evaluating effectiveness of the treatment regimens based upon the data stored in the database.

15. The method according to claim 14 including monitoring the administration of each of the treatment regimens and issuing an alert if a success indicator associated with any one of the treatment regimens is not achieved.

16. The method according to claim 15 including identifying other patients undergoing the same treatment regimen.

17. The method according to claim 14 including either customizing one of the stored treatment regimens or creating a new treatment regimen and storing in the database the customized treatment regimen or the new treatment regiment.

18. The method according to claim 14 including monitoring selected performance measures associated with the treatment regimens.

19. The method according to claim 14 including generating visual controls to enable healthcare providers to anticipate problems associated with administration of the treatment regimens.

20. The system according to claim 14 using the data in the database to perform at least one of treatment planning, treatment monitoring, hospital monitoring, healthcare insurance billing, patient billing, research and analysis support, supply chain management and personnel scheduling.

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