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  User interface system for maintaining organization related information for use in supporting organization operationUSPTO Application #: 20060167863Title: User interface system for maintaining organization related information for use in supporting organization operation Abstract: A system and user friendly display interface supports creation and modification of a flexible and comprehensive organization structure model able to support provision of clinical care, patient tracking, billing and administration. A method provides a user interface for maintaining organization related information in support of organization operation. The method involves receiving search criteria for use in identifying organization characteristic information. The search criteria is employed in searching a profile comprising information identifying an encompassing organization structure including information identifying multiple constituent organizations and associated organization type and user determinable organization role. Search result information is processed in providing organization characteristic information suitable for presentation to a user via a displayed image in response to user command. A user interface menu supports modification of information representing the encompassing organization structure by adding, removing or moving an organization in the encompassing organization structure and updating a database to incorporate the modifications. (end of abstract) Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department - Iselin, NJ, US Inventors: Douglas J. Cole, Mike Digiacomo, Ilene Sue Yost USPTO Applicaton #: 20060167863 - Class: 707003000 (USPTO) Related Patent Categories: Data Processing: Database And File Management Or Data Structures, Database Or File Accessing, Query Processing (i.e., Searching) The Patent Description & Claims data below is from USPTO Patent Application 20060167863. Brief Patent Description - Full Patent Description - Patent Application Claims
[0001] This is a Divisional application of non-provisional application Ser. No. 10/167,730 filed Jun. 11, 2002 claiming priority to provisional application Ser. No. 60/337,840 filed Oct. 22, 2001 of which the non-provisional application was filed together with commonly owned non-provisional related application Ser. No. 10/167,288 filed Jun. 11, 2002. FIELD OF THE INVENTION [0002] This invention concerns a system and user interface for processing organization related information for use in supporting healthcare or other organization operation, for example. BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION [0003] Modern healthcare requires the provision of services to patients by many health-care workers at a multiplicity of locations and involves a corresponding multiplicity of organizations (e.g. companies, payers, institutions, physician practices, clinics, hospitals, pharmacies etc.). Healthcare operations are structured into specialized departments such as nursing, laboratory, radiology, pharmacy, surgery, emergency, administrative and other departments which are variously located at one or more sites and may be associated with different organizations. The management of organization information involves accumulating, processing and maintaining large quantities of information. This information is employed in determining organizational relationships, affiliations and characteristics used in creating a representative organizational model supporting provision of clinical care, patient tracking, billing and administration and other purposes. Consequently, there is a need for a computerized system capable of defining and maintaining organization information for a health care enterprise and for supporting healthcare system operation by defining, processing and filtering organization information for presentation to users and other system software applications. [0004] Available organization information management systems have limited capabilities and numerous deficiencies. Specifically, available systems are typically restricted in organization structure models that are supported. Available systems also have a limited capability to identify and define and model specific organization characteristics and structures. One known system provides a fixed hierarchical organization structure of seven levels including: a healthcare enterprise, a billing organization, a billing office, clinics and departments, a specialty, a reserved level and providers. These levels are constrained to be identified when the associated model structure is created. Further, the defined hierarchical organization model is limited in its ability to support billing administration for entities at the different levels (e.g. for different organization healthcare reimbursement plan groups at different levels of the structure). [0005] Other limitations of the known system include an inability to accommodate types of organizational relationships. These include, for example, relationships among organizations external to a billing function and other loose affiliations within a health system (encompassing a service provider not affiliated with the health system, but required for use by the patient's payer, for example). Further, limitations include lack of search and reporting capability and inability to portray an organizational structure in a user selectable hierarchical, flat or other format. Other available organization information system deficiencies include an inflexible interface for updating and maintaining an organization profile that typically requires off-line system re-programming. In consequence it is desirable to provide an organization information system that is robust, flexible, comprehensive and user-friendly. A system according to invention principles addresses the identified deficiencies and derivative problems. SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION [0006] A system and user friendly display interface supports creation and modification of a flexible and comprehensive organization structure model able to support provision of clinical care, patient tracking, billing and administration. A method provides a user interface for maintaining organization related information in support of organization operation. The method involves receiving search criteria for use in identifying organization characteristic information. The search criteria is employed in searching a profile comprising information identifying an encompassing organization structure including information identifying multiple constituent organizations and associated organization type and user determinable organization role. Search result information is processed in providing organization characteristic information suitable for presentation to a user via a displayed image in response to user command. BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWING [0007] FIG. 1 shows a healthcare enterprise employing an organization management information system, according to invention principles. [0008] FIG. 2 shows a flowchart of a process employed by the organization management information system of FIG. 1 in presenting searching and processing organization information, according to invention principles. [0009] FIG. 3 shows a flowchart of a process for creating, modifying and maintaining an organization profile within the organization management information system of FIG. 1, according to invention principles. [0010] FIG. 4 shows a user interface display image navigation sequence supporting the organization management information system, according to invention principles. [0011] FIG. 5 shows a user interface display image navigation sequence supporting maintenance of an organization structure model, according to invention principles. [0012] FIG. 6 shows a user interface display image supporting maintenance of an organization structure model, according to invention principles. [0013] FIG. 7 shows a user interface display image navigation sequence supporting adding a new organization node to a particular organization structure model, according to invention principles. [0014] FIG. 8 shows a user interface display image navigation sequence supporting adding an already created organization node to a particular organization structure model, according to invention principles. [0015] FIG. 9 shows a user interface display image navigation sequence supporting moving an organization node within a particular organization structure model, according to invention principles. [0016] FIG. 10 shows a user interface display image menu supporting a user search for an organization within a particular organization structure model, according to invention principles. [0017] FIG. 11 shows a composite user interface display image including a first window supporting a user search for an organization within a particular organization structure model and a second window showing corresponding search results, according to invention principles. DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF INVENTION [0018] FIG. 1 shows a healthcare enterprise employing an organization management information system. The organization management information system supports creation, management and modification of a profile comprising information identifying a hierarchical organization of constituent organizations associated with healthcare delivery. Although, the embodiments are described in the context of healthcare associated organizations, this is exemplary only. The principles of the invention are readily applicable to any form of hierarchically structured organization. Further, as used herein, an organization comprises a grouping of entities or an individual entity such as an institution, an enterprise, a company, a department, a government, an operation, a corporation, a clinic, an office, a business, or sub-units within them. The organization management information system enables maintenance of organization related information to support operational processes such as billing and accounts receivable, and to facilitate access to appropriate organizations and associated information. The system facilitates setup and minimizes user maintenance of an organizational hierarchy used to support organizational operational system functions and to streamline healthcare system workflow. Workflow as used herein comprises a sequence of tasks or operations that are scheduled for performance, or are being performed, by one or more entities including individuals, groups of individuals, or personnel assigned to perform particular functions or roles. [0019] The organizations defined may comprise a Health Provider Organization (HPO) or organizations that directly or indirectly provide health related services within an Integrated Health System (IHS). An organization management information profile is contained in a master file. Further, the profile information is collated for presentation in different structural presentations. The organization information may be selectively presented in a hierarchical or non-hierarchical type presentation. Specifically, a hierarchical structured information presentation is used to represent a billing structure of an IHS, to indicate a particular HPO that manages the billing and accounts receivable for multiple HPOs providing services. Also a non-hierarchical structured information presentation is used to indicate HPOs that are not part of an operational hierarchy, for example. Continue reading... Full patent description for User interface system for maintaining organization related information for use in supporting organization operation Brief Patent Description - Full Patent Description - Patent Application Claims Click on the above for other options relating to this User interface system for maintaining organization related information for use in supporting organization operation patent application. ###  How KEYWORD MONITOR works... a FREE service from FreshPatents1. Sign up (takes 30 seconds). 2. Fill in the keywords to be monitored. 3. Each week you receive an email with patent applications related to your keywords. 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