Abstract:
When scheduling a clinical procedure such as a surgery, a clinician enters a deadline (i.e., a date of surgery or other procedure) and desired clinical procedures to be performed in advance thereof (e.g., lab tests, pathology tests, medical record review, etc.). A feasibility algorithm is executed and analyzes median pathway step completion times for a clinical pathway or workflow that is executed to satisfy the clinician's work order. A probability of completion of the clinical pathway by the specified deadline is also provided to the clinician. If the probability of completion is low (e.g., if the requested test results are unlikely to be ready by the scheduled surgery), then the clinician is prompted to adjust one or more of the surgery date and the clinical pathway steps to be completed thereby.
Abstract:
A method provides fully autonomous patient matching by entities of a federated healthcare system. The method includes receiving an electronically formatted query for a patient from an autonomous healthcare entity in a federation of healthcare entities. The query includes at least an identifier of the entity, a unique patient identifier of the patient generated by the entity, and demographics of the patient. The method further includes searching a federated master patient index stored in master patient index storage for an entry likely to correspond to the patient. The method further includes identifying an entry for the patient. The method further includes updating the identified entry to include at least the identifier of the entity, the unique patient identifier of the patient generated by the entity and the demographics.