Medical information text display system
A medical information system receives patient data and information from various sources and displays such information in a variety of formats for use by member of a medical team in a hospital, clinic, or office. The system receives patient information from doctors, pharmacists, patient monitoring equipment, testing laboratories, and/or computer databases. Access to selected subsets of patient information is provided by user selection of specific data sets identified by job function selection icons. A member of the medical team can record observations about a patient using key words and phrases which can be supplemented with additional text for customized notation. Multiple types of patient data are selectively displayed si- multaneously, and to multiple remote users. The system can access stored data according to user-specified formula to compute a score or metric which reflects a relationship between various factors, each factor being weighted appropriately according to its significance as defined in the formula. A user can selectively display data in graphic form by “clicking” on a row of tabular data in a tabular region of the display and “dragging and dropping” that row to a graphic display region of the display.
1. A medical information system, comprising:
A. a display device responsive to display signals representative of medical text in an image field,
B. a display signal controller including:
i. memory including stored data representative of a plurality of discrete phrases, each of said phrases being a sequence of words, or abbreviations or symbols therefore, representative of a medical condition,
ii. user select device responsive a user action to:
a display two or more of said plurality of discrete phrases,
b. select a sequence of two or more of said phrases and identify text entry points representative of desired positions of said phrases in said image field,
iii. user text entry device responsive to user action to selectively determine text to be deleted from said selected sequence of phrases and additional text to be displayed in said image field at desired positions in said image field in or between said selected phrases,
iv. display signal generator responsive to said select device and said text entry device to generate said display signals, said display signals being representative of said selected phrases and said determined text at their respective desired positions in said image field,
wherein said display device generates a split-screen region having a first subregion and a second subregion, and wherein said display signal generator effects said display device to display said display signals representative of said determined text in said first subregion and to display a graphical plot of said medical condition associated with a patient and as represented by said selected phrases as a function of time in said second subregion.
2. A system according to claim 1 wherein said user select device is selected from the group consisting of keyboard, lightpen, mouse, trackball, touchpad and speech recognition text generator.
3. A system according to claim 1 wherein said user text entry device includes one from the group consisting of a keyboard and a microphone.