Interconnected medical systems and clinician mobile device applications
An embodiment provides a method, including: accepting, from a mobile device, clinician credentials; authenticating, using a processor, a clinician using the clinician credentials; displaying, at the mobile device, a clinician specific data within a mobile device application, wherein the clinician specific data includes a plurality of patients currently associated with the clinician credentials; displaying, at the mobile device, an admission request form for requesting that a patient of the plurality of patients be admitted to another healthcare facility; accepting, at the mobile device, user input that populates one or more data fields of the admission request form; communicating, over a network connection, to a remote device an admission request generated using the user input; receiving, at the mobile device, admission confirmation data; and updating, using a processor, an admission status for the patient. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
1. A method, comprising:
accepting, from a mobile device at a mobile application, clinician credentials;
authenticating, using a processor, a clinician using the clinician credentials;
displaying, within the mobile application at the mobile device even when the mobile device is not connected to a proprietary network and based upon identifying the clinician from the clinician credentials, clinician specific data within a plurality of views on the mobile application,
wherein the clinician specific data comprises personal performance data corresponding to the clinician,
wherein the personal performance data comprises at least one efficiency indicator corresponding to data regarding treatment of patients by the clinician;
one of the plurality of views comprising a patient information view displaying a plurality of patients currently assigned to the clinician as identified via the clinician credentials,
wherein the patient information view comprises a plurality of selectable elements, each of the selectable elements corresponding to one of the plurality of patients and providing, when selected by the clinician, information corresponding to a given of the plurality of patients,
at least a portion of the information corresponding to a given of the plurality of patients comprising patient tracking obtained from a real time location system,
wherein the patient tracking provides information regarding a status of each of the plurality of patients, wherein the patient tracking is updated in real time within the information corresponding to a given of the plurality of patients from communication from a server to the mobile application,
wherein the patient tracking provides an estimate of a length of remaining stay of the patient in the location determined using historical patient information,
wherein the selectable elements are visually distinguished from each other based upon a location, identified from the real time location system, and a status of a patient corresponding to a given of the selectable elements,
wherein the information corresponding to a given of the plurality of patients comprises contextual information regarding the given of the plurality of patients;
another of the plurality of views comprising a task information view displaying information regarding tasks corresponding to the clinician;
the clinician specific data remaining electronically secure on the mobile device, the application providing secure communication mechanisms for communicating with another clinician;
displaying, at the mobile device and within the application, an admission request form for requesting, by the clinician, that a patient of the plurality of patients currently associated with the clinician be admitted to another healthcare facility;
accepting, at the mobile device and within the application, user input, from the clinician, that populates one or more data fields of the admission request form;
communicating, over a network connection, to a remote device an admission request generated using the user input;
receiving, at the mobile device, admission confirmation data; and
updating, using a processor, an admission status for the patient upon receipt of the admission confirmation data.
2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the admission request form comprises a transfer request form.
3. The method of claim 1 , wherein:
the clinician credentials are primary care physician credentials; and
the another health care facility is a hospital selected from a predetermined group of hospitals.
4. The method of claim 1 , further comprising receiving, at the mobile device, one or more patient updates associated with the patient.
5. The method of claim 4 , wherein the one or more patient updates are generated by a hospital that accepted the admission request.
6. The method of claim 5 , further comprising receiving, at the mobile device, a message from a clinician at the hospital that accepted the admission request.
7. The method of claim 5 , wherein the one or more patient updates are generated as the patient progresses through a course of hospital treatments.
8. The method of claim 7 , wherein the one or more patient updates are automatically communicated to the mobile device.
9. The method of claim 7 , wherein the one or more patient updates comprise a test result.
10. The method of claim 7 , wherein the one or more patient updates comprise electronic medical record data.