SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR OBTAINING AND DISPLAYING MEDICAL DATA TO ASSIST DECISION MAKING DURING A MEDICAL EMERGENCY
The invention relates to systems and methods for obtaining particular medical data from a patient and organizing and presenting medical data for the objective of improving workflow and decision making during a medical emergency. More specifically, the systems and methods enable a first party to enter specific medical information about the patient wherein the system organizes the medical data in terms of relevancy for potential emergency situations and displays that relevant medical information to another party when that another party gains access to the system when a medical emergency is occurring.
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52 . A method of presenting specific medical data pertaining to one or more medical conditions about a patient to a user, the method of presenting occurring through a computer network, the method comprising the steps of:
a) enabling the user to access a medical database having medical records about one or more patients when a medical emergency is occurring;
b) prompting the user to identify if a medical emergency is occurring and if the user confirms that a medical emergency is occurring, further prompting the user to identify the type of medical emergency;
c) displaying to the user medical information about the patient that has been previously marked as relevant to the particular type of medical emergency identified by the user through step b)
wherein prior to step c) the database executes steps to apply pre-set rules to medical information contained within fields within a patient's database record and where the pre-set rules will flag medical information within the fields as being relevant or not-relevant to one or more of a set number of medical conditions to create flagged field data and wherein the database further executes steps to place flagged field data within a document template associated with a specific medical condition for display to the user.