IP Library Granted Patent US 11,756,659
Granted Patent B2
US 11,756,659 · App. 17/456,286 · Granted Sep 12, 2023

Medical services tracking system and method

Inventor: Leonard Ginsburg (Merion, PA)
Assignee: DHRpro, LLC
G16H10/60G16H15/00
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Patent No.
US 11,756,659
App. No.
17/456,286
Granted
Sep 12, 2023
Kind
B2
Abstract

Some embodiments include a system and computer-implemented method for aggregating and tracking medical delivery to a patient including a non-transitory computer-readable medium in data communication with at least one processor, where the non-transitory computer-readable medium includes software instructions for a medical services tracking system and method. Upon execution of the software instructions, information from a patient database or server can be received and displayed a medical record dashboard. A user can view and edit access to the information, and a user selectable link can display medical record information. The system and method enable auto-population of medical data entry fields based at least one part on at least one claim made or billing signed off by a physician for at least one medical service or procedure previously provided to or performed on at least one patient.

Claims (108)

1. A computer implemented method comprising:

generating a medical record dashboard including information received or derived from a data source, the medical record dashboard comprising a first window for display of information corresponding to multiple elements selected from the group consisting of medical services, clinical data, examination findings, diagnostic tests, images, medical documents, plans, patient measurements, office visits, and procedures performed on one or more patients, the first window comprising data fields for displaying such information received or derived from the data source;

arranging the information in the first window according to a date that the multiple elements were performed such that information corresponding to the multiple elements having a same date are displayed on a same axis and changes over multiple dates are observable;

accessing claims data to obtain a status of claims corresponding to the information displayed for elements comprising medical services and procedures performed;

generating one or more respective indicators by transforming the accessed claims data to identify the corresponding status of the claims; and

including the one or more respective indicators on the first window such that the one or more respective indicators are associated with the information corresponding medical services and procedures performed without having to navigate away from the first window.

2. The method of claim 1 wherein the axis comprises a row or a column.

3. The method of claim 1 and further comprising:

receiving a selection of one of the one or more respective indicators; and

displaying underlying claim information in a second window as a function of a first link associated with the one of the one or more respective indicators.

4. The method of claim 1 , wherein at least one of the data fields is selectable by at least one of a user single click or a hover of a screen pointer over the at least one selectable data field, to display underlying information corresponding to at least one of the multiple elements on at least one or more windows of the medical record dashboard without navigating away from the first window.

5. The method of claim 4 , wherein at least one selectable data field comprises at least one of an icon, an indicator, or a graphical marker able to change in appearance based on a status of underlying patient medical or claim information.

6. The method of claim 5 , wherein the status of the underlying patient medical information includes at least one of (1) a worsening problem, disease, symptom, condition, test, outcome, or diagnosis, (2) a stable problem, disease, symptom condition, test, outcome, or diagnosis, and (3) an improving problem, disease, symptom, condition, test, outcome, or diagnosis of the patient over time.

7. The method of claim 1 wherein at least one of the one or more respective indicators changes in appearance based on a status of an underlying claim changing.

8. The method of claim 1 , wherein at least one of the one or more respective indicators identifies at least one of a claim not yet made, a claim being made, a claim being paid, a payment being pending, and a payment being denied.

9. The method of claim 1 , wherein at least one of the one or more respective indicators coresponds to multiple current procedural terminology codes (“CPT codes ”) on the same axis.

10. The method of claim 1 , wherein at least one indicator identifies the status by a change in color of the indicator.

11. The method of claim 1 and further comprising generating a report listing of at least one of one or more patients seen by one or more medical service providers on a specified day or date range, listing diagnosis codes for the at least one or more patients, listing current procedural terminology code (“CPT code”) for the at least one or more patients, listing international classification of disease codes (“ICD code”) for the at least one or more patients, and listing office visit billing codes for the at least one or more patients.

12. The method of claim 1 , wherein at least one of the data fields is selectable by a user to enable the user to send a message to corresponding to the data field.

13. The method of claim 1 , and further comprising:

receiving a send message selection associated with a selected data field;

receiving text for the message; and

sending the message to a patient, provider, or medical or billing staff, corresponding to the selected data field.

14. The method of claim 1 and further comprising:

receiving a new message request related to the claim; and

sending a new message related to the claim.

15. The method of claim 1 , wherein at least one of the indicators is manually settable by a user.

16. The method of claim 1 wherein at least one indicator has an attribute that is different for the status of the claim being made, billed, rejected, or paid.

17. The method of claim 1 wherein the one or more respective indicators are in a same field of the first window as the corresponding displayed information.

18. The method of claim 1 wherein the multiple elements are populated as a function of current procedural terminology codes (“CPT codes”) or international classification of disease codes (“ICD codes”).

19. The method of claim 18 wherein all CPT codes for services and procedures performed on a selected date are displayed all on the same axis.

20. The method of claim 1 wherein one of the indicators identifies information for clinical review.

21. The method of claim 1 wherein one of the indicators is generated by accessing and processing parameters corresponding to missed appointments.

22. The method of claim 1 wherein one of the indicators comprises an attribute of the information corresponding to the element.

23. The method of claim 1 wherein one of the indicators comprises a graphic.

24. The method of claim 1 wherein one of the multiple elements includes a patient measurement, a plan, or a medical document or medical report.

25. The method of claim 1 , wherein at least one of the indicators is selectable by at least one of a user single click or a hover of a screen pointer over the at least one selectable indicator, to display underlying information corresponding to at least one of the multiple elements for one or more patients on at least one or more windows of the medical record dashboard without navigating away from the first window.

26. The method of claim 1 wherein at least one of the indicators is populated to reflect a status of one of better, worse, or unchanged, or improving, declining, or unchanged. or paid or denied.

27. The method of claim 1 wherein the one or more respective indicators comprise two or more respective indicators on a same axis.

28. The method of claim 1 the multiple elements do not include an international classification of disease (ICD) diagnosis code.

29. The method of claim 1 wherein the multiple elements comprise three or more elements.

30. The method of claim 1 wherein the multiple elements comprise an international classification of disease (ICD) diagnosis code, a current procedural terminology (CPT) code, and at least one other clement including an additional CPT code on the same axis or another element from the group consisting of, clinical data, examination findings, medical documents, medical provider plan, and patient measurements.

31. The method of claim 1 wherein the multiple elements are populated as a function of current procedural terminology codes (“CPT codes”) or international classification of disease codes (“ICD codes”).

32. A non-transitory machine-readable storage device having instructions for execution by a processor of a machine to cause the processor to perform operations to perform a method, the operations comprising:

generating a medical record dashboard including information received or derived from a data source, the medical record dashboard comprising a first window for display of information corresponding to multiple elements selected from the group consisting of medical services, clinical data, examination findings, diagnostic tests, images, medical documents, plans, patient measurements, office visits, and procedures performed on one or more patients, the first window comprising data fields for displaying such information received or derived from the data source;

arranging the information in the first window according to a date that the multiple elements were performed such that information corresponding to the multiple elements having a same date are displayed on a same axis and changes over multiple dates are observable;

accessing claims data to obtain a status of claims corresponding to the information displayed for elements comprising medical services and procedures performed,

generating one or more respective indicators by transforming the accessed claims data to identify the corresponding status of the claims; and

including the one or more respective indicators on the first window such that the one or more respective indicators are associated with the information corresponding medical services and procedures performed without having to navigate away from the first window.

33. The device of claim 32 wherein at least one of the indicators is manually settable by a user.

34. The device of claim 32 wherein one of the multiple elements includes a patient measurement, a plan, or a medical document or medical report.

35. The device of claim 32 wherein the one or more respective indicators comprise two or more respective indicators on a same axis.

36. The device of claim 32 wherein the multiple elements do not include an international classification of disease (ICD) diagnosis code.

37. The device of claim 32 wherein the multiple elements comprise three or more elements.

38. The device of claim 32 wherein the multiple elements comprise an international classification of disease (ICD) diagnosis code, a current procedural terminology (CPT) code, and at least one other element including an additional CPT code on the same axis or another element from the group consisting of, clinical data, examination findings, medical documents, medical provider plan, and patient measurements.

39. The device of claim 32 wherein the multiple elements are populated as a function of current procedural terminology codes (“CPT codes”) or international classification of disease codes (“ICD codes”).

40. A device comprising:

a processor, and

a memory device coupled to the processor and having a program stored thereon for execution by the processor to perform operations comprising:

generating a medical record dashboard including information received or derived from a data source, the medical record dashboard comprising a first window for display of information corresponding to multiple elements selected from the group consisting of medical services, clinical data, examination findings, diagnostic tests, images, medical documents, plans, patient measurements, office visits, and procedures performed on one or more patients, the first window comprising data fields for displaying such information received or derived from the data source;

arranging the information in the first window according to a date that the multiple elements were performed such that information corresponding to the multiple elements having a same date are displayed on a same axis and changes over multiple dates are observable;

accessing claims data to obtain a status of claims corresponding to the information displayed for elements comprising medical services and procedures performed;

generating one or more respective indicators by transforming the accessed claims data to identify the corresponding status of the claims; and

including the one or more respective indicators on the first window such that the one or more respective indicators are associated with the information corresponding medical services and procedures performed without having to navigate away from the first window.

41. The device of claim 40 wherein at least one of the indicators is manually settable by a user.

42. The device of claim 40 wherein the one or more respective indicators comprise two or more respective indicators on a same axis.

43. The device of claim 40 the multiple elements do not include an international classification of disease (ICD) diagnosis code.

44. The device of claim 40 wherein the multiple elements comprise three or more elements.

45. The device of claim 40 wherein the multiple elements comprise an international classification of disease (ICD) diagnosis code, a current procedural terminology (CPT) code, and at least one other element including an additional CPT code on the same axis or another element from the group consisting of, clinical data, examination findings, medical documents, medical provider plan, and patient measurements.

46. The device of claim 40 wherein the multiple elements are populated as a function of current procedural terminology codes (“CPT codes”) or international classification of disease codes (“LCD codes”).

47. The device of claim 40 wherein one of the multiple elements includes a patient measurement, a plan, or a medical document or medical report.

48. A computer implemented method of displaying data on a display, the method comprising:

generating a medical record dashboard including information received or derived from a data source, the medical record dashboard comprising a first window having data fields for display of information corresponding to multiple elements selected from the group consisting of medical services, clinical data, examination findings, diagnostic tests, images, medical documents, plans, patient measurements and procedures performed on one or more patients, the first window displaying such information received or derived from the data source in the data fields;

arranging the information in the first window according to a time that at least one of the multiple elements was performed such that changes in the information representative of a patient's medical service or condition over time are observable; and

including a first indicator in a first data field and a second indicator in the first data field on a same axis as the information according to a respective first one of the multiple elements, the first and second indicators identifying the information and a respective status by accessing and transforming data to generate one of the first and second indicators without having to navigate away from the medical record dashboard.

49. The method of claim 48 wherein one of the first and second indicators is populated to identify a respective claim status.

50. The method of claim 48 wherein the axis comprises a row or column.

51. The method of claim 48 and further comprising:

receiving a selection of the first indicator; and

displaying underlying information as a function of a first link associated with the first indicator.

52. The method of claim 48 wherein the status indicates one of better or worse or unchanged, or improving or declining or unchanged, or paid or denied.

53. The method of claim 48 , wherein at least one of the data fields is selectable by at least one of a user click or a hover of a screen pointer over the at least one selectable data field, to display underlying information corresponding to at least one of the multiple elements for one or more patients.

54. The method of claim 48 wherein at least one of the indicators is selectable by at least one of a user click or a hover of a screen pointer over the at least one indicator, to display underlying information corresponding to at least one of the multiple elements for one or more patients.

55. The method of claim 48 , wherein at least one of the data fields enables the user to send a message to a patient, provider, or medical billing staff, corresponding to the selected data field.

56. The method of claim 48 wherein a respective indicator of at least one of the first and second indicators is manually settable by a user.

57. The method of claim 48 wherein the information comprises current procedural terminology codes (“CPT codes”) or international classification of disease codes (“ICD codes”).

58. The method of claim 48 wherein the multiple elements are populated as a function of current procedural terminology codes (“CPT codes”) or international classification of disease codes (“ICD codes”).

59. The method of claim 48 wherein one of the first and second indicators is populated to identify a respective change in medical status or change in the element or in another indicator including one of better or worse or unchanged or improving or declining or unchanged from a previous status.

60. The method of claim 48 , wherein at least one data field comprises at least one of an icon, an indicator, or a graphical marker able to change in appearance based on a status of another indicator or underlying patient medical or claim information.

61. The method of claim 60 . wherein the status of the underlying patient medical information includes at least one of (1) a worsening problem, disease, symptom, condition, test, outcome, or diagnosis, (2) a stable problem, disease, symptom condition, test, outcome, or diagnosis, and (3) an improving problem, disease, symptom, condition, test, outcome, or diagnosis of the patient over time.

62. The method of claim 48 , wherein at least one indicator identifies the status by a size change or change in color of the indicator.

63. The method of claim 48 wherein at least one of the indicators comprises an attribute of the information corresponding to the element.

64. The method of claim 48 and further comprising including one or more further indicators.

65. The method of claim 48 wherein the first indicator represents a type of element and the second indicator represents the status of the element.

66. The method of claim 48 wherein one of the multiple elements includes a patient measurement, a plan, or a medical document or medical report.

67. The method of claim 48 wherein the first and second indicators are in a same field as the corresponding displayed information.

68. A computer implemented method of displaying data on a display, the method comprising:

generating a medical record dashboard including information received or derived from a data source, the medical record dashboard comprising a first window having data fields for display of information corresponding to multiple elements selected from the group consisting of medical services, clinical data, examination findings, diagnostic tests, images, medical documents, plans, patient measurements and procedures performed on one or more patients, the first window displaying such information received or derived from the data source in the data fields;

arranging the information in the first window according to a time that at least one of the multiple elements was performed such that changes in the information representative of a patient's medical service or condition over time are observable; and

including a first indicator in a first data field and a second indicator in the first data field of a same axis as the information according to a respective first one of the multiple elements, the first indicator identifying a type of element and the second indicator identifying a status of the element, without having to navigate away from the medical record dashboard.

69. The method of claim 68 and further comprising:

receiving a selection of the first indicator; and

displaying underlying information as a function of a first link associated with the first indicator.

70. The method of claim 68 wherein the status indicates one of better or worse or unchanged, or improving or declining or unchanged, or paid or denied.

71. The method of claim 68 wherein one of the first and second indicators is populated to identify a respective change in medical status or change in the element or in another indicator including one of better or worse or unchanged or improving or declining or unchanged from a previous status.

72. The method of claim 68 , wherein at least one data field comprises at least one of an icon, an indicator, or a graphical marker able to change in appearance based on a status of another indicator or underlying patient medical or claim information.

73. The method of claim 72 , wherein the status of the underlying patient medical information includes at least one of (1) a worsening problem, disease, symptom, condition, test, outcome, or diagnosis, (2) a stable problem, disease, symptom condition, test, outcome, or diagnosis, and (3) an improving problem, disease, symptom, condition, test, outcome, or diagnosis of the patient over time.

74. The method of claim 68 , wherein at least one indicator identifies the status by a size change or change in color of the indicator.

Assignments (2)
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Mar 17, 2023
From: EHR COMMAND CENTER, LLC
To: DHRPRO, LLC
Reel/Frame 063014/0388 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Feb 18, 2022
From: GINSBURG, LEONARD H.
To: EHR COMMAND CENTER, LLC
Reel/Frame 059044/0550 →
Continuity (4)
Continuation 16399974 · Apr 30, 2019
Continuation 14666278 · Mar 23, 2015
Provisional Application 61968693 · Mar 21, 2014
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