“Computerized Data Processing Systems And Methods For Generating Graphical User Interfaces” in Patent Application Approval Process (USPTO 20230197294): Patent Application

2023 JUL 10 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Insurance Daily News -- A patent application by the inventors Harber, Jason (Pittsburgh, PA, US); Mancine, Nathan (Cranberry Township, PA, US); Rovnan, John (Gibsonia, PA, US), filed on November 28, 2022, was made available online on June 22, 2023, according to news reporting originating from Washington, D.C., by NewsRx correspondents.

This patent application has not been assigned to a company or institution.

The following quote was obtained by the news editors from the background information supplied by the inventors: “Modern hospitals treat hundreds of patients every day. When a patient arrives, their condition and needs must be evaluated to ensure proper treatment and placement. Sometimes, the patient must meet with multiple physicians located in different hospital units or facilities, requiring the patient to be moved to and from their designated hospital room. Transferring patients between the units often requires synchronizing employee schedules, exchanging personal documents, and ensuring availability and cleanliness of the hospital beds. Due to the vast number of patients and urgency of care, these processes must be performed in a timely and efficient manner. Every minute of time lost for coordinating patient intake, placement, and transfer may significantly impact the hospital’s efficiency and the patient’s health condition.

“Traditional patient intake, placement, and transfer methods are time consuming, prone to error, and significantly underutilize the capabilities of the hospital. Additionally, traditional methods and systems do not provide sufficient patient information and support staff information coordination, resulting in longer staff transition and patient handoff times and decreased efficiency for the health care system. In view of the deficiencies of current systems, there is a need for improved patient intake, placement, and transfer systems.

“The disclosure is directed to mitigating or overcoming one or more of the problems set forth above and/or other problems in the prior art.”

In addition to the background information obtained for this patent application, NewsRx journalists also obtained the inventors’ summary information for this patent application: “In summary, one embodiment provides a method, the method including: receiving, at a centralized electronic management system, a set of referral requirements for each of a plurality of health care departments within a health system, wherein each set of referral requirements identifies a set of information requested by a given of the plurality of health care departments; creating, using the centralized electronic management system, a referral requirement form for each of the plurality of health care departments by creating a plurality of data entry fields associated with the set of referral requirements; receiving, at the centralized electronic management system, a referral request from a referring clinician to one of the plurality of health care departments, wherein the referral request is provided based upon the referral requirement form for the one of the plurality of health care departments; and providing, from the centralized electronic management system to the one of the plurality of health care departments, a referral notification generated responsive to the referral request.

“Another embodiment provides a system, the system including: a centralized electronic management system including a processor and a memory device that stores instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the system to: receive, at a centralized electronic management system, a set of referral requirements for each of a plurality of health care departments within a health system, wherein each set of referral requirements identifies a set of information requested by a given of the plurality of health care departments; create, using the centralized electronic management system, a referral requirement form for each of the plurality of health care departments by creating a plurality of data entry fields associated with the set of referral requirements; receive, at the centralized electronic management system, a referral request from a referring clinician to one of the plurality of health care departments, wherein the referral request is provided based upon the referral requirement form for the one of the plurality of health care departments; and provide, from the centralized electronic management system to the one of the plurality of health care departments, a referral notification generated responsive to the referral request.

“A further embodiment provides a product, the product including: a storage device that stores code, the code, that when executed by a processor, causes the product to: receive, at a centralized electronic management system, a set of referral requirements for each of a plurality of health care departments within a health system, wherein each set of referral requirements identifies a set of information requested by a given of the plurality of health care departments; create, using the centralized electronic management system, a referral requirement form for each of the plurality of health care departments by creating a plurality of data entry fields associated with the set of referral requirements; receive, at the centralized electronic management system, a referral request from a referring clinician to one of the plurality of health care departments, wherein the referral request is provided based upon the referral requirement form for the one of the plurality of health care departments; and provide, from the centralized electronic management system to the one of the plurality of health care departments, a referral notification generated responsive to the referral request.

“The foregoing summary is illustrative only and is not intended to be in any way limiting. For a better understanding of the embodiments, together with other and further features and advantages thereof, reference is made to the following description, taken in conjunction with the accompanying drawings”

The claims supplied by the inventors are:

“1. A method, the method comprising: receiving, at a centralized electronic management system, a set of referral requirements for each of a plurality of health care departments within a health system, wherein each set of referral requirements identifies a set of information requested by a given of the plurality of health care departments; creating, using the centralized electronic management system, a referral requirement form for each of the plurality of health care departments by creating a plurality of data entry fields associated with the set of referral requirements; receiving, at the centralized electronic management system, a referral request from a referring clinician to one of the plurality of health care departments, wherein the referral request is provided based upon the referral requirement form for the one of the plurality of health care departments; and providing, from the centralized electronic management system to the one of the plurality of health care departments, a referral notification generated responsive to the referral request.

“2. The method of claim 1, wherein each set of referral requirements further identifies formatting requirements for the set of information for the given of the plurality of health care departments.

“3. The method of claim 1, wherein the creating comprises placing the set of referral requirements into an electronic form accessible via a mobile application.

“4. The method of claim 3, wherein the referral request is received from the mobile application.

“5. The method of claim 3, wherein providing of the mobile application is responsive to receiving authentication information from the referring clinician.

“6. The method of claim 1, wherein the receiving a referral request is responsive to the centralized electronic management system providing the referral requirement form corresponding to the one of the plurality of health care departments to the referring clinician.

“7. The method of claim 1, wherein the providing comprises providing a referral notification form generated from the referral request and having a different format than the referral request form.

“8. The method of claim 1, wherein the providing the referral notification comprises outputting a graphical user interface comprising the notification to a display device corresponding to the one of the plurality of health care departments.

“9. The method of claim 1, wherein the providing the referral notification comprises filling a referral notification form based upon information contained within the referral request form.

“10. The method of claim 1, comprising maintaining, within the centralized electronic management system, tracking information of a patient corresponding to the referral request.

“11. A system, the system comprising: a centralized electronic management system comprising a processor and a memory device that stores instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the system to: receive, at a centralized electronic management system, a set of referral requirements for each of a plurality of health care departments within a health system, wherein each set of referral requirements identifies a set of information requested by a given of the plurality of health care departments; create, using the centralized electronic management system, a referral requirement form for each of the plurality of health care departments by creating a plurality of data entry fields associated with the set of referral requirements; receive, at the centralized electronic management system, a referral request from a referring clinician to one of the plurality of health care departments, wherein the referral request is provided based upon the referral requirement form for the one of the plurality of health care departments; and provide, from the centralized electronic management system to the one of the plurality of health care departments, a referral notification generated responsive to the referral request.

“12. The system of claim 11, wherein each set of referral requirements further identifies formatting requirements for the set of information for the given of the plurality of health care departments.

“13. The system of claim 11, wherein the creating comprises placing the set of referral requirements into an electronic form accessible via a mobile application.

“14. The system of claim 13, wherein the referral request is received from the mobile application.

“15. The system of claim 13, wherein providing of the mobile application is responsive to receiving authentication information from the referring clinician.

“16. The system of claim 11, wherein the receiving a referral request is responsive to the centralized electronic management system providing the referral requirement form corresponding to the one of the plurality of health care departments to the referring clinician.

“17. The system of claim 11, wherein the providing comprises providing a referral notification form generated from the referral request and having a different format than the referral request form.

“18. The system of claim 11, wherein the providing the referral notification comprises outputting a graphical user interface comprising the notification to a display device corresponding to the one of the plurality of health care departments.

“19. The system of claim 11, wherein the providing the referral notification comprises filling a referral notification form based upon information contained within the referral request form.

“20. A product, the product comprising: a storage device that stores code, the code, that when executed by a processor, causes the product to: receive, at a centralized electronic management system, a set of referral requirements for each of a plurality of health care departments within a health system, wherein each set of referral requirements identifies a set of information requested by a given of the plurality of health care departments; create, using the centralized electronic management system, a referral requirement form for each of the plurality of health care departments by creating a plurality of data entry fields associated with the set of referral requirements; receive, at the centralized electronic management system, a referral request from a referring clinician to one of the plurality of health care departments, wherein the referral request is provided based upon the referral requirement form for the one of the plurality of health care departments; and provide, from the centralized electronic management system to the one of the plurality of health care departments, a referral notification generated responsive to the referral request.”

URL and more information on this patent application, see: Harber, Jason; Mancine, Nathan; Rovnan, John. Computerized Data Processing Systems And Methods For Generating Graphical User Interfaces. U.S. Patent Application Number 20230197294, filed November 28, 2022 and posted June 22, 2023. Patent URL (for desktop use only): https://ppubs.uspto.gov/pubwebapp/external.html?q=(20230197294)&db=US-PGPUB&type=ids

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