Abstract: A method and apparatus for making information associated with a patient at a medical facility available, the method comprising the steps of providing a processor, a database and at least a first interface device, the processor linked to each of the interface device and the database via a network and during an admit period that occurs between admission of a first patient to and discharge of the first patient from the facility, allowing at least one of the first patient and a proxy for the first patient to access at least a subset of admit period information associated with the first patient that reflects activities related to the first patient that occur during the admit period where the admit period information includes official facility generated information.

Abstract: A method of determining and displaying a plurality of tasks to a user in a healthcare environment is provide that includes receiving an order associated with a patient, determining a type of the order, and identifying a task template associated with the order. The method further includes determining if an overriding template exists for the order, linking one of the task template or the overriding template to the order, and associating one or more task records with the linked template. The method also includes determining a plurality of tasks corresponding to the task records, adding the plurality of tasks to a work list, filtering the plurality of tasks on the work list for a patient list based on an attribute of the user and displaying the filtered list to the user.

Abstract: A method of responding to an order placed in a patient's electronic medical record including receiving the order associated with the patient, determining a type of the order, identifying a task template associated with the order, and linking the task template to the order. The method also includes determining if an overriding template exists for the order, linking the overriding template to the order if the overriding template exists, and reacting to the order with a response, wherein the response is one of the following responses: scheduling a task on a work list, adding a row to a flowsheet, adding an educational topic to an educational record associated with the patient, adding a care plan intervention to the patient's electronic medical record, sending a notification, executing a custom programming, or adding a group of text to a discharge instruction associated with the patient.