Abstract: A system and method for facilitating a clinical intervention involving a healthcare provider and a patient is disclosed. A window enables healthcare personnel to access a plurality of reference codes for documenting the clinical intervention. Each of the plurality of reference codes are pre-defined by a healthcare facility and include at least one parameter. Healthcare personnel document the clinical intervention by selecting among the pre-defined parameters to characterize the clinical intervention.

Abstract: A system and method is disclosed for utilizing electronic clinical documentation, including nursing orders, patient treatment orders, and systems and methods for providing decision support, including clinical decision support, during the treatment of a patient.

Abstract: A system and method is disclosed for utilizing electronic clinical documentation with point of care treatment of a patient within a healthcare facility.

Abstract: A system for facilitating treatment of a patient includes a record of encounters between the patient and a healthcare facility to be utilized for providing an encounter list for consideration during treatment. The system includes a processor and a memory. The processor and memory cooperate to maintain the record of encounters. An interface operably connected to the processor includes an entry module and a display module. The encounter list is generated in response to a request by healthcare personnel utilizing the interface. The encounter list is capable of being viewed on the interface in various modes.

Abstract: A healthcare database management offline backup and synchronization system having an active database for storing active records and an archive database for storing inactive records. The databases are coupled by a communication link and the system is able to transfer and store records that have become inactive from the active database to the archive database. The database records are archived and purged based on predefined rules. The system allows continuous access to a local medical depot computer database on a network even when the network link is severed. The system updates local and central computer databases regularly, while the link is active and synchronizes database records after computer communications are restored.

Abstract: A system and method for facilitating a time-based infusion order treatment including an infusion wizard being capable of receiving a time-based infusion order request. The system further includes a database of at least one predefined infusion order template, and a scheduler being responsive to the infusion wizard. The scheduler is capable of utilizing the time-based order request to generate an infusion treatment schedule. A publisher publishes the generated infusion treatment schedule.

Abstract: An automated messaging system for use with a healthcare facility system for automatically providing clinicians associated with the facility alerts or messages upon certain patient centered events occurring. The healthcare facility system preferably clinicians access to electronic medical charts for each patient. The alerts can be placed onto Information Summary screens or windows provided for each clinician.

Abstract: A diluent identifying system comprising a computer or computer network for maintaining a database of additives for infusion processes. The system identifying one or more diluents that can be used with each additive.

Abstract: A computerized system for creating a new customized order type for use in a computerized healthcare facility system. A computer generates a template, preferably displayed as a window, for collecting information for creating an order type customized for use by a particular healthcare facility. A user can enter the required information and save the order type as a standard order type for later order entry by a clinician or other user of the healthcare facility system.

Abstract: A computerized system for providing a maximum concentration of an additive in a solution. The system receives information identifying one or more additives for use in an admixture and generates a message providing a maximum concentration for such additives in the admixture. The system may be used to ensure that additives in prescribed admixtures do not exceed the maximum concentration level.

Abstract: A system and method for providing multiple units of measurement for administering medication in a patient care system. The system and method coordinate the use of the plurality of medication units of measure throughout the patient care system. The system may be implemented as a computer program including logic for: displaying a plurality of medication units of measure that are commonly used by subsystems of the patient care system and logic for equating the plurality of medication units of measure.

Abstract: A method or system for obtaining information from a bar code comprising the steps of maintaining a database of a plurality of algorithms for decoding a bar code, scanning a bar code associated with a particular item, determining the length of the bar code, identifying algorithms from said database for decoding a bar code of the determined length, applying the identified algorithms to the scanned bar code, and verifying one of the identified algorithms as a correct algorithm for obtaining and utilizing information or data from the scanned bar code. The verifying step can be determining if a segment of the scanned bar code contains a portion of the information of the scanned bar code within an expected range for the chosen segment.

Abstract: A system and method for verifying that the right medication is efficiently provided to the right patient, in the right dose, at the right time, and via the right route. The invention also relates to efficiently coordinating infusion therapy with patient care system billing and inventory subsystems.