Computer implemented medical treatment management system

Command-Driven Voice Recognition

[0289]By way of example, the system 10 may be utilized in a medical facility and accessed through a computer 11 with a wireless communication interface 48. Users of the system may interact with the system 10 through the general input devices 32, identification reader 33, and wireless headsets that incorporate the microphone 36 and speaker 46. As such, users may be able to interact with the system 10 through templates and command-driven voice recognition to enable real-time information gathering. In some embodiments, each category of data that can be stored in the database 28 is configured with a voice command. The user may speak the specific voice command, or a combination of voice commands, to store data associated with that category. For instance, to access data in the Facility Tables 58 the user may speak “Facility” and then a specific category, such as “Equipment,” followed by a particular command, such as “Type,” to input data in the “Equipment_Type

Formatting Stored Data For Report

[0293]In addition to real-time charting, the system 10 may automatically format stored patient data for inclusion into reports. When a user documents information, that information may be formatted for a report to read as more than just a listing of data. As such, the report may include user-configurable templates that combine information into paragraphs that are insertable into the report. For example, and with reference to the documentation of blood pressure in Example 1, a report template may format that data for a report to read, “The patient's blood pressure was recorded as 126 / 70 mmHg at 3:22 p.m. on Friday, Apr. 11, 2009.” The formatting of the data may occur as the data is entered, after the data is entered but before inclusion into the report, or “on-the-fly” as the data is incorporated into the report.

Equipment Interfaces

[0294]The system 10 may be configured to interface with a variety of equipment and instruments. For example, interfaces are configured to interface with the vital signs equipment 22, microphone 36, camera system 38, electronic switching interface 40, and speaker 46. Additionally, the system 10 may be configured to interface with additional equipment, such as x-ray equipment, urology equipment, pulmonary equipment, gastroenterology equipment, radiographic equipment, and cardiology equipment, among others. As such, the system 10 is configured to accept additional interfaces as needed to interface with that additional equipment. In some embodiments, additional interfaces for the additional equipment may be configured to selectively activate command-driven voice recognition for the user in response to an action of the user in a similar manner as that disclosed when an image is captured from the camera system 38 in response to activation of the electronic switching inter