Electronic patient healthcare system and method

• Main Authors: STEVEN D. PECK, RANDALE CRAIG SECHREST, GLEN M. TOLCHIN, GUS SAFARY, BEN CLEMENS, JAMES CORBIN FITCHETT JR, JAMES L. GRIBAUDO, CHARLES FREEDOM EATON, WILLIAM PHILLIPS, PAUL EMILE LAQUERRE, THOMAS ARUL, PETER T. BIANCO
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 06.07.2006
• Subjects: ADVERTISING; APPLIANCES FOR TEACHING, OR COMMUNICATING WITH, THE BLIND,DEAF OR MUTE; CALCULATING; COMPUTING; COUNTING; CRYPTOGRAPHY; DATA PROCESSING SYSTEMS OR METHODS, SPECIALLY ADAPTED FORADMINISTRATIVE, COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL, SUPERVISORYOR FORECASTING PURPOSES; DIAGRAMS; DISPLAY; EDUCATION; EDUCATIONAL OR DEMONSTRATION APPLIANCES; ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING; GLOBES; PHYSICS; PLANETARIA; SEALS; SYSTEMS OR METHODS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR ADMINISTRATIVE,COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL, SUPERVISORY OR FORECASTINGPURPOSES, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR

An electronic patient healthcare system for guiding a patient along a treatment pathway, related to a medical event, by educating and preparing the patient for the medical event and post-event recovery. The electronic healthcare system includes a healthcare information provider system with electronically displayable files, and a patient terminal device a display device adapted to display the electronically displayable files. In one embodiment, the electronically displayable files include a single electronically displayable file including a treatment pathway timeline display comprising a plurality of time-sequenced phase images corresponding to time-sequenced phases of health information, each of the time-sequenced phase images providing access to at least one of a pre-event set of electronically displayable files containing health information for preparing and educating the patient for the medical event and a post-event set of electronically displayable files containing health information for preparing and educating the patient for post-event recovery.