Generation and Data Management of a Medical Study Using Instruments in an Integrated Media and Medical System

Abstract

In general, a computer-implemented method is described for receiving one or more requests to generate a medical study, retrieving from one or more data repositories one or more medical study instruments, receiving a selection of a particular medical study instrument to use in the medical study, generating by one or more computers a list of one or more research collaborators invited to review the medical study, and generating by one or more computers a list of one of more participants invited to join the medical study. Additionally, the computer-implemented method receives from a patient one or more responses to one or more medical assessment questions; and causes one or more computer systems to associate one or more medical study instruments with the patient, with the association based on the one or more responses of the patient to the one or more medical assessment questions.

What is claimed is: 
     
         1 . A computer-implemented method comprises:
 allowing a physician to define custom medical assessment questions for a patient questionnaire;   associating a particular custom medical assessment question with a range of values that causes execution of an alert feature;   detecting that a value in an answer to the particular custom medical assessment question triggers the alert feature; and   generating, in response to detecting based on the alert feature, a notification message to alert the physician that a patient has answered the particular custom medical assessment question with a value that is within the range, wherein the notification message differs from the alert feature.   
     
     
         2 . The computer-implemented method of  claim 1 , wherein allowing comprises:
 receiving, from a device used by the physician, information indicative of one or more custom medical assessment questions and information indicative of one or more ranges of values for the one or more custom medical assessment questions.   
     
     
         3 . The computer-implemented method of  claim 1 , further comprising:
 assigning the patient questionnaire to the patient.   
     
     
         4 . The computer-implemented method of  claim 1  further comprising:
 transmitting the notification message to a device associated with the physician. 
 
     
     
         5 . The computer-implemented method of  claim 1  wherein the alert feature comprises an alert rule, wherein the alert rule comprises one or more instructions for detecting an occurrence of a specified condition. 
     
     
         6 . The computer-implemented method of  claim 1 , further comprising:
 receiving, from a device used by the patient, one or more responses to one or more instrument selection questions;   retrieving, from a data repository, one or more instrument selection rules that specify one or more conditions for a particular patient to be assigned to answer a particular questionnaire;   applying the one or more instrument selection rules to the received one or more responses; and   assigning, based on applying, the patient questionnaire to the patient.   
     
     
         7 . The computer-implemented method of  claim 1 , further comprising:
 transmitting the patient questionnaire to an electronic medical record system.   
     
     
         8 . The computer-implemented method of  claim 7 , wherein transmitting the patient questionnaire to the electronic medical record system comprises transmitting the patient questionnaire to the electronic medical record system for integration with the electronic medical record system. 
     
     
         9 . The computer-implemented method of  claim 1 , further comprising:
 transmitting one or more answers to the patient questionnaire to an electronic medical record system.   
     
     
         10 . One or more machine-readable hardware storage devices storing instructions that are executable by one or more processing devices to perform operations comprising:
 allowing a physician to define custom medical assessment questions for a patient questionnaire;   associating a particular custom medical assessment question with a range of values that causes execution of an alert feature;   detecting that a value in an answer to the particular custom medical assessment question triggers the alert feature; and   generating, in response to detecting based on the alert feature, a notification message to alert the physician that a patient has answered the particular custom medical assessment question with a value that is within the range, wherein the notification message differs from the alert feature.   
     
     
         11 . The one or more machine-readable hardware storage devices of  claim 10 , wherein allowing comprises:
 receiving, from a device used by the physician, information indicative of one or more custom medical assessment questions and information indicative of one or more ranges of values for the one or more custom medical assessment questions.   
     
     
         12 . The one or more machine-readable hardware storage devices of  claim 10 , wherein the operations further comprise:
 assigning the patient questionnaire to the patient.   
     
     
         13 . The computer-implemented method of  claim 1  further comprising:
 transmitting the notification message to a device associated with the physician. 
 
     
     
         14 . The one or more machine-readable hardware storage devices of  claim 10  wherein the alert feature comprises an alert rule, wherein the alert rule comprises one or more instructions for detecting an occurrence of a specified condition. 
     
     
         15 . The one or more machine-readable hardware storage devices of  claim 10 , wherein the operations further comprise:
 transmitting the patient questionnaire to an electronic medical record system.   
     
     
         16 . The one or more machine-readable hardware storage devices of  claim 15 , wherein transmitting the patient questionnaire to the electronic medical record system comprises transmitting the patient questionnaire to the electronic medical record system for integration with the electronic medical record system. 
     
     
         17 . The one or more machine-readable hardware storage devices of  claim 10 , wherein the operations further comprise:
 transmitting one or more answers to the patient questionnaire to an electronic medical record system.   
     
     
         18 . An electronic system comprising:
 one or more processing devices; and   one or more machine-readable hardware storage devices storing instructions that are executable by the one or more processing devices to perform operations comprising:
 allowing a physician to define custom medical assessment questions for a patient questionnaire; 
 associating a particular custom medical assessment question with a range of values that causes execution of an alert feature; 
 detecting that a value in an answer to the particular custom medical assessment question triggers the alert feature; and 
 generating, in response to detecting based on the alert feature, a notification message to alert the physician that a patient has answered the particular custom medical assessment question with a value that is within the range, wherein the notification message differs from the alert feature. 
   
     
     
         19 . The electronic system of  claim 18 , wherein allowing comprises:
 receiving, from a device used by the physician, information indicative of one or more custom medical assessment questions and information indicative of one or more ranges of values for the one or more custom medical assessment questions.   
     
     
         20 . The electronic system of  claim 18 , wherein the operations further comprise:
 transmitting the patient questionnaire to an electronic medical record system.