Caregiver interface for electronic medical records

Abstract

A caregiver user interface displays information from a patient's electronic medical record. The interface associates medical records together that include a common data item. The interface also displays information about data items, such as the status of a data item in an associated historical record. Controls can be displayed in the user interface, which are linked to the historical records.

The claimed invention is: 
     
         1 . A method of generating a user interface, the method comprising:
 receiving an input, the input identifying a physical characteristic of a patient;   in response to receiving an input, generating a data item identifying the physical characteristic of the patient;   storing the data item in a first note data record of a data storage device;   displaying a user interface having a first note data display, the first note data display displaying data items from the first note data record; and   generating a second note data display displaying data items from a second note data record, the second note data record also containing the data item.