System and method for completing a field in a form-based application

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12437147-B2
Application number	US-202318324085-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	May 25, 2023
Priority date	Oct 4, 2021
Publication date	Oct 7, 2025
Grant date	Oct 7, 2025

Abstract

A method for completing a field in a form-based application includes extracting form data and elements from a form within the form-based application, where the form data and elements relate to a first field, generating an input window containing the form data and elements, including a second field corresponding to the first field, receiving input regarding the second field for which to fill in text, data, or both text and data, receiving input from an external source from which to fill in the text and/or data, loading the filled-in text and/or data into the second field in the input window, and transferring the captured text and/or data to the first field within the form-based application.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A method for completing a field in a form-based application, the method comprising:
extracting form data and elements from a form within the form-based application, the form data and elements relating to at least one first field;
generating an input window containing the form data and elements, including at least one second field corresponding to said at least one first field;
receiving input from an external source providing text and/or data, the input comprising one or more datapoints, from an electronic health records or electronic medical records (EHR/EMR) system via an EHR/EMR data service based on a determination that a link is established to the EHR/EMR system;
providing an indication of a number of said one or more datapoints available for each respective field, of said at least one second field, based on the input received from the electronic health records or electronic medical records (EHR/EMR) system;
receiving input identifying said at least one second field for which to fill in the provided text and/or data;
presenting, to a user, the available datapoints associated with the identified second field;
receiving input, from the user, identifying a selected datapoint of said available datapoints associated with the identified second field;
loading the provided text and/or data corresponding to the user selected datapoint associated with the identified second field into the second field in the input window; and
transferring the loaded text and/or data from the second field to the first field within the form-based application,
wherein said receiving input from the external source comprises retrieving the text and/or data from the input received from the electronic health records or electronic medical records (EHR/EMR) system via the EHR/EMR data service.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein said receiving input from the external source comprises extracting the text and/or data from an area of the user's monitor.

3. The method of claim 2 , wherein said extracting the text and/or data from the area of the user's monitor comprises sending a request to a service that performs recognition of text and/or data.

4. The method of claim 2 , further comprising generating a transparent layer on the user's monitor, the transparent layer defining an image area containing an image of the text and/or data to be extracted.

5. The method of claim 4 , wherein said generating the transparent layer on the user's monitor comprises forming the defined image area around the text and/or data to be extracted based on where the user has clicked.

6. The method of claim 1 , wherein, based on a determination that a link is not established to the EHR/EMR system, the method further comprises:
requesting from the user, via a user interface, a Medical Record Number (MRN) uniquely identifying a patient;
sending the MRN to the EHR/EMR data service;
retrieving identifying data for the patient via the EHR/EMR data service;
retrieving identifying data for the patient from the user via the user interface; and
establishing the link to the EHR/EMR system based at least in part on a comparison of the identifying data for the patient retrieved via the EHR/EMR data service with the identifying data for the patient retrieved via the user interface.

7. The method of claim 1 , wherein, in said extracting, a browser plug-in or extension parses the form from the form-based application and extracts the form data and elements from the form.

8. The method of claim 7 , wherein the browser plug-in or extension is registered to operate on a form from a specific uniform resource locator (URL).

9. The method of claim 7 , further comprising transmitting the form data and elements from the browser plug-in or extension to a WebSocket server.

10. The method of claim 9 , wherein, in said receiving input from the external source, the browser plug-in or extension receives the provided text and/or data from the Web Socket server.

11. The method of claim 10 , wherein, in said transferring, the browser plug-in or extension transfers the extracted text and/or data to the first field within the form-based application.

12. The method of claim 1 , wherein the input window comprises a link indicator indicating whether the link is established to the EHR/EMR system.

13. A method for completing a field in a form-based application with text and/or data from an electronic health records or electronic medical records (EHR/EMR) system, the method comprising:
extracting form data and elements from a form within the form-based application, the form data and elements relating to at least one first field;
generating a first input window containing the form data and elements, including at least one second field corresponding to said at least one first field;
receiving input from an external source providing the text and/or data from the electronic health records or electronic medical records (EHR/EMR) system, the input comprising one or more datapoints associated with the patient, each datapoint comprising a clinical reading of the patient;
providing an indication of a number of datapoints available for each respective field of said at least one second field based on the input from the external source;
receiving input identifying said at least one second field for which to fill in the provided text and/or data;
presenting, to a user, the available datapoints associated with the identified second field;
receiving input, from the user, identifying a selected datapoint of said available datapoints associated with the identified second field;
loading a clinical reading of the patient corresponding to the user-selected datapoint associated with the identified second field, into the identified second field in the first input window; and
transferring the loaded clinical reading from the second field to the first field within the form-based application.

14. The method of claim 13 , wherein said presenting said one or more datapoints to the user comprises displaying said one or more datapoints in a second input window.

15. The method of claim 14 , wherein said receiving input identifying the selection of the datapoint of said one or more datapoints comprises accepting a user selection of a defined region, button, or icon of the second input window associated with the selected datapoint.

16. The method of claim 13 , wherein each clinical reading is associated with a date that the clinical reading was performed on the patient.

17. A system for completing a field in a form-based application, comprising:
a browser plug-in or extension to parse a form from the form-based application and extract form data and elements from the form, the form data and elements relating to at least one first field;
a WebSocket server to receive the form data and elements from the browser plug-in or extension; and
a user-interface-based application to:
generate an input window containing the form data and elements, including at least one second field corresponding to said at least one first field;
receive input from an external source providing text and/or data, the input comprising one or more datapoints, from an electronic health records or electronic medical records (EHR/EMR) system via an EHR/EMR data service based on a determination that a link is established to the EHR/EMR system;
provide an indication of a number of datapoints available for each respective field of said at least one second field based on said input received from the electronic health records or electronic medical records (EHR/EMR) system;
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Assignees

• Medidata Solutions Inc

Inventors

• Braga Daniel
• Parento Stephen

Classifications

• G06F3/0484

  for the control of specific functions or operations, e.g. selecting or manipulating an object, an image or a displayed text element, setting a parameter value or selecting a range · CPC title

• G06F40/205

  Parsing · CPC title

• G06F40/134

  Hyperlinking · CPC title

• G16H10/60 Primary

  for patient-specific data, e.g. for electronic patient records · CPC title

• G16H40/63

  for local operation · CPC title