US Patent Issued to Cerner Innovation on Oct. 7 for "Proximity-based mobile-device updates of electronic health records" (Washington Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,437,850, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Cerner Innovation Inc. (Kansas City, Mo.).

"Proximity-based mobile-device updates of electronic health records" was invented by Douglas S. McNair (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system, method, and computer-readable media are provided for facilitating clinical decision making, and in particular, decision making based on a third party's clinical situation by determining and providing useful, up-to-date information, such as patient-related information to a decision maker. In one embodiment, a user first identifies an information item concerning a patient. Based on that item, a set of rela...