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US 10,319,466 B2Granted
Intelligent filtering of health-related information
AssigneeMedicomp Systems, Inc.
InventorsDavid P. Lareau, Luke Andrew Stratman
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Abstract
Intelligent filtering of health-related information includes receiving health-related information including items encoded in one or more external standard terminologies. The health-related information is converted from the external standard terminologies into an internal medical terminology. Items within the health-related information are then identified that are related to a selected term of the internal medical terminology.
Claims20
A method of filtering health-related information in at least one of a plurality of computing devices in a health information exchange network, the method comprising:
- at a respective computing device in the health information exchange network:
- receiving electronic health-related information over the network, the electronic health-related information consisting of items encoded in one or more external standard terminologies;
- generating at least one list of health-related terms provided in the received electronic health-related information;
- converting each list of health-related terms from the received electronic health-related information and encoded in the one or more external standard terminologies to equivalent terms in an internal medical terminology, which is stored in a data structure in memory;
- receiving a selected search term for comparison with the converted terms in the received electronic health-related information, wherein each converted term is associated with a strength of relationship value which indicates the strength of relationship between the converted term and the selected term, and wherein the strength of relationship value indicating the strength of relationship is stored in a separate table created upon conversion of the received electronic health-related information to equivalent terms in the internal medical terminology;
- identifying, by accessing the separate table, at least one term in the converted list of health-related terms that is diagnostically related to the selected search term, wherein the at least one converted term is determined to be diagnostically related to the selected search term based on the strength of relationship value in comparison with a predetermined value threshold;
- verifying a direct correlation link between the selected term and any converted term in the list of health-related terms having a strength of relationship above the predetermined value threshold;
- establishing an indirect correlation link between the selected search term and any converted term in the list of health-related terms having a strength of relationship below the predetermined value threshold;
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- displaying, on a user interface, the selected search term and each converted term in the list of health-related terms having a direct or indirect correlation link to the selected term.
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An intelligent filtering system comprising:
- at least one computing device including at least one processing device;
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- at least one computer readable storage device having data instructions recorded thereon, which when executed by the computing device cause the at least one computing device to generate:
- a data extraction engine that extracts health-related items from electronic health-related information received over the computing network in a native terminology;
- a terminology conversion engine that generates converted health-related information by converting the health-related items received in the native terminology internal medical terminology;
- a relevancy search engine that establishes links between the converted health-related information and a selected diagnosis, wherein establishing the links includes identifying at least one first item in the converted health-related information that is directly correlated to the selected diagnosis and identifying at least one second item in the converted health-related information that is indirectly correlated to the selected diagnosis, wherein a direct correlation link is verified between a term in the converted health-related information having a strength of relationship value with the selected diagnosis that is above a predetermined value threshold, and wherein an indirect correlation link is established for a term in the converted health-related information having a strength of relationship value with the selected diagnosis that is below the predetermined value threshold;
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- a user interface engine that presents to a caregiver the selected diagnosis and the at least one first and second items in the converted health-related information directly and indirectly linked to the selected diagnosis.
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An intelligent filtering computing device, comprising:
- an interface connected to a health information exchange network;
- memory for storing at least an internal medical terminology;
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- a processor configured to:
- receive electronic health-related information generated in a native medical terminology;
- extract health-related terms from the received electronic health-related information;
- convert the health-related terms from the native medical terminology into the internal medical terminology to generate converted electronic health-related information;
- identify items within the converted electronic health-related information that are related to a selected term through direct and indirect links between the converted electronic health-related information and the selected term, wherein a direct correlation link is verified for a term in the converted electronic health-related information having a strength of relationship value above a predetermined value threshold, and wherein an indirect correlation link is established for a term in the converted electronic health-related information having a strength of relationship value below the predetermined value threshold;
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- control a display for displaying at least the selected term and the converted electronic health-related information directly and indirectly linked to the selected term.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.