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US 10,706,959 B1Granted
Systems and methods for medical referrals via secure email and parsing of CCDs
AssigneeThe Advisory Board Company
InventorsRussell Tevis, Marilyn Mamakai Agbeko, Louis Allen Parisi
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Abstract
Disclosed herein are various embodiments of computer-implemented methods and systems for parsing information from messages containing a standardized electronic document format, such as a continuity of care document (“CCD”), and for generating referrals and other documents using data parsed from the messages and/or standardized electronic document format. In some embodiments, a message containing a CCD may be received, the CCD and the message may be parsed to extract information (e.g., patient information), the patient information may be mapped into a document template, and an electronic document containing mapped referral parameters may be generated.
Claims16
A computer-implemented method for creating an electronic referral document, comprising:
- receiving, on at least one computer, a plurality of electronic files having first information of a patient from a first healthcare entity, wherein the first information is in a standardized format, the plurality of electronic files being sent via a secure electronic message;
- creating an electronic referral document by at least one second entity, wherein creating the electronic referral document includes the steps of:
- in response to determining that the at least one second entity has received an authorization of referral generation from the first healthcare entity, performing the steps of:
- parsing, using the at least one computer, the first information to extract second information of the patient;
- mapping, using the at least one computer, the second information into a template for an electronic referral document for the patient;
- and
- generating the electronic referral document containing the mapped second information;
- in response to determining that the at least one second entity has not received the authorization of referral generation from the first healthcare entity, performing the steps of:
- determining whether the plurality of electronic files correspond to a previously-generated electronic referral document by:
- creating a single hash corresponding to the plurality of electronic files;
- and
- comparing the single hash corresponding to the plurality of electronic files to previously generated hashes;
- and
- if the single hash corresponding to the plurality of electronic files matches any of the previously generated hashes, attaching at least one of the plurality of electronic files to the previously-generated electronic referral document to create a referral package.
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A computer-implemented method for creating an electronic referral document, comprising:
- receiving, on at least one computer, a plurality of electronic files comprising an electronic continuity of care document (CCD) having first information of a patient, wherein the first information is in a standardized format, and the CCD is received from a first healthcare entity having an electronic medical records (EMR) or electronic health records (EHR) system;
- and
- creating an electronic referral document by at least one second entity, wherein the at least one second entity is not integrated into the EMR or EHR system of the first healthcare entity, and wherein creating the electronic referral document includes the steps of:
- in response to determining that the at least one second entity has received an authorization of referral generation from the first healthcare entity, performing the steps of:
- parsing, using the at least one computer, the first information to extract second information of the patient;
- mapping, using the at least one computer, the second information into a template for an electronic referral document for the patient;
- and
- generating the electronic referral document containing the mapped second information;
- in response to determining that the at least one second entity has not received the authorization of referral generation from the first healthcare entity, performing the steps of:
- determining whether the plurality of electronic files correspond to a previously-generated electronic referral document by:
- creating a single hash corresponding to the plurality of electronic files;
- and
- comparing the single hash corresponding to the plurality of electronic files to previously generated hashes;
- and
- if the single hash corresponding to the plurality of electronic files matches any of the previously generated hashes, attaching the CCD to the previously-generated electronic referral document to create a referral package.
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A system for creating an electronic referral document, the system comprising at least one computer comprising computer executable instructions, the instructions causing the at least one computer to perform a method comprising:
- receiving, a plurality of electronic files having first information of a patient from a first healthcare entity, wherein the first information is in a standardized format, the plurality of electronic files being sent via a secure electronic message;
- creating an electronic referral document by at least one second entity, wherein creating the electronic referral document includes the steps of:
- in response to determining that the at least one second entity has received an authorization of referral generation from the first healthcare entity, performing the steps of:
- parsing the first information to extract second information of the patient;
- mapping the second information into a template for an electronic referral document for the patient;
- and
- generating the electronic referral document containing the mapped second information;
- in response to determining that the at least one second entity has not received the authorization of referral generation from the first healthcare entity, performing the steps of:
- determining whether the plurality of electronic files correspond to a previously-generated electronic referral document by:
- creating a single hash corresponding to the plurality of electronic files;
- and
- comparing the single hash corresponding to the plurality of electronic files to previously generated hashes;
- and
- if the single hash corresponding to the plurality of electronic files matches any of the previously generated hashes, attaching at least one of the plurality of electronic files to the previously-generated electronic referral document to create a referral package.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.