US 2014/0350954 A1 · System and Methods for Personalized Clinical Decision Support Tools

Abstract

The use of a medical software platform to collect, normalize, and aggregate clinical data. Supports clinical care and provides research and clinical tools for institutions, healthcare providers, researchers, and patients. The invention provides a graphical interface to customize searches in the database for specified subsets of conditions, treatments or outcomes. The invention also provides a system and method for searching through clinical databases for desired terms which may provide additional information to a physician regarding patient care. Furthermore, this invention facilitates personalized medicine-based practices as relationships between genetics, personal heath data from multiple sources, disease risk and drug response can be more easily visualized and utilized for patient care and research.

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Dependent claims

A method comprising:

a) receiving a search term;
b) identifying, based on the search term, a result clinical concept that is recognized by a first standardized ontological hierarchy;
c) identifying in a second standardized ontological hierarchy a corresponding clinical concept, wherein the corresponding clinical concept has a clinical meaning that is substantively-similar to the clinical meaning of the result clinical concept;
d) searching by a computer processor a database of electronic health records based on the corresponding clinical concept;
e) identifying an electronic health record in the database associated with the corresponding clinical concept;
and
f) outputting a result.

4 more elements

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application

14/211,408Filed 14 Mar 2014

Priority

14 Mar 2013

Published

27 Nov 2014

Term ends

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Classification4 codes

G16H 50/20
ICT specially adapted for medical diagnosis, medical simulation or medical data mining; ICT specially adapted for detecting, monitoring or…: for…
G16H 10/60
ICT specially adapted for the handling or processing of patient-related medical or healthcare data: for patient-specific data, e.g. for electronic…
G16H 70/60
ICT specially adapted for the handling or processing of medical references: relating to pathologies
G16H
Healthcare informatics, i.e. information and communication technology [ict] specially adapted for the

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