Presenting a patient's disparate medical data on a unified timeline

A system for presenting medical data, comprising:

• a computing device;
• a medical records database that stores a plurality of different types of medical data records, each data record comprising a plurality of fields, including a corresponding time;
• a query module, implemented on the computing device, that receives a request for medical data related to a request and identifies which data records in a medical records database relate to the patient;
• a summary module that, for respective data records identified as related to the patient:
• (0 determines, based on a type of the data record, a template describing how to present a data field of the data record, and (ii) generates a data record summary that describes the data record based on the template, the summary presenting one or more fields as specified by the template, such the data record summary is formatted consistently with summaries of other data records having a different type and in accordance with a determined hierarchy of fields in the data record;
• a timeline module, implemented on the computing device, that temporally orders, according to the data records' corresponding time, the identified data records to generate a timeline;
• and
• an interface module, implemented on the computing device, that outputs the timeline to another device for display, such that the displayed timeline presents the medical data records related to the request together in a single temporal view.

A non-transitory computer-readable medium embodying a program of instructions executable by at least one machine to perform a method for presenting medical data, said method comprising:

• (a) receiving a request for medical data related to a patient;
• (b) identifying which data records in a medical records database relate to the patient, the medical records database including a plurality of different types of medical data records, wherein the respective data records each comprise a plurality of fields, including a corresponding time;
• for respective data records identified in (b):
• (c) determining, based on a type of the data record, a template describing how to present a data field of the data record;
• (d) generating a data record summary that describes the data record based on the template determined in (c), the data record summary presenting one or more fields as specified by the template, such that the data record summary is formatted consistently with summaries of other data records having a different type and in accordance with a determined hierarchy of fields in the data record;
• (e) temporally ordering, according to the data records' corresponding times, the identified data records to generate a timeline;
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• (f) outputting the timeline to a device for display, such that the displayed timeline presents the medical data records related to the request together in a single temporal view, wherein the medical data records are displayed according to their respective data record summaries.

A computer-implemented method for presenting personal data, comprising:

• (a) receiving, at a computing device, a request for a data related to a person;
• (b) determining, at the computing device, which data records in a database are related to the person, the database including a plurality of different types of personal data and each data record, wherein the respective data records each comprise a plurality of fields, including a corresponding time;
• for respective data records identified in (b):
• (c) determining, at the computing device, based on a type of the data record, a template describing how to present a data field of the data record;
• (d) generating, at the computing device, a data record summary that describes the data record based on the template determined in (c), the data record summary presenting one or more fields as specified by the template, such that a format of the data record summary is consistent with summaries of other data records having a different type and in accordance with a determined hierarchy of fields in the data record;
• (e) temporally ordering, at the computing device, according to the data records' corresponding time, the determined data records determined to generate a timeline;
• and
• (f) outputting for display the timeline generated in (c) such that the displayed timeline presents the plurality of different types of data records related to the person together in a single temporal view.