System and method for improving the speed of determining a health risk profile of a patient

A method for determining a health risk profile associated with a patient comprising the steps of:

• using a device processor to execute instructions stored on a non-transitory computer readable medium to perform the following steps:
• retrieving patient medical information about the patient, wherein the patient medical information is an uncoded natural language expression in a first language;
• comparing the patient medical information with records in a first database, the first database including a plurality of records, wherein at least one record in the first database has unique preselected medical information and a first health risk index associated with the preselected medical information, and wherein the preselected medical information is also an uncoded natural language expression in the first language;
• determining if the patient medical information matches one of the records in the first database by comparing the patient medical information with the preselected medical information of the records in the first database;
• wherein determining if the patient medical information matches one of the records in the first database consists essentially of making a determination of a level of confidence that the patient medical information matches the preselected medical information and determining whether the level of confidence exceeds a first predetermined threshold;
• if the patient medical information matches the preselected medical information, performing a first data conversion procedure in a first location in a first geographic region by immediately assigning the first health risk index associated with the preselected medical information to the patient medical information;
• and
• if the patient medical information fails to match any record in the first database, performing a second data conversion procedure to convert the patient medical information to a predetermined code associated with the patient medical information, wherein performing the second data conversion includes sending the patient medical information to a coding resource in a second location in a second geographic region remote from the first geographic region;
• and
• determining a health risk profile for the patient using one of the first health risk index and the predetermined code.

A system for improving the speed of determining a health risk profile associated with a patient comprising:

• a processor;
• and
• a non-transient computer readable medium including instructions for performing the following steps:
• retrieving patient medical information about the patient, wherein the patient medical information is an uncoded natural language expression in a first language;
• comparing the patient medical information with records in a first database, the first database including a plurality of records, wherein at least one record in the first database has unique preselected medical information and a first predetermined code associated with the preselected medical information, and wherein the preselected medical information is also an uncoded natural language expression in the first language;
• determining if the patient medical information matches one of the records in the first database by comparing the patient medical information with the preselected medical information of the records in the first database;
• if the patient medical information matches the preselected medical information, performing a first data conversion procedure at a first location in a first geographic region by immediately assigning the first predetermined code associated with the preselected medical information to the patient medical information;
• and
• if the patient medical information fails to match any record in the first database, performing a second data conversion procedure more slowly than the first data conversion procedure by sending the patient medical information to a translation resource in a second location in a second geographic region remote from the first geographic region, and receiving translated patient medical information from the translation resource, wherein the translated patient medical information is in a second language;
• sending the translated patient medical information to a coding resource;
• and receiving, from the coding resource, a second predetermined code associated with the patient medical information;
• determining a health risk profile for the patient using one of the first predetermined code and the second predetermined code;
• wherein the non-transient computer readable medium further includes instructions for making a determination of a level of confidence that the patient medical information matches the preselected medical information;
• wherein the non-transient computer readable medium further includes instructions for determining if the patient medical information matches one of the records in the first database is performed by determining whether the level of confidence exceeds a first predetermined threshold.