Systems and methods for matching medical records for patients across disparate medical providers to facilitate continuity of care
AssigneeMedicom Technologies Inc.
InventorsCHASE BALLARD, BRENT GOLDSTEIN, TOMMY LUO, CHRIS WOODLIEF, MICHAEL ROSENBERG
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Abstract
The present invention relates generally to an automated patient matching system that allows medical records for a patient to be reconciled between disparate medical providers by comparison of inbound medical records to patient demographic information stored by a medical provider. The present invention facilitates the preservation of the continuum of care, and allows inbound medical records to automatically be reconciled and ingested for patients ahead of scheduled appointments or procedures.
Claims20
A method for automated matching of disparate medical records for a patient, comprising:
- receiving appointment information for the patient by a server;
- extracting, by the server, a patient attribute and a medical record identifier from the appointment information;
- storing the patient attribute in a database coupled to the server;
- receiving, by the server, an inbound medical record, wherein the inbound medical record contains an inbound patient attribute and an inbound medical record identifier;
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- determining, by the server, if the inbound patient attribute matches the patient attribute,
- wherein the server is configured to update the inbound medical record identifier to match the medical record identifier if the inbound patient attribute matches the patient attribute.
A method for automated matching of disparate medical records, comprising:
- receiving, by a server, an inbound medical record from a remote database, wherein the inbound medical record includes demographic data and an identification number;
- comparing, by the server, the demographic data in the inbound medical record to stored demographic data in a stored medical record located on a local database, wherein the stored medical record includes a stored medical record identification number, and wherein the local database is communicatively coupled to the server;
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- updating, by the server, the identification number to match the stored medical record identification number if the demographic data matches the stored demographic data.
A system for automated matching of disparate medical records, comprising:
- a server coupled to a medical provider;
- a virtual service coupled to the medical provider, wherein the virtual service is an instance of the server;
- a patient scheduling system coupled to the virtual service via a data exchange interface, wherein the virtual service is configured to receive appointment information from the patient scheduling system;
- a parsing engine coupled to the virtual service, wherein the virtual service is configured to extract patient demographic information from the appointment information using the parsing engine;
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- a database coupled to the virtual service, wherein the virtual service is configured to store the extracted patient demographic information on the database,
- wherein the virtual service is further configured to compare an inbound medical record to the extracted patient demographic information.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.