US 7,624,029 B1Granted

Computerized system and method for rapid data entry of past medical diagnoses

AssigneeAnvita, Inc.

InventorAhmed Ghouri

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Abstract

A system and method for rapid entry of past medical diagnoses allows for development of specific, clinically relevant diagnoses from a simple input medication through use of a developed database that maps an input medication to a specific medical diagnosis through an intermediate indications data set. Input medications are normalized to their generic or chemical name and the normalized medication data is associated to an intermediate diagnosis through a medications indications listing contained in a database. Each medication develops a short list of possible specific and/or macro-diagnoses (indications) consistent with the medications and a selected indication is concept-matched to a specific medical diagnosis in order to develop a proper diagnosis in clinically meaningful terms, from a concept-mapped portion of the database. The concept-mapped portion is developed by grouping medical terms into clinically meaningful groups and developing pointers within those groups between identified diseases and a developed indications taxonomy, itself developed by forming a composite of FDA-approved and non-FDA approved indications with respect to particular normalized medications.

Claims16

Dependent claims

A method for identifying a clinically relevant diagnosis from ancillary input data, the method comprising:

defining a database, the database accessible by an electronic data input and processing device;
storing a multiplicity of indication terms within the database, each indication term describing a medical or physiological condition in accordance with a standardized usage;
storing a multiplicity of clinically relevant diagnoses within the database, each diagnosis is associated to one or more of the multiplicity of indication terms, wherein each diagnosis is a disease or condition specified with detailed medical terminology;
linking, in the database, each of the indication terms to a normalized medication index wherein a chemical name, trade name and a manufacturer name of a medication are associated with one or more indication terms;
receiving an input of one of a chemical name, trade name and a manufacturer name of a medication;
automatically identifying, based on multiplicity of indication terms in the database and linked normalized medication index, one or more of the indication terms upon input of the medication to the electronic data input and processing device, wherein the identified one or more indication terms are displayed as an indication set by the device;
and
selecting one of the indication terms from the indication set;
and
automatically identifying one or more of the clinically relevant diagnoses upon selection of the indication term based on the association of one or more of the multiplicity of indication terms with each diagnosis, wherein the identified one or more clinically relevant diagnoses are displayed as a specific diagnosis set by the device.

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A system for extracting a clinically relevant diagnosis from ancillary input data, the system comprising:

an electronic data input and processing device including at least a display and means for inputting;
a database accessible by the electronic data input and processing device, the database further comprising a multiplicity of indications wherein each indication describes a medical or physiological condition in accordance with a standardized usage, a multiplicity of clinically relevant diagnoses, the diagnoses each associated to one or more of the multiplicity of indications;
and a multiplicity of normalized medication indices, each index having a chemical name, trade name and a manufacturer name of a medication linked to one or more of the multiplicity of indications;
and
a diagnosis extraction application, hosted on the electronic data input and processing device, wherein one or more of the indications are automatically identified upon input of a medication to the electronic data input and processing device, and wherein the one or more of the indications are displayed to a user as an indication set and wherein one or more of the clinically relevant diagnoses are automatically identifying upon selection of the selected indication based on the association of one or more of the multiplicity of indication terms with each diagnosis wherein the one or more of the clinically relevant diagnoses are displayed to a user as a specific diagnosis set.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 10/351,083Filed 23 Jan 2003 · us provisional application
Priority: 12 Jun 2002
Granted: 24 Nov 2009
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification7 codes

A61B 34/10
Computer-aided surgery; Manipulators or robots specially adapted for use in surgery: computer-aided planning, simulation or modelling of surgical…
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 15/00
Ict specially adapted for medical reports
G16H 70/20
ICT specially adapted for the handling or processing of medical references: relating to practices or guidelines