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Gap in care determination using a generic repository for healthcare

  • US 10,540,448 B2
  • Filed: 07/15/2014
  • Issued: 01/21/2020
  • Est. Priority Date: 07/15/2013
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method for determination of a gap in care, the method comprising:

  • translating a human readable data representation of medical quality data into a machine generic data representation;

    mining a data source associated with a patient for values of attributes of a concept in the care for that patient, the data source being located on a healthcare information technology system;

    identifying an error source, wherein the error source is a data set of the data source or an error value in the data set of the data source;

    performing the mining without including the error source;

    storing the values in a semantically normalized data repository of the care for that patient, the semantically normalized data repository including concepts, attributes of the concepts, and the values for the attributes in the machine generic data representation;

    converting, by a processor, a human readable medical rule of a quality measure about the care into a machine executable language for the semantically normalized data repository; and

    evaluating the semantically normalized data repository of the care for that patient with the human readable medical rule in the machine executable language, wherein evaluating comprises;

    identifying a cohort associated with the human readable medical rule, the patient being a member of the cohort;

    determining a gap in the care of the patient for the quality measure with the human readable medical rule, wherein the gap comprises conflicting or non-determinative information in semantically normalized data repository of the care for that patient;

    outputting information for the gap wherein outputting comprises outputting an intervention or a task for the gap; and

    requesting documentation relating to the intervention or the task to resolve the gap.

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