Gap in care determination using a generic repository for healthcare
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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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Abstract
By extracting clinical data of any format from respective different sources, a data repository normalized to a generic format is created. A medical domain specific language may be used to interact with the data repository for identifying cohorts and gaps in care for the respective cohorts. Any rules for finding gaps in care are converted into the medical domain specific language for determining gaps. This standardization in both the data repository and rule application may allow for a true cost and time to value solution accessible to many different medical practices.
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1. A method for determination of a gap in care, the method comprising:
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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. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25)
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26. A system for determination of a gap in care, the system comprising:
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at least one memory configured to store clinical data for a patient in a first format; and a processor configured to; mine the clinical data of the patient for values of attributes of a concept in care of the patient, wherein the mining comprises parsing unstructured text with natural language processing; identify an error source in the clinical data, wherein the error source is a data set of the clinical data or an error value in the data set of the clinical data;
perform the mining without including the error source;convert a human readable medical rule of a quality measure about the care into a machine executable language for a semantically normalized data repository; and evaluate the semantically normalized data repository of the care for the patient with the rule in the machine executable language, wherein the evaluation comprises; identifying a cohort associated with the human readable medical rule, the patient being a member of the cohort; and 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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27. A non-transitory computer readable storage medium having stored therein data representing instructions executable by a programmed processor for determination of a gap in care, the storage medium comprising instructions for:
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mining a data source associated with a patient for values of attributes of a concept in care for the patient, wherein the mining comprises parsing unstructured text with natural language processing; 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; converting, by a processor, a human readable medical rule of a quality measure about the care into a machine executable language for a semantically normalized data repository; and evaluating the semantically normalized data repository of the care for the patient with the 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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