Mapping clinical data with a health data dictionary
First Claim
1. In a system including a legacy system having clinical information, wherein the clinical information is stored in a data repository, wherein the clinical information is not normalized and not in a standard format, a method for mapping the clinical information to a health data dictionary such that the clinical information is normalized and in a standard format, the method comprising:
- an act of receiving insurance information from the legacy system;
an act of searching content of the health data dictionary for a match to the received insurance information; and
an act of identifying a match for the insurance information.
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Abstract
Systems, methods, and computer program products for mapping clinical data including insurance data and pharmaceutical data with a health data dictionary. The health data dictionary provides a vocabulary that identifies insurance companies and pharmaceutical compounds including drugs in a normalized and standard form. The clinical data generated at a legacy system is compared with standard clinical data stored in the health data dictionary. Based on this comparison a partial or exact match is identified for the clinical data. After a match is selected, the normalized clinical data can be stored in a data repository. For unmatched clinical data, new concepts can be created and added to the health data dictionary for future use.
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33 Claims
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1. In a system including a legacy system having clinical information, wherein the clinical information is stored in a data repository, wherein the clinical information is not normalized and not in a standard format, a method for mapping the clinical information to a health data dictionary such that the clinical information is normalized and in a standard format, the method comprising:
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an act of receiving insurance information from the legacy system;
an act of searching content of the health data dictionary for a match to the received insurance information; and
an act of identifying a match for the insurance information. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7)
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8. In a system including a legacy system storing insurance information in a data repository, wherein the insurance information is not normalized and is not in a standard form, a method for mapping the insurance information to a normalized and standard form, the method comprising:
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a step for receiving the insurance information from the legacy system;
a step for changing the insurance information using existing content of a health data dictionary, wherein the content of the health data dictionary includes standard insurance information associated with concept identifiers; and
a step for storing the changed insurance information in the data repository with the concept identifiers that correspond to the changed insurance information. - View Dependent Claims (9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31)
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15. In a system including a legacy system having clinical data including pharmaceutical data, wherein the pharmaceutical data is not normalized and is not in a standard format, a method for mapping the pharmaceutical data to a health data dictionary, wherein the health data dictionary has content including pharmaceutical content in a standard form, the method comprising:
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an act of receiving the pharmaceutical data from the legacy system, wherein the pharmaceutical data has characteristics including a name, a strength, a form, a route, an interface code, and ingredient information, wherein the characteristics identify a compound;
and act of searching the health data dictionary according to the characteristics of the compound; and
an act of selecting a match for the compound such that the compound is in the standard form.
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23. In a system including a legacy system sending clinical data including pharmaceutical data to a data repository for storage, wherein the clinical data is not in a standard format and is not normalized, a method for mapping the clinical data such that the clinical data is normalized with a health data dictionary, the method comprising:
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a step for identifying characteristics of the pharmaceutical data at the legacy system, wherein the characteristics include a drug name, a strength, a form, an interface code, and one or more ingredient identifiers. a step for comparing the characteristics of the pharmaceutical data with standard characteristics standard characteristics of the pharmaceutical data, the standard characteristics stored in pharmacy tables of the health data dictionary; and
a step for selecting a match for the pharmaceutical data provided by the legacy system such that the pharmaceutical data is normalized.
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32. In a computerized system that includes a legacy system, a health data dictionary, and a data repository, wherein the legacy system provides clinical data for storage in the data repository and wherein the clinical data is not normalized, a computer program product for implementing a method of mapping the clinical data with the health data dictionary to normalize the clinical data before storing the clinical data in the data repository, the computer program product comprising:
a computer readable medium for carrying machine-executable instructions for implementing the method, wherein the method is comprised of machine-executable instructions for performing;
an act of receiving insurance information from the legacy system;
an act of searching content of the health data dictionary for a match to the received insurance information; and
an act of identifying a match for the insurance information.
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33. In a computerized system that includes a legacy system, a health data dictionary, and a data repository, wherein the legacy system provides clinical data for storage in the data repository and wherein the clinical data is not normalized, a computer program product for implementing a method of mapping the clinical data with the health data dictionary to normalize the clinical data before storing the clinical data in the data repository, the computer program product comprising:
a computer readable medium for carrying machine-executable instructions for implementing the method, wherein the method is comprised of machine-executable instructions for performing;
an act of receiving the pharmaceutical data from the legacy system, wherein the pharmaceutical data has characteristics including a name, a strength, a form, a route, an interface code, and ingredient information, wherein the characteristics identify a compound;
and act of searching the health data dictionary according to the characteristics of the compound; and
an act of selecting a match for the compound such that the compound is in the standard form.
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