Method and system for assimilating data from ancillary preumbra systems onto an enterprise system
First Claim
1. A data processing system implemented method for managing data from a plurality of ancillary systems comprising:
- receiving a request for a value of a data item;
identifying an ancillary system associated with the requested data item;
determining whether data stored in the ancillary system is conducive to being processed into the value;
retrieving the data from one of the ancillary systems and the data processing system based on whether data stored in the ancillary system is conducive to being processed into the value;
processing the data into the value for the data item; and
returning the requested value for the data item.
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Abstract
The present invention provides a means for an enterprise, such as a health care facility, to transfer preumbra enterprise data from any one of a plurality of disparate, ancillary vendor applications to a requestor. The particular strategy used for transferring the preumbra data depends on the type of preumbra data and how that data is formatted in the ancillary preumbra system database. Some ancillary preumbra system databases organize the preumbra data such that very little data processing is necessary by the enterprise application whenever the preumbra is retrieved. Those systems store preumbra data in a manner that is extremely conducive with accessing the preumbra data from the respective ancillary system'"'"'s database in real-time and therefore can be accessed upon a request being received for the preumbra data. Some other ancillary preumbra systems store preumbra data such that it is impossible to access the requested preumbra data, aggregate it and then prepare it for presentation in near real-time. Additionally, aggregating the preumbra data needed for computing some line items might require accessing multiple preumbra data entries in the ancillary penumbra system'"'"'s database. The preumbra data stored in those ancillary system databases must be accessed periodically and the preumbra data processed (aggregated) and then stored in a preumbra/enterprise database for subsequent delivery to a user upon receiving a request.
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50 Claims
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1. A data processing system implemented method for managing data from a plurality of ancillary systems comprising:
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receiving a request for a value of a data item;
identifying an ancillary system associated with the requested data item;
determining whether data stored in the ancillary system is conducive to being processed into the value;
retrieving the data from one of the ancillary systems and the data processing system based on whether data stored in the ancillary system is conducive to being processed into the value;
processing the data into the value for the data item; and
returning the requested value for the data item. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 49, 50)
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21. A computer-readable storage medium storing program instructions for execution on a data processing system which when executed cause the data processing system to perform a method for managing data from a plurality of ancillary systems comprising:
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receiving a request for a value of a data item;
identifying an ancillary system associated with the requested data item;
determining whether data stored in the ancillary system is conducive to being processed into the value;
retrieving the data from one of the ancillary system and the data processing system based on whether data stored in the ancillary system is conducive to being processed into the value;
processing the data into the value for the data item; and
returning the requested value for the data item. - View Dependent Claims (22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40)
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41. An enterprise data processing system for managing ancillary data from a plurality of ancillary systems comprising:
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an enterprise data processor;
an enterprise database for storing data, ancillary system access rules, and ancillary data processing rules, said enterprise database being operationally connected to said enterprise data processor;
an ancillary system data transfer mechanism for transferring data from a plurality of ancillary systems based on whether data stored in an ancillary system is conducive to being processed into a data item value, said ancillary system data transfer mechanism being operationally connected to the plurality of ancillary systems. - View Dependent Claims (42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48)
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