Patient data mining, presentation, exploration, and verification

• US 20030120514A1
• Filed: 11/04/2002
• Published: 06/26/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 11/02/2001
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Cerner Health Services Incorporated (Oracle Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Siemens Corp. (Siemens AG)
• Inventors: Goel, Arun Kumar, Sandilya, Sathyakama, Niculescu, Radu Stefan, Rao, R. Bharat, Berenbach, Brian
• Granted Patent: US 8,214,225 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/2
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/30 of unstructured textual data document management systems G06F16/93
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 10/20 for electronic clinical trials or questionnaires
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 10/60 for patient-specific data, e.g. for electronic patient records
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 15/00 ICT specially adapted for medical reports, e.g. generation or transmission thereof
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/20 for the management or administration of healthcare resources or facilities, e.g. managing hospital staff or surgery rooms
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/63 for local operation
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 50/20 for computer-aided diagnosis, e.g. based on medical expert systems
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 50/30 for calculating health indices; for individual health risk assessment
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 50/50 for simulation or modelling of medical disorders
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 50/70 for mining of medical data, e.g. analysing previous cases of other patients
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 70/60 relating to pathologies
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 128/92 Computer assisted medical diagnostics

Abstract

The present invention provides a graphical user interface for presentation, exploration and verification of patient information. In various embodiments, a method is provided for browsing mined patient information. The method includes selecting patient information to view, at least some of the patient information being probabilistic, presenting the selected patient information on a screen, the selected patient information including links to related information. The selected patient information may include elements, factoids, and/or conclusions. The selected patient information may include an element linked to unstructured information. For example, an element linked to a note with highlighted information may be presented. Additionally, the unstructured information may include medical images and waveform information.

Claims

1. A method for browsing mined patient information, comprising the steps of:

selecting patient information to view, at least some of the patient information being probabilistic;

presenting the selected patient information on a screen, the selected patient information including links to related information.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the selected patient information includes one or more of raw information extracted from available data sources for the patient and conclusions drawn therefrom.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the selected patient information is derived from unstructured data sources.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the selected patient information includes an element linked to unstructured information.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the selected information includes an element linked to a note with highlighted information.

6. The method of claim 4, wherein the highlighted information refers to information used to derive the element.

7. The method of claim 3, wherein the unstructured information includes one of free text, medical image information, and waveform information.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the selected patient information is derived from structured data sources.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein the structured data source includes a database.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein the selected patient information is a document and the links to related information refer to elements associated with the document.

11. The method of claim 1, wherein the selected patient information includes summary information.

12. The method of claim 1, wherein selectable patient information is presented based on a view.

13. The method of claim 12, wherein the view is based on one or more of a user identifier and a role.

14. The method of claim 12, wherein the selected patient information includes summary information.

15. The method of claim 12, wherein the selected patient information is sorted based upon relevance to one or more of a disease and a user.

16. A program storage device readable by a machine, tangibly embodying a program of instructions executable on the machine to perform method steps for browsing mined patient information, the method steps comprising:

selecting patient information to view, at least some of the patient information being probabilistic;

presenting the selected patient information on a screen, the selected patient information including links to related information.