Natural procedure labels controlled for coding
First Claim
1. A method for documenting a medical procedure, comprising steps of:
- (a) recording a medical procedure description; and
(b) constructing a natural procedure label based on the medical procedure description, wherein the natural procedure label concisely summarizes said medical procedure description.
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Abstract
A computer-based system and method are described for generating a natural procedure label to summarize a clinical procedure description recorded into the system by a physician. The system and method manipulate a set of database records comprising medical content which is naturally descriptive of clinical procedures and which is controlled for coding to generate the natural procedure label and its corresponding non E & M Current Procedure Terminology (CPT) code during the recording the procedure description. To support the generation of a set of said natural procedure labels, the system and method provide interchangeable, connected, ontologically-based medical procedure database cartridges of medical content terms and rules that naturally describe constrained procedure representations for clinical procedure descriptions.
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37 Claims
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1. A method for documenting a medical procedure, comprising steps of:
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(a) recording a medical procedure description; and
(b) constructing a natural procedure label based on the medical procedure description, wherein the natural procedure label concisely summarizes said medical procedure description. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6)
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7. A method for documenting a medical procedure, comprising steps of:
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(a) recording a medical procedure description;
(b) accessing a first procedures representations database having a plurality of procedure term and attributes representations;
(c) selecting a procedure term and attributes representation from the first procedure representations database, the selected procedure term and attributes representation associated with the medical procedure description; and
(d) constructing a natural procedure label using the recorded medical procedure description, wherein the natural procedure label concisely summarizes the medical procedure description. - View Dependent Claims (8, 9, 10)
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11. A documentation system for medical procedure descriptions, said system comprising:
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(a) a computing device;
(b) a user interface residing on said computing device for recording a medical procedure description, said user interface arranged to construct a natural procedure label, wherein said natural procedure label concisely summarizes said medical procedure descriptions. - View Dependent Claims (12, 13, 14, 15, 16)
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17. A documentation system for medical procedure descriptions, the system comprising:
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(a) a computing device;
(b) a user interface residing on said computing device for recording a medical procedure description, said user interface arranged to construct a natural procedure label, wherein said natural procedure label concisely summarizes said medical procedure description;
(c) a first database residing on said computing device and connected to said user interface, said first database comprising a plurality of medical procedure descriptions and programming logic;
(d) a second database residing on said computing device and connected to said user interface, said second database comprising a plurality of procedures terms and attributes representations;
(e) an anticipatory user interface for accessing said procedure terms and attributes representations;
(f) an ontology inference engine residing on said user interface and said computing device;
(g) a third database residing on said computing device, said third database comprising a plurality of non E &
M CPT codes; and
(h) means for automatically selecting a plurality of non E &
M CPT codes from said third database and associating said non E &
M CPT codes to said natural procedure label, wherein said natural procedure label and said non E &
M CPT code concisely summarize said medical procedure description. - View Dependent Claims (18, 19, 20, 21, 27, 28, 29)
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22. A documentation system for medical procedure descriptions, said system comprising:
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(a) a computing device;
(b) a user interface residing on said computing device for recording a medical procedure description, said user interface arranged to construct a natural procedure label, wherein said natural procedure label concisely summarizes said medical procedure description;
(c) a first database residing on said computing device and connected to said user interface, said first database comprising a plurality of medical procedure descriptions and programming logic;
(d) a second database residing on said computing device and connected to said user interface, said second database comprising a plurality of procedures terms and attributes representations;
(e) an anticipatory user interface for accessing said procedure terms and attributes representations residing on said user interface;
(f) an ontology inference engine residing on said user interface and said computing device;
(g) a third database residing on said computing device, said third database comprising a plurality of non E &
M CPT codes;
(h) means for automatically selecting a plurality of non E &
M CPT codes from said third database and associating said non E &
M CPT codes to said natural procedure label, wherein said natural procedure label and said non E &
M CPT code concisely summarize said medical procedure description; and
(i) said user interface and said first, second and third databases operating on a plurality of computing devices operating on a networked computer system within a healthcare facility'"'"'s wide area network. - View Dependent Claims (23, 30, 31, 32, 33)
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24. A documentation system for medical procedure descriptions comprising:
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(a) a computing device;
(b) a user interface residing on said computing device for recording a medical procedure descriptions, said user interface arranged to construct a natural procedure label, wherein said natural procedure label concisely summarizes said medical procedure description;
(c) a first database residing on said computing device and connected to said user interface, said first database comprising a plurality of medical procedure descriptions and programming logic;
(d) a second database residing on said computing device and connected to said user interface, said second database comprising a plurality of procedures terms and attributes representations;
(e) an anticipatory user interface for accessing said procedure terms and attributes representations residing on said user interface;
(f) an ontology inference engine residing on said user interface and said computing device;
(g) a third database residing on said computing device, said third database comprising a plurality of non E &
M CPT codes;
(h) means for automatically selecting a plurality of non E &
M CPT codes from said third database and associating said non E &
M CPT codes to said natural procedure label, wherein said natural procedure label and said non E &
M CPT code concisely summarize said medical procedure description; and
(i) said user interface and said first, second and third databases operating on a plurality of computing devices operating on a networked computer system within and outside of a healthcare facility'"'"'s wide area network. - View Dependent Claims (25, 26, 34, 35, 36, 37)
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