Methods, systems and computer program products for synthesizing medical procedure information in healthcare databases

• US 20070174090A1
• Filed: 01/26/2006
• Published: 07/26/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 01/26/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Kyndryl Incorporated (Kyndryl Holdings, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Friedlander, Robert, Kraemer, James
• Granted Patent: US 8,200,501 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/3
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 20/00 ICT specially adapted for therapies or health-improving plans, e.g. for handling prescriptions, for steering therapy or for monitoring patient compliance
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 70/60 relating to pathologies

Abstract

Methods, systems and computer program products for synthesizing medical procedure information stored in healthcare databases are provided. A medical procedure query associated with a single patient or a group of patients is received. Query results are provided responsive to the medical procedure query. The query results may include medical procedures from multiple sources that are expressed in multiple standards formats.

Claims

1. A method of synthesizing medical procedures stored in healthcare databases, comprising:

receiving a medical procedure query associated with a single patient or a group of patients; and

providing query results responsive to the medical procedure query, the query results including medical procedures from multiple sources that are expressed in multiple standards formats.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein receiving is preceded by verifying a username and password associated with the username and wherein receiving further comprises receiving the medical procedure query only if the username and password are verified.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein each username and associated password is associated with a level of security clearance, the level of security clearance determining which information can be accessed by a user of the associated username and password.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein providing query results comprises:

determining if the medical procedure query includes a first standards code in conformance with a first standard therein;

determining equivalent standards codes to the first standards code in conformance with at least one second standard, different from the first standard, if it is determined that the medical procedure query includes a first standards code; and

providing the query results based on both the first standards code and the equivalent standards codes.

5. The method of claim 1, further comprising receiving query adjustments responsive to the provided query results.

6. The method of claim 5, further comprising adjusting future query results based on the received query adjustments.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the received medical procedure query comprises a discrete query or a semantic query.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein providing query results is preceded by processing the received medical procedure query to generate at least one modified medical procedure query that can be provided to external databases to obtain the query results.

9. The method of claim 8, further comprising:

providing the at least one modified medical procedure query to at least one standards database and/or at least one procedure results database;

receiving intermediate query results from the at least one standards database and/or the at least one procedure results database; and

modifying a format of the intermediate query results before providing the query results to a user.

10. The method of claim 9, wherein modifying the format further comprises modifying the format based on a user profile and/or information obtained from previously received medical procedure queries.

11. A system for synthesizing medical procedure information stored in healthcare databases, comprising a healthcare query module configured to receive a medical procedure query associated with a single patient or a group of patients and provide query results responsive to the medical procedure query, the query results including medical procedures from multiple sources that are expressed in multiple standards formats.

12. The system of claim 11, wherein the healthcare query module is further configured to verify a username and password associated with the username before receiving the medical procedure query and receive the medical procedure query only if the username and password are verified.

13. The system of claim 12, wherein each username and associated password is associated with a level of security clearance, the level of security clearance determining which information can be accessed by a user of the associated username and password.

14. The system of claim 11, wherein the healthcare query module comprises a query generation module, the query generation module being configured to:

determine if the medical procedure query includes a first standards code in conformance with a first standard therein;

determine equivalent standards codes to the first standards code in conformance with at least one second standard, different from the first standard, if it is determined that the medical procedure query includes a first standards code; and

provide the query results based on both the first standards code and the equivalent standards codes.

15. The system of claim 11, wherein the healthcare query module further comprises a learning module, the learning module being configured to receive query adjustments responsive to the provided query results.

16. The system of claim 11, wherein the learning module is further configured to adjust future query results based on the received query adjustments.

17. The system of claim 11, wherein the received medical procedure query comprises a discrete query or a semantic query.

18. The system of claim 14, wherein the query generation module is further configured to process the received medical procedure query to generate at least one modified medical procedure query that can be provided to external databases to obtain the query results.

19. The system of claim 18, wherein the query generation module if further configured to:

provide the at least one modified medical procedure query to at least one standards database and/or at least one medical procedure results database;

receive intermediate query results from the at least one standards database and/or the at least one medical procedure results database; and

wherein the healthcare query module further comprises a semantic module, the semantic module being configured to modify a format of the intermediate query results before providing the query results to a user.

20. The system of claim 19, wherein the semantic module is further configured to modify the format based on a user profile and/or information obtained from previously received medical procedure queries.

21. A computer program product for synthesizing medical procedure information stored in healthcare databases, comprising:

computer readable storage medium having computer readable program code embodied in said medium, the computer readable program code comprising;

computer readable program code configured to receive a medical procedure query associated with a single patient or a group of patients; and

computer readable program code configured to provide query results responsive to the medical procedure query, the query results including medical procedures from multiple sources that are expressed in multiple standards formats.

22. The computer program product of claim 21, further comprising computer readable program code configured to verify username and password associated with the username, wherein the computer readable program code configured to receive further comprises computer readable program code configured to receive the medical procedure query only if the username and password are verified.

23. The computer program product of claim 22, wherein each username and associated password is associated with a level of security clearance, the level of security clearance determining which information can be accessed by a user of the associated username and password.

24. The computer program product of claim 21, wherein the computer readable program code configured to provide query results comprises:

computer readable program code configured to determine if the medical procedure query includes a first standards code in conformance with a first standard therein;

computer readable program code configured to determine equivalent standards codes to the first standards code in conformance with at least one second standard, different from the first standard, if it is determined that the medical procedure query includes a first standards code; and

computer readable program code configured to provide the query results based on both the first standards code and the equivalent standards codes.

25. The computer program product of claim 21, further comprising computer readable program code configured to receive query adjustments responsive to the provided query results.

26. The computer program product of claim 25, further comprising computer readable program code configured to adjust future query results based on the received query adjustments.

27. The computer program product of claim 21, wherein the received medical procedure query comprises a discrete query or a semantic query.

28. The computer program product of claim 21, further comprising computer readable program code configured to process the received medical procedure query to generate at least one modified medical procedure query that can be provided to external databases to obtain the query results.

29. The computer program product of claim 28, further comprising:

computer readable program code configured to provide the at least one modified medical procedure query to at least one standards database and/or at least one medical procedure results database;

computer readable program code configured to receive intermediate query results from the at least one standards database and/or the at least one medical procedure results database; and

computer readable program code configured to modify a format of the intermediate query results before providing the query results to a user.

30. The computer program product of claim 29, wherein the computer readable program code configured to modify the format further comprises computer readable program code configured to modify the format based on a user profile and/or information obtained from previously received medical procedure queries.