INFORMATION RETRIEVAL AND REPORTING METHOD SYSTEM

• US 20070198250A1
• Filed: 02/20/2007
• Published: 08/23/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 02/21/2006
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Commissure, Inc. (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Commissure, Inc. (Microsoft Corporation)
• Inventors: Mardini, Michael
• Application Number:
  US11/676,941
• Publication Number:
  US 20070198250A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 704/9
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/174 Form filling; Merging
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 15/00 ICT specially adapted for medical reports, e.g. generation or transmission thereof
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 70/60 relating to pathologies

Abstract

A method. The method including receiving medical information, and comparing electronic text representative of the medical information with information associated with a field of a report template. The method also includes populating the report template with at least a portion of the electronic text. The report template is populated when the electronic text includes a synonym, hypernym, hypoparonym and/or a paronym of a preselected term. The preselected term corresponds to a medical concept.

Claims

1. A method, comprising:

receiving medical information;

comparing electronic text representative of the medical information with information associated with a field of a report template and

populating the report template with at least a portion of the electronic text when the electronic text comprises at least one of the following;

a synonym of a preselected term, wherein the preselected term corresponds to a medical concept;

a hypernym of the preselected term-;

a hypoparonym of the preselected term; and

a paronym of the preselected term.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein receiving the medical information comprises receiving the information in a digital format.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein receiving the medical information comprises receiving the information in an analog format.

4. The method of claim 3, further comprising converting the received medical information into the electronic text.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein converting the received medical information comprises generating a digitized data stream representative of the received medical information.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein comparing the electronic text comprises comparing on a sentence by sentence basis.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein comparing the electronic text comprises comparing on a paragraph by paragraph basis.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein comparing the electronic text comprises comparing the electronic text in real time.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein populating comprises populating the template when the electronic text comprises the preselected term.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein populating comprises populating at least two different fields of the report template when the electronic text comprises at least two different preselected terms which respectively correspond to different medical concepts.

11. The method to claim 1, further comprising receiving, a report template selection prior to populating the report template.

12. The method of claim 1 further comprising applying at least one of the following to the electronic text:

a preference rule; and

a ranking rule.

13. The method of claim 1, further comprising populating a field of the report template with default text when the electronic text does not comprise the preselected term.

14. The method of claim 1, further comprising generating a medical report.

15. A method, comprising:

receiving medical information;

identifying a portion of electronic text that comprises at least one of the following;

a synonym of a preselected term, wherein the preselected term corresponds to a medical concept;

a hypernym of the preselected term;

a hypoparonym of the preselected term; and

a paronym of the preselected term; and

identifying a document comprising at least one of the following;

a synonym of the preselected term;

a hypernym of the preselected term;

a hypoparonym of the preselected term; and

a paronym of the preselected term.

16. The method of claim 15 wherein identifying the document comprises identifying a plurality of documents each of which comprise at least one of the following:

a synonym of the preselected term,

a hypernym of the preselected term;

a hypoparonym of the preselected term; and

a paronym of the preselected term.

17. The method of claim 16, further comprising disregarding at least one of the documents to include only those documents deemed pertinent.

18. The method of claim 15, further comprising presenting the document to a user.

19. A system, comprising:

at least one computing device, wherein the computing device comprises a report module for comparing electronic text representative of medical information with at least one of the following;

a synonym of a preselected term, wherein the preselected term corresponds to a medical concept;

a hypernym of the preselected term;

a hypoparonym of the preselected term; and

a paronym of the preselected term.

20. The system of claim 19, wherein the report module is for populating a report template with at least a portion of the electronic text when the electronic text comprises at least one of the following:

a synonym of the preselected term;

a hypernym of the preselected term;

a hypoparonym of the preselected term; and

a paronym of the preselected term.

21. The system of claim 19, further comprising a speech recognition module in communication with the report module, wherein the speech recognition module is for digitizing medical information into electronic text.