Information transfer system, method, and apparatus

• US 20080164305A1
• Filed: 01/07/2008
• Published: 07/10/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 01/05/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Kares Kettering Ball
• Original Assignee: Kares Kettering Ball
• Inventors: Ball, Kares Kettering
• Application Number:
  US12/006,856
• Publication Number:
  US 20080164305A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 235/375
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/00 Administration; Management
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management

Abstract

The present invention is a data transfer system and method in which paper-based forms sum up patient encounter information using a combination of machine readable barcodes and OMR bubbles to transfer patient encounter information from paper forms into electronic medical billing information systems.

Claims

1. A method of data interchange, the method comprising:

creating an electronic document that encodes at least one human readable data element also a machine readable barcode, and at least one human readable data element in conjunction with a corresponding OMR bubble for manual encoding;

printing the document;

manually encoding with a marking instrument at least one OMR bubble;

scanning the completed paper form to create an image;

decoding the image to extract barcoded and OMR bubble encoded data;

outputting at least one XML filed that contains the data captured from the image;

producing a human readable file for a quality control check;

transmitting the data to another computer system.

2. The method of claim 1 wherein the barcode is a 1D barcode.

3. The method of claim 1 wherein the barcode is a horizontally partitioned 2D barcode.

4. The method of claim 3 wherein the partition length is static.

5. The method of claim 3 wherein the partition length is variable.