Systems and Methods For Retrieving Relevant Prior Medical Examination Reports Based on Report Content

• US 20080189137A1
• Filed: 02/01/2007
• Published: 08/07/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 02/01/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: General Electric Company, Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Stanford Management Co.)
• Original Assignee: General Electric Company, Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Stanford Management Co.)
• Inventors: Biswal, Sandip, Yeluri, Vijaykalyan, Lau, Denny, Raman, Raghav, Feingold, Eric, Chow, Lawrence, Gentles, Tom
• Application Number:
  US11/670,242
• Publication Number:
  US 20080189137A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/3
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 30/20 for handling medical images, e.g. DICOM, HL7 or PACS
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 50/70 for mining of medical data, e.g. analysing previous cases of other patients

Abstract

Certain embodiments of the present invention provide a system for the identification and retrieval of relevant archived medical information. The system includes a user interface component and a processing component. The user interface component is adapted to determine a key, which includes one or more key values. The key values may represent one or more anatomical feature of a patient. The processing component is adapted to aggregate data based at least in part on the key values. The system may also include a searchable database containing relevant archived medical information. The system may also include a display device and a storage device adapted to, respectively, display and store data retrieved from the database.

Claims

1. A system for the identification of relevant archived medical information related to one or more patients, the system including:

a user interface component adapted to determine a key;

wherein the key includes one or more key values;

wherein the one or more key values represent one or more anatomical features of said one or more patients; and

a processing component adapted to aggregate data based at least in part on said one or more key values.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the data is aggregated from one or more medical records.

3. The system of claim 2, wherein the data includes text from said one or more medical records corresponding to said one or more key values.

4. The system of claim 3, further including a display device adapted to display said text.

5. The system of claim 4, wherein said one or more medical records may be displayed in full.

6. The system of claim 1, further including a searchable storage system containing said archived medical information.

7. The system of claim 6, wherein said searchable storage system contains electronic medical records.

8. The system of claim 1, wherein the data includes an examination identification number.

9. The system of claim 1, further including a storage device adapted to store said data.

10. The system of claim 1, wherein said data is aggregated based at least in part on medical terms related to said one or more key values.

11. The system of claim 1, wherein said key is determined automatically.

12. A method for the identification of relevant information related to one or more patients, the method including:

determining a key;

wherein the key includes one or more key values;

wherein the one or more key values represent an anatomical feature of the patient; and

aggregating data based at least in part on said one or more key values.

13. The method of claim 12, wherein the data includes medical data aggregated form one or more medical records.

14. The method of claim 13, wherein the data includes text from said one or more medical records corresponding to said one or more key values.

15. The method of claim 13, wherein the data includes a link to said one or more medical records corresponding to said one or more key values.

16. The method of claim 12, wherein the data includes an examination identification number.

17. The method of claim 12, wherein said key is determined automatically.

18. The method of claim 13, further including displaying said one or more medical reports corresponding to said one or more key values.

19. The method of claim 12, wherein said data is aggregated based at least in part on medical terms related to said one or more key values.

20. A computer-readable storage medium including a set of instructions for a computer, the set of instructions including:

an initialization routine adapted to determine a key;

wherein the key includes one or more key values,

wherein the one or more key values represent one or more anatomical features of one or more patients;

a selection routine adapted to aggregating data based at least in part on said one or more key values; and

a display routine adapted to displaying data that contains said one ore more key values.