METHOD, SYSTEM, AND APPARATUS FOR ASSEMBLY, TRANSPORT AND DISPLAY OF CLINICAL DATA

• US 20090070380A1
• Filed: 09/19/2008
• Published: 03/12/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 09/25/2003
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Nuance Communications, Inc. (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Dictaphone Corporation (Microsoft Corporation)
• Inventors: Hopkins, Jeffrey G., Pearah, David E., Ogrinc, Harry J., Reggie, Susan, Schwager, Robert G., Carus, Alwin B.
• Application Number:
  US12/233,675
• Publication Number:
  US 20090070380A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 10/60 for patient-specific data, e.g. for electronic patient records
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 15/00 ICT specially adapted for medical reports, e.g. generation or transmission thereof

Abstract

The Clinical Data Container (CDC) is a method for packaging, transporting, and viewing medical reports, their associated data elements, images, and data from medical information systems for use by physicians and patients.

Claims

1. A method for distributing shared medical information relating to a patient, the method comprising the steps of:

obtaining a medical document processed through a natural language processing system, said document having corresponding associated medical facts related to said patient;

obtaining an healthcare information system data set;

extracting a set of data elements from said document and its corresponding associated medical facts and from said healthcare information system data set according to a first pre-defined standard;

formatting said medical document into a second predefined standard;

formatting said extracted data elements according to the first predefined standard;

converting said formatted medical document and said formatted extracted data elements into a predefined application format;

obtaining additional documents related to said patient;

merging said additional documents with said application format;

encrypting said additional documents and application format; and

distributing said additional documents and application format.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein said first predefined standard is a CCR standard.

3. The method according to claim 2, wherein said second predefined standard is a CDR standard.

4. A method for distributing a set of documents related to a patient bundled with associated facts to a user, the method comprising the steps of:

selecting a document transcribed from an audio file created by said user;

determining associated facts corresponding to said document;

defining a single format suitable for packaging said document and the associated facts;

encapsulating said document and the associated facts in said single format;

obtaining additional documents related to said patient;

merging said additional documents with said encapsulated document and the associated facts into a set of documents;

transporting said set of documents to said user;

collecting and storing sets of document packages in a repository;

searching said repository;

generating reports from the results of said search;

adding metadata to the results of said searches; and

encapsulating, encrypting, and distributing said sets of document package.