Patient Data Mining
First Claim
1. A system for producing structured clinical information from patient records, the system comprising:
- at least one data source having patient information, at least some of the patient information being unstructured and at least some of the patient information being structured;
a data miner operable to (a) search for multiple pieces of information from both structured and unstructured data of the patient information and (b) combine the multiple pieces of information into a value of a variable, the value being a function of the multiple pieces;
wherein one or both of (a) and (b) are performed as a function of domain-specific criteria.
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Abstract
The present invention provides a data mining framework for mining high-quality structured clinical information. The data mining framework includes a data miner that mines medical information from a computerized patient record (CPR) based on domain-specific knowledge contained in a knowledge base. The data miner includes components for extracting information from the CPR, combining all available evidence in a principled fashion over time, and drawing inferences from this combination process. The mined medical information is stored in a structured CPR which can be a data warehouse.
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43 Claims
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1. A system for producing structured clinical information from patient records, the system comprising:
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at least one data source having patient information, at least some of the patient information being unstructured and at least some of the patient information being structured; a data miner operable to (a) search for multiple pieces of information from both structured and unstructured data of the patient information and (b) combine the multiple pieces of information into a value of a variable, the value being a function of the multiple pieces; wherein one or both of (a) and (b) are performed as a function of domain-specific criteria. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14)
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15. A method for producing structured clinical information from patient records, comprising:
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(a) searching for multiple pieces of information from both structured and unstructured data of a patient record; and (b) combining the multiple pieces of information into a value of a variable representing the patient; wherein one or both of (a) and (b) are performed as a function of domain-specific criteria. - View Dependent Claims (16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26)
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27. A method for providing structured clinical information from patient records, the method comprising:
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(a) mining a patient record having unstructured patient information, the patient record being from a healthcare provider; (b) creating structured clinical data from at least one piece of information mined from the unstructured patient information, the structured clinical data being stored for answering further questions regarding patients; and (c) providing (a) as a service. - View Dependent Claims (28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43)
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