SEARCHING AN ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD
First Claim
1. One or more computer-storage media having computer-useable instructions embodied thereon for performing a method of finding information in an electronic medical record, the method comprising:
- receiving a search query from a user to search the electronic medical record, wherein the electronic medical record is associated with a patient, and wherein the electronic medical record includes a plurality of electronic documents that describe a medical history for the patient and is stored on the computer-storage media;
identifying one or more components of the electronic medical record that contain text that matches the search query, wherein each of the one or more components is a section of text with in the electronic medical record that includes one or more words;
determining a query-responsiveness score for each of the one or more components that match the search query, wherein the query-responsiveness score indicates how responsive an individual component is to the search query; and
presenting search results that communicate information describing each of the one or more components, wherein the search results are displayed ordered according to the query-responsiveness score assigned to each of the one or more components.
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Abstract
A method, system, and medium are provided for searching an electronic medical record. Search results are returned in response to a search query. The search query may be one or more designated medical concepts. The search results may be displayed according to a ranking that determines which search results are likely to be the most responsive to a query submitted by a particular clinician based on matching the most important clinical concepts in each document to the most important clinical concepts in the search query.
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20 Claims
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1. One or more computer-storage media having computer-useable instructions embodied thereon for performing a method of finding information in an electronic medical record, the method comprising:
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receiving a search query from a user to search the electronic medical record, wherein the electronic medical record is associated with a patient, and wherein the electronic medical record includes a plurality of electronic documents that describe a medical history for the patient and is stored on the computer-storage media; identifying one or more components of the electronic medical record that contain text that matches the search query, wherein each of the one or more components is a section of text with in the electronic medical record that includes one or more words; determining a query-responsiveness score for each of the one or more components that match the search query, wherein the query-responsiveness score indicates how responsive an individual component is to the search query; and presenting search results that communicate information describing each of the one or more components, wherein the search results are displayed ordered according to the query-responsiveness score assigned to each of the one or more components. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7)
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8. One or more computer-storage media having computer-useable instructions embodied thereon for performing a method of searching an electronic medical record for selected clinical concepts, the method comprising;
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receiving a search query that includes a clinical concept from a user, wherein the clinical concept is an aspect related to a person'"'"'s health; identifying one or more uses of the clinical concept in the electronic medical record, wherein the electronic medical record is an electronic description of a medical history for a patient and is stored on the computer-storage media; determining a query-responsiveness score for each document within the electronic medical record in which the clinical concept is used, wherein the query-responsiveness score describes how important a particular document is likely to be to the user, and wherein the query-responsiveness score is determined based on a clinical-importance score for each of the one or more uses of the clinical concept and at least one boost factor that is based on the search query and the user; and presenting search results based on the query-responsiveness score associated with said each document within the electronic medical record in which the clinical concept is used. - View Dependent Claims (9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14)
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15. One or more computer-storage media having computer-useable instructions embodied thereon for performing a method of preparing an electronic medical record for electronic searching, the method comprising:
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receiving the electronic medical record that includes information describing at least a portion of a medical history associated with a patient; identifying clinical concepts within the electronic medical record, wherein a clinical concept is an aspect related to a person'"'"'s health; for each of the clinical concepts, determining a patient-subject status for each use of the clinical concept in the electronic medical record, wherein the patient-subject status indicates whether the patient is a subject of a particular use of the clinical concept; for each of the clinical concepts, determining a truth status for each use of the clinical concept in the electronic medical record, wherein the truth status indicates whether the clinical concept was expressed positively, negatively, ambiguously, or unknown; for each of the clinical concepts, determining a clinical-usage context for each use of the clinical concept in the electronic medical record, wherein the clinical-usage context describes how the clinical concept was used in the electronic medical record; for each of the clinical concepts, determining a specificity-factor for each use of the clinical concept in the electronic medical record based on a particular-clinical concept'"'"'s location in a clinical-concept ontology, wherein the clinical-concept ontology describes relationships between clinical concepts in a hierarchy that includes general clinical concepts and specific clinical concepts; assigning a clinical-importance score to each use of the clinical concept in the electronic medical record based on an algorithmic score that combines the patient-subject status for said each use of the clinical concept, the truth status for said each use of the clinical concept, the clinical-usage context for said each use of the clinical concept, and the specificity factor for said each use of the clinical concept; and storing the clinical-importance score associated with said each use of the clinical concept within the electronic medical record in a data store. - View Dependent Claims (16, 17, 18, 19, 20)
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