METHODS AND APPARATUS TO AUTOMATICALLY GENERATE SUBSCRIPTIONS FOR HEALTHCARE EVENT TRACKING AND ALERTING SYSTEMS
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1. A method of generating a subscription for a healthcare event tracking and alerting system, comprising:
- automatically analyzing healthcare information of a medical data sharing system to determine an interest of a physician in a patient;
obtaining a patient identifier corresponding to the patient from the healthcare information;
obtaining a physician identifier corresponding to the physician; and
associating the patient identifier with the physician identifier to generate a subscription to the healthcare event tracking and alerting system, wherein the subscription enables the physician to automatically receive notifications of data related to the patient.
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Abstract
Methods and apparatus to automatically generate subscriptions for healthcare event tracking and alerting systems are disclosed herein. An example method of generating a subscription for a healthcare event tracking and alerting system includes automatically analyzing healthcare information of a medical data sharing system to determine an interest of a physician in a patient; obtaining a patient identifier corresponding to the patient from the healthcare information; obtaining a physician identifier corresponding to the physician; and associating the patient identifier with the physician identifier to generate a subscription to the healthcare event tracking and alerting system, wherein the subscription enables the physician to automatically receive notifications of data related to the patient.
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20 Claims
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1. A method of generating a subscription for a healthcare event tracking and alerting system, comprising:
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automatically analyzing healthcare information of a medical data sharing system to determine an interest of a physician in a patient; obtaining a patient identifier corresponding to the patient from the healthcare information; obtaining a physician identifier corresponding to the physician; and associating the patient identifier with the physician identifier to generate a subscription to the healthcare event tracking and alerting system, wherein the subscription enables the physician to automatically receive notifications of data related to the patient. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11)
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12. An apparatus to generate a subscription for a healthcare event tracking and alerting system, comprising:
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at least one detector to analyze healthcare information of a medical data sharing system to determine an interest of a physician in a patient; a data extractor to obtain a patient identifier corresponding to the patient from the healthcare information, where the data extractor is to obtain a physician identifier corresponding to the physician; and an association creator to associate the patient identifier with the physician identifier to generate a subscription to the healthcare event tracking and alerting system, wherein the subscription enables the physician to automatically receive notifications of data related to the patient. - View Dependent Claims (13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19)
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20. A medical data sharing system configured to provide feedback to a healthcare practitioner, comprising:
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a plurality of medical information systems to receive healthcare information implemented at a plurality of healthcare enterprises, wherein the enterprises are members of an agreement to share the healthcare information; a tracking and alerting system to automatically provide feedback to a healthcare practitioner by storing a subscription to healthcare information associated with a patient of interest to the practitioner; a subscription generator to generate the subscriptions by automatically detecting the interest in the patient by analyzing at least one of a search initiated by the physician and a healthcare document entered into the medical information systems in which the physician and the patient are listed.
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