DYNAMICALLY ADJUSTED RULES-BASED DECISION SUPPORT USING SITE-SPECIFIC MAPPED VALUES

• US 20110046975A1
• Filed: 08/20/2010
• Published: 02/24/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 08/21/2009
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Cerner Innovation, Inc. (Oracle Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Cerner Innovation, Inc. (Oracle Corporation)
• Inventors: HOFFMAN, MARK A.
• Application Number:
  US12/860,663
• Publication Number:
  US 20110046975A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/2
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/24556 Aggregation; Duplicate elimination
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/24573 using data annotations, e.g. user-defined metadata
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/67 for remote operation
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 50/20 for computer-aided diagnosis, e.g. based on medical expert systems
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 50/80 for detecting, monitoring or modelling epidemics or pandemics, e.g. flu
• CPC Class Codes: Y02A 90/10 Information and communication technologies [ICT] supporting adaptation to climate change, e.g. for weather forecasting or climate simulation

Abstract

Methods, systems, and computer storage media are provided for determining and communicating dynamic threshold values to a particular site system. Upon initiation of one or more rules, a request is received for one or more dynamic threshold values, which are dynamically changeable values associated with healthcare data. The dynamic threshold values are determined and are communicated. One or more rules are updated to reflect the received dynamic threshold values. The rules are used in association with patient care or healthcare data extraction.

Claims

1. One or more computer storage media storing computer-useable instructions that, when used by one or more computing devices, cause the one or more computing devices to perform a method comprising:

upon initiation of one or more rules, receiving a request from a site system for one or more dynamic threshold values that are dynamically changeable values associated with healthcare data;

determining the one or more dynamic threshold values; and

communicating the one or more dynamic threshold values, wherein the one or more rules are updated based on the one or more dynamic threshold values, and wherein the one or more rules are used in association with patient care or healthcare data extraction.

2. The media of claim 1, wherein the one or more rules are used in association with the healthcare data extraction such that one or more extraction scripts used to extract summary data from a site system are tuned based on the one or more dynamic threshold values.

3. The media of claim 1, wherein a first dynamic threshold value indicates a lower threshold value and a second dynamic threshold value indicates an upper threshold value.

4. The media of claim 1, wherein the one or more dynamic threshold values change dynamically based on updated healthcare knowledge at a current time.

5. The media of claim 1, wherein the request includes a site identifier that identifies a site from which the request is communicated.

6. The media of claim 1, further comprising receiving additional requests for the one or more dynamic threshold values, wherein the additional requests are received from a particular site at regular intervals of time.

7. The media of claim 1, wherein the request includes a site-specific code that corresponds to a category of summary data that is to be extracted, wherein site-specific codes are used by a particular site to identify various categories of summary data.

8. The media of claim 1, wherein the one or more rules are used in association with the patient care such that a clinician is able to treat a patient based on the one or more dynamic threshold values received.

9. The media of claim 8, wherein the one or more rules are automatically tuned at a site utilizing the one or more dynamic threshold values.

10. The media of claim 8, wherein patient-specific data is compared to the one or more dynamic threshold values, and wherein an action is suggested based on the comparison.

11. One or more computer storage media storing computer-useable instructions that, when used by one or more computing devices, cause the one or more computing devices to perform a method comprising:

receiving site-specific codes that each correspond to a category of summary data;

mapping each of the site-specific codes to a standard code;

receiving a request for a set of site-specific codes corresponding to the summary data that is to be extracted from a site system;

determining one or more dynamic threshold values for at least one of the site-specific codes that comprise the set of site-specific codes, wherein the one or more dynamic threshold values are dynamically changeable values that define the summary data that is to be extracted from the site system;

providing the set of site-specific codes and the one or more dynamic threshold values;

receiving the summary data from the site system in response to execution of a set of one or more extraction scripts on the site system, wherein the set of one or more extraction scripts identifies the set of site-specific codes; and

utilizing the mapping to format the summary data for presentation.

12. The media of claim 11, further comprising receiving the request for the one or more dynamic threshold values.

13. The media of claim 11, further comprising:

determining that additional summary data is to be retrieved; and

communicating additional site-specific codes associated with the additional summary data to the site system.

14. The media of claim 11, wherein mapping each of the site-specific codes to a standard code further comprises:

associating each of the site-specific codes to the standard code, wherein both the site-specific code and the associated standard code represent a similar category of the summary data; and

storing the association of the site-specific codes and the standard codes in a database.

15. The media of claim 11, wherein the summary data, once formatted, is accessible to various sites that have provided the summary data and to other third parties.

16. The media of claim 11, wherein a site identifier is received with the summary data so that the site system from which the summary data has been communicated can be identified.

17. The media of claim 11, wherein the received summary data is communicated in association with the respective site-specific codes.

18. One or more computer storage media storing computer-useable instructions that, when used by one or more computing devices, cause the one or more computing devices to perform a method comprising:

receiving a request for site-specific codes that each correspond to a category of summary data;

providing the site-specific codes, wherein the site-specific codes are provided to a central system that maps each of the site-specific codes to a standard code;

querying a central system to,

(1) determine a set of site-specific codes to be identified in a set of one or more extraction scripts, wherein when executed, the set of one or more extraction scripts extracts the summary data associated with the identified site-specific codes, and

(2) determine one or more dynamic threshold values for at least one of the site-specific codes that comprise the set of site-specific codes, wherein the dynamic threshold values are dynamically changeable values that define the summary data that is to be extracted;

receiving an indication of the set of site-specific codes to be identified in the set of one or more extraction scripts and the one or more dynamic threshold values;

based on the set of site-specific codes and the one or more dynamic threshold values, tuning the set of one or more extraction scripts to identify the set of site-specific codes and to incorporate the one or more dynamic threshold values;

executing the set of one or more extraction scripts to extract the summary data; and

communicating the extracted summary data.

19. The media of claim 18, wherein the one or more dynamic threshold values comprise a lower threshold value and an upper threshold value.

20. The media of claim 18, wherein the request for the one or more dynamic threshold values is received at periodic intervals of time, wherein the periodic intervals of time includes one of regular intervals or irregular intervals of time.