METHOD, SYSTEM, AND APPARATUS FOR VALIDATION

• US 20120109641A1
• Filed: 01/06/2012
• Published: 05/03/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 05/30/2003
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Nuance Communications, Inc. (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Dictaphone Corporation (Microsoft Corporation)
• Inventors: Boone, Keith W., Gervais, Sean, Titemore, Robert G., Ogrinc, Harry J., Hopkins, Jeffrey G., Manoukian, Roubik, Fordyce, Cameron, Chaparala, Sunitha
• Granted Patent: US 10,133,726 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 704/9
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/226 Validation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/30 Semantic analysis
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/56 Natural language generation
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 10/60 for patient-specific data, e.g. for electronic patient records
• CPC Class Codes: G16Z 99/00 Subject matter not provided for in other main groups of this subclass

Abstract

In a method for validating data, a text of a document is received. At least one fact is extracted from the text. At least one expert refinement is merged with the at least one fact to create at least one modified fact. The at least one modified fact is provided for a review. An expert refinement to the at least one modified fact is captured in response to the review. A superset document based on the at least one pre-existing refinement and the expert refinement is stored.

Claims

1-28. -28. (canceled)

29. A method comprising:

extracting, using at least one processor, an initial set of one or more medical facts from a text narrative provided by a health care provider;

receiving, from a user reviewing the extracted facts, a change to the initial set of medical facts; and

re-processing at least part of the text narrative to extract a revised set of one or more medical facts from the text narrative based at least in part on the user'"'"'s change to the initial set of medical facts.

30. The method of claim 29, wherein the change comprises adding a fact to the initial set of facts.

31. The method of claim 30, wherein the adding comprises highlighting a portion of the text narrative corresponding to the added fact.

32. The method of claim 29, wherein the change comprises a change to a list.

33. The method of claim 29, wherein the change comprises a change to a temporal status of a fact.

34. The method of claim 29, wherein the change comprises a change to a validation status of a fact.

35. Apparatus comprising:

at least one processor; and

a computer-readable storage medium storing processor-executable instructions that, when executed by the at least one processor, perform a method comprising;

extracting an initial set of one or more medical facts from a text narrative provided by a health care provider;

receiving, from a user reviewing the extracted facts, a change to the initial set of medical facts; and

re-processing at least part of the text narrative to extract a revised set of one or more medical facts from the text narrative based at least in part on the user'"'"'s change to the initial set of medical facts.

36. The apparatus of claim 35, wherein the change comprises adding a fact to the initial set of facts.

37. The apparatus of claim 36, wherein the adding comprises highlighting a portion of the text narrative corresponding to the added fact.

38. The apparatus of claim 35, wherein the change comprises a change to a list.

39. The apparatus of claim 35, wherein the change comprises a change to a temporal status of a fact.

40. The apparatus of claim 35, wherein the change comprises a change to a validation status of a fact.

41. At least one computer-readable storage medium encoded with computer-executable instructions that, when executed, perform a method comprising:

extracting an initial set of one or more medical facts from a text narrative provided by a health care provider;

receiving, from a user reviewing the extracted facts, a change to the initial set of medical facts; and

re-processing at least part of the text narrative to extract a revised set of one or more medical facts from the text narrative based at least in part on the user'"'"'s change to the initial set of medical facts.

42. The at least one computer-readable storage medium of claim 41, wherein the change comprises adding a fact to the initial set of facts.

43. The at least one computer-readable storage medium of claim 42, wherein the adding comprises highlighting a portion of the text narrative corresponding to the added fact.

44. The at least one computer-readable storage medium of claim 41, wherein the change comprises a change to a list.

45. The at least one computer-readable storage medium of claim 41, wherein the change comprises a change to a temporal status of a fact.

46. The at least one computer-readable storage medium of claim 41, wherein the change comprises a change to a validation status of a fact.