SEARCHING AN ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD
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1. One or more non-transitory computer-storage media having computer-executable 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 that is associated with a patient and that includes a plurality of electronic documents that describe a medical history for the patient;
identifying one or more components of the electronic medical record that contain text with one or more words that matches the search query;
determining, for each particular clinical concept recited in the one or more components, a patient-subject status that indicates whether the patient is an object of a particular clinical concept recited in a particular component;
determining a query-responsiveness score using the patent-subject status 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;
presenting search results that communicate information describing each of the one or more components 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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1. One or more non-transitory computer-storage media having computer-executable 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 that is associated with a patient and that includes a plurality of electronic documents that describe a medical history for the patient; identifying one or more components of the electronic medical record that contain text with one or more words that matches the search query; determining, for each particular clinical concept recited in the one or more components, a patient-subject status that indicates whether the patient is an object of a particular clinical concept recited in a particular component; determining a query-responsiveness score using the patent-subject status 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; presenting search results that communicate information describing each of the one or more components 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 non-transitory computer-storage media having computer-executable 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 from a user to search the electronic medical record that is associated with a patient and that includes a plurality of electronic documents that describe a medical history for the patient; identifying one or more components of the electronic medical record that contain text with one or more words that matches the search query; determining, for each clinical concept recited in the one or more components, a clinical-usage context that describes how the clinical concept was used in a component; determining a query-responsiveness score using the clinical-usage context 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; presenting search results that communicate information describing each of the one or more components displayed ordered according to the query-responsiveness score assigned to each of the one or more components. - View Dependent Claims (9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14)
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15. One or more non-transitory computer-storage media having computer-executable instructions embodied thereon for performing a method of preparing an electronic medical record for electronic searching, the method comprising:
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receiving a search query from a user to search the electronic medical record that is associated with a patient and that includes a plurality of electronic documents that describe a medical history for the patient; identifying one or more components of the electronic medical record that contain text with one or more words that matches the search query; determining, for each particular clinical concept recited in the one or more components, a specificity factor for the particular use of the clinical concept based on a degree of narrowness for a scope of the particular use of the clinical concept; determining a query-responsiveness score using the specificity factor 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; presenting search results that communicate information describing each of the one or more components displayed ordered according to the query-responsiveness score assigned to each of the one or more components. - View Dependent Claims (16, 17, 18, 19, 20)
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