System and Method for Identifying Inconsistent and/or Duplicate Data in Health Records
First Claim
1. A method of identifying information in electronic medical records, the method comprising:
- receiving one or more electronic medical records extracted from at least one source, each of the one or more electronic medical records having medical information of at least one medical patient;
analyzing, via a processor, the medical information by comparing different portions of data in the medical information; and
identifying, via the processor, at least one of;
(i) the different portions of data in the medical information as inconsistent data; and
(ii) the different portions of the data in the medical information as duplicate data.
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Abstract
A method of identifying information in electronic medical records includes receiving one or more electronic medical records extracted from at least one source. Each of the one or more electronic medical records has medical information of at least one medical patient. The method also includes analyzing, via a processor, the medical information by comparing different portions of data in the medical information. The method further includes identifying, via the processor, at least one of: (i) the different portions of data in the medical information as inconsistent data; and (ii) the different portions of the data in the medical information as duplicate data.
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22 Claims
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1. A method of identifying information in electronic medical records, the method comprising:
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receiving one or more electronic medical records extracted from at least one source, each of the one or more electronic medical records having medical information of at least one medical patient; analyzing, via a processor, the medical information by comparing different portions of data in the medical information; and identifying, via the processor, at least one of;
(i) the different portions of data in the medical information as inconsistent data; and
(ii) the different portions of the data in the medical information as duplicate data. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11)
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12. A method of identifying data from a plurality of electronic patient data, the method comprising:
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selecting at least one electronic medical patient record comprising medical data of the medical patient; mining data from the at least one electronic medical patient record; compiling the mined data into at least one structured patient record; and analyzing, via a processor, the mined data to identify at least one of;
(i) inconsistent medical data from the mined data; and
(ii) duplicate medical data from the mined data. - View Dependent Claims (13, 14, 15, 16)
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17. A system for identifying information in electronic medical records, the system comprising:
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a data source comprising at least one electronic patient medical record having patient medical data; at least one extracting device configured to extract data from the patient medical data; a structured data source configured to include at least one of (i) structured data extracted from the electronic patient medical record and (ii) unstructured data extracted from the electronic patient medical record and converted to structured data; at least one system configured to analyze the structured data source for at least one of;
(i) inconsistent data and (ii) duplicate data; andat least one display for outputting the results of the analysis of the structured data source. - View Dependent Claims (18, 19)
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20. A tangible computer readable medium comprising instructions for causing a computer to implement the steps of:
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receiving medical information of at least one medical patient from at least one source, analyzing the medical information by comparing different portions of data in the medical information; and identifying at least one of;
(i) the different portions of data in the medical information as inconsistent data; and
(ii) the different portions of the data in the medical information as duplicate data. - View Dependent Claims (21, 22)
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