AUTOMATED METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR REDUCING THE IMPROPER DISCLOSURE OF DOCUMENTS

• US 20140244302A1
• Filed: 02/27/2014
• Published: 08/28/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 02/27/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: MRO Corp.
• Original Assignee: MRO Corp.
• Inventors: BORDEN, David J.
• Granted Patent: US 10,037,409 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/3
• 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

An automated system to reduce improper disclosure of documents containing image information for a patient. The system includes an OCR processing tool that passes each document through an OCR module that converts the document image information into text information, and an automated QC process tool that uses the text information to perform a quality control review for patient demographic matching conditions in the documents.

Claims

1. An automated system to reduce improper disclosure of documents containing image information for a patient, comprising:

an OCR processing tool that passes each document through an OCR module that converts the document image information into text information, and

an automated QC process tool that uses the text information to perform a quality control review for patient demographic matching conditions in the documents.

2. The automated system to reduce improper disclosure of documents, according to claim 1, wherein the automated QC process tool determines whether each page of each document can be positively identified with the patient, if the document is positively identified then the document is released.

3. The automated system to reduce improper disclosure of documents, according to claim 2, wherein if the document is not positively identified, then the QC process tool scans for improper patient identifiers.

4. The automated system to reduce improper disclosure of documents, according to claim 2, further comprising a QC assist process tool that provides side by side comparison of requested document information with the text information.

5. The automated system to reduce improper disclosure of documents, according to claim 4, wherein the QC assist process tool further comprises a “

heat map”

of the document coded based on an amount of errors contained in the documents which facilitates the operator to quickly view only documents exceeding a predefined threshold.

6. The automated system to reduce improper disclosure of documents, according to claim 3, further comprising a QC assist process tool that provides side by side comparison of requested document information with the text information.

7. The automated system to reduce improper disclosure of documents, according to claim 6, wherein the QC assist process tool further comprises a “

heat map”

of the document coded based on an amount of errors contained in the documents which facilitates the operator to quickly view only documents exceeding a predefined threshold.

8. An automated method to reduce improper disclosure of documents containing image information for a patient, comprising:

providing an OCR processing tool that passes each document through an OCR module that converts the document image information into text information, and

providing an automated QC process tool that uses the text information to perform a quality control review for patient demographic matching conditions in the documents.

9. The automated method to reduce improper disclosure of documents, according to claim 8, wherein the automated QC process tool determines whether each page of each document can be positively identified with the patient, if the document is positively identified then the document is released.

10. The automated method to reduce improper disclosure of documents, according to claim 9, wherein if the document is not positively identified, then the QC process tool scans for improper patient identifiers.

11. The automated method to reduce improper disclosure of documents, according to claim 9, further comprising providing a QC assist process tool that provides side by side comparison of requested document information with the text information.

12. The automated method to reduce improper disclosure of documents, according to claim 11, wherein the QC assist process tool further comprises a “

heat map”

of the document coded based on an amount of errors contained in the documents which facilitates the operator to quickly view only documents exceeding a predefined threshold.

13. The automated method to reduce improper disclosure of documents, according to claim 10, further comprising a QC assist process tool that provides side by side comparison of requested document information with the text information.

14. The automated method to reduce improper disclosure of documents, according to claim 13, wherein the QC assist process tool further comprises a “

heat map”

of the document coded based on an amount of errors contained in the documents which facilitates the operator to quickly view only documents exceeding a predefined threshold.