Computerized system and method for building a system of test components for a healthcare orderable procedure

• US 7,634,359 B2
• Filed: 01/03/2005
• Issued: 12/15/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 01/03/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Cerner Innovation, Inc. (Oracle Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Cerner Innovation, Inc. (Oracle Corporation)
• Inventors: Hoffman, Mark A., Smith, Nicholas, Kuhns, Ginger H., Power, Kevin M.
• Primary Examiner(s): Zeman; Mary K
• Application Number:
  US11/028,379
• Publication Number:
  US 20060149573A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,807 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 702/19
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/067 Enterprise or organisation modelling
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/67 for remote operation
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99943 Generating database or data structure, e.g. via user interface

Abstract

A computerized system and method of building a system of test components for an orderable healthcare procedure is provided. An orderable healthcare procedure is received and associated with a discrete ontology concept. An ontology is traversed for the discrete ontology concept to identify test components related to the discrete ontology concept. The test components related to the discrete ontology concept are identified.

Claims

1. A computer storage medium having embodied thereon computer-readable instructions, that when executed, enable a computing device to perform a method of identifying a test component that is usable to perform an orderable healthcare procedure, the method comprising:

receiving the orderable healthcare procedure, wherein the orderable healthcare procedure is input by a user and wherein the orderable healthcare procedure identifies a diagnostic screening that is usable to detect an existence of a particular molecular entity in a sample;

retrieving a navigational concept, wherein the navigational concept represents both a parent tier in an ontology hierarchy and a human-biology concept;

displaying on a device the navigational concept to be selected by the user;

responsive to selection by the user of the navigational concept, associating the orderable healthcare procedure with a uniquely identified molecular entity that relates to the particular molecular entity and that is a child concept of the navigational concept;

traversing biological relationships of the uniquely identified molecular entity to identify a test component that is usable to detect the existence of the particular molecular entity in the sample;

displaying to a user the test component to be selected; and

upon receiving a selection of the test component, displaying the test component as a component of an assay that is usable to detect the existence of the particular molecular entity in the sample.

2. The computer storage medium of claim 1, wherein the test component is a discrete concept within an ontology of genomic concepts.

3. The computer storage medium of claim 2, wherein the test components are related to the discrete ontology concept by horizontal defining biological relationships, wherein the horizontal defining biological relationships span one or more parent-child relationships.

4. The computer storage medium claim 3, wherein the horizontal defining biological relationship is a known biological relationship between two molecular entities.

5. A computerized system for building a system of test components, which are usable to perform an orderable healthcare procedure, the system comprising one or more programmed computers for performing a method, the system comprising:

a receiving component for receiving the orderable healthcare procedure input by a user, wherein the orderable healthcare procedure includes a diagnostic screening that is usable to detect an existence of a particular molecular entity in a sample;

an associating component for associating the orderable healthcare procedure with a discrete ontology concept,

(1) wherein the orderable healthcare procedure is associated with said discrete ontology concept in response to selection of a navigational concept that includes a category of molecular entities and that is a parent concept of said discrete ontology concept; and

(2) wherein the discrete ontology concept includes a uniquely identified molecular entity,

a traversing component for traversing an ontology of the discrete ontology concept to identify test components related to the discrete ontology concept,

(1) wherein the ontology comprises horizontal defining biological relationships associating the discrete ontology concept with the test components, and

(2) wherein the test components are usable to detect the existence of the particular molecular entity in the sample; and

a displaying component for displaying identified test components related to the discrete ontology concept.

6. The system of claim 5, further comprising:

a second receiving component for receiving selection of the test components.

7. The system of claim 6, further comprising:

a building component for building a system of test components for the orderable procedure based on the selection of test components.

8. The system of claim 5, wherein the test components are discrete concepts within the ontology.

9. The system of claim 8, wherein the test components are clinically significant gene mutations.

10. The system of claim 9, wherein the test components are related to the discrete ontology concept by horizontal defining biological relationships, wherein the horizontal defining biological relationships span one or more parent-child hierarchies.

11. The system of claim 10, wherein the horizontal defining biological relationship is a known biological relationship between two molecular entities.

12. The system of claim 11, wherein the discrete ontology concept is a representation of a named molecular entity.

13. The system of claim 5, wherein the ontology is an ontology of genomic concepts.

14. A computerized system for building a system of test components that are usable to perform an orderable procedure, the system comprising one or more programmed computers for performing a method, the system comprising:

a receiving component for receiving from a remote computer the orderable healthcare procedure, which includes a molecular diagnostic test;

a display component for causing to be displayed on the remote computer a navigational concept, wherein the navigational concept represents a human-biology category of molecular entities;

an associating component that, upon selection of the navigational concept, associates the orderable healthcare procedure with a uniquely identified molecular entity that is a child concept of the navigational concept;

a traversing component for traversing horizontal defining biological relationships of the uniquely identified molecular entity to identify test components that are selectable to detect an existence of a particular molecular entity a the sample; and

the display component for causing the test components to be displayed, and upon selection of one of the test components, presenting the test component that was selected as a component of the molecular diagnostic test.

15. The system of claim 14, wherein the horizontal defining relationships span one or more parent-child hierarchies.

16. The system of claim 15, wherein the horizontal defining biological relationship is a known biological relationship between two molecular entities.