System for communication of health care data
First Claim
1. A computer system to process health care data from one or more health care records from one or more sources related to a patient in order to communicate that health care data to a participant, the computer system comprising:
- a computer configured to communicate with one or more payor databases that stores one or more health care records containing a plurality of health care data related to the patient;
wherein the computer is configured to communicate with the plurality of health care data related to the patient of a type where each of the health care data is displayed in a separate field;
wherein any of the plurality of health care data related to the patient which are intended to have the same meaning, are expressed in either different formats, or have not previously been subject to a normalized format;
wherein the normalized format is of a type that displays health care data from one or more sources associated with a single patient such that any health care data associated with that patient having the same meaning is expressed in the same format despite any prior formatting;
a rules engine that establishes the normalized format for health care data associated with the patient and predetermines how each of the plurality of selected health care data is to appear in its respective field to send to the participant;
wherein fields in the normalized format that correspond to the fields containing the health care data for the patient not expressed as predetermined by the normalized format is remodeled to be expressed as predetermined by the normalized format becoming normalized data; and
wherein the computer is configured to transfer the normalized data over a data network to a participant computer system.
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Abstract
An apparatus for communicating health care data from a sender to a receiver is provided. The apparatus has a first computer system (10), a second computer system, and a rules engine. The first computer system (10) has health care data stored therein. The second computer system is in operable communication with, and is configured to extract the health care data from the first computer system (10). The rules engine normalizes the extracted health care data to a predefined format. The rules engine defines a plurality of health care data fields in the predefined format, as well as a plurality of relationships between fields of normalized data.
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11 Claims
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1. A computer system to process health care data from one or more health care records from one or more sources related to a patient in order to communicate that health care data to a participant, the computer system comprising:
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a computer configured to communicate with one or more payor databases that stores one or more health care records containing a plurality of health care data related to the patient; wherein the computer is configured to communicate with the plurality of health care data related to the patient of a type where each of the health care data is displayed in a separate field; wherein any of the plurality of health care data related to the patient which are intended to have the same meaning, are expressed in either different formats, or have not previously been subject to a normalized format; wherein the normalized format is of a type that displays health care data from one or more sources associated with a single patient such that any health care data associated with that patient having the same meaning is expressed in the same format despite any prior formatting; a rules engine that establishes the normalized format for health care data associated with the patient and predetermines how each of the plurality of selected health care data is to appear in its respective field to send to the participant; wherein fields in the normalized format that correspond to the fields containing the health care data for the patient not expressed as predetermined by the normalized format is remodeled to be expressed as predetermined by the normalized format becoming normalized data; and wherein the computer is configured to transfer the normalized data over a data network to a participant computer system. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10)
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11. A computer system that processes health care data from two or more health care records related to a patient from one or more sources in order to communicate that health care data to a participant, the computer system comprising:
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a computer configured to communicate with one or more payor databases that stores two or more health care records containing a plurality of health care data related to the patient; wherein the plurality of health care data related to the patient is subject to a normalized format of a type that displays health care data from one or more sources associated with a single patient such that any health care data associated with that patient having the same meaning is expressed in the same format despite any prior formatting; a rules engine that normalizes the data so any health care data related to the patient having the same meaning is expressed in the same format as normalized data; and wherein the computer is configured to transfer the normalized data over a data network to a participant computer.
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