System and method for processing and reporting biologically significant events

• US 7,813,879 B2
• Filed: 08/05/2004
• Issued: 10/12/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 08/05/2004
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Cerner Innovation, Inc. (Oracle Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Cerner Innovation, Inc. (Oracle Corporation)
• Inventors: Gosch, Jody L., Bush, Aaron M., Hoffman, Mark A.
• Primary Examiner(s): Lin; Jerry
• Application Number:
  US10/911,713
• Publication Number:
  US 20060031018A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,259 Days
• Field of Search: 702/19
• US Class Current: 702/19
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 10/60 for patient-specific data, e.g. for electronic patient records
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/67 for remote operation
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 50/80 for detecting, monitoring or modelling epidemics or pandemics, e.g. flu
• CPC Class Codes: Y02A 90/10 Information and communication technologies [ICT] supporting adaptation to climate change, e.g. for weather forecasting or climate simulation

Abstract

A system and method are provided for processing reports of biological events in order to filter the reports and output the reports to appropriate institutions and individuals for reporting. The system includes a primary filter for receiving a record, evaluating an event contained within the record, identifying any potential receiving organization based on the event evaluation, and creating a record for each potential receiving organization. The system may also include additional filters such as secondary filters, location filters, and column level filters for limiting the records created by the primary filter based on definitions provided by the receiving institutions.

Claims

1. A computer-storage medium having embodied thereon computer-executable instructions, that, when executed by a computer, cause the computer to perform a method for processing a biological event record received from at least one reporting organization and delivering information from the biological event record to at least one receiving organization, the method comprising:

receiving a biological event record from each of a plurality of separate reporting organizations, each biological event record comprising information associated with a biological event, wherein the separate reporting organizations are not associated with each other;

identifying an event category corresponding to each biological event;

determining that at least one receiving organization from among a listing of a plurality of receiving organizations has requested notification of biological events corresponding to an identified event category, the listing further comprising reportable events corresponding to each of the plurality of receiving organizations, wherein the listing is stored in a database accessible by the computer;

creating a record for the at least one receiving organization;

filtering the created record based on criteria provided by the at least one receiving organization;

filtering the created record using a location filter for applying demographic criteria definitions for a biological event to the created record;

applying a secondary filter that applies results definitions to the created record; and

providing the filtered record to at least one receiving individual at the at least one receiving organization such that the filtered record can be displayed to the at least one receiving individual.

2. The computer-storage medium of claim 1, further comprising applying demographic criteria to the created record, the demographic criteria including geographic restrictions for a record receiving organization.

3. The computer-storage medium of claim 1, further comprising implementing a patient characteristic filter for applying demographic criteria definitions related to a patient identified in the created record.

4. The computer-storage medium of claim 3, further comprising implementing the demographic criteria definitions to limit a patient residence to one of a specific zip code, a specific city, and a specific state.

5. The computer-storage medium of claim 1, further comprising applying a secondary filter that applies clinical event definitions to the created record.

6. The computer-storage medium of claim 1, further comprising applying a secondary filter that applies environmental event definitions to the created record.

7. The computer-storage medium of claim 1, further comprising performing the filtering step for a receiving organization and subsequently performing the filtering step for the at least one individual within the receiving organization, wherein the filtering step masks data fields within the created record.

8. A computer-storage medium having embodied thereon computer-executable instructions, that, when executed by a computer, cause the computer to perform a method for processing biological event records received from a plurality of reporting organizations and delivering information from the biological event record to a plurality of receiving organizations, the method comprising:

receiving a biological event record from one of the plurality of separate reporting organizations, the biological event record comprising information associated with a biological event;

identifying an event category corresponding to the biological event;

determining that a first receiving organization from among a listing of a plurality of receiving organizations has requested notification of biological events corresponding to the identified event category, the listing further comprising reportable events corresponding to each of the plurality of receiving organizations;

determining that a second receiving organization from among the listing of the plurality of receiving organizations has requested notification of biological events corresponding to the identified event category;

creating a first record for the first receiving organization;

creating a second record for the second receiving organization;

filtering the first created record based on a first set of criteria provided by the first receiving organization;

filtering the second created record based on a second set of criteria provided by the second receiving organization, wherein the first set of criteria is not the same as the second set of criteria;

creating a third record using the filtered first created record;

creating a fourth record using the filtered second created record;

applying a first secondary filter that applies a first set of results definitions to the third record, thereby creating a first result record, wherein the first set of results definitions are established by the first receiving organization;

applying a second secondary filter that applies a second set of results definitions to the fourth record, thereby creating a second result record, wherein the second set of results definitions are established by the second receiving organization;

delivering the first result record to a first results database, wherein the first results database is maintained by the first receiving organization; and

delivering the second result record to a second results database, wherein the second results database is maintained by the second receiving organization.

9. A computing device for processing a biological event record received from at least one reporting organization and delivering information from the biological event record to at least one receiving organization, the device comprising:

a system bus;

a system memory coupled to the system bus, wherein the system memory includes computer storage media having computer-executable instructions embodied thereon; and

a processing unit coupled to the system memory via the system bus, wherein the processing unit executes the computer-executable instructions to cause the computing device to perform the following steps;

(1) receiving a biological event record from each of a plurality of separate reporting organizations, each biological event record comprising information associated with a biological event, wherein the separate reporting organizations are not associated with each other;

(2) identifying an event category corresponding to each biological event;

(3) determining that at least one receiving organization from among a listing of a plurality of receiving organizations has requested notification of biological events corresponding to an identified event category, the listing further comprising reportable events corresponding to each of the plurality of receiving organizations;

(4) creating a record for the at least one receiving organization;

(5) filtering the created record based on criteria provided by the at least one receiving organization;

(6) filtering the created record using a location filter for applying demographic criteria definitions for a biological event to the created record;

(7) applying a secondary filter that applies results definitions to the created record; and

(8) providing the filtered record to at least one results database at the at least one receiving organization such that the filtered record can be displayed to at least one receiving individual.

10. The device of claim 9, further comprising:

(9) applying demographic criteria to the created record, the demographic criteria including geographic restrictions for a record receiving organization.

11. The device of claim 10, further comprising:

(10) implementing a patient characteristic filter for applying demographic criteria definitions related to a patient identified in the created record.

12. The device of claim 10, wherein applying the demographic criteria to the created record includes implementing the demographic criteria definitions to limit a patient residence to one of a specific zip code, a specific city, and a specific state.

13. A computer-implemented method for using a computing device to process a biological event record received from at least one reporting organization and delivering information from the biological event record to at least one receiving organization, the method comprising:

receiving, at the computer, a biological event record from each of a plurality of separate reporting organizations, each biological event record comprising information associated with a biological event, wherein the separate reporting organizations are not associated with each other;

identifying, using the computer, an event category corresponding to each biological event;

determining, using the computer, that at least one receiving organization from among a listing of a plurality of receiving organizations has requested notification of biological events corresponding to an identified event category, the listing further comprising reportable events corresponding to each of the plurality of receiving organizations;

creating, using the computer, a record for the at least one receiving organization;

filtering, using the computer, the created record based on criteria provided by the at least one receiving organization;

filtering, using the computer, the created record using a location filter for applying demographic criteria definitions for a biological event to the created record;

applying, using the computer, a secondary filter that applies results definitions to the created record; and

providing, using the computer, the filtered record to at least one receiving individual at the at least one receiving organization such that the filtered record can be displayed to the at least one receiving individual.

14. The computer-implemented method of claim 13, further comprising applying demographic criteria to the created record, the demographic criteria including geographic restrictions for a record receiving organization.

15. The computer-implemented method of claim 13, further comprising implementing a patient characteristic filter for applying demographic criteria definitions related to a patient identified in the created record.

16. The computer-implemented method of claim 15, further comprising implementing the demographic criteria definitions to limit a patient residence to one of a specific zip code, a specific city, and a specific state.

17. The computer-implemented method of claim 13, further comprising applying a secondary filter that applies clinical event definitions to the created record.

18. The computer-implemented method of claim 13, further comprising applying a secondary filter that applies environmental event definitions to the created record.

19. The computer-implemented method of claim 13, further comprising performing the filtering step for a receiving organization and subsequently performing the filtering step for the at least one individual within the receiving organization, wherein the filtering step masks data fields within the created record.