System and method for multidimensional extension of database information using inferred groupings
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1. A system for generating an inferred data grouping, comprising:
- an input interface receiving clinically relevant source data from a first data source and clinically relevant source data from a second data source, wherein each of the first data source and the second data source comprises a healthcare provider, a hospital, an insurer, a laboratory, or a medical facility;
an inference engine, the inference enginecommunicating with the input interface to access the clinically relevant source data,automatically detecting an inferred clinical relationship between at least one attribute or data in the clinically relevant source data from the first data source and at least one attribute or data in the clinically relevant source data from the second data source being separate from the first data source comprising the healthcare provider, the hospital, the insurer, the laboratory, or the medical facility, wherein the inferred clinical relationship is automatically detected using an inference measure to detect and substantiate the inferred clinical relationship,generating an inferred data grouping in accordance with the detected inferred clinical relationship, andcombining the inferred data grouping with an existing clinical data grouping to generate an inferentially enhanced data grouping that is used to analyze past healthcare-related trends and model future healthcare-related events to project a healthcare-related cost, outcome, trend, or interest; and
a query engine, the query enginereceiving a user query,in response to receiving the user query, utilizing the inferentially enhanced data grouping to analyze one or more healthcare-related trends, andproviding a user with output based on the one or more healthcare-related trends.
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Abstract
A system and method for receiving medical or other database information and pregrouping and extending that data include a data enhancement layer configured to generate additional stored dimensions capturing the data and relevant attributes. Data sources such as hospitals, laboratories and others may therefore communicate their clinical data to a central warehousing facility which may assemble and extend the resulting aggregated data for data mining purposes. Varying source format and content may be conditioned and conformed to a consistent physical or logical structure. The source data may be extended and recombined into additional related dimensions, pre-associating meaningful attributes for faster querying and storage. The attributes, data and other pieces of information may likewise in embodiments be subjected to an inference analysis to determine whether previously unidentified or unexploited relationships may exist within the universe of source data, for instance using correlation, inference or other analytic techniques. Newly detected, identified or inferred data groupings, which may for instance reveal hidden trends or patterns residing in the data, may then be added back to the enhanced data groupings. Users running analytics against the resulting medical or other datamarts may therefore access a richer set of related information, more powerful sets of predictive models as well as have their queries and other operations run more efficiently.
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32 Claims
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1. A system for generating an inferred data grouping, comprising:
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an input interface receiving clinically relevant source data from a first data source and clinically relevant source data from a second data source, wherein each of the first data source and the second data source comprises a healthcare provider, a hospital, an insurer, a laboratory, or a medical facility; an inference engine, the inference engine communicating with the input interface to access the clinically relevant source data, automatically detecting an inferred clinical relationship between at least one attribute or data in the clinically relevant source data from the first data source and at least one attribute or data in the clinically relevant source data from the second data source being separate from the first data source comprising the healthcare provider, the hospital, the insurer, the laboratory, or the medical facility, wherein the inferred clinical relationship is automatically detected using an inference measure to detect and substantiate the inferred clinical relationship, generating an inferred data grouping in accordance with the detected inferred clinical relationship, and combining the inferred data grouping with an existing clinical data grouping to generate an inferentially enhanced data grouping that is used to analyze past healthcare-related trends and model future healthcare-related events to project a healthcare-related cost, outcome, trend, or interest; and a query engine, the query engine receiving a user query, in response to receiving the user query, utilizing the inferentially enhanced data grouping to analyze one or more healthcare-related trends, and providing a user with output based on the one or more healthcare-related trends. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10)
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11. A computer-implemented method for generating an inferred data grouping, comprising:
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receiving clinically relevant source data from a first data source and clinically relevant source data from a second data source, wherein each of the first data source and the second data source comprises a health care provider, a hospital, an insurer, a laboratory, or a medical facility; automatically detecting an inferred clinical relationship between at least one attribute or data in the clinically relevant source data from the first data source and at least one attribute or data in the clinically relevant source data from the second data source being separate from the first data source comprising the healthcare provider, the hospital, the insurer, the laboratory, or the medical facility, wherein the inferred clinical relationship is automatically detected using an inference measure to detect and substantiate the inferred clinical relationship; generating, via a data enhancement layer, an inferred data grouping in accordance with the detected inferred clinical relationship; combining the inferred data grouping with an existing clinical data grouping to generate an inferentially enhanced data grouping that is used to analyze past healthcare-related trends and model future healthcare-related events to project a healthcare-related cost, outcome, trend, or interest; in response to receiving a user query, utilizing the inferentially enhanced data grouping to analyze one or more healthcare-related trends; and providing a user with output based on the one or more healthcare-related trends. - View Dependent Claims (12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23)
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24. A method for generating an inferred data grouping, the method comprising:
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receiving clinically relevant source data from a first data source and clinically relevant source data from a second data source, wherein each of the first data source and the second data source comprises a health care provider, a hospital, an insurer, a laboratory, or a medical facility; automatically detecting an inferred clinical relationship between at least one attribute or data in the clinically relevant source data from the first data source and at least one attribute or data in the clinically relevant source data from the second data source being separate from the first data source comprising the healthcare provider, the hospital, the insurer, the laboratory, or the medical facility, wherein the inferred clinical relationship is automatically detected using an inference measure to detect and substantiate the inferred clinical relationship; generating, via a data enhancement layer, an inferred data grouping in accordance with the detected inferred clinical relationship; combining the inferred data grouping with an existing clinical data grouping to generate an inferentially enhanced data grouping that is used to analyze past healthcare-related trends and model future healthcare-related events to project a healthcare-related cost, outcome, trend, or interest; in response to receiving a user query, utilizing the inferentially enhanced data grouping to analyze one or more healthcare-related trends; and providing a user with output based on the one or more healthcare-related trends. - View Dependent Claims (25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30)
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31. A method for generating an output based on an inferred data grouping, the method comprising:
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receiving clinically relevant source data from a first data source and clinically relevant source data from a second data source, wherein each of the first data source and the second data source comprises a health care provider, a hospital, an insurer, a laboratory, or a medical facility; automatically detecting an inferred clinical relationship between at least one attribute or data in the clinically relevant source data from the first data source and at least one attribute or data in the clinically relevant source data from the second data source being separate from the first data source comprising the healthcare provider, the hospital, the insurer, the laboratory, or the medical facility, wherein the inferred clinical relationship is automatically detected using an inference measure to detect and substantiate the inferred clinical relationship, the inference measure comprising a statistical correlation measure between the at least one attribute or data in the clinically relevant source data from the first data source and the at least one attribute or data in the clinically relevant source data from the second data source generating, via a data enhancement layer, an inferred data grouping in accordance with the detected inferred clinical relationship, the inferred data grouping comprising a hierarchical or multidimensional data grouping; combining the inferred data grouping with an existing clinical data grouping to generate an inferentially enhanced hierarchical or multidimensional data grouping, wherein the inferentially enhanced data grouping is used to analyze past healthcare-related trends and model future healthcare-related events, wherein one or more users can project a healthcare-related cost, outcome, trend, or interest; in response to receiving a user query, utilizing the inferentially enhanced data grouping to model future healthcare-related events pertaining to disease, drug efficacy, therapeutic, or demographic trends; and providing a user with output based on the modeling of future healthcare-related events. - View Dependent Claims (32)
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