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

• US 8,001,097 B2
• Filed: 11/25/2009
• Issued: 08/16/2011
• 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:
  US12/626,270
• Publication Number:
  US 20100076781A1
• Time in Patent Office: 629 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 707/700
• 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 by a computing device, enable the computing device to perform a method of identifying a test component that is usable to perform an orderable healthcare procedure, the method comprising:

receiving as an input the orderable healthcare procedure, wherein the orderable healthcare procedure is associated with a particular molecular entity;

displaying on a device a navigational concept that represents a parent tier in an ontology hierarchy;

responsive to input of the navigational concept, identifying 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 potential test component of a task, which is executed to carryout the orderable healthcare procedure;

displaying the potential test component to enable selection thereof; and

upon receiving input of the potential test component, displaying the potential test component as the test component of the task.

2. The computer storage medium of claim 1, wherein the orderable healthcare procedure is a diagnostic screening that detects an existence of the particular molecular entity in a sample.

3. The computer storage medium of claim 1, wherein the navigational concept is a sub-category within a human-genome tier of the ontology hierarchy.

4. The computer storage medium of claim 1, wherein the uniquely identified molecular entity is a specific human gene.

5. The computer storage medium of claim 1, wherein the biological relationships link the specific human gene with a nucleotide variant of the specific human gene.

6. The computer storage medium of claim 5, wherein the nucleotide variant is used to identify the potential test component.

7. The computer storage medium of claim 5, wherein the horizontal defining biological relationships span one or more parent-child relationships.

8. The computer storage medium of claim 7, wherein the horizontal defining biological relationship is a known biological relationship between two molecular entities.

9. A computerized system for identifying test components, which are usable to perform an orderable healthcare procedure, the system comprising a processor coupled to computer-storage media that comprises:

a receiving component that receives an input of the orderable healthcare procedure, wherein the orderable healthcare procedure is associated with a particular molecular entity;

an associating component that, upon input of a navigational concept, associates the orderable healthcare procedure with a discrete ontology concept,

(1) wherein the navigational concept includes a category of molecular entities 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 that traverses an ontology of the discrete ontology concept to identify test components related to the discrete ontology concept, wherein the ontology comprises horizontal defining biological relationships associating the discrete ontology concept with the test components; and

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

10. The system of claim 9, further comprising a second receiving component that receives an input of the identified test components.

11. The system of claim 10, further comprising a building component that, based on the input of the identified test components, builds a system of test components that are usable to carry-out the orderable procedure.

12. The system of claim 9, wherein the test components are discrete concepts within the ontology.

13. The system of claim 12, wherein the test components are clinically significant gene mutations.

14. The system of claim 13, wherein the test components are related to the discrete ontology concept by horizontal defining biological relationships and wherein the horizontal defining biological relationships span one or more parent-child hierarchies.

15. The system of claim 14, wherein the horizontal defining biological relationship is a known biological relationship between two molecular entities.

16. The system of claim 9, wherein the ontology is an ontology of genomic concepts.

17. A method, which is implemented using a computing device, of identifying a test component that is usable to perform an orderable healthcare procedure, the method comprising:

receiving as an input the orderable healthcare procedure, wherein the orderable healthcare procedure is associated with a particular molecular entity;

displaying on a display device a navigational concept that represents a parent tier in an ontology hierarchy;

responsive to input of the navigational concept, identifying by a processor 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 by the processor a potential test component of a task, which is executed to carry-out the orderable healthcare procedure;

displaying the potential test component to enable selection thereof; and

upon receiving input of the potential test component, displaying the potential test component as the test component of the task.

18. The method of claim 17, wherein the orderable healthcare procedure is a diagnostic screening that is usable to detect an existence of the particular molecular entity in a sample.

19. The method of claim 17, wherein the navigational concept is a subcategory within a human-genome tier of the ontology hierarchy.

20. The method of claim 17, wherein the uniquely identified molecular entity is a specific human gene.