Computer-assisted abstraction for reporting of quality measures

• US 8,924,394 B2
• Filed: 02/21/2012
• Issued: 12/30/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 02/18/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Solventum Intellectual Properties Company (Solventum Corp.)
• Original Assignee: MModal IP LLC (3M Company)
• Inventors: Jagannathan, Vasudevan, Ware, Henry W., Leonard, Sandra J., Ellenberger, Brian A.
• Primary Examiner(s): NGUYEN, CAM LINH T
• Application Number:
  US13/400,910
• Publication Number:
  US 20120215782A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,043 Days
• Field of Search: 707/740, 707/999.004, 707/736, 707/803
• US Class Current: 707/740
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/24578 using ranking
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/285 Clustering or classification
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/3344 using natural language analysis
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/35 Clustering; Classification
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/90335 Query processing
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/93 Document management systems
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/205 Parsing
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/06395 Quality analysis or management
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 40/08 Insurance
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 10/60 for patient-specific data, e.g. for electronic patient records
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/20 for the management or administration of healthcare resources or facilities, e.g. managing hospital staff or surgery rooms
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 70/60 relating to pathologies

Abstract

Methods and systems are disclosed for tracking quality measures in abstracted documents. Embodiments include, determining, based on the abstracted content, a quality measure category, obtaining a quality measure definition corresponding to a quality measure included in the determined quality measure category, determining, based on keywords corresponding to the criterion, whether a portion of the abstracted content satisfies a criterion, recording, in association with the criterion, a reference to the portion of the abstracted content that satisfies the criterion; and selectively generating, a report including the query corresponding to the criterion, a query response, and the portion of the abstracted content satisfying the criterion.

Claims

1. A method of tracking quality measures in one or more documents, wherein said documents are respectively associated with content abstracted from the documents,

said method comprising:

determining, based on the abstracted content, a quality measure category;

obtaining a quality measure definition corresponding to a quality measure included in the determined quality measure category, said definition including at least one quality measure criterion, keywords corresponding to the criterion and queries corresponding to the criterion;

determining, based on the keywords corresponding to the criterion, whether a portion of the abstracted content satisfies the criterion;

recording, in association with the criterion, a reference to the portion of the abstracted content that satisfies the criterion; and

selectively generating, based on the quality measure definition, a report including the query corresponding to the criterion, a query response, and the portion of the abstracted content satisfying the criterion.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the quality measure definition includes criteria for the quality measure and respective sets of queries and keywords corresponding to each criterion.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein generating the report includes:

determining that no information was located in the documents satisfying one or more criteria;

determining that a time frame for performing the one or more criteria has not expired; and

generating an alert for the one or more determined criteria that have not expired.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the documents belong to a collection of documents that correspond to a single patient encounter.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the content abstracted from the documents comprises content abstracted based on a lexicon of medical terminology.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the content abstracted from the documents comprises content abstracted using a natural language processing engine.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the content abstracted from the documents is linked to medical codes.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein determining that the portion of the abstracted content satisfies the criterion includes:

providing, to an abstractor, an interactive computer-user interface presenting the query, the criterion and the portion of the abstracted content; and

receiving a response to the query from the abstractor, said response affirming that the portion satisfies the criterion.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein the report indicates criteria in the definition for which no abstracted content satisfying the criteria was included in the collection of documents.

10. A system for tracking quality measures in one or more documents, wherein said documents are respectively associated with content abstracted from the documents, comprising:

a processor;

a display device;

a user-input device; and

a non-transient computer-readable information storage device having program instructions recorded therein, said program instructions when executed by the processor controlling the system to;

determine, based on the abstracted content, a quality measure category;

obtain a quality measure definition corresponding to a quality measure included in the determined quality measure category, said definition including at least one quality measure criterion, keywords corresponding to the criterion and queries corresponding to the criterion;

determine, based on the keywords corresponding to the criterion, whether a portion of the abstracted content satisfies the criterion;

record, in association with the criterion, a reference to the portion of the abstracted content that satisfies the criterion; and

selectively generate, based on the quality measure definition, a report including the query corresponding to the criterion, a query response, and the portion of the abstracted content satisfying the criterion.

11. The system of claim 10, wherein the quality measure definition includes criteria for the quality measure and respective sets of queries and keywords corresponding to each criterion.

12. The system of claim 10, wherein the program instructions controlling the computer to generate the report include program instructions that control the computer to:

determine that no information was located in the documents satisfying one or more criteria;

determine that a time frame for performing the one or more criteria has not expired; and

generate an alert for the one or more determined criteria that have not expired.

13. The system of claim 10, wherein the documents belong to a collection of documents that correspond to a single patient encounter.

14. The system of claim 10, wherein the content abstracted from the documents comprises content abstracted based on a lexicon of medical terminology.

15. The system of claim 10, wherein the content abstracted from the documents comprises content abstracted using a natural language processing engine.

16. The system of claim 10, wherein the content abstracted from the documents is linked to medical codes.

17. The system of claim 10, wherein the program instructions controlling the computer to determine that the portion of the abstracted content satisfies the criterion:

include program instructions that control the computer to;

provide, to an abstractor, an interactive computer-user interface presenting the query, the criterion and the portion of the abstracted content; and

receive a response to the query from the abstractor, said response affirming that the portion satisfies the criterion.

18. The system of claim 10, wherein the report indicates criteria in the definition for which no abstracted content satisfying the criteria was included in the collection of documents.