System and method for the automatic generation of patient-specific and grammatically correct electronic medical records

• US 8,959,012 B2
• Filed: 05/30/2011
• Issued: 02/17/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 04/04/2007
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Orville E. Easterly
• Original Assignee: Orville E. Easterly
• Inventors: Easterly, Orville E.
• Primary Examiner(s): SPOONER, LAMONT M
• Application Number:
  US13/118,565
• Publication Number:
  US 20110231207A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,359 Days
• Field of Search: 704/1, 704/9, 704/10
• US Class Current: 704/9
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/186 Templates
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/40 Processing or translation of natural language natural language analysis G06F40/20; semantic analysis G06F40/30
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/56 Natural language generation
• 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

Abstract

A system and method for automatically generating patient-specific and grammatically correct electronic medical records is disclosed. The system and method of an example embodiment includes retrieving a statement from a data object, the data object including the statement, at least one response option corresponding to the statement, and at least one sentence fragment corresponding to the response option; generating, using a processor, a user interface view that includes the statement; receiving a response corresponding to the statement; correlating the response to the at least one response option; retrieving the sentence fragment that corresponds to the correlated response option; and generating, using the processor, a patient-specific and grammatically correct electronic medical record using the retrieved sentence fragment.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

generating a data object including a plurality of statements, a plurality of response options corresponding to each statement, and mapping data that maps each of the plurality of response options to at least one corresponding sentence fragment, text content of the plurality of response options being different than text content of a corresponding sentence fragment, at least one response option of the plurality of response options being mapped to a plurality of corresponding sentence fragments, the mapping data further including, for each of the plurality of response options, data that maps a particular response option to a corresponding specific location in an electronic medical record, the specific location being individually pre-defined for each of the plurality of response options, at least one response option of the plurality of response options being mapped to a plurality of corresponding specific locations in the electronic medical record, the data object further including, for each of the plurality of response options, a link target specifying a set of follow-on queries that relate to a particular response option, the follow-on queries only being presented to a user if the corresponding response option is selected;

retrieving a statement from the data object;

generating, using a processor, a user interface view that includes the statement;

receiving a response corresponding to the statement;

correlating the response to a chosen one of the plurality of response options;

mapping, using the processor, the chosen response option to one or more corresponding sentence fragments using the mapping data in the data object;

retrieving the one or more mapped sentence fragments to which the chosen response option is mapped;

identifying, using the processor, a specific location in the electronic medical record corresponding to the chosen response option using the mapping data in the data object;

placing the one or more mapped sentence fragments into the electronic medical record at the specific location;

retrieving patient demographic information for insertion into the electronic medical record;

placing the patient demographic information into the electronic medical record at a pre-defined location; and

generating, using the processor, the patient-specific and grammatically correct electronic medical record using the one or more mapped sentence fragments and the patient demographic information.

2. The method as claimed in claim 1 further including providing a set of control options for configuring the generation of the user interface view.

3. The method as claimed in claim 1 wherein the response is received via a website user interface.

4. The method as claimed in claim 1 wherein the response is received from a patient.

5. The method as claimed in claim 1 further including retrieving medical data from a medical database.

6. The method as claimed in claim 1 wherein the electronic medical record is one or more of:

a medical history, a surgical record, a mental health record, hospital record, counseling record, coaching record, physical therapy record, mental therapy record, and behavioral therapy record.

7. The method as claimed in claim 1 further including an auto-conjugate control option.

8. The method as claimed in claim 1 further including a filtering control option.

9. A system comprising:

a processor;

a memory coupled to the processor to store information related to electronic medical records, the memory including a data object including a plurality of statements, a plurality of response options corresponding to each statement, and mapping data that maps each of the plurality of response options to at least one corresponding sentence fragment, text content of the plurality of response options being different than text content of a corresponding sentence fragment, at least one response option of the plurality of response options being mapped to a plurality of corresponding sentence fragments, the mapping data further including, for each of the plurality of response options, data that maps a particular response option to a corresponding specific location in an electronic medical record, the specific location being individually pre-defined for each of the plurality of response options, at least one response option of the plurality of response options being mapped to a plurality of corresponding specific locations in the electronic medical record, the data object further including, for each of the plurality of response options, a link target specifying a set of follow-on queries that relate to a particular response option, the follow-on queries only being presented to a user if the corresponding response option is selected;

an input component to retrieve a statement from the data object;

to generate a user interface view that includes the statement;

to receive a response corresponding to the statement; and

to correlate the response to a chosen one of the plurality of response options; and

an output component to map the chosen response option to one or more corresponding sentence fragments using the mapping data in the data object;

response option being different than text content of the one or more sentence fragments to to retrieve the one or more mapped sentence fragments to which the chosen response option is mapped;

to identify a specific location in the electronic medical record corresponding to the chosen response option using the mapping data in the data object;

to place the one or more mapped sentence fragments into the electronic medical record at the specific location;

to retrieve patient demographic information for insertion into the electronic medical record;

to place the patient demographic information into the electronic medical record at a pre-defined location; and

to generate the patient-specific and grammatically correct electronic medical record using the one or more mapped sentence fragments and the patient demographic information.

10. The system as claimed in claim 9 being further configured to provide a set of control options for configuring the generation of the user interface view.

11. The system as claimed in claim 9 wherein the response is received via a website user interface.

12. The system as claimed in claim 9 wherein the response is received from a patient.

13. The system as claimed in claim 9 being further configured to retrieve medical data from a medical database.

14. The system as claimed in claim 9 wherein the electronic medical record is one or more of:

a medical history, a surgical record, a mental health record, hospital record, counseling record, coaching record, physical therapy record, mental therapy record, and behavioral therapy record.

15. The system as claimed in claim 9 being further configured to provide an auto-conjugate control option.

16. The system as claimed in claim 9 being further configured to provide a filtering control option.

17. An article of manufacture comprising a non-transitory machine-readable medium having machine executable instructions embedded thereon, which when executed by a machine, cause the machine to:

generate a data object including a plurality of statements, a plurality of response options corresponding to each statement, and mapping data that maps each of the plurality of response options to at least one corresponding sentence fragment, text content of the plurality of response options being different than text content of a corresponding sentence fragment, at least one response option of the plurality of response options being mapped to a plurality of corresponding sentence fragments, the mapping data further including, for each of the plurality of response options, data that maps a particular response option to a corresponding specific location in an electronic medical record, the specific location being individually pre-defined for each of the plurality of response options, at least one response option of the plurality of response options being mapped to a plurality of corresponding specific locations in the electronic medical record, the data object further including, for each of the plurality of response options, a link target specifying a set of follow-on queries that relate to a particular response option, the follow-on queries only being presented to a user if the corresponding response option is selected;

retrieve a statement from the data object;

generate, using a processor, a user interface view that includes the statement;

receive a response corresponding to the statement;

correlate the response to a chosen one of the plurality of response options;

map the chosen response option to one or more corresponding sentence fragments using the mapping data in the data object;

retrieve the one or more mapped sentence fragments to which the chosen response option is mapped;

identify a specific location in the electronic medical record corresponding to the chosen response option using the mapping data in the data object;

place the one or more mapped sentence fragments into the electronic medical record at the specific location;

retrieve patient demographic information for insertion into the electronic medical record;

place the patient demographic information into the electronic medical record at a pre-defined location; and

generate, using the processor, the patient-specific and grammatically correct electronic medical record using the one or more mapped sentence fragments and the patient demographic information.