Method, system, and computer-readable medium for creating a new electronic document from an existing electronic document

• US 9,251,129 B2
• Filed: 12/21/2012
• Issued: 02/02/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 04/15/2003
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Nuance Communications, Inc. (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Nuance Communications, Inc. (Microsoft Corporation)
• Inventors: Boone, Keith W., Chaparala, Sunitha, Fordyce, Cameron, Gervais, Sean, Manoukian, Roubik, Ogrinc, Harry J., Titemore, Robert G., Hopkins, Jeffrey G.
• Primary Examiner(s): SYED, FARHAN M
• Application Number:
  US13/724,777
• Publication Number:
  US 20130191737A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,138 Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/284 Relational databases
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/131 Fragmentation of text files, e.g. creating reusable text-blocks; Linking to fragments, e.g. using XInclude; Namespaces
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/14 Tree-structured documents parsing G06F40/205; validation G06F40/226
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/166 Editing, e.g. inserting or deleting
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 10/60 for patient-specific data, e.g. for electronic patient records
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 15/00 ICT specially adapted for medical reports, e.g. generation or transmission thereof
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/63 for local operation

Abstract

A system and method may be disclosed for facilitating the creation or modification of a document by providing a mechanism for locating relevant data from external sources and organizing and incorporating some or all of said data into the document. In the method for reusing data, there may be a set of documents that may be queried, where each document may be divided into a plurality of sections. A plurality of section text groups may be formed based on the set of documents, where each section text group may be associated with a respective section from the plurality of sections and each section group includes a plurality of items. Each item may be associated with a respective section from each document of the set of documents. A selected item within a selected section text group may be focused. The selected item may be extracted to a current document. The current document may be exported to a host application.

Claims

1. A method for a using at least one processor to provide a graphical user interface that enables the creation of a new electronic document using at least a portion of one or more existing electronic medical documents, the new electronic medical document including material describing an encounter between a patient and a medical service provider, the method comprising:

adding to the new electronic medical document text resulting from performing speech-to-text processing on input speech of the medical service provider describing the encounter between the patient and the medical service provider;

receiving a query identifying one or more search parameters via the graphical user interface;

retrieving the one or more existing electronic medical documents in response to determining that the one or more existing electronic medical documents satisfy the one or more search parameters identified in the query;

displaying on a computer display, a list of medical document sections and, associated with each one section of the medical document sections of the list, a title of the one section and one or more excerpts each comprising text that was included in the one section in at least one of the one or more existing electronic medical documents, wherein the medical document sections included in the list include a first section, wherein the one or more excerpts included in the first section include a first excerpt and a second excerpt that were included in the first section in a first existing electronic medical document of the one or more existing electronic medical documents, and wherein the text of each of the first ant second excerpts is less than all text included in the first section in the first existing electronic medical document;

for each of the displayed excerpts, displaying at least one corresponding indicator on the computer display, each displayed indicator including information indicating whether the indicator is in a selected state or an unselected state;

enabling a user to operate the graphical user interface so as to selectively alter the states of the displayed indicators; and

for each one section of the list of medical document sections and for each one of at least one displayed excerpt, of the one section, for which the user has a put a corresponding indicator in the selected state, copying text of the one displayed excerpt into a medical document section of the new electronic medical document corresponding to the one section.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

in response to receiving the input from the user indicating that the user has finished altering the states of the displayed indicators, for each displayed excerpt for which a corresponding indicator is in the unselected state, refraining from copying into the new electronic medical document a portion of one or more of the existing electronic medical documents corresponding to that displayed excerpt.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

displaying on the computer display at least one indicator corresponding to at least one section of the medical document section of the list; and

in response to receiving user input causing the at least one indicator corresponding to a medical document section to be put in the selected state, causing respective indicators for one or more displayed excerpts associated with the medical document section to be put in the selected state.

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

automatically segmenting the one or more existing electronic medical documents into portions corresponding to the displayed excerpts.

12. The method of claim 1, wherein:

receiving the query identifying the one or more search parameters comprises receiving a query identifying a dictation source; and

determining that the one or more existing electronic medical documents satisfy the one or more search parameters comprises determining that the one or more existing electronic medical documents were dictated by the dictation source.

13. The method of claim 12, wherein:

receiving a query identifying a dictation source comprises receiving input identifying a medical department; and

determining that the one or more existing electronic medical documents were dictated by the dictation source comprises determining that the one or more existing electronic medical documents were dictated by an individual associated with the medical department.

14. The method of claim 12, wherein:

receiving a query identifying a dictation source comprises receiving input identifying an individual; and

determining that the one or more existing electronic medical documents were dictated by the dictation source comprises determining that the one or more existing electronic medical documents were dictated by the individual.

15. The method of claim 1, wherein the first excerpt and the second excerpt are paragraphs that were included in the first section in the first existing electronic medical document.

16. The method of claim 4, wherein automatically segmenting the one or more existing electronic medical documents into portions corresponding to the displayed excerpts comprises, for the first section of the first existing electronic medical document, segmenting text included in the first section in the first existing electronic medical document into the first excerpt and the second excerpt, the first excerpt comprising one paragraph and the second excerpt comprising another paragraph.

17. The method of claim 1, wherein copying text of the one displayed excerpt into medical document section of the new electronic medical document corresponding to the one section comprises appending text of the one displayed excerpt to the text of the medical document section corresponding to the one section.

5. A system for providing a graphical user interface that enables the creation of a new electronic medical document using at least a portion of one or more existing electronic medical documents, the new electronic medical document including material describing an encounter between a patient and a medical service provider, the system comprising:

at least one processor configured to perform acts of;

adding to the new electronic medical document text resulting from performing speech-to-text processing on input speech of the medical service provider describing the encounter between the patient and the medical service provider;

receiving a query identifying one or more search parameters via the graphical user interface;

retrieving the one or more existing electronic medical documents in response to determining that the one or more existing electronic medical documents satisfy the one or more search parameters identified in the query;

displaying, on a computer display, of a list of medical document sections and, associated with each one section of the medical document sections of the list, a title of the one section and one or more excerpts each comprising text that was included in the one section in at least one of the one or more existing electronic medical documents, wherein the medical document sections included in the list include a first section, wherein the one or more excerpts included in the first section include a first excerpt and a second excerpt that were included in the first section in a first existing electronic medical document of the one or more existing electronic medical documents, and wherein the text of each of the first and second excerpts is less than all text included in the first section in the first existing electronic medical document;

for each of the displayed excerpts, displaying at least one corresponding indicator to be displayed on the computed display, each displayed indicator including information indicating whether the indicator is in a selected state or an unselected state,

enabling a user to operate the graphical user interface so as to selectively alter the states of the displayed indicators; and

for each one section of the list of medical document sections and for each one of at least one displayed excerpt, of the one section, for which the user has put a corresponding indicator in the selected state, copying text of the one displayed excerpt into a medical document section of the new electronic medical document corresponding to the one section.

6. The system of claim 5, wherein the at least one processor is further configured to perform an act of, in response to receiving an input from the user indicating that the user has finished altering the states of the displayed indicators, for each displayed excerpt for which a corresponding indicator is in the unselected state, refraining from copying into the new electronic medical document a portion of one or more of the existing electronic medical documents corresponding to that displayed excerpt.

7. The system of claim 5, wherein the at least one processor is further configured to carry out an act of automatically segmenting the one or more existing electronic medical document into the portions corresponding to the displayed excerpts.

8. A non-transitory, computer-readable medium encoded with instructions that, when executed by at least one processor, cause the at least one processor to perform a method for providing a graphical user interface that enables the creation of a new electronic medical document using at least a portion of one or more existing electronic documents, the new electronic medical document including material describing an encounter between a patient and a medical service provider, the method comprising:

adding to the new electronic medical document text resulting from performing speech-to-text processing on input speech of the medical service provider describing the encounter between the patient and the medical service provider;

receiving a query identifying one or more search parameters via the graphical user interface; and

retrieving the one or more existing electronic medical documents in response to determining that the one or more existing electronic medical documents satisfy the one or more search parameters identified in the query;

display, on a computer display, a list of medical document sections and, associated with each one section of the medical document sections of the list, a title of the one section and one or mor excerpts comprising text that was included in the one section in at least one of the one or more existing electronic medical documents, wherein the medical document sections included in the list include a first section, wherein the one or more excerpt included in the first section include a first excerpt and a second excerpt that were included in the first section in a first existing electronic medical document of the one or more existing electronic medical documents, and wherein the text of each of the first and second excerpts is less than all text included in the first section in the first existing electronic medical document;

for each of the displayed excerpts, displaying at least one corresponding indicator on the computer display, each displayed indicator including information indicating whether the indicator is in a selected state or an unselected state;

enabling a user to operate the graphical user interface so as to selectively alter the states of the displayed indicators; and

for each one section of the list of medical document sections and for each one of at least one displayed excerpt, of the one section, for which the user has put a corresponding indicator in the selected state, copying text of the one displayed excerpt into a medical document section of the new electronic medical document corresponding to the one section.

9. The computer-readable medium of claim 8, wherein the method further comprises:

in response to receiving the input from the user indicating that the user has finished altering the states of the displayed indicators, for each displayed excerpt for which a corresponding indicator is in the unselected state, refraining from copying into the new electronic medical document a portion of one or more of the existing electronic medical document corresponding to that displayed excerpt.

10. The computer-readable medium of claim 8, wherein the method further comprises:

displaying on the computer display at least one indicator corresponding to at least one section of the medical document sections of the list; and

in response to receiving user input causing the at least one indicator corresponding to a medical document section to be put in the selected state, causing respective indicators for on or more displayed excerpts associated with the medical document section to be put in the selected state.

11. The computer-readable medium of claim 8, wherein the method further comprises:

automatically segmenting the one or more existing electronic medical documents into portions corresponding to the displayed excerpts.