System and method for automatically modifying source code to accommodate a software migration

• US 9,268,907 B2
• Filed: 06/16/2014
• Issued: 02/23/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 06/14/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Atos France
• Original Assignee: Syntec Incorporated (Atos SE)
• Inventors: Reddy, Murlidhar
• Primary Examiner(s): Rampuria, Satish
• Application Number:
  US14/306,026
• Publication Number:
  US 20140372976A1
• Time in Patent Office: 617 Days
• Field of Search: 717110-123, 717168-178
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/30 Creation or generation of source code
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/70 Software maintenance or management
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/22 Social work or social welfare, e.g. community support activities or counselling services
• 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

A system for automatically modifying source code to accommodate a software migration receives a software codebase a software codebase that supports international classification of diseases, ninth revision (ICD-9) codes and that contains a plurality of lines of source code, receives a codebase impact assessment report identifying each impacted line of the plurality of lines of source code in the codebase, each impacted line requiring modification in order to support migration from ICD-9 codes to international classification of diseases, tenth revision (ICD-10) codes, and automatically modifies the codebase by modifying each impacted line of source code identified in the codebase impact assessment report so that the modified codebase supports migration from ICD-9 codes to ICD-10 codes.

Claims

1. A system for automatically modifying source code to accommodate a software migration, the system comprising:

a data management module configured to selectively receive a software codebase that supports international classification of diseases, ninth revision (ICD-9) codes and that contains a plurality of lines of source code, to selectively receive a codebase impact assessment report identifying each impacted line of the plurality of lines of source code in the codebase, each impacted line of the plurality of lines of source code requiring modification in order to support migration from ICD-9 codes to international classification of diseases, tenth revision (ICD-10) codes, and

a codebase modification module responsive to activation thereof configured to automatically modify the codebase by modifying each impacted line of the plurality of lines of source code identified in the codebase impact assessment report so that the modified codebase supports migration from ICD-9 codes to ICD-10 codes, wherein the codebase modification module is configured to automatically modify at least one of the impacted lines of the plurality of lines of source code identified in the codebase impact assessment report by modifying at least one of a data field length, a data type and a logical expression in at least one of the impacted lines of the plurality of lines of source code identified in the codebase impact assessment report.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the codebase modification module is configured to store at least the modified lines of source code in an electronic data storage.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein at least one of the impacted lines of the plurality of lines of source code contains an ICD-9 code, and wherein the codebase modification module is configured to automatically modify the at least one of the impacted lines of the plurality of lines of source code by replacing the ICD-9 code with at least one map that maps the ICD-9 code to one or more corresponding ICD-10 codes such that the modified codebase supports the one or more ICD-10 codes but does not support the ICD-9 code.

4. The system of claim 3, wherein the data management module is configured to selectively receive a map file containing the map.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein at least one of the impacted lines of the plurality of lines of source code contains an ICD-9 code, and wherein the codebase modification module is configured to automatically modify the at least one of the impacted lines of the plurality of lines of source code by appending at least one map to the ICD-9 code that maps the ICD-9 code to one or more corresponding ICD-10 codes such that the modified codebase supports the ICD-9 code and the one or more corresponding ICD-10 codes.

6. The system of claim 5, wherein the data management module is configured to selectively receive a map file containing the map.

7. The system of claim 1, wherein the codebase modification module is configured to automatically modify the codebase by inserting at least one comment line at least one of just prior to and just following each impacted line of the plurality of lines of source code.

8. The system of claim 1, wherein the codebase modification module is configured to automatically modify at least one of the impacted lines of the plurality of lines of source code identified in the codebase impact assessment report by adding at least one of a data field, a data declaration and a data movement instruction.

9. The system of claim 1, wherein the codebase modification module is configured to automatically modify at least one of the impacted lines of the plurality of lines of source code identified in the codebase impact assessment report by renaming at least one data field.

10. The system of claim 1, wherein at least one of the impacted lines of the plurality of lines of source code contains an ICD-9 code that maps to a particular ICD-10 code that applies to a plurality of different business areas of a healthcare system, and wherein the user interface module is configured to produce at least one graphic user interface for receiving user selection of one of the plurality of different business areas, and wherein the codebase modification module is configured to automatically modify the at least one of the impacted lines of the plurality of lines of source code by modifying the ICD-9 code with a map that maps the ICD-9 code to the ICD-10 code only with respect to the selected one of the plurality of different business areas.

11. The system of claim 1, wherein the codebase is one of a common language infrastructure (CLI) language codebase and a query language codebase.

12. A computerized method for automatically modifying source code to accommodate a software migration, the method comprising:

receiving by a processor a software codebase a software codebase that supports international classification of diseases, ninth revision (ICD-9) codes and that contains a plurality of lines of source code,

receiving by the processor a codebase impact assessment report identifying each impacted line of the plurality of lines of source code in the codebase, each impacted line of the plurality of lines of source code requiring modification in order to support migration from ICD-9 codes to international classification of diseases, tenth revision (ICD-10) codes, and

in response to a user input, automatically modifying the codebase with the processor by modifying each impacted line of the plurality of lines of source code identified in the codebase impact assessment report so that the modified codebase supports migration from ICD-9 codes to ICD-10 codes, wherein modifying each impacted line of the plurality of lines of source code comprises modifying at least one of the impacted lines of the plurality of lines of source code by at least one of modifying a data field length, a data type or a logical expression and adding at least one of a data field, a data declaration or a data movement instruction.

13. The computerized method of claim 12, wherein at least one of the impacted lines of the plurality of lines of source code contains an ICD-9 code, and wherein modifying each impacted line of the plurality of lines of source code comprises modifying the at least one of the impacted lines of the plurality of lines of source code by replacing the ICD-9 code with at least one map that maps the ICD-9 code to one or more corresponding ICD-10 codes such that the modified codebase supports the one or more ICD-10 codes but does not support the ICD-9 code.

14. The computerized method of claim 12, wherein at least one of the impacted lines of the plurality of lines of source code contains an ICD-9 code, and wherein modifying each impacted line of the plurality of lines of source code comprises modifying the at least one of the impacted lines of the plurality of lines of source code by appending to the ICD-9 code at least one map that maps the ICD-9 code to one or more corresponding ICD-10 codes such that the modified codebase supports the ICD-9 code and the one or more ICD-10 codes.

15. The computerized method of claim 12, wherein modifying each impacted line of the plurality of lines of source code comprises modifying at least one of the impacted lines of the plurality of lines of source code by inserting at least one comment line at least one of just prior to and just following the at least one of the impacted lines of the plurality of lines of source code.

16. The computerized method of claim 12, wherein at least one of the impacted lines of the plurality of lines of source code contains an ICD-9 code that maps to a particular ICD-10 code that applies to a plurality of different business areas of a healthcare system, and further comprising producing at least one graphic user interface for receiving user selection of one of the plurality of different business areas, and wherein modifying impacted lines of the plurality of lines of source code comprises modifying the at ICD-9 code contained in the least one of the impacted lines of the plurality of lines of source code with a map that maps the ICD-9 code to the ICD-10 code only with respect to the selected one of the plurality of different business areas.

17. The computerized method of claim 16, further comprising receiving a map file containing the map.

18. A computer program product comprising a non-transitory computer readable medium having instructions stored thereon which, when executed by at least one processor, cause the processor to:

receive a software codebase a software codebase that supports international classification of diseases, ninth revision (ICD-9) codes and that contains a plurality of lines of source code, receive a codebase impact assessment report identifying each impacted line of the plurality of lines of source code in the codebase, each impacted line of the plurality of lines of source code requiring modification in order to support migration from ICD-9 codes to international classification of diseases, tenth revision (ICD-10) codes, and

in response to a user input, automatically modify the codebase by modifying each impacted line of the plurality of lines of source code identified in the codebase impact assessment report so that the modified codebase supports migration from ICD-9 codes to ICD-10 codes, wherein modifying each impacted line of the plurality of lines of source code comprises modifying at least one of the impacted lines of the plurality of lines of source code by at least one of modifying a data field length, a data type or a logical expression and adding at least one of a data field, a data declaration or a data movement instruction.