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Automatic decision support

  • US 9,892,734 B2
  • Filed: 05/06/2013
  • Issued: 02/13/2018
  • Est. Priority Date: 06/22/2006
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. A computer-implemented method comprising:

  • (A) applying an automatic speech recognizer to a spoken audio stream, from a physician or a medical professional describing a condition of a patient, to produce a first document including text, the first document being a transcript of a medical report;

    (B) extracting a plurality of concepts from the first document;

    (C) including a plurality of codings, representing the plurality of concepts, in the first document, wherein each of the plurality of codings represents one of an allergy, prescriptions, diagnosis, and prognosis, and wherein each of the plurality of codings is linked to a portion of the text in the first document;

    (D) verifying accuracy of the codings in the first document to produce a verified document, wherein the verifying corrects any codings that are found to be incorrect;

    (E) providing the verified document to an automatic decision support system, wherein the automatic decision support system determines;

    whether the verified document provided to the automatic decision support system indicates satisfaction of a clinical performance measure and at least one of a drug-drug, drug-allergy, and drug-procedure interaction,labels a first component of the decision support output with a first priority level and labels a second component of the decision support output with a second priority level that differs from the first priority level to produce labeled priority levels;

    (F) receiving, from the automatic decision support system, decision support output derived from the verified document, including the labeled priority levels and an alert indicating that the verified document does not indicate satisfaction of the clinical performance measure and indicates at least one of a drug-drug, drug-allergy, and drug-procedure interaction;

    (G) modifying verified document based on the decision support output, wherein the modifying of the verified document modifies the codings and adds textual comments to the verified document;

    (H) rendering the modified verified document to display both the first document and the modified verified document in a rendered output;

    (I) providing the rendered output to a reviewer, the reviewer including the physician or the medical professional or to another physician or medical professional; and

    (J) receiving an approval of the transcript from the reviewer.

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