Healthcare organization record identifier assignment management system
First Claim
1. A central record management system for assigning a patient specific record identifier for use by a plurality of healthcare related organizations, said plurality of organizations including individual organizations potentially having an existing record identifier associated with said patient, comprising:
- a search processor for determining, for a plurality of organizations, an identifier associated with a particular patient and used by an individual organization of said plurality of organizations;
a rules processor for examining determined identifiers and for assigning a patient specific record identifier for use by said plurality of organizations based on predetermined identifier allocation rules for preventing assignment of the same identifier to different patients; and
a database for storing said assigned patient specific record identifier.
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Abstract
A system (100) for providing multiple facility healthcare corporations the ability to assign and maintain shared medical record numbers (43) across multiple entities. The system establishes a parent/child relationship among the entities to share medical record number ranges, formats, and data. A patient record identifier database (102) contains patient records in a searchable unit record file (50) and an identification number file (3). A search processor (105) locates relevant records and a rules processor (104) applies various tests to the returned data in order to assign a medical record number (43, 13) to a single unique unit reference number (2, 5, 11) to a person without duplication or conflict with identifiers used at other entities (4, 9, 190). The reference numbers and their associated medical records are shared among the various entities. The sharing relationships may be altered by authorized users accessing on line file maintenance (312) and programs (311).
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20 Claims
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1. A central record management system for assigning a patient specific record identifier for use by a plurality of healthcare related organizations, said plurality of organizations including individual organizations potentially having an existing record identifier associated with said patient, comprising:
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a search processor for determining, for a plurality of organizations, an identifier associated with a particular patient and used by an individual organization of said plurality of organizations;
a rules processor for examining determined identifiers and for assigning a patient specific record identifier for use by said plurality of organizations based on predetermined identifier allocation rules for preventing assignment of the same identifier to different patients; and
a database for storing said assigned patient specific record identifier. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9)
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10. A central record management system for assigning a patient specific record identifier for use by a plurality of healthcare related organizations, said plurality of organizations including individual organizations potentially having an existing record identifier associated with said patient, comprising:
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a search processor for determining, for a plurality of organizations, an identifier associated with a particular patient and used by an individual organization of said plurality of organizations;
a rules processor for examining determined identifiers and for assigning a patient specific record identifier for use by said plurality of organizations in response to a request from a first organization of said plurality of organizations initiated to support admission of said particular patient at said first organization, said patient specific identifier being generated based on predetermined identifier allocation rules for preventing assignment of the same identifier to different patients; and
a database for storing said assigned patient specific record identifier. - View Dependent Claims (11, 12, 13, 14, 15)
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16. A method of managing demographic records in an organization having a plurality of entities, comprising the steps of:
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(a) creating a unit record file;
(b) creating an identification number file;
(c) creating application specific files;
(d) creating a unique person specific record identifier for use by said plurality of entities that resides in the unit record file, the identification number file and each application specific file; and
(e) searching every file for the presence of the person specific record identifier so as to link each file to all other files containing the same unique person specific record identifier. - View Dependent Claims (17, 18, 19, 20)
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