UNIVERSAL CONTENT ARCHITECTURE SYSTEM

• US 20140379359A1
• Filed: 06/25/2013
• Published: 12/25/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 06/25/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Cerner Innovation, Inc. (Oracle Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Cerner Innovation, Inc. (Oracle Corporation)
• Inventors: RUOFF, CHAD BARRETT, BASEY, WAYNE FRANKLIN
• Granted Patent: US 10,445,749 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/2
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/02 Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 10/20 for electronic clinical trials or questionnaires
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 10/60 for patient-specific data, e.g. for electronic patient records
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 30/20 for handling medical images, e.g. DICOM, HL7 or PACS

Abstract

One or more systems, computer-storage media, and methods are described for receiving, storing, and distributing clinical information to clients subscribed to or granted access to the information. Initially, content packages containing clinical information are received and stored. Datasets are extracted from the content packages and stored. The datasets and content packages are made available to clients via an online marketplace which enables one or more clients to edit, update, or request to merge a plurality of datasets.

Claims

1. One or more computer-storage media having computer-executable instructions embodied thereon that, when executed by a computing device, cause the computing device to perform a method of facilitating storage and distribution of clinical information, the method comprising:

receiving a first content package from a first content provider and a second content package from a second content provider;

storing the first content package and the second content package;

extracting a first dataset from the first content package and a second dataset from the second content package;

storing the first dataset and the second dataset;

receiving a request to merge at least a portion of the first dataset with at least a portion of the second dataset;

merging the at least the portion of the first dataset with the at least the portion of the second dataset, thereby generating a third derivative dataset;

storing the third derivative dataset; and

publishing one or more of the first dataset, the second dataset, and the third derivative dataset in an online marketplace.

2. The one or more computer-storage media of claim 1, wherein the first dataset, the second dataset, and the third derivative dataset contain clinical information.

3. The one or more computer-storage media of claim 1, further comprising:

receiving a request for clinical information from a client via the online marketplace;

determining that the clinical information is stored in the first content package;

extracting the clinical information from the first content package; and

distributing the clinical information to the client.

4. The one or more computer-storage media of claim 1, further comprising publishing one or more of the first content package and the second content package in the online marketplace

5. The one or more computer-storage media of claim 1, further comprising:

receiving a request from a client to subscribe to information stored within the first content package;

receiving updated information associated with the first content package from the first content provider;

storing the updated information in association with the first content package; and

automatically communicating a notification to the client indicating that the updated information has been received.

6. The one or more computer-storage media of claim 5, further comprising:

receiving a request for the updated information from the client; and

distributing the updated information to the client.

7. The one or more computer-storage media of claim 6, further comprising:

replacing at least a portion of the first content package with the updated information, thereby generating a new version of the first content package; and

storing the new version of the first content package.

8. One or more computer-storage media having computer-executable instructions embodied thereon that, when executed by a computing device, cause the computing device to perform a method of automatically distributing updated information to a client that is subscribed to the information, the method comprising:

receiving a first content package from a first content provider;

receiving a request from a client to subscribe to at least a portion of the first content package;

receiving updated information associated with the at least the portion of the first content package;

automatically distributing the updated information to the client; and

storing the updated information in association with the at least the portion of the first content package.

9. The one or more computer-storage media of claim 8, further comprising:

receiving a second content package from a second content provider;

receiving a request to merge information stored in the first content package with information stored in a second content package;

extracting the information stored in the first content package;

extracting the information stored in the second content package;

merging the information stored in the first content package with the information stored in the second content package to generate a third derivative content package; and

storing the third derivative content package.

10. The one or more computer-storage media of claim 9, further comprising:

receiving updated information associated with one or more of the first content package and the second content package;

merging the updated information with the third derivative content package; and

storing the updated information in association with the third derivative content package.

11. The one or more computer-storage media of claim 10, wherein one or more of the first content package, the second content package and the third derivative content package are published in an online marketplace.

12. The one or more computer-storage media of claim 10, wherein the second content package is associated with a second content provider.

13. The one or more computer-storage media of claim 8, wherein the at least the portion of the first content package includes at least one dataset of clinical information associated with the first content package.

14. A system for delivering content from a content provider to a client, the system comprising:

a computing device associated with an application server, the application server having one or more processors and one or more computer-storage media; and

a data store coupled to the application server,

wherein the application server;

receives a request for published clinical information;

determines that the clinical information is associated with one or more of a first content package and a dataset;

retrieves the clinical information from the one or more of the first content package and the dataset; and

distributes the clinical information to the client.

15. The system of claim 14, further comprising a process management server that is associated with the computing device, the process management server having one or more processors and one or more computer-storage media.

16. The system of claim 15, wherein the process management server receives the first content package from a first content provider.

17. The system of claim 16, wherein the process management server validates one or more of a security feature, a structural feature, and a content feature associated with the first content package.

18. The system of claim 16, wherein the process management server publishes the first content package in an online marketplace.

19. The system of claim 16, wherein the process management server merges the first content package with at least a second content package to generate a third derivative content package.

20. The system of claim 19, wherein the process management server publishes the third derivative content package in an online marketplace.