Systems and methods for health information messages archiving

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-2017206331-A1
Application number	US-201715476428-A
Country	US
Kind code	A1
Filing date	Mar 31, 2017
Priority date	Jun 28, 2012
Publication date	Jul 20, 2017
Grant date	—

Abstract

Messages having patient healthcare information are exchanged between various healthcare IT systems. The messages are formatted according to various specific healthcare communication standards. The standards enable communication of the patient healthcare information among the healthcare IT systems. The messages are collected into a repository. Data mining is performed on the collected messages in order to make health-related findings.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1 . A method of mining healthcare communication messages transmitted over a healthcare network comprising:
receiving from the healthcare network a plurality of first messages, the plurality of first messages comprising first patient healthcare information formatted according to a first healthcare communication standard; collecting, in a repository, the first patient healthcare information; and mining the collected first patient healthcare information from the plurality of first messages to make first health-related findings.

2 . The method of claim 1 comprising:
receiving from the healthcare network a plurality of second messages, the plurality of second messages comprising second patient healthcare information formatted according to a second healthcare communication standard, different from the first healthcare communication standard;
collecting, in the repository, the second patient healthcare information; and
mining the collected first and second patient healthcare information to make second health-related findings.

3 . The method of claim 1 wherein the first healthcare communication standard comprises a Health Level Seven (HL7) protocol.

4 . The method of claim 1 wherein each of the plurality of first messages comprises a plurality of segments, each segment is identified by a code comprising three characters, and each segment comprises one or more fields separated by a pipe character.

5 . The method of claim 1 wherein the first healthcare communication standard comprises a Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine (DICOM) protocol.

6 . The method of claim 1 wherein the first healthcare communication standard comprises a Cross Enterprise Document Sharing (XDS) protocol.

7 . The method of claim 1 comprising:
generating, in response to the mining, a notification; and transmitting the notification to a patient.

8 . The method of claim 1 comprising normalizing the collected first patient healthcare information.

9 . The method of claim 1 wherein the first health-related findings comprises at least one of identification of the spread of an infectious disease, identification of health issues of a patient by tracking variations of different parameters of the patient over time, correlation of the progress of the health of a population of people over a time period, or correlation of treatments with tumor sizes.

10 . A computer program product, comprising a non-transitory computer-readable medium having a computer-readable program code embodied therein, the computer-readable program code adapted to be executed by one or more processors to implement a method comprising:
receiving from a healthcare network a plurality of first messages, the plurality of first messages comprising first patient healthcare information formatted according to a first healthcare communication standard; collecting, in a repository, the first patient healthcare information; and mining the collected first patient healthcare information from the plurality of first messages to make first health-related findings.

11 . The computer program product of claim 10 wherein the method comprises:
receiving from the healthcare network a plurality of second messages, the plurality of second messages comprising second patient healthcare information formatted according to a
second healthcare communication standard, different from the first healthcare communication standard;
collecting, in the repository, the second patient healthcare information; and
mining the collected first and second patient healthcare information to make second health-related findings.

12 . The computer program product of claim 10 wherein the first healthcare communication standard comprises a Health Level Seven (HL7) protocol.

13 . The computer program produce of claim 10 wherein each of the plurality of first messages comprises a plurality of segments, each segment is identified by a code comprising three characters, and each segment comprises one or more fields separated by a pipe character.

14 . The computer program product of claim 10 wherein the first healthcare communication standard comprises a Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine (DICOM) protocol.

15 . The computer program product of claim 10 wherein the first healthcare communication standard comprises a Cross Enterprise Document Sharing (XDS) protocol.

16 . A system for mining healthcare communication messages, the system comprising:
a processor-based database management system executed on a computer system and configured to: receive from a healthcare network a plurality of first messages, the plurality of first messages comprising first patient healthcare information formatted according to a first healthcare communication standard; collect, in a repository, the first patient healthcare information; and mine the collected first patient healthcare information from the plurality of first messages to make first health-related findings.

17 . The system of claim 16 wherein the processor-based database management system is configured to:
receive from the healthcare network a plurality of second messages, the plurality of second messages comprising second patient healthcare information formatted according to a second healthcare communication standard, different from the first healthcare communication standard;
collect, in the repository, the second patient healthcare information; and
mine the collected first and second patient healthcare information to make second health-related findings.

18 . The system of claim 16 wherein the first healthcare communication standard comprises a Health Level Seven (HL7) protocol.

19 . The system of claim 16 wherein the first healthcare communication standard comprises a Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine (DICOM) protocol.

20 . The system of claim 16 wherein the first healthcare communication standard comprises a Cross Enterprise Document Sharing (XDS) protocol.

Assignees

• Open Text Corp

Inventors

• Veliah Shanmugasundaram
• Subramanian Lalith G

Classifications

• G06F16/9535

  Search customisation based on user profiles and personalisation · CPC title

• G16H50/70

  for mining of medical data, e.g. analysing previous cases of other patients · CPC title

• G06F16/951

  Indexing; Web crawling techniques · CPC title

• G06F19/3443

  Physics · mapped topic

• H04L67/42

  Electricity · mapped topic