Methods, apparatuses and computer program products for facilitating location and retrieval of health information in a healthcare system

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9268906-B2
Application number	US-201414321325-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jul 1, 2014
Priority date	Mar 30, 2012
Publication date	Feb 23, 2016
Grant date	Feb 23, 2016

Abstract

An apparatus is provided for retrieving information associated with one or more patients. The apparatus includes at least one memory and at least one processor configured to receive queries from devices of health care systems. The queries include data requesting information associated with patients that corresponds to specified items of information indicated in the queries. The processor is further configured to analyze stored patient information to determine items of the patient information that correspond to the specified items of the information. The processor is further configured to detect a subset of the items of the patient information related to health data that is determined to correspond to a respective patient(s) based on a determined value that equals or exceeds a predetermined threshold. Corresponding computer program products and methods are also provided.

First claim

That which is claimed:

1. A method comprising:
receiving a query from a device associated with a health care system for health care information associated with a patient, the query comprising one or more specified items of information associated with the patient, the specified items of information comprising demographic and clinical data associated with the patient;
analyzing stored patient information received from a plurality of health care systems, the patient information comprising demographic and clinical data associated with a plurality of patients to identify items of the patient information that correspond to one or more of the specified items of information; and
detecting, via a processor, at least a subset of the items of patient information that is determined to correspond to the patient based in part on a determined value that equals or exceeds a predetermined threshold, wherein the determined value comprises a calculated score indicating a level of confidence that the subset of the items of patient information corresponds to the patient.

2. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
enabling provision of one or more generated responses to the device comprising content indicating the patient and the items of patient information associated with a respective determined score indicating a confidence that the items of patient information correspond to the patient.

3. The method of claim 2 , wherein prior to enabling provision, the method further comprises:
identifying one or more candidate items of the patient information; and
excluding the candidate items from the responses based in part on detecting that another determined value is below the predetermined threshold.

4. The method of claim 3 , wherein detecting that the another determined value is below the predetermined threshold denotes that the subset of items of patient information does not correspond to the patient or signifies an unacceptable level of confidence that the subset of the items of patient information corresponds to the patient.

5. The method of claim 1 , wherein the determined value that equals or exceeds the predetermined threshold denotes that the subset of items of patient information corresponds to the patient or signifies an acceptable level of confidence that the subset of the items of patient information corresponds to the patient.

6. The method of claim 2 , further comprising:
arranging the content of the responses in respective medical records to enable the device to display the records.

7. The method of claim 1 , wherein prior to receiving the query the method further comprises:
receiving the patient information from one or more devices associated with the plurality of health care systems.

8. The method of claim 1 , wherein the clinical data comprises at least one of a medication, a health procedure, an allergy, a health problem, or a medical diagnosis of the patient.

9. The method of claim 1 , wherein the clinical data corresponds to a health condition of the patient.

10. An apparatus comprising:
at least one memory; and
at least one processor configured to cause the apparatus to:
receive a query from a device associated with a health care system for health care information associated with a patient, the query comprising one or more specified items of information associated with the patient, the specified items of information comprising demographic and clinical data associated with the patient;
analyze stored patient information received from a plurality of health care systems, the patient information comprising demographic and clinical data associated with a plurality of patients to identify items of the patient information that correspond to one or more of the specified items of information; and
detect at least a subset of the items of patient information that is determined to correspond to the patient based in part on a determined value that equals or exceeds a predetermined threshold, wherein the determined value comprises a calculated score indicating a level of confidence that the subset of the items of patient information corresponds to the patient.

11. The apparatus of claim 10 , wherein the processor is further configured to cause the apparatus to:
enable provision of one or more generated responses to the device comprising content indicating the patient and the items of patient information associated with a respective determined score indicating a confidence that the items of patient information correspond to the patient.

12. The apparatus of claim 11 , wherein prior to enable provision, the processor is further configured to cause the apparatus to:
identify one or more candidate items of the patient information; and
exclude the candidate items from the responses based in part on detecting that another determined value is below the predetermined threshold.

13. The apparatus of claim 12 , wherein detecting that the another determined value is below the predetermined threshold denotes that the subset of items of patient information does not correspond to the patient or signifies an unacceptable level of confidence that the subset of the items of patient information corresponds to the patient.

14. The apparatus of claim 10 , wherein the determined value that equals or exceeds the predetermined threshold denotes that the subset of items of patient information corresponds to the patient or signifies an acceptable level of confidence that the subset of the items of patient information corresponds to the patient.

15. The apparatus of claim 11 , wherein the processor is further configured to cause the apparatus to:
arrange the content of the responses in respective medical records to enable the device to display the records.

16. The apparatus of claim 10 , wherein prior to receive the query the processor is further configured to cause the apparatus to:
receive the patient information from one or more devices associated with the plurality of health care systems.

17. The apparatus of claim 10 , wherein the clinical data comprises at least one of a medication, a health procedure, an allergy, a health problem, or a medical diagnosis of the patient.

18. The apparatus of claim 10 , wherein the clinical data corresponds to a health condition of the patient.

19. A computer program product comprising at least one non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having computer-executable program code instructions stored therein, the computer executable program code instructions comprising:
program code instructions configured to cause receipt of a query from a device associated with a health care system for health care information associated with a patient, the query comprising one or more specified items of information associated with the patient, the specified items of information comprising demographic and clinical data associated with the patient;
program code instructions configured to analyze stored patient information received from a plurality of health care systems, the patient information comprising demographic and clinical data associated with a plurality of patients to identify items of the patient information that correspond to one or more of the specified items of information; and
program code instructions configured to detect at least a subset of the items of patient information that is determined to correspond to the patient based in part on a determined value that equals or exceeds a predetermined threshold, wherein the determined value comprises a calculated score indicating a level of confidence that the subset of t

Assignees

• Mckesson Financial Holdings

Inventors

• Curran Charles
• D Oench Susannah

Classifications

• G16H50/70

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

• G16H10/60 Primary

  for patient-specific data, e.g. for electronic patient records · CPC title

• G06F19/322 Primary

  Physics · mapped topic

• G06F19/3443

  Physics · mapped topic