Pre-Grant Publication Number: 20070226167
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Summary / Description
| Summary / Description | This patent discloses a system for syndicating and managing structured and unstructured health care data. The data is available in various healthcare pools, which may be located in different geographies.This data is used to assist institutional healthcare delivery, healthcare providers' practices, healthcare providers' group practices, collaborative academic research and decision making in healthcare. |
Basic Information
| Type of Prior Art | Issued Patents - US |
| Country | United States of America |
| Patent/Application # | Management of health care data |
| Kind Code | United States (US) - Patent Appl. Publ. within the ... - A1 |
| Patentee Name | Moore, James F. (Lincoln, MA, US) |
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| Filing Date | February 1, 2006 |
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Excerpt
Excerpt Healthcare data that may improve the quality of medical decision making come from many sources, including, patients' medical records, records of physician performance, standards of care that are published by regulatory and other groups, billing information, epidemiologic information on the complications, events, side effects and the like that are associated with medical procedures, devices, medications, and the like. In spite of the usefulness of this information for improving medical decision making, it often exists in formats that are not conducive to easy retrieval by interested parties in the course of patient care. For example, the American Heart Association may publish guidelines for optimal treatment of hypertension in paper and electronic format. However, it would be unwieldy for a physician to carry paper copies of all relevant guidelines and standards pertaining to her patient population, and the electronic versions are likely to be website postings, as opposed to more readily searchable electronic formats. With syndicated data, a physician, institution, patient or other interested party may create unique sets (i.e. feeds) of metadata comprised of data elements from multiple sources that are associated principally by a user-defined element (e.g. a patient's name, a disease state, a clinical specialty). This specificity of data retrieval, coupled with the non-centralized storage/retrieval processes of syndicated data, may make it well-suited for providing informational support for medical decision making (para 706) |
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A system for clinical decision support, the system including:
a crawler agent component,
wherein the crawler agent component is adapted to receive a search parameter, wherein the search parameter specifies a criteria for evidence data to be searched for, and
wherein the crawler agent component is adapted to initiate a search of a plurality of evidence sources based at least in part on the search parameter, wherein the search identifies the evidence data, wherein the evidence data is utilized by the clinical decision support system to provide decision support to a healthcare provider for a patient.
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The mentioned patent publication, discloses the following idea:
"A method of handling health care information, comprising: disposing health care information into a plurality of pools of information; and syndicating information from at least one of the plurality of pools." (Claim 25). The specification supporting this claim, explains syndication as: A syndication definition may also include elements pertaining to medical devices, crawlers, digital rights management, change logs, route traces, permanent links (also known as permalinks), time, video, devices, social networking, vertical markets, downstream processing, and other operations associated with Internet-based syndication. The additional elements may, without limitation, comprise the following:clinical note (ClinicalNote), biochemistry result (BiochemistryResult), DICOM compliant MRI image (DCMRI), keywords (Keywords). Therefore, in light of the specifications, the syndication may be a crawler or some keywords inputted by a user.
Further, the claim highlights that the information is syndicated (retrieved) from a plurality of healthcare data pools. The claim 35, i.e., (The method of claim 25, wherein the pools contain information selected from the group consisting of medical instruments, x-ray equipment, MRI equipment, other forms of medical imaging equipment, blood work data, genetic information, medical exam information, medical device information, information from emergency rooms, information from medical labs, diet information, exercise information, metabolic information, medical history information, age information, gender information, behavior information, race information, or information from other systems related to the healthcare and or medical field.), highlights the kind of information contained in the these health care data pools.
The above mentioned details are similar to the idea disclosed in the first independent claims.
The mentioned patent publication, discloses the following idea:
"A method of handling health care information, comprising: disposing health care information into a plurality of pools of information; and syndicating information from at least one of the plurality of pools." (Claim 25). The specification supporting this claim, explains syndication as: A syndication definition may also include elements pertaining to medical devices, crawlers, digital rights management, change logs, route traces, permanent links (also known as permalinks), time, video, devices, social networking, vertical markets, downstream processing, and other operations associated with Internet-based syndication. The additional elements may, without limitation, comprise the following:clinical note (ClinicalNote), biochemistry result (BiochemistryResult), DICOM compliant MRI image (DCMRI), keywords (Keywords). Therefore, in light of the specifications, the syndication may be a crawler or some keywords inputted by a user.
Further, the claim highlights that the information is syndicated (retrieved) from a plurality of healthcare data pools. The claim 35, i.e., (The method of claim 25, wherein the pools contain information selected from the group consisting of medical instruments, x-ray equipment, MRI equipment, other forms of medical imaging equipment, blood work data, genetic information, medical exam information, medical device information, information from emergency rooms, information from medical labs, diet information, exercise information, metabolic information, medical history information, age information, gender information, behavior information, race information, or information from other systems related to the healthcare and or medical field.), highlights the kind of information contained in the these health care data pools.
The above mentioned details are similar to the idea disclosed in the first independent claims.
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