Patent ID: 11887706
Assignee: CERNER INNOVATION, INC.
Field: Medical technology (Instruments)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 18:
19. A search system for determining related records, the system comprising: one or more processors; and one or more computer storage media storing computer-useable instructions that, when used by the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to: retrieve a plurality of candidate health records, each candidate health record having one or more encounters, each of the one or more encounters associated with a date-time coordinate; for each candidate health record, sort the one or more encounters in chronological order based on the date-time coordinates; determine a time difference between each serial encounter of the sorted one or more encounters, and assembling the time difference between each serial encounter as a time series; rank the plurality of candidate health records; determine a candidate match for a first candidate health record and a second candidate health record of the plurality of candidate health records based on a threshold value applied to the ranked plurality of candidate health records; and merge a first candidate health record and a second candidate health record based on the candidate match.