Patent ID: 9715577
Date: 2017-07-25
CPC Classifications: G06F,G16H

Claim:
1. An apparatus comprising: a medical device configured to acquire patient data as a function of time and to receive patient ID entries associated with acquired patient data, the medical device including data memory that stores acquired patient data and timestamped patient ID entries associated with acquired patient data; and a patient identification (ID) resolution module comprising a digital processor configured to disambiguate patient ID for patient data acquired over a time interval by the medical device, the patient data having a time gap during which the medical device did not acquire patient data and including pre-gap patient data preceding the time gap and post-gap patient data succeeding the time gap and further having one or more timestamped patient ID entries associated with the patient data, the patient ID resolution module (i) associating first patient ID information with the pre-gap patient data and (ii) associating second patient ID information with the post-gap patient data, the associating (i), (ii) being based on the one or more timestamped patient ID entries associated with the patient data and employing a set of patient ID disambiguation rules operating on the timestamps of the one or more timestamped patient ID entries relative to the time gap.