Patent ID: 9594872
Date: 2017-03-14
CPC Classifications: G06Q,G16H

Claim:
1. A method for implementing an interface terminology in a longitudinal electronic medical record, the interface terminology comprising concepts and descriptions, a description being an alternative way to express a concept, the method comprising: storing a plurality of concepts in a first table a database; storing a plurality of descriptions in a second table in the database; storing in a third table in the database linking information that links each description in the second table to a respective concept in the first table; storing an external code set in a fourth table in the database, the external code set comprising a plurality of external codes; and mapping an external code to a respective concept via a directed graph structure linking each external code in the fourth table to the respective concept in the first table; creating a longitudinal electronic medical record by: tagging elements within a domain within the longitudinal electronic medical record with one or more of said plurality of descriptions; and displaying the preferred descriptions and the preferred consumer term.