Patent ID: 7657521
Filing Date: 2010-02-02
Classification: G06F,G16H

Abstract:
1. A computer-implemented method for processing significant instructions in medication orders, said method comprising: accessing medical data including at least one medication order; extracting at least one alphanumeric text string containing significant instructions from the at least one medication order, wherein said at least one alphanumeric text string containing significant instructions comprises at least one free form alphanumeric text string; identifying one or more significant instructions in each of the at least one alphanumeric text string; parsing each of the one or more identified significant instructions to identify one or more words or phrases in each significant instruction; classifying known words or phrases in the one or more identified words or phrases according to a vocabulary table by assigning an identifier from the vocabulary table to each known word or phrase in the one or more identified words or phrases; analyzing unknown words or phrases in the one or more identified words and phrases to assign an identifier to each of the unknown words or phrases in the one or more identified words or phrases and adding the identifier to the vocabulary table for use in significant instruction parsing, wherein the identifier is associated with an incrementing usage count to determine significant instruction priority for processing; reconstructing each of the one or more significant instructions as codified significant instructions using the identifiers associated with the known and unknown words or phrases in each of the identified significant instructions; and storing the one or more codified significant instructions in a medication order.