Patent ID: 8478791
Filing Date: 2013-07-02
Classification: G06Q,G16H

Abstract:
1. A computer system comprising computer-executable instructions stored on one or more computer-readable storage media, the instructions comprising: a first software component configured to receive user-provided descriptions for at least a first original taxonomy and a second original taxonomy for classifying clinical medical errors, the at least first and second original taxonomies comprising heterogeneous clinical medical error categories; a second software component configured to generate associations of unique identifiers with the categories of the first original taxonomy and the categories of the second original taxonomy, the unique identifiers corresponding to standardized categories of a master clinical medical error taxonomy, the original taxonomies being created independently of the master taxonomy, the unique identifiers being alpha-numeric codes subdivided into a plurality of blocks of one or more characters, the blocks representing nodes at different levels of categorization within the master taxonomy; a third software component configured to generate a mapping of the first and second original taxonomies to one another, the mapping comprising correlating categories of the first original taxonomy with categories of the second original taxonomy that are associated with common unique identifiers; a fourth software component configured to receive user-provided changes to relationships between one or more of the nodes of the master taxonomy with respect to one or more other of the nodes of the master taxonomy; a fifth software component configured to modify the unique identifiers of the master taxonomy in response to the received user-provided changes to the relationships between the nodes of the master taxonomy; a sixth software component configured to, in response to modifications of the unique identifiers, receive user-provided modifications to the associations of the unique identifiers of the master taxonomy with the categories of the first original taxonomy and the categories of the second original taxonomy; and a seventh software component configured to update the mapping of the first and second original taxonomies to one another based on the received user-provided modifications of the sixth software component.