Patent ID: 6415295
Filing Date: 2002-07-02
Classification: G09F,Y10S

Abstract:
A method of data compression of various items of patient medical information including any one or more of the following: medical diagnoses associated with the patient, medicines the patient has taken or currently takes, and medical procedures the patient has undergone, the method comprising:(a) searching a structured medical database classification comprising a plurality of records in which each record includes a medical description and an associated key value; (b) if a match is found between an item of a particular patient's medical information and a record in the structured medical database classification, selecting the associated key value; (c) repeating (a) and (b) for other items of patient medical information, if any; (d) if multiple key values have been selected for multiple items of the patient's medical information, searching a combination medical description database comprising a plurality of records in which each record comprises one or more of said key values representing a combination of patient medical descriptions and an associated slot identifier value to uniquely identify the combination; and (e) if a patient has multiple items of medical information and if a match is found between a combination of items of the patient's medical information and a combination of key values in a record in the combination medical condition database, selecting the slot identifier value associated with the matching record from the multiple medical condition database.