Patent ID: 7693857
Filing Date: 2010-04-06
Classification: G16H

Abstract:
1. A computer-implemented method for storing status-designated health-related episode data comprising configuring one or more processors to perform an operation comprising: providing a database which stores health-related episode data from a plurality of data sources, wherein each of the plurality of data sources stores a portion of the health-related episode data as a different data format; wherein the episode data includes data for complete episodes and incomplete episodes, an episode containing data for a plurality of related medical events, such that an incomplete episode is missing, from the database, data for at least one of the related medical events and a complete episode includes, in the database, data for all of the plurality of related medical events; for each of the incomplete episodes, receiving a plurality of updates from the plurality of data sources; normalizing the data received in the updates to conform to a common schema; evaluating, by operation of the one or more computer processors, the stored health-related episode data and the data received in the updates from the plurality of data sources to determine an appropriate status for each of the incomplete episodes as a result of the updates; and for each of the plurality of updates, designating a status of the episode data being updated in the database, the status indicating that the episode data being updated is complete or incomplete, based on the respective determined appropriate status; wherein evaluating the stored health-related episode data and the data received in the updates from the plurality of data sources to determine an appropriate status for each of the incomplete episodes as a result of the updates comprises: