Patent ID: 7774377
Filing Date: 2010-08-10
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A range-conversion method comprising: receiving medical data records, wherein each of the medical data records includes at least a portion of a corresponding patient's medical history that includes one or more data fields and a field value associated with each data field; identifying one or more of said data fields as a range-based data field; defining, by an authorized user who has authorized access to the medical data records, a plurality of text-based range descriptors, wherein each text-based range descriptor is associated with a range of field values for one of the range-based data fields; and generating a text-string for each of the medical data records, wherein the text-string includes one or more text-based data descriptors, such that each data descriptor includes: wherein a specific data record includes a range-based data field, the range-conversion method further comprising: