Patent ID: 8484254
Filing Date: 2013-07-09
Classification: G16H

Abstract:
1. A computer for processing data from a plurality of studies of investigational products in a manner that allows data from one study to be compared to data from one or more other studies, wherein each study includes a set of actual activities, the computer comprising: (a) memory configured to store an operating system, the operating system including an object-oriented database engine; (b) a database schema maintained by the object-oriented database engine of the operating system, the database schema having a plurality of uniquely defined database objects, the uniquely defined database objects including for each study of an investigational product a set of objects that store the set of actual activities, wherein the set of actual activities for each study of an investigational product differ from one another; and (c) a database that is populated with data associated with the set of actual activities, wherein the set of objects that store the set of actual activities for each study of an investigational product share common attributes and relationships, wherein each actual activity has an associated data type, and the associated data type is the same for different studies of investigational products, and wherein the set of objects are used to allow the data from one study to be compared to the data from one or more other studies.