Patent ID: 8782063
Filing Date: 2014-07-15
Classification: G06F,G06Q,G16H,G16Z

Abstract:
1. A method performed by one or more computer systems, comprising: retrieving information indicative of a medical study instrument, wherein the medical study instrument comprises a plurality of questions that have been approved by a review board; identifying, in the medical study instrument, a plurality of instrument fields, with a particular instrument field associated with a format requirement specifying how data associated with the particular instrument field is formatted when the data is presented in the particular instrument field; generating a list of keywords that are associated with the particular instrument field of the medical study instrument, wherein the list of keywords comprises a list of medical terms included in the questions derived from the medical study instrument; generating keyword rules associated with the list of keywords, wherein the keyword rules define relationships between a question from which a keyword is derived and the answer to that question and indicate the actions the system should take when a keyword is detected in the medical data; generating a template for the medical study instrument, wherein the template comprises template fields; generating a first mapping of the keywords in the list to the template fields, wherein the first mapping includes a correspondence between the keywords in the list and the template fields, as defined by the keyword rules; generating a second mapping of the template fields to the instrument fields, wherein the second mapping includes a correspondence between the template fields and the instrument fields that defines how data from a template field is to be formatted when presented in an instrument field; retrieving medical data uploaded to the system; detecting a keyword in the list as being present in the medical data retrieved; selecting, from the retrieved medical data, textual information associated with the keyword detected; inserting, based on the first mapping, the textual information selected into a template field that is mapped to the detected keyword; determining, based on the second mapping, a format requirement of an instrument field that is mapped to the template field with the inserted textual information, wherein the format requirement specifies how inserted textual information is to be presented; formatting the textual information inserted into the template field in accordance with the format requirement of the instrument field that is mapped to the template field; and inserting, based on the second mapping, the formatted textual information into the instrument field.