Patent ID: 6938206
Filing Date: 2005-08-30
Classification: G06F,G16H,Y10S

Abstract:
1. A system for creating a summary document from stored data, the system comprising: a database having an input to accept information from a plurality of sources, store the information in an electronic format as data objects, and supply the data objects at an output; an assembly engine having a first input connected to the database output, a second input to accept a trigger signal for creating a clinical resume, and an output to supply a summary document generated by mining the data objects in the database, wherein the assembly engine generates the clinical resume from the mined data objects automatically within a first number of days of receiving the trigger signal; a file converter having an input to accept input information including coding data, discharge instructions, laboratory results, pharmacy records, audio and graphical records, and physician transcription information as untagged data, and an output connected to the input of the parsing engine to supply the input information in a format suitable for marking up; a validator having an input connected to the output of the file converter, the validator checking the converted input information for errors, including inconsistent data, and incompletely entered data, the validator having a first output connected to the parsing engine input to supply accepted input information and a second output to supply unaccepted input information with notated errors, the validator having a second input to accept correction procedures including permitting error overrides, correcting errors, returning the entered information for correction, and supplying the input information to the parsing engine after correction; and a parsing engine having an input to accept data and an output connected to the database input, the output supplying the coding data, discharge instructions, laboratory results, and pharmacy records as tagged data, and supplying the audio and graphical records, and the physician transcription information as marked up data, the physician transcription information including information concerning present illness, history of present illness, impressions on admission, impressions and plans on admission, admitting diagnosis, diagnosis on admission, consultation data, impression and plan at consultation, impression from consultation, and diagnosis from consultation; the parsing engine generating the marked up data according to a protocol selected from the group including HTML, XML, SGML, and equivalent protocols; wherein the database stores the tagged data and the marked up data as the data objects; wherein the file converter accepts patient admission, discharge date, transfer information, and attending physician information as untagged data in an ADT file and converts the ADT file into a format suitable for marking up; wherein the parsing engine marks up the untagged data in the converted ADT file; wherein the database accepts the tagged data and the marked up data from the parsing engine; and wherein the assembly engine generates the clinical resume with information including information mined from the ADT file.