Patent ID: 8856104
Filing Date: 2014-10-07
Classification: G16H

Abstract:
1. A computer program product comprising at least one non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing one or more sequences of instructions, wherein execution of the one or more sequences of instructions by one or more hardware processors causes the one or more hardware processors to perform the steps comprising: providing a repository of terminology content stored in accordance with a reference information model, wherein the reference information model includes a plurality of backbone classes, wherein the plurality of backbone classes are associated with a plurality of other types of backbone classes to form data structures representing a plurality of higher level healthcare concepts; receiving a concept query request specifying a set of search criteria, wherein the search criteria include generating, via a concept query generator, a classification concept query from the concept query request, wherein the classification concept query includes at least a subset of the search criteria that includes the first classification identifier; providing the classification concept query to the terminology service which manages the repository of terminology content, wherein the terminology content comprises a plurality of domains of concepts, identifying, using the defined mappings and the semantic statement, one or more classification containers, wherein each of the one or more classification containers includes a concept semantically equivalent to a concept in the first classification container; creating a concept query result by extracting a plurality of concepts associated with the first classification identifier, from the first classification container and the one or more identified classification containers; and generating, from the concept query result, a modified query that includes predicates corresponding to the plurality of associated concepts, to retrieve a set of stored data records from an electronic data record system.