Patent ID: 8015031

Claim:
A computer-implemented medical information merging method, comprising: identifying a patient's first collection of medical information with a first collection identifier, and a logically related or similar second collection of medical information with a second collection identifier, the first collection identifier being different from the second collection identifier; with a computer merging the patient's first collection of medical information with the second collection of medical information, to create a composite collection of medical information; during the merging, with the computer reconciling the first and second collection identifiers of the first and second collections of medical information; during said merging, with the computer automatically adding medical information, according to a protocol attribute, of the first or second collection of medical information into the other of the first or second collection of medical information in the creating of said composite collection of medical information; and at least one of displaying the composite collection of medical information on a display or storing the merged collection of medical information in a non-transitory computer memory.