Patent ID: 8219415

Claim:
An article comprising a non-transitory machine-readable medium embodying instructions that when performed by one or more machines result in operations comprising: receiving data characterizing a plurality of procedures represented as being associated with a single event, the single event comprising a plurality of healthcare procedures performed on a patient that are all related to a single medical condition; identifying one or more dynamically determined groups associated with the plurality of procedures, the dynamically determined groups being generated from similarity metrics derived from a plurality of historical procedures for a plurality of historical events; determining a likelihood of the plurality of procedures being associated with the single event based on the associated one or more dynamically determined groups; and initiating notification if it is determined that the likelihood of the procedures being associated with the single event is below a dynamically determined level; wherein the similarity metrics are determined using: s=N ( P 1 , P 2 )/ N ( P 1 )* N ( P 2 ) where, s=similarity metric; N(P 1 , P 2 )=number of characteristics shared by Procedures P 1 and P 2 ; N(P 1 )=number of characteristics that were associated with P 1 in historical data; and N(P 2 )=number of characteristics that were associated with P 2 in historical data.