Patent ID: 7761440

Claim:
A method of synthesizing diagnoses stored in healthcare databases, comprising: receiving a discrete diagnosis query associated with a single patient or a group of patients such that the discrete diagnosis query includes a request for medical diagnosis information in a natural language format regarding a specific medical condition of the patient or group of patients; providing a semantic diagnosis query, in response to the received discrete diagnosis query, to multiple databases such that the semantic diagnosis query includes a request for the medical diagnosis information in a coded format for each of a plurality of different medical standards, wherein the plurality of different medical standard has multiple different coded formats; providing query results responsive to the discrete diagnosis query, such that the query results include the requested medical diagnosis information associated with the single patient or the group of patients from the multiple database sources such that the query results are provided in accordance with the multiple coded format for the different medical standards; and receiving query adjustments responsive to the provided query_results, wherein the adjustments include prioritizing a display of the query_results in accordance with a user name and password associated with a user from which the discrete diagnosis query is received.