Patent ID: 8805900

Claim:
A method comprising: receiving a query from a device associated with a health care system for health care information associated with a patient, the query comprising (a) one or more specified items of information associated with the patient, the specified items of information comprising demographic and clinical data associated with the patient, and (b) a predetermined threshold to be used to determine whether the requested information corresponds to the patient; analyzing stored patient information received from a plurality of health care systems, the patient information comprising demographic and clinical data associated with a plurality of patients to identify items of the patient information that correspond to one or more of the specified items of information; and detecting, via a processor, at least a subset of the items of patient information that is determined to correspond to the patient based in part on a determined value that equals or exceeds the predetermined threshold, wherein the determined value comprises a calculated score indicating a level of confidence that the subset of the items of patient information corresponds to the patient.