Patent ID: 8583694

Claim:
A method for electronic transmission of electronic medical records, the method comprising: generating metadata for the electronic medical records provided by a user-specified form; physically storing the metadata in an object model of a database, the object model paralleling a logical model that is derived from a Health Level 7 (HL7) messaging standard, wherein the object model is defined based on data mapping of fields to values in accordance with the HL7 messaging standard, wherein the object model utilizes a two-key primary key structure for each of a plurality of HL7 classes to store the metadata in compliance with the HL7 messaging standard, each two-key primary key structure including: an object identifier key to identify a particular HL7 messaging term included in the HL7 messaging standard, the object identifier key being a first key of the two-key primary key structure; a term extension key including a specific data from data blocks that are associated with the particular HL7 messaging term, the term extension key being a second key of the two-key primary key structure; and wherein the object model further utilizes a foreign key in association with each two-key primary key structure for each class of the plurality of HL7 classes, and wherein the foreign key includes pointers to the metadata associated with the object model; transforming the metadata for the electronic medical records stored in the object model to a format utilized by a recipient institution for transmission using the messaging protocol; and transmitting the electronic medical records represented in the format to the recipient institution.