Patent ID: 8700649

Claim:
A method for identifying potential subjects for a clinical trial, comprising: defining one or more exclusion or inclusion criteria for the clinical trial; accessing a healthcare database containing records for the subjects; pre-generating two or more specialized searching tables using administrative healthcare claims data from the healthcare database and the one or more exclusion or inclusion criteria, wherein the two or more specialized searching tables are custom, indexed data tables organized according to the predefined exclusion or inclusion criteria and populated with a subset of information from the healthcare database; searching with a computing device the two or more specialized searching tables in concert with each other; identifying with the computing device, through the searching step, subjects within the administrative healthcare claims data who match the one or more exclusion or inclusion criteria; automatically identifying, without user input to set up a geographical search parameter with the computing device, through the searching step, a geographical area corresponding to the subjects who match the one or more exclusion or inclusion criteria; and generating a customized report using the identified subjects and geographical area, wherein the customized report comprises a map-based report illustrating a geographic propagation over time of the identified subjects.