Patent ID: 8751252

Claim:
A method for validating clinical data to be displayed to a user, the method including: receiving a consistency requirement specifying whether clinical data retrieved for presentation to a user is intended to be displayed; receiving a first data claim associated with first clinical data and a second data claim associated with second clinical data, the first clinical data retrieved from a first data source for presentation to a user, the second clinical data retrieved from a second data source for presentation to the user, the first data claim comprising metadata regarding the retrieved first clinical data to be displayed, the second data claim comprising metadata regarding the retrieved second clinical data to be displayed, wherein the first data claim is received from a first application in a first namespace and the second data claim is received from a second application in a second namespace; translating, via a processor, the second clinical data to the first namespace; evaluating, via the processor, the first data claim and the second data claim based at least in part on the consistency requirement; in response to evaluating the first data claim and the second data claim, determining if the retrieved first clinical data to be displayed or the retrieved second clinical data to be displayed violates the consistency requirement; in response to displaying the retrieved first clinical data, providing an alert to the user if the displayed first clinical data violates the consistency requirement, and not providing the alert to the user if the displayed first clinical data does not violate the consistency requirement; in response to displaying the retrieved second clinical data, providing the alert to the user if the displayed second clinical data violates the consistency requirement, and not providing the alert to the user if the displayed second clinical data does not violate the consistency requirement; and when the alert is provided to the user, re-evaluating the corresponding data claim in response to a change in the displayed clinical data.