Patent ID: 8438182

Claim:
A system comprising: at least one computer-readable storage device having instructions stored thereon; and a processor coupled to the computer-readable storage device to execute the instructions to accomplish a method comprising: acquiring binary biometric data and structured data from a patient, wherein the binary biometric data include more than one type of binary biometric data; processing the acquired binary biometric data utilizing multiple binary biometric machine learning algorithms to derive a first set of identification parameters; processing other binary biometric data associated with a patient file stored in an electronic master patient index (EMPI) database to derive a second set of identification parameters, wherein the first set and the second set of identification parameters are derived from the same types of binary biometric data or different types of binary biometric data; generating a cumulative similarity score comprising multiple different identification parameters between the first set and the second set of identification parameters, wherein each individual identification parameter in the first set and the second set of identification parameters are given equal weights or relative weights; identifying whether the patient file matches the patient based upon the cumulative similarity score; excluding patient files that are unlikely to match the patient based upon respective cumulative similarity scores; and ranking remaining non-excluded files of the patient files.