Patent ID: 8229760

Claim:
A computer system to extract and integrate health care data from a health care payor, the computer system comprising: a computer configured to communicate with one or more payor computer systems from one or more payors; wherein the computer is configured to communicate with each of the one or more payor computer systems of a type that includes one or more databases storing records of health care data of a type that are displayed in separate fields; wherein the computer is configured to receive the health care data also of a type related to claims information from at least one payor computer system from the one or more payors; wherein the computer is configured to receive the claim information of a type that is organized for use by the one or more payors; wherein a normalized format is of a type that displays health care data from one or more sources such that any health care data associated with a health care record having the same meaning will be expressed in the same format despite any prior formatting; and a staging database in communication with the computer; wherein the staging database is configured to receive the claims information from each of the payor computer systems; wherein the claims information from each of the one or more payor computer systems are configured to convert into the normalized format by a normalization system comprising: a rules engine that establishes the predefined format, predetermines how each of the plurality of health care data is to appear in its respective field, and remodels any of the health care data that is not expressed as predetermined by the normalized format into the normalized format becoming normalized data such that all normalized data expressing information having the same meaning now expresses that meaning in the same format.