Patent ID: 8200501

Claim:
A computer-implemented method of synthesizing medical procedures stored in healthcare databases, the method comprising: receiving at a computer a medical procedure query associated with a single patient or a group of patients; and a processor of the computer providing returned query results responsive to the medical procedure query, the returned query results including medical procedures from multiple sources that are expressed in multiple standards formats and are associated with the single patient or the group of patients, wherein the providing returned query results comprises: determining if the medical procedure query includes a first standards code in conformance with a first standard; determining equivalent standards codes to the first standards code in conformance with at least one second standard, different from the first standard, if it is determined that the medical procedure query includes a first standards code; and providing the returned query results based on both the first standards code and the equivalent standards codes of the at least one second standard; wherein the providing returned query results is preceded by processing the received medical procedure query to generate at least one modified medical procedure query that can be provided to external databases to obtain intermediate query results; providing the at least one modified medical procedure query to one or more of at least one standards database and at least one medical procedure/results database; receiving the intermediate query results from the one or more of the at least one standards database and the at least one medical procedure/results database; and modifying a format of the intermediate query results to generate the returned query results before providing the returned query results to a user, wherein the intermediate query results are returned in response to the at least one modified medical procedure query.