Patent ID: 8515782

Claim:
A method for processing medical records, the method comprising: receiving, by a computer, a set of medical records stored in a database, the set of medical records stored in the database being linked to a claimant and comprising data of interest (DOI), the DOI comprising one or more of key words, phrases and symbols related to medical criteria for impairments, the set of medical records and further comprising a plurality of qualifiers, each of the plurality of qualifiers comprising a phrase associated with a date and a position of the date on a page in the set of medical records, the dates associated with the plurality of qualifiers being represented in a non-uniform fashion in the set of medical records, wherein the position of the date on the page in the set of medical records comprises a date appearing on a line of text on the page having no additional text on the line; determining that the date appearing on the line of text on the page having no additional text on the line has a higher likelihood of being a best date than dates appearing in the middle of a sentence located in a body of the page; converting, by the computer, the set of received medical records into a computer-readable form; searching, by the computer, the converted set of medical records to locate the DOI and the plurality of qualifiers; determining, by the computer, the dates associated with the DOI based on the plurality of qualifiers; extracting, by the computer, the DOI from the converted set of medical records; generating, by the computer, a summary report comprising the extracted DOI; and customizing, by the computer, the summary report, wherein customizing the summary report comprises: converting the dates associated with the DOI to a common and uniform date representation for display; receiving a user selection of a chronological order of DOI presentation in a graphical user interface displayed by the computer; and in response to receiving the user selection, organizing the summary report such that the DOI is presented in the chronological order by the dates associated with the DOI.