Patent Document ID: 8856156
Application ID: 13645896

Base Claim:
1. A non-transitory Computer-readable media having computer-executable instructions embodied thereon that when executed provide a method for facilitating decision support by determining nomenclature linkages between variables in databases that have different ontologies, the method comprising: identifying a first set of documents from a first record system having a first ontology; identifying a second set of documents from a second record system having a second ontology that is different than the first ontology; determining a use-case present in the first and second sets of documents; determining a set of variables relevant to the use-case; receiving from the first set of documents, a first document containing at least one first-document variable from the set of variables; wherein each first-document variable has a first-document value associated with it; receiving from the second set of documents, a second document containing at least one second-document variable from the set of variables; (1) wherein the second-document variable has a second-document value associated with it, and (2) wherein the second-document variable is also contained in the first document; based on the determined use-case and set of variables, generating a decision-tree classifier; for each first-document variable contained in the first document, applying the decision tree classifier to transform the first-document value associated with the first-document variable to a categorical datatype; for each second-document variable contained in the second document, applying the decision tree classifier to transform the second-document value associated with the second-document variable to a categorical datatype; based on the categorical datatypes of the first document and the categorical datatypes of the second document, generating a set of textmatrices; applying latent semantic analysis to the set of textmatrices to determine a latent semantic space associated with the at least one first-document variable and the at least one second document variable; specifying a threshold of similarity; for a first comparison-variable, from the at least one first-document variables associated with the latent semantic space: determining a measure of similarity to a second-comparison variable from the at least one second-document variables associated with the latent semantic space: performing a comparison of the measure similarity to the threshold; and based on the comparison, determining that the measure similarity satisfies the threshold, associating the first comparison variable with the second comparison variable, and designating the association as a synonymy, wherein the threshold is satisfied if the measure of similarity is greater than the threshold.

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Claim 6:
6. The computer-readable media of claim 1 , wherein the first record system is a first electronic health record system for a first hospital, and the second record system is a second electronic health record system for a second hospital.