Patent Document ID: 8782088
Application ID: 13451086

Base Claim:
1. A method comprising: collecting an initial set of clinical information from a medical practitioner's encounter with a patient, the encounter being of a particular type; analyzing the initial set of clinical information, using a processor, to correlate the initial set of clinical information with additional information specified by one or more reporting standards as being applicable for documenting the particular type of patient encounter, wherein the additional information corresponds to at least one standard code selected from the group consisting of an ICD code, a CPT code, an E&M code, and a SNOMED code; and prompting a user to record the additional information specified by the one or more reporting standards in documenting the patient encounter.

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Claim 2:
2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the collecting comprises extracting the initial set of clinical information from at least a portion of a free-form narration of the patient encounter provided by the medical practitioner.